A Golden Age: A Novel
A widow's life is transformed when her teen-aged children become involved in the 1971 Bangladesh war for independence.
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Haruki Murakami
Born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949, Haruki Murakami grew up in Kobe and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into 38 languages. Among his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize ...
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A widow's life is transformed when her teen-aged children become involved in the 1971 Bangladesh war for independence.
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An avant-garde art collector and her niece are abducted by Christian fanatics. . . or so it seems.
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An Oxford-bound math prodigy rebels against her Indian-born parents' academic expectations in favor of friendship and romance.
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Transformed into a man in gangster-era 1950s New York, a cockroach adapts to his two-legged life...
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Weighed down by bitter memories of a painful childhood and his struggles with alcohol, a young black father fights to keep his family afloat.
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Bridget, a social worker, comes to the rescue when sister Meghan, a famous talk-show host, makes a life-changing on-air blunder.
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A former blues singer-turned-evangelist tries to rescue a self-destructive television diva.
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A wealthy Jewish gem trader is imprisoned and accused of being an Israeli spy in post-revolutionary Iran.
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An African woman recounts her struggles as a slave and a lifelong agent for freedom.
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An overweight magazine editor dons a thin alter ego as a glamorous advice columnist, but can she become the Slenderella of her dreams?
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After losing her career and her beauty in a fiery car crash, an actress rebuilds her life with the help of a grieving 9/11 widower.
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A Caribbean teen embarks on a quest for shoes, employment, and acceptance.
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Desperate for change, a middle-aged divorcee returns to her family home in the Low Country of South Carolina.
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When her young passenger dies in a car accident, a thirty-something woman resolves to live out her acquaintance's list of unrealized dreams.
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Flaunting a Silver Star bought on eBay, a middle-aged salesman basks in undeserved admiration until he has the chance to become a real hero.
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A Polish violin prodigy who befriends a Jewish boy in London is orphaned by the Holocaust; years later, he disappears on the day of his concert debut.
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Queen Elizabeth II discovers the pleasures of reading, with surprising results.
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Unexpected events throw an isolated man into the path of a stream of eccentric characters.
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Change is on the horizon when a self-absorbed and aimless college student becomes caretaker for a sophisticated woman with Lou Gehrig's disease.
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