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What do readers say about Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close?
giant, dangerous leaps complex and mesmerising stream of consciousness grief and innocence lostTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH TOM HANKS
From the critically acclaimed author of Here I Am, Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather - a heartrending and unforgettable novel set in the aftermath of the 9/11
What about a teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth, and it could whistle pretty melodies, or do Shakespeare, or just crack up with me? I co...
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What do readers say about Wild?
engaging and exciting intensely personal book brutally honest book picturesque but unsentimental descriptions#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impu... More details on Wild
My solo three-month hike on the Pacific Crest Trail had many beginnings. There was the first, flip decision to do it, followed by the second, more serious decision to actually do it, and then the long...
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What do readers say about The Friend?
love, loss, grief, healing writer and professor rich and beautiful pseudo nonfiction essayWINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"A beautiful book … a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love." -Wall Street Journal... More details on The Friend
During the 1980s, in California, a large number of Cambodian women went to their doctors with the same complaint: they could not see. The women were all war refugees. Before fleeing their homeland, th...
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What do readers say about The Midnight Library?
unique story plot entertaining and instructive contemporary fiction novel very simplistic and straightforwardThe New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon
Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year
"A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."-The ... More details on The Midnight Library
Mrs Elm made her first move. A knight hopping over the neat row of white pawns. ‘Of course, you’re going to be worried about the exams. But you could be anything you want to be, Nora. Think of all tha...
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What do readers say about Tell the Wolves I'm Home?
coming of age story heartbreaking and uplifting young adult novel the effect of aidsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A heartfelt story of love, grief, and renewal about two unlikely friends who discover that sometimes you don't know you've lost someone until you've found them
"A dazzling debut novel."-O: The Oprah Magazine
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My sister Greta and I were having our portrait painted by our uncle Finn that afternoon because he knew he was dying. This was after I understood that I wasn’t going to grow up and move into his apart...
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What do readers say about A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius?
mind bending style stream of consciousness fantastic contemporary fiction david foster wallace"Exhilarating…Profoundly moving, occasionally angry, and often hilarious...A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is, finally, a finite book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly" (The New York Times Book Review).
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THROUGH THE SMALL TALL BATHROOM WINDOW the December yard is gray and scratchy, the trees calligraphic. Exhaust from the dryer billows clumsily out from the house and up, breaking apart while tumbling ...
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What do readers say about The Sky Is Everywhere?
grief, love and life young adult novel beautiful poetic prose love and forgivenessAdrift after her sister Bailey's sudden death, Lennie finds herself torn between quiet, seductive Toby-Bailey's boyfriend who shares her grief-and Joe, the new boy in town who bursts with life and musical genius. Each offers Lennie something she desp... More details on The Sky Is Everywhere
Gram is worried about me. It’s not just because my sister Bailey died four weeks ago, or because my mother hasn’t contacted me in sixteen years, or even because suddenly all I think about is sex. She ...
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What do readers say about A Dirty Job?
collecting souls after death hilarious and dark finding life in death laugh out loud funnyCharlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay-until people start dropping dead around him... More details on A Dirty Job
Charlie Asher walked the earth like an ant walks on the surface of water, as if the slightest misstep might send him plummeting through the surface to be sucked to the depths below. Blessed with the B...
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What do readers say about History Is All You Left Me?
intensely insightful novel I love problematic characters breaks your heart absolutely, stunningly beautiful"This book will make you cry, think, and then cry some more."
-Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything
From the New York Times bestselling author of More Happy Than Not comes an explosive examination of grief, me... More details on History Is All You Left Me
You’re still alive in alternate universes, Theo, but I live in the real world, where this morning you’re having an open-casket funeral. I know you’re out there, listening. And you should know I’m real...
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What do readers say about Where the Red Fern Grows?
really well written historical fiction great book of companionship and friendship boys'bookWhen Billy's much-beloved prize dogs are killed in a tragic fight with a mountain lion, he finds solace in old legends.... More details on Where the Red Fern Grows
WHEN I LEFT MY OFFICE THAT BEAUTIFUL SPRING DAY, I HAD no idea what was in store for me. To begin with, everything was too perfect for anything unusual to happen. It was one of those days when a man f...
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