A New York Times Bestseller
William Eng has lived at Seattle’s Sacred Heart Orphanage for five long years, ever since his mother’s listless body was carried from their Chinatown apartment. When, during a trip to the movie theatre, William glimpses an actress on the silver scre...
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A unique mix of the comical, and the touchingly humane, this brilliantly perceptive novel sees a group of parents, trapped in middle-class stability, dealing with marriage, kids and their suburban life in very different ways..
There's Mary Ann, a super-mom who is already preparing her ...
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Considered by some to be Budd Schulberg’s masterpiece, The Disenchanted tells the tragic story of Manley Halliday, a fabulously successful writer during the 1920s — a golden figure in a golden age — who by the late 1930s is forgotten by the literary establishment, living ...
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He may be a giant but giants have been licked before. Don’t forget Goliath. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Eddie Lewis, former student of Princeton and would-be playwright, never expected to make his living writing lies. But that's precisely what he does to pay his ren...
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The original novel of the classic cult film starring Sir Michael Caine.
Doncaster train station, and Jack Carter is heading home for a funeral - his brother Frank's. Frank had been found dead and drunk in his car at the bottom of a cliff. Now, Frank was a mild, sober man, so why did he la...
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