Morte D'Urban
By: J.F. Powers , Elizabeth Hardwick
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction. The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is …
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1. The Heart of Newman: A Synthesis
By: Erich Przywara , H. Francis Davis , John Henry Newman
4.40
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
This new edition of a classic anthology of the writings and sermons of John Henry Newman gives a ne… read more
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2. The Moviegoer
By: Walker Percy
3.65
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
When "The Moviegoer" was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Wa… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
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"Peklo nemůže být plné ohně - existují daleko horší věci."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?"-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
3. Joy in the Morning
By: Betty Smith
4.00
Format: 50 pages,
A timeless classic is reborn! From Betty Smith - author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, one of the mos… read more
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4. My Name is Mary Sutter
By: Robin Oliveira
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An enthralling historical novel about a young woman's struggle to become a doctor during the Civil … read more
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5. Wittgenstein's Mistress
By: David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever writte… read more
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6. Morte D'Urban
By: J.F. Powers , Elizabeth Hardwick
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction. The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is … read more
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- the united states of america
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7. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more
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8. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
By: Thornton Wilder
5.00
Format: 36 pages,
Featuring a beautiful new cover and author biography, this novel, which brought Wilder his first Pu… read more
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9. Winesburg, Ohio
By: Sherwood Anderson
2.96
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life… read more
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10. Independent People
By: Halldór Laxness , James Anderson Thompson
3.75
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
This magnificent novel--which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature--is at last… read more
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11. Honey in the Horn
By: H.L. Davis
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Honey in the Horn is a novel about life in the homesteading days of Oregon, 1906-1908. It is about … read more
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12. Downtown Owl
By: Chuck Klosterman
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Somewhere in North Dakota, there is a town called Owl that isn't there. Disco is over, but punk nev… read more
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13. Where You Once Belonged
By: Kent Haruf
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Heavy-built Jack Burdette is quite literally too big for his boots - and too big, certainly for the… read more
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14. Pale Horse, Pale Rider
By: Katherine Anne Porter
3.96
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
First published in 1939, these three short novels secured the author's reputation as a master of sh… read more
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15. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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16. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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17. The Alternatives
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more
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18. Virgil Wander
By: Leif Enger
4.01
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Virgil Wander is an all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in t… read more
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"Your tribe is always bigger than you think."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
"He had an advanced capacity for hatred. It came to him easily and fully formed."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
"She seemed to belong here, though maybe she was the sort to belong wherever she was at the time."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
"I wanted to hear about many small things, the smaller the better. I wanted to tell her small things in return."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
19. The Turtle House
By: Amanda Churchill
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Minnie and her granddaughter Lia are unforgettable protagonists, whose grit and grace will inspire … read more
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20. Raft of Stars
By: Andrew J. Graff
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When two hardscrabble young boys think they’ve committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of … read more
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21. The Innocents
By: Michael Crummey
3.78
Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition
From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother … read more
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"A body must bear what can't be helped."-Michael Crummey, The Innocents
