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Written by Richard Russo
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $25.95
Following Bridge of Sighs—a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achievement” and “a masterpiece”—Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.
Griffin has been tooling around for... Read more >

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A Novel
Written by Richard Russo
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $14.95
Louis Charles Lynch (also known as Lucy) is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, New York, his entire life. He and Sarah, his wife of forty years, are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a life... Read more >

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Written by Richard Russo
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2002
Price: $15.00
With Empire Falls Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America’s most compelling and compassionate storytellers.
Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his... Read more >
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A Novel
Written by Richard Russo
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 9, 1998
Price: $15.95
In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his character--he is a born anarchist-- and... Read more >

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Written by Richard Russo
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: April 12, 1994
Price: $14.95
In his slyly funny and moving new novel, the author of The Risk Pool follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat, upstate New York town--and in the lives of the unluckiest of its citizens. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and... Read more >

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Written by Richard Russo
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: April 12, 1994
Price: $15.00
A wonderfully funn and perceptive novel in the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult.
His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits... Read more >
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Written by Richard Russo
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: April 12, 1994
Price: $15.00
Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. Dallas Younger, a star athlete in high school, now drifts from tavern to poker game, losing money, and, inevitably, another set of false... Read more >
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Written by Charles Dickens
Introduction by Richard Russo
Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $11.95
Charles Dickens’s satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836–37. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting into all sorts of mischief. Laugh-out-loud funny and endlessly entertaining, the book... Read more >

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Written by Richard Russo
Read by Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $40.00
Following Bridge of Sighs—a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achievement” and “a masterpiece”—Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.
Griffin has been tooling around for... Read more >

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Stories
Written by Richard Russo
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $13.95
To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of marriage; the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood;the unwinnable battles men and women insist on fighting... Read more >

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Written by Richard Russo
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $26.00
Following Bridge of Sighs—a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achievement” and “a masterpiece”—Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.
Griffin has been tooling around for... Read more >

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Written by Richard Russo
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $26.95
Six years after the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement.
Louis Charles (“Lucy”) Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a... Read more >

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Written by Richard Russo
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2001
Price: $29.95
Richard Russo—from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man—has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new novel he extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country.
Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen... Read more >

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Written by Richard Russo
Read by Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $44.95
Six years after the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement.
Louis Charles (“Lucy”) Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a... Read more >
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Written by Richard Russo
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $14.95
Louis Charles Lynch (also known as Lucy) is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, New York, his entire life. He and Sarah, his wife of forty years, are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a life... Read more >
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Written by Richard Russo
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $25.95
Following Bridge of Sighs—a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achievement” and “a masterpiece”—Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.
Griffin has been tooling around for... Read more >
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Stories
Written by Richard Russo
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of marriage; the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood;the unwinnable battles men and women insist on fighting... Read more >

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Written by Richard Russo
Read by Ron McLarty
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $24.95
In his slyly funny and moving new novel, the author of The Risk Pool follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat, upstate New York town--and in the lives of the unluckiest of its citizens. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and... Read more >

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Written by Richard Russo
Read by Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $32.50
Six years after the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement.
Louis Charles (“Lucy”) Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a... Read more >

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Written by Richard Russo
Read by Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $20.00
Following Bridge of Sighs—a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achievement” and “a masterpiece”—Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.
Griffin has been tooling around for... Read more >
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A Novel
Written by Richard Russo
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.00
Following Bridge of Sighs—a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achievement” and “a masterpiece”—Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.
Griffin has been tooling around for... Read more >
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Written by Richard Russo
Read by Sam Freed
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 14, 2003
Price: $24.00
William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed... Read more >











