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The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
by Reif Larsen
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Twelve-year-old T.S. Spivet draws maps of train routes and water tables, maps of loneliness, the resilience of memory, even a map of his sister shucking corn. Author Reif Larsen notes, "I think I'm gently expanding the definition of the word map." And... ( read more)
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The Likeness
by Tana French
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The Likeness is another masterpiece of suspense by Tana French. Reminiscent of The Secret History, this psychological thriller is wonderfully written and impeccably paced — a perfect summer read.... ( read more)
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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Perfect for book groups, a charming series of letters make up this short novel set in post-WWII Europe. The correspondents, drawn together by their love of books and affection for each other, collectively tell a moving tale of endurance and friendship in... ( read more)
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The Lazarus Project
by Aleksandar Hemon
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The Lazarus Project, Hemon's latest novel, is about storytelling