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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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A meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even…
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Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
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An irresistible collection of essays and memoir from the internationally bestselling, Women’s Prize-winning author of The Dutch House.
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A beautifully designed edition of number-one New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's prized classic, annotated and with an introductionby the author herself.
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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…
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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…
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.
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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"A book that works both as a paean to art and beauty and a subtly sly comedy of manners."--Janet Maslin, New York Times
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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 Vert family is celebrating a very special occasion: it's Ivan's birthday! And Estie knows that every birthday needs a great party, with lots of guests, party hats, and twinkling…
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Dyslexia-Friendly Edition of the Women's Prize longlisted international bestseller.
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…
The poignant - and at times very funny - new novel from the author of “The Magician’s Assistant’, shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
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.
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.
An unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives.
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Willy Vlautin
For fans of A Star is Born and Crazy Heart, Willy Vlautin's most personal novel yet - a poetic and deeply moving story about what it really takes to…
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…
'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…
THIS SUMMER, DIVE INTO TOM LAKE - THE BREATH-TAKING NEW NOVEL FROM ANN PATCHETT
A REESE WITHERSPOON AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK
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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
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.
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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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…
Lee Cole
‘An extraordinary debut’ (ANN PATCHETT) to fall for - a coming-of-age story and an immersive love story.
Charles Strobel, Ann Patchett
As Charles Strobel, beloved Nashville priest and champion of the unhoused, reached the end of his life in 2023, he began to contemplate the last message he wanted to leave…
Bookhabits
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett: Conversation Starters
A Brief Look Inside:
EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come…
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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…
A BARACK OBAMA TOP BOOK OF 2021
‘A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death’ Guardian
‘A pitch-perfect collection ……
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.
The breathtaking new novel from Ann Patchett - a Sunday Times and No. 1 New York Times bestseller
'Filled with the moments I live for in a story' BONNIE GARMUS…
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…
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.
In this collection of essays, Patchett turns her writer’s eye on her own experiences and transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our…
