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An extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation -- discovered and published 62 years after the author's tragic death at Auschwitz. Subtle, often fiercely ironic, and deeply compassionate, this is both a piercing record of its time and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art.

The author of the National Book Award-winning novel Three Junes returns with a captivating tale of people in search of meaning in their lives. When Greenie Duquette, proprietor of a Greenwich Village pastry business, becomes the personal chef for the governor of New Mexico, she sets in motion a period of adventure and upheaval for her richly-drawn characters whose lives all intersect in the tragedy of September 11.

In Tyler's luminous new novel two families, the Donaldsons and the Yazdans, meet by chance at the airport as they each await the arrival of an adopted infant from Korea. They celebrate with an arrival party that night and each subsequent year. At the heart of the story is Maryam Yazdan who, after 35 years in this country, finally comes to terms with what it is to be an American.

Returning to the big Western themes that have made him famous and beloved, McMurtry recreates the bygone days of the old gunfighters in a panoramic, sweeping novel told in the voice of Nellie Courtright, a courageous young woman.

Set in the late 1950s in the small town of West Annett, Maine, this long-awaited novel by the author of Amy and Isabelle tells the story of a minister struggling to regain his calling, his family, and his happiness in the wake of profound loss.

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Winner of this year's Pulitzer for fiction is a story inspired by March, the father character in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, who leaves his family behind to join the Union cause in the Civil War, an experience that will change his marriage and challenge his beliefs.

A finalist for last year's Man Booker Prize, this bold novel imagines a school in the English countryside where the privileged students there seem like any others. Slowly, Kathy H., the story's narrator, reveals the bizarre and disturbing truth of who these students really are and their purpose in life.

Seeking to escape her brutal boyfriend and hoping to introduce her daughter, Griff, to the grandfather she has never met, widow Jean Gilkyson seeks refuge in her late husband's Wyoming hometown with her estranged father-in-law, who blames her for his son's death.

Orphaned as a teenager, Ned Giles heads west seeking a new life, joining the 1932 Great Apache Expedition to search for a young boy, the son of a wealthy Mexican landowner, kidnapped by wild Apaches, only to meet a troubled young Apache girl, imprisoned in a Mexican jail, whose fate forces him to make a choice that will change his life forever.

Soon after Sydney Brant marries a gifted pianist named Laurus Moss, he leaves her in America to join his family in Copenhagen in order to help build a Danish Resistance to Hitler. When he returns, Sydney and their world are very changed. This is a stirring tale of the sacrifices of war and a marriage that endures despite incredible differences.