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Georgie's Picks


Georgie's Picks


Contemporary Literature
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel
Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell
Staff Pick
"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."... (read more)

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Mystery
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One Step Behind
One Step Behind
by Henning Mankell
Staff Pick
Discover Europe's favorite mystery writer. Sweden's Henning Mankell writes a first-rate police procedural that also serves as an indictment of contemporary society. His characters are fully drawn, full of frailties, unexpected courage, and are utterly... (read more)

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Food and Wine
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The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen: Recipes for the Passionate Cook
The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen: Recipes for the Passionate Cook
by Paula Wolfert
Publisher Comments
From a slow-simmered stew to a loaf of bread left overnight to crisp for crostini, Wolfert has arranged a collection of recipes--all Mediterranean in origin--which are perfect for people who like to cook on weekends, with all the warmth and aromas that... (read more)

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Mystery
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A Place of Execution
A Place of Execution
by Val Mcdermid
Publisher Comments
On a freezing day in December 1963, thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from her village. Nothing will ever be the same again for the inhabitants of the isolated hamlet in the English countryside. For the young George Bennett, a newly promoted... (read more)

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Contemporary Literature
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Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Staff Pick
Ishiguro takes a meditative look at childhood, loss of innocence, and human deception and the drive for survival. This is a haunting narrative that is joyous and sad at once — reminiscent of Philip K. Dick, but with a very literary and poignant eye for... (read more)

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Contemporary Literature
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Case Histories: A Novel
Case Histories: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
Publisher Comments
A triumphant new novel from award-winner Kate Atkinson: a breathtaking story of families divided, love lost and found, and the mysteries of fate. Case One: Olivia Land, youngest and most beloved of the Land girls, goes missing in the night and is... (read more)

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Contemporary Literature
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Explorers of the New Century: A Novel
Explorers of the New Century: A Novel
by Magnus Mills
Publisher Comments
"When Magnus Mills gives the world a shake, you never know what might fall out of his pockets," proclaims the Los Angeles Times. In his terse new tour de force of a tale, Mills gives history a shake, and you'll never guess what the fallout is. Set at the... (read more)

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Mystery
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The Falls
The Falls
by Ian Rankin
Publisher Comments
Ian Rankin's John Rebus, arguably the most realistic detective in crime fiction, is a brilliant but troubled man. When a young woman goes missing near his native Edinburgh, Scotland, Rebus finds himself just one small cog in the huge wheel of an inquiry... (read more)

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Sale Books
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My Life as a Fake
My Life as a Fake
by Peter Carey
Publisher Comments
Following the triumph of his Booker Prize–winning True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey ventures into the Far East with a novel shot through with mysteries at once historical, literary, and personal. Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a... (read more)

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Used Books
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Seventy-eight Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and Fourteen Reasons Why It Just Might
Seventy-eight Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and Fourteen Reasons Why It Just Might
by Pat Walsh
Publisher Comments
An industry insider's blunt, practical, and laugh-out-loud funny guide for the unpublished, filled with advice that may actually help them get into print. For the hundreds of thousands who buy writers' guides every year, at last there's one that... (read more)

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Bestsellers

Saturday, July 11, 2009
Cloud Atlas: A Novel
  1. Cloud Atlas: A Novel
    by David Mitchell
  2. Never Let Me Go
    by Kazuo Ishiguro
  3. A Place of Execution
    by Val Mcdermid
  4. One Step Behind
    by Henning Mankell
  5. The Falls
    by Ian Rankin
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