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Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is her 17th novel. Her 11th, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. A member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, she lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Digging to America
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $15.00
Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel–a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.”
Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $15.00
Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel–a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.”
Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and in
large print hardcover.
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Ladder of Years
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 26, 1996
Price: $15.00
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To her husband and three almost-grown children, she... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 26, 1996
Price: $15.00
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To her husband and three almost-grown children, she... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
“Beautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment.”
–The New York Times
“A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.”
–The Boston Globe
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night in... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
“Beautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment.”
–The New York Times
“A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.”
–The Boston Globe
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night in... Read more >
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The Accidental Tourist
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $15.00
“POIGNANT . . . FUNNY . . . THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST IS ONE OF HER BEST. . . . [TYLER] HAS NEVER BEEN STRONGER.”
–The New York Times
Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $15.00
“POIGNANT . . . FUNNY . . . THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST IS ONE OF HER BEST. . . . [TYLER] HAS NEVER BEEN STRONGER.”
–The New York Times
Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Breathing Lessons
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $14.95
Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years–and it shows: in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other’s eccentricities. Maggie, a kooky, lovable meddler and an irrepressible optimist, wants nothing more than to fix her son’s broken marriage. Ira is infuriatingly practical... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $14.95
Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years–and it shows: in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other’s eccentricities. Maggie, a kooky, lovable meddler and an irrepressible optimist, wants nothing more than to fix her son’s broken marriage. Ira is infuriatingly practical... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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The Amateur Marriage
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $14.95
From the inimitable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage—and its consequences, spanning three generations.
They seemed like the perfect couple—young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty minutes away), walked into... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $14.95
From the inimitable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage—and its consequences, spanning three generations.
They seemed like the perfect couple—young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty minutes away), walked into... Read more >
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If Morning Ever Comes
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $13.95
"A triumph."
HARPERS
Ben Joe Hawkes is a worrier. Raised by his mother, grandmother, and a flock of busy sisters, he's always felt the outsider. When he learns that one of his sisters has left her husband, he heads for home and back into the confusion of childhood memories and unforseen love...
From the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $13.95
"A triumph."
HARPERS
Ben Joe Hawkes is a worrier. Raised by his mother, grandmother, and a flock of busy sisters, he's always felt the outsider. When he learns that one of his sisters has left her husband, he heads for home and back into the confusion of childhood memories and unforseen love...
From the... Read more >
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Ladder of Years
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 30, 1997
Price: $7.99
"UTTERLY COMPELLING . . . WONDERFULLY SATISFYING . . . VIRTUALLY FLAWLESS."
--Chicago Tribune
BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 30, 1997
Price: $7.99
"UTTERLY COMPELLING . . . WONDERFULLY SATISFYING . . . VIRTUALLY FLAWLESS."
--Chicago Tribune
BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Back When We Were Grownups
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $14.95
“A WONDERFUL NOVEL . . . Tyler’s eye and ear for familial give and take is unerring, her humanity irresistible. You’ll want to turn back to the first chapter the moment you finish the last.”
–People (Page-Turner of the Week)
“STUNNING . . . ‘Once upon a time,’ the story begins, ‘there was... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $14.95
“A WONDERFUL NOVEL . . . Tyler’s eye and ear for familial give and take is unerring, her humanity irresistible. You’ll want to turn back to the first chapter the moment you finish the last.”
–People (Page-Turner of the Week)
“STUNNING . . . ‘Once upon a time,’ the story begins, ‘there was... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
paperback.
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Back When We Were Grownups
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 18, 2006
Price: $19.99
"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel.
The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 18, 2006
Price: $19.99
"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel.
The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Breathing Lessons
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $7.99
Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years–and it shows: in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other’s eccentricities. Maggie, a kooky, lovable meddler and an irrepressible optimist, wants nothing more than to fix her son’s broken marriage. Ira is infuriatingly practical... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $7.99
Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years–and it shows: in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other’s eccentricities. Maggie, a kooky, lovable meddler and an irrepressible optimist, wants nothing more than to fix her son’s broken marriage. Ira is infuriatingly practical... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Morgan's Passing
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $13.95
"An almost flawless story of love...Morgan emerges as a true hero."
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Morgan Gower works at Cullen's hardware store in north Baltimore. He has seven daughters and a warmhearted wife, but as he journeys into the gray area of middle age, he finds his household growing tedious. Then Morgan meets two... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $13.95
"An almost flawless story of love...Morgan emerges as a true hero."
