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An award-winning writer brings to life the story of a young girl's awakening amidst her country's seismic growing pains in the American South."A lyrical coming-of-age novel." —New York TimesSet in St. Louis in 1957, the year of the Little Rock Nine, Ntozake Shange's...
Finalist for the Lambda Literary AwardsA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Opening like a fairy tale and ending like a nightmare, this cannonball of a queer coming-of-age novel follows a young man’s relationship with a violent older boyfriend—and how he and...
A New York Times bestseller, The Silver Linings Playbook was adapted into the Oscar-winning movie starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. It tells the riotous and poignant story of how one man regains his memory and comes to terms with the magnitude of his...
This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable. “A beautifully crafted novel of international significance that has the capacity to have us...
Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize: A literary mystery about a black jazz musician vanishing in Berlin on the eve of World War II.A Man Booker Prize FinalistAn O, The Oprah Magazine Best Book of the YearShortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for...
In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, Carol Shields's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now available in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition One of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time, this fictionalized autobiography of...
"...gem of a novel..." -Lorna Landvik, Last Circle of Love"...beautifully written story..." -Robert Alexander, The Kitchen Boy"... deft touch of a master storyteller..." -Greg Fields, Through the Waters and the Wild"An entertaining debut." -Sarah Stonich,...
"So good, so damn compulsively readable, that I can hardly believe it." —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly In his stunning follow-up to the #1 best-selling House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus draws us into the lives of three deeply flawed, driven people whose paths...
"Stripped-down . . . sentences burn with the raw, lonesome pathos of Hank Williams's best songs," in an Oprah's book club pick about married life in Appalachia (The New York Times Book Review).Young Julie Harmon works "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times...
Forty years after its original publication, James Agee's last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man's death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then...