Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell




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"For readers who enjoy good stories wrapped around an inventive structure. Each tale is obliquely connected to another moving forward through time. And each has a totally different voice and style." Salli, Powells... (read more)

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Daily Negations
by John S. Hall


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Like many self-help books, "Daily Negations" is designed to be kept in a treasured spot, beside the bed or on top of the toilet. Read day or night, depending on one's personal habits, its universal truths can be easily incorporated into a daily grounding... (read more)

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Old School
by Tobias Wolff




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The protagonist of Tobias Wolff's shrewdly — and at times devastatingly — observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like... (read more)

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Housekeeping (80 Edition)
by Marilynne Robinson




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A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and... (read more)

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Yann Andrea Steiner
by Marguerite Duras


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"Duras manages to combine the seemingly irreconcilable perspectives of confession and objectivity, of lyrical poetry and nouveau roman. The sentences lodge themselves slowly in the reader's mind until they detonate with all the force of fused feeling and... (read more)

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The Open Curtain
by Brian Evenson


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When Rudd, a troubled teenager, embarks on a school project, he runs across a series of articles from the 1902 New York Timeschronicling a vicious murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young. Delving deeply into the Mormon ritual of blood sacrifice... (read more)

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All Over
by Roy Kesey


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"A restlessly inventive collection, as the best story collections so often are-comic and tender, ironic and earnest, deadpan and passionate. A distinctive new voice, from a distinctive new press."-Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl Includes "Wait,"... (read more)

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Little Black Book of Stories (03 Edition)
by A.s. Byatt




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A new collection of Byatt stories is always a winner and never fails to delight. The five stories in this marvelous collection are by turns funny, spooky, sparkling, sad, and utterly unforgettable.... (read more)

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