Fiction & Literature

The bestselling author of She's Come Undone is back with a heartrending new novel set in the aftermath of the Columbine tragedy. At its center are Caelum Quirk, a 47-year-old high school teacher, and his younger wife, Maureen, a school nurse who was trapped in the building during the shootings. Assembling an ensemble of characters rich enough to evoke all of humanity, The Hour I First Believed confirms Wally Lamb's stature as a virtuoso storyteller.

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From Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, a powerful evocation of racial prejudice in the Depression-era South, to Bel Canto, Ann Patchett's almost dreamlike portrayal of a hostage crisis in an unnamed South American country, this collection features beautifully designed paperback editions of some of the most beloved modern classics.

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