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My Name Is Lucy Barton By Strout, Elizabeth 2016-01 - Random House 9781400067695 Check Our Catalog A new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is cause for celebration. Her bestselling novels, including "Olive Kitteridge "and" The Burgess Boys, "have illuminated our most tender relationships. Now, in "My Name Is Lucy Barton, "this extraordinary writer shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all the one between mother and daughter. …More

Are you patiently (or not so patiently) waiting for that best seller?  Here are some suggestions.

I Refuse By Petterson, Per Translator Bartlett, Don 2015-04 - Graywolf Press 9781555976996 Check Our Catalog A masterful new novel from Per Petterson, who "provides one of literature's greatest gifts . . . a welcome refuge from our cacophonous world" (NPR) Per Petterson's hotly anticipated new novel, " I Refuse," is the work of an internationally acclaimed novelist at the height of his powers. In Norway the book has been a huge bestseller, and rights have already been sold into sixteen …More

The Wonder Garden By Acampora, Lauren 2015-05 - Grove Press 9780802123558 Check Our Catalog "John likes to arrive first. He enjoys standing quietly with a house before his clients arrive, and today, although he feels pinned beneath an invisible weight, he resolves to savor this solitary moment. It's one of those overhauled ranches so common to Old Cranbury these days, swollen and dressed to resemble a colonial. White, of course, with ornamental shutters and latches pretending to hold …More

All That Is By Salter, James 2013-04 - Knopf Publishing Group 9781400043132 Check Our Catalog A literary event--a major new novel, his first work of fiction in seven years, from the universally acclaimed master and PEN/Faulkner winner: a sweeping, seductive love story set in post-World War II America that tells of one man's great passions and regrets over the course of his lifetime. …More

Bridge of Sighs By Russo, Richard 2007-09 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780375414954 Check Our Catalog Awards: Book Sense Book of the Year Award (2008) BookPage Notable Title Bridge of Sighs is classic Russo, coursing with small-town rhythms and the claims of family, yet it is brilliantly enlarged by an expatriate whose motivations and experiences--often contrary, sometimes not--prove every bit as mesmerizing as they resonate through these richly different lives. Here is a town, as well as a world, defined by magnificent …More