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Morgan Gower works at Cullen's hardware store in north Baltimore. He has seven daughters and a warmhearted wife, but as he journeys into the gray area of middle age, he finds his household growing tedious. Then Morgan meets two... Read more >
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Back When We Were Grownups
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $7.50
"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel.
The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $7.50
"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel.
The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Saint Maybe
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.00
9 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list!
"A novel that attests once again to Ms. Tyler's enormous gifts as a writer."
--THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Captivating . . . . Compelling . . . . There is a kind of magic at work in this novel."
--THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
In... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.00
9 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list!
"A novel that attests once again to Ms. Tyler's enormous gifts as a writer."
--THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Captivating . . . . Compelling . . . . There is a kind of magic at work in this novel."
--THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
In... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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A Patchwork Planet
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $14.95
In this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order.
Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot he... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $14.95
In this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order.
Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot he... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Earthly Possessions
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $13.95
"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love."
PEOPLE
Charlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husband. Her last trip to the bank throws Charlotte's life into an... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $13.95
"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love."
PEOPLE
Charlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husband. Her last trip to the bank throws Charlotte's life into an... Read more >
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The Amateur Marriage
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 31, 2006
Price: $7.99
From the inimitable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage—and its consequences, spanning three generations.
They seemed like the perfect couple—young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty minutes away), walked into... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 31, 2006
Price: $7.99
From the inimitable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage—and its consequences, spanning three generations.
They seemed like the perfect couple—young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty minutes away), walked into... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
trade paperback and in
large print hardcover.
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Clock Winder
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
Mrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don't have to be a perfect match to work.
"Anne Tyler is a magical writer."
LOS ANGELES TIMES
From... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
Mrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don't have to be a perfect match to work.
"Anne Tyler is a magical writer."
LOS ANGELES TIMES
From... Read more >
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The Tin Can Tree
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $13.95
In the small town of Larksville, the Pike family is hopelessly out of step with the daily rhythms of life after the tragic, accidental death of six-year-old Janie Rose. Mrs. Pike seldom speaks, blaming herself, while Mr. Pike is forced to come out of his long, comfortable silence. Then there is... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $13.95
In the small town of Larksville, the Pike family is hopelessly out of step with the daily rhythms of life after the tragic, accidental death of six-year-old Janie Rose. Mrs. Pike seldom speaks, blaming herself, while Mr. Pike is forced to come out of his long, comfortable silence. Then there is... Read more >
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Digging to America
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 2, 2006
Price: $34.95
Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel–a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.”
Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 2, 2006
Price: $34.95
Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel–a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.”
Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
trade paperback and in
large print hardcover.
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Celestial Navigation
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $13.95
"Tyler is steadily raising a body of fiction of major dimensions."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $13.95
"Tyler is steadily raising a body of fiction of major dimensions."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until... Read more >
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Saint Maybe
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: August 23, 1992
Price: $7.99
9 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list!
"A novel that attests once again to Ms. Tyler's enormous gifts as a writer."
--THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Captivating . . . . Compelling . . . . There is a kind of magic at work in this novel."
--THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
In... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: August 23, 1992
Price: $7.99
9 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list!
"A novel that attests once again to Ms. Tyler's enormous gifts as a writer."
--THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Captivating . . . . Compelling . . . . There is a kind of magic at work in this novel."
--THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
In... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Searching for Caleb
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
"Magic and true, dazzling and wise...It has an astounding confidence, depth and range...A wonderful, wonderful novel."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
Duncan Peck has a fascination for randomness and is always taking his family on the move. His wife, Justine, is a fortune teller who can't remember the past. Her grandfather, Daniel, longs to find... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
"Magic and true, dazzling and wise...It has an astounding confidence, depth and range...A wonderful, wonderful novel."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
Duncan Peck has a fascination for randomness and is always taking his family on the move. His wife, Justine, is a fortune teller who can't remember the past. Her grandfather, Daniel, longs to find... Read more >
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A Slipping-Down Life
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $6.99
Evie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager with a distant father and hours and hours of silence to fill. Then one night she hears local rock singer Drumstrings Casey on the radio—and becomes instantly attracted to his cool, motionless voice. Evie learns that Drumstrings frequently plays at a dingy roadhouse... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $6.99
Evie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager with a distant father and hours and hours of silence to fill. Then one night she hears local rock singer Drumstrings Casey on the radio—and becomes instantly attracted to his cool, motionless voice. Evie learns that Drumstrings frequently plays at a dingy roadhouse... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Digging to America
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2006
Price: $26.95
Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel–a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.”
Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2006
Price: $26.95
Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel–a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.”
Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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