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The classic novel of a Georgia family undone by the Great Depression: "[A] story of force and beauty" (New York Post). Even before the Great Depression struck, Jeeter Lester and his family were desperately poor sharecroppers. But when hard times begin to affect the families that once helped support them, the Lesters slip completely into the abyss. Rather than hold on to each other for support, Jeeter, his wife Ada, and their twelve children are overcome...

Trying to keep the death of their parents a secret, Marnie and her little sister Nelly are on their own until several residents in Glasgow's Hazelhurst housing estate suspect that something is not right.

"A reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer, from the author whose work The New York Times described as "riveting" and The Wall Street Journal called "thrilling.""-- Provided by publisher.

The story of the friendship between a Texas mortician and a wealthy widow and the crime that follows.

"Find Me is the story of a young woman reckoning with the ghosts of her past in a post-epidemic America"-- Provided by publisher.

"After a disastrous plane crash, two rather different survivors--Max, a sophisticated architect from New York's Upper West Side, and Carla, a young housewife from Little Italy--must help each other recover emotionally."--Amazon.

"Emily's strange and sullen subculture of one continues to win the rebellious hearts and minds of millions of fans the world around. Now 13 years old, our defiant heroine has a major motion picture in the works, a quarterly comic book, and has made her mark on strange and best-selling merchandise from candy to couture, guitars to lip gloss." -- Amazon.com

"Haviland Tuf is an honest space-trader who likes cats. So how is it that, in competition with the worst villains the universe has to offer, he's become the proud owner of the last seedship of Earth's legendary Ecological Engineering Corps? Never mind, just be thankful that the most powerful weapon in human space is in good hands--hands which now control cellular material for thousands of outlandish creatures. Armed with this unique equipment, Tuf...

Shy, witty David Federman arrives at Harvard fully expecting to embrace, and be welcomed by, a new tribe of like-minded peers. But at first, beyond the friendly advances of a plain-looking Sara, his social status seems devastatingly unlikely to change. Then he meets Veronica Morgan Wells. Struck by both her beauty and her brains, David falls feverishly in love and is determined to stop at nothing to win her attention and a coveted invite into her...

"From the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, a virtuosic new novel and his most ambitious book yet--equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle--set in a not-too-distant-future, high-tech surveillance state. In the world of Gnomon, citizens are ceaselessly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of "transparency." When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in government custody...