Secrets of Happiness
By: Joan Silber
3.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When a man discovers his father in New York has long had another, secret, family—a wife and two kid…
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1. Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper
By: Hilary Liftin
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Actress Lizzie Pepper was America's Girl Next Door and her marriage to Hollywood mega-star Rob Mars… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
2. Wait Till You See Me Dance
By: Deb Olin Unferth
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
For more than ten years, Deb Olin Unferth has been publishing startlingly askew, wickedly comic, cu… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
3. Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant : Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone
By: Jenni Ferrari-Adler
4.19
Format: 168 pages,
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4. Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas
By: Jenny Allen
4.23
Format: None pages, ebook
Humorous essays about Jenny Allen's attempt to make sense of the baffling and annoying world around… read more
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5. The Veins of the Ocean
By: Patricia Engel
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
"Engel has an eye for detail. She knows how to drown the reader in a sense of enchantment... She wr… read more
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6. Commitment
By: Mona Simpson
3.62
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after … read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"He respected architecture less than he once had. Some buildings were true art. A few more worked like machines for living. But when he looked at most new buildings, what he saw was ego. So many peopl…"-Mona Simpson, Commitment
7. The Latecomer
By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
4.01
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
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- contemporary
- novels
- adult
8. Lucy by the Sea
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.91
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- family
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- contemporary
- novels
- adult
9. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
10. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- family
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"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
11. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
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- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
12. Gara Malma
By: Andreea Caleman
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Un tren, trei generații și destinele lor împletite: toți protagoniștii călătoresc spre gara Malma ș… read more
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13. Be Mine
By: Richard Ford
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
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- novels
14. Flight of the Wild Swan
By: Melissa Pritchard
4.10
Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition
A majestic novel of Florence Nightingale, whose courage, self-confidence, and resilience transforme… read more
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- fiction
15. I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir
By: Maurice Vellekoop
4.17
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of four children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970… read more
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- adult
- lgbt
16. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
17. The Complicities
By: Stacey D'Erasmo
3.29
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Stacey D’Erasmo tells a haunting and emotionally affecting story about a woman… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
18. The Souvenir Museum
By: Elizabeth McCracken
3.47
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
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- contemporary
- adult
19. Secrets of Happiness
By: Joan Silber
3.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When a man discovers his father in New York has long had another, secret, family—a wife and two kid… read more
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20. The Collide (The Outliers #3)
By: Kimberly McCreight
3.59
Format: 352 pages, ebook
The much-anticipated final book in New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight’s Outliers … read more
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21. Deasupra norilor, cerul rămâne mereu albastru
By: Ildikó Judit Jun
3.40
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Deasupra norilor, cerul rămâne mereu albastru: destine umane, miracole, fotografii, fragmente de am… read more
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