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The Girl with No Shadow Friend of the Devil
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by Joanne Harris
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by Peter Robinson
Things I Want My Daughters to Know The Resurrectionist
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by Elizabeth Noble
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by Jack O'Connell

2007 April

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid

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At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting... Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At... (read more)
 
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2007 April

The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One)
by Patrick Rothfuss

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I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in.... (read more)
 
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2007 April

The God of Animals: A Novel
by Aryn Kyle

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Aryn Kyle's story of Alice Winston resonates with my own childhood experience growing up among the ranchers and farmers in an isolated town. I recognized a kindred spirit in this independent young girl as she gradually discovered the tears and snags of... (read more)
 
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2007 April

The Raw Shark Texts
by Steven Hall

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In The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall produces a novel that is both literary bravura and a thoughtful meditation of identity and loss. A stunning debut by a writer of enormous talent. Recommended by Gerry, Powells.com... (read more)
 
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2007 April

Burning Bright
by Tracy Chevalier

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The author of Girl with a Pearl Earring has done it again! With her new novel, Burning Bright, Tracy Chevalier recreates William Blake's London, circa 1790. Her eye for detail and her ear for dialogue are sharp as ever. With her books, the reader can... (read more)
 
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2007 April

Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations
by Simon Rich

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In Ant Farm, former Harvard Lampoon president Simon Rich finds humor in some very surprising places. Armed with a sharp eye for the absurd and an overwhelming sense of doom, Rich explores the ridiculousness of our everyday lives. The world, he concludes,... (read more)
 
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2007 April

Tallgrass
by Sandra Dallas

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An essential American novel from Sandra Dallas, an unparalleled writer of our history, and our deepest emotions... During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small... (read more)
 
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2007 April

The Testament of Gideon Mack
by James Robertson

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A Scottish minister who doesnt believe in God meets the devil in this beguiling American debut A good manand a good minister despite his atheismGideon Mack leads a respectable life that is shattered when he falls down a ravine and into the raging river... (read more)
 
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2007 April

The Book of Air and Shadows: A Novel
by Michael Gruber

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A distinguished Shakespearean scholar found tortured to death... A lost manuscript and its secrets buried for centuries... An encrypted map that leads to incalculable wealth... The Washington Post called Michael Gruber's previous work "a... (read more)
 
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2007 April

Portrait of an Unknown Woman
by Vanora Bennett

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The year is 1527. The great portraitist Hans Holbein, who has fled the reformation in Europe, is making his first trip to England under commission to Sir Thomas More. In the course of six years, Holbein will become a close friend to the More family and... (read more)
 
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2007 April

Shakespeare's Kitchen
by Lore Segal

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The thirteen interrelated stories of Shakespeare's Kitchen concern the universal longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies for ourselves, and how slowly, inexplicably, we lose them. Featuring six never-before-published pieces, Lore Segal's... (read more)
 
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2007 April

Dog Years: A Memoir
by Mark Doty

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A memoir of the author's relationship with a pair of beloved canine companions is a tribute to their irrepressible personalities, their life-changing impact on the author and his family, and their role in how the author came to understand loss and grief.... (read more)
 
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2007 April

The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish
by Elise Blackwell

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As the waters of the Mississippi rise in 1927, the moneyed powers of Louisiana must decide which Parish to flood in order to save New Orleans.... (read more)
 
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2007 April

The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
by Robert Goolrick

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It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemd possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal. For one little boy, however, life had become anything but andquot;normal... (read more)
 
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2007 April

Love in a Torn Land: Joanna of Kurdistan: The True Story of a Freedom Fighter's Escape from Iraqi Vengeance
by Jean P Sasson

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The story of a female Kurdish freedom fighter, from the New York Times bestselling author of Princess In this gripping book, popular author Jean Sasson tells the story of Joanna Al-Askari Hussain– and, in the process, reveals the sad plight of the... (read more)
 
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