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    That Old Cape Magic

    Richard Russo
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    The English Major

    Jim Harrison
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    The Kindly Ones

    Jonathan Littell
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    A. S. Byatt
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Asterios Polyp
Asterios Polyp
by David Mazzucchelli
Staff Pick
If David Mazzucchelli weren't already beloved by comics fans, Asterios Polyp would make him legendary. This visually inventive, completely mesmerizing graphic novel will have you eagerly flipping pages on the first read, then flipping back to savor the sumptuous artwork and brilliant design.
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Gourmet Rhapsody
Gourmet Rhapsody
by Muriel Barbery
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Muriel Barbery's debut novel offers the same refined prose as The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Pierre Arthen, renowned though self-absorbed food critic, lies on his death bed, remembering his life and searching for a "flavor" he can't recall. This emotional tale gives fans another taste of Barbery's exquisite writing.
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Chronic City
Chronic City
by Jonathan Lethem
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Chase is a former child actor rediscovering fame as the fiancé of an astronaut stranded in space. With a cast that includes a ghostwriter, a minor NYC bureaucrat, a grizzled pop critic, and a tiger that randomly appears throughout Manhattan, Chronic City is vintage Lethem: a deft concoction of urban anxiety set adrift in a constantly reshaping psychological topography.
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Presumed Innocent
Presumed Innocent
by Scott Turow
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Now available in trade paperback, Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of crimes. Prosecutor Rusty Sabich is transformed from accuser to accused when he is handed an... (read more)

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    Anil's Ghost

    Michael Ondaatje
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    Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy
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The Lacuna
The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver
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Waiting for a new Kingsolver novel has been like waiting for a favorite restaurant to reopen after renovations, only it's been nine years of anticipation. With the grand depth of The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna tells of historical and intercultural... (read more)

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The Complete James Herriot
The Complete James Herriot
by James Herriot
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The Complete James Herriot Includes Every Living Thing The Lord God Made Them All Vet in a Spin Vets Might Fly Vet in Harness Let Sleeping Vets Lie It shouldn't Happen to a Vet If Only They Could Talk... (read more)

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Push
Push
by Sapphire
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Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, directed by Lee Daniels and written by Damien Paul GRAND JURY PRIZE and AUDIENCE AWARD winner at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this horrific, hope-filled story (Newsday... (read more)

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
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The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she... (read more)

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Indian Killer
Indian Killer
by Sherman Alexie
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A murderer is stalking and scalping white men in Seattle. While this so-called Indian Killer terrorizes the city, its Native American population is thrown into turmoil. John Smith, an Indian adopted as a newborn baby into a white family, is increasingly... (read more)

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The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
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In a brand-new Plume hardcover edition, here is the story of an intransigent young architect, Howard Roark, of his violent battle against a mindless status quo, and of his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who worships him yet struggles to... (read more)

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    by Stieg Larsson
  4. The Road
    by Cormac Mccarthy
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    by Gil Adamson

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Stuart Archer Cohen: IMG Finding Out about Revolution



Countless aspiring writers get clubbed with the old adage "Write what you know," but sometimes the whole point of writing a novel is to find out the... Continue »
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    The Army of the Republic

    Stuart Archer Cohen
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    As I Lay Dying

    William Faulkner
Original Essays | December 12, 2009

Alexander McCall Smith: IMG The Courage of Others



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    La's Orchestra Saves the World

    Alexander McCall Smith
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Matt Love: IMG The 2009 "On Oregon" Book of the Year



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    Livability: Stories

    Jon Raymond
Powell's Q&A, Q&A | November 30, 2009

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