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Ann Patchett
An irresistible collection of essays and memoir from the internationally bestselling, Women’s Prize-winning author of The Dutch House.
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In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter…
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THIS SUMMER, DIVE INTO TOM LAKE - THE BREATH-TAKING NEW NOVEL FROM ANN PATCHETT
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A REESE WITHERSPOON…
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For use in schools and libraries only. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how a chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved.
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Told with Ann Patchett’s inimitable blend of wit and heartbreak, The Dutch House is a story of family, betrayal, love, responsibility and sacrifice; of the powerful bonds of place and…
Lee Cole
‘An extraordinary debut’ (ANN PATCHETT) to fall for - a coming-of-age story and an immersive love story.
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From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Award.
The poignant - and at times very funny - new novel from the author of “The Magician’s Assistant’, shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
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Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author returns with a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest.
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is a memoir both wide ranging and deeply personal, overflowing with close observation and emotional wisdom, told with wit, honesty and irresistible…
Set over a period of 24 hours, Run shows how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include the most…
The Magician’s Assistant is a love story and a portrayal of reinvention about a magician who dies leaving his assistant/wife to discover he has lied about his past.
1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one…
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In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers.
Orange Prize winner Ann Patchett’s second novel. The story of a black Memphis blues bartender whose son has been taken away from him, but who then becomes a surrogate father…
'Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature' Guardian
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan…
A dazzling tale of science and ritual, terror and love, State of Wonder is the most ambitious and mesmeric book yet from the Orange prize-winning author of Bel Canto
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The first novel from the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Award.
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Kate DiCamillo
Revisit Kate DiCamillo’s beloved first novel with a beautiful twentieth-anniversary edition featuring an introduction by Ann Patchett.
This book is (I hope) a hymn of praise to dogs, friendship, and…
Oscar Hijuelos
The Pulitzer Prize winning modern classic of two Cuban musician brothers during the mambo-filled nights of 50's New York from literary trailblazer, Oscar Hijuelos. It's 1949 and two young Cuban…
Edith Pearlman
The collected stories of an award-winning, modern classic American writer who has been compared to Alice Munro, John Updike - and even Anton Chekhov.
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
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Bookhabits
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett: Conversation Starters
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EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come…
The author of State of wonder, The magician’s assistant, and Bel canto examines her deepest commitments–to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband–creating a portrait of her life.
An unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives.
Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the author of The Dutch House…
From the bestselling author of The Magician’s Assistant comes a marvelous novel of love, opera, and terrorism set in South America. Two couples, complete opposites, fall in love; sexual identities…
The author of Bel Canto describes her intimate twenty-year friendship with the late Lucy Grealy, tracing their introduction at a writer’s workshop, the integral part their friendship played in their…
A strange, terrific, spellcasting story ( San Francisco Chronicle ), Bel Canto engenders in the reader the very passion for art and the language of music that its characters discover.
While grads may have little idea of what’s coming next, there’s great pleasure to be found in not knowing and not having everything defined. Bestselling author Patchett shares her wit…
Award-winning, New York Times -bestselling author returns with a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest.
Patchett, the New York Times-bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with a moving story exploring the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and…
Set over the course of five decades, the New York Times-bestselling author’s latest is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their pasts.
