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THE HOUSEKEEPER AND THE PROFESSOR

Yoko Ogawa

In The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa tells an intimate story about family, the nature of memory, and the poetry of mathematics. It is also, in a sense, a…

RUNNING WITH SISSORS

Augusten Burroughs

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who…

DREAM HOUSE

Valerie Laken

Dream House is a riveting debut novel that tells the story of a domestic drama that will irrevocably affect the lives of two families. One terrible night. One outraged act….

THE SEANCE

John Harwood

Wraxford Hall, a decaying mansion in the English countryside, has a sinister reputation. Once, a family disappeared there. And now Constance Langton has inherited this dark place as well as…

THE CALLING

Inger Ash Wolfe

Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef has lived all her days in the small town of Port Dundas and is now making her way toward retirement with something less than grace. Hobbled…

THE NAMESAKE

Jhumpa Lahiri

The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of an arranged marriage, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle…