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The Navigator of New York
Written by Wayne Johnston


Netherland
Written by Joseph O'Neill
Netherland is the mesmerizing story of a European man living in New York City after 9/11, with two troubled loves—that for his wife, and that for his adopted country. Told in a lyrical voice, the story of his journey involves an... Read More

Never Let Me Go
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
A thirty-one-year-old woman named Kathy narrates this haunting tale, drawing the reader gradually into her recollections of her life at Hailsham, the idyllic boarding school where she grew up. She and her best friends, Ruth and Tommy, were encouraged by their... Read More

New England White
Written by Stephen L. Carter
Lemaster Carlyle, the president of a prestigious university, and his wife, Julia, a deputy dean at the university's divinity school, are driving home from a fund-raising dinner when a dangerous curve on a snowy road sends them careening into a ditch... Read More

Niccolo Rising
Written by Dorothy Dunnett
Bruges, 1460. Street smart, brilliant at figures, adept at the subtleties of diplomacy and the well-timed untruth, Dunnett's hero rises from wastrel to prodigy in a breathless adventure that wins him the hand of the most powerful woman in Bruges--and the... Read More

Nigger
Written by Randall Kennedy
In Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy grapples with a key term in the lexicon of race relations. He traces the history of the word nigger, showing that it has been primarily employed... Read More

Night Falls Fast
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the world's leading authorities on the subject of mood disorders and suicide. As she revealed in her bestselling memoir, An Unquiet Mind, she has suffered for much of her life with manic depression, and at... Read More

No Country for Old Men
Written by Cormac McCarthy
When Llewellyn Moss stumbles upon a grisly murder scene in the desert while hunting antelope near the Rio Grande river, he finds himself at a crossroads. Walk away and return to his job as a welder or take the $2 million... Read More

No Country for Old Men (Movie Tie In Edition)
Written by Cormac McCarthy
When Llewellyn Moss stumbles upon a grisly murder scene in the desert while hunting antelope near the Rio Grande river, he finds himself at a crossroads. Walk away and return to his job as a welder or take the $2 million... Read More

No Great Mischief
Written by Alistair MacLeod
In 1779, 55-year-old Calum Ruadh, or the red Calum MacDonald, left the Scottish Highlands with his second wife, their twelve children, and their faithful dog. He arrived on Cape Breton a widower and staked his claim to land in the New... Read More

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Written by Alexander Mccall Smith
When Precious Ramotswe decides to use the money her beloved father left her to open the first ever Ladies’ Detective Agency in Botswana, everyone is skeptical. “Can women be detectives?” asks the bank’s lawyer. Mma Ramotswe herself feels unsure of her... Read More

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Written by Alexander Mccall Smith
When Precious Ramotswe decides to use the money her beloved father left her to open the first ever Ladies’ Detective Agency in Botswana, everyone is skeptical. “Can women be detectives?” asks the bank’s lawyer. Mma Ramotswe herself feels unsure of her... Read More

Nobody's Fool
Written by Richard Russo
Richard Russo, in his own words:

Q: Some critics have described the characters in your latest novel as losers. What would you say to them?

A:  It depends on what you mean. Is their luck going to change? No. Are they going to become... Read More

Norwegian Wood
Written by Haruki Murakami
Set in Tokyo in the late sixties, Norwegian Wood explores the life of Toru Watanabe, a solitary and anguished young student, as he struggles to find himself, to recover from the suicide of his best friend, and to choose between the... Read More

Not a Day Goes By
Written by E. Lynn Harris
John Basil Henderson has moved from gridiron to a gig as a broadcaster with ESPN, to a partnership in XJI (X Jocks, Inc.), one of the fastest-growing sports management agencies in the country. He has a New York City penthouse, a... Read More

Nothing to Be Frightened Of
Written by Julian Barnes
Montaigne suggested that we keep the thought of death always before us. And Julian Barnes, in this elegant, probing, unflinchingly honest meditation on death and the fear of death, seems to have followed Montaigne's advice, albeit involuntarily. Barnes's fear of death... Read More



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