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    Eating Animals

    Jonathan Safran Foer
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    The True Deceiver

    Tove Jansson
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    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

    Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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    That Old Cape Magic

    Richard Russo

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Asterios Polyp
Asterios Polyp
by David Mazzucchelli
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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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The Fall of the Templars
The Fall of the Templars
by Robyn Young
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The internationally bestselling author of Brethren and Crusade tells the cataclysmic story of the last days of the Knights Templar. Robyn Youngas historical fiction has topped international bestseller lists and won praise from the likes of Raymond Khoury,... (read more)

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    Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy
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    Barry Hannah
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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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Bildungsroman
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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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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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Family Life
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
by David Wroblewski
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The perfect book to curl up with on a blustery afternoon, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a not-so-simple tale of a Wisconsin boy and his dogs. An eloquent exploration of both inner and outer landscapes, this novel will wind about your psyche and will... (read more)

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Thank You Jeeves
Thank You Jeeves
by P G Wodehouse
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A Jeeves and Wooster novel Thank You, Jeeves is the first novel to feature the incomparable valet Jeeves and his hapless charge Bertie Wooster - and you've hardly started to turn the pages when he resigns over Bertie's dedicated but somewhat untuneful... (read more)

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
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The story of two young comic book artists in 1940s New York City, Jewish boys, one of whom fled the German steamroller heading toward his home in Czechoslovakia in a coffin, Chabon's third and best novel is utterly original, a generous fictional addition... (read more)

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    by Gil Adamson
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    by Cormac Mccarthy
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    Stuart Archer Cohen
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    As I Lay Dying

    William Faulkner
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    Alexander McCall Smith
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    Livability: Stories

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