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Elizabeth Strout is the author of the New York Times bestseller Olive Kitteridge, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; the national bestseller Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. She lives in Maine and New York City.

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Abide with Me
A Novel
Written by Elizabeth Strout

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $15.00

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Abide with Me
A Novel
Written by Elizabeth Strout

Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $11.99

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Amy and Isabelle
A novel
Written by Elizabeth Strout

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 1, 2000
Price: $15.00

In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother--and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets.

In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged... Read more >

Amy and Isabelle
A Novel
Written by Elizabeth Strout

Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 16, 2003
Price: $11.99

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The Burgess Boys
A Novel
Written by Elizabeth Strout

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $26.00

Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout’s “magnificent gift for humanizing characters.” Now the acclaimed author returns with a stunning novel as powerful and moving as any work in contemporary... Read more >

The Burgess Boys
A Novel
Written by Elizabeth Strout

Format: eBook, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $12.99

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Olive Kitteridge
Fiction
Written by Elizabeth Strout

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $15.00

A Library Journal Best Book of 2008

At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in... Read more >

Olive Kitteridge
Fiction
Written by Elizabeth Strout

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $26.00

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Olive Kitteridge
Fiction
Written by Elizabeth Strout

Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $11.99

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Ethan Frome & Summer

Written by Edith Wharton
Introduction by Elizabeth Strout

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 8, 2001
Price: $9.00

Though Edith Wharton is best known for her cutting contemplation of fashionable New York, Ethan Frome and Summer are set in small New England towns, far from Manhattan’s beau monde. Together in one volume, these thematically linked short novels display Wharton’s characteristic criticism of society’s hypocrisy, and her daring exploration of... Read more >

Ethan Frome & Summer

Written by Edith Wharton
Introduction by Elizabeth Strout

Format: eBook, 304 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 2, 2011
Price: $8.99

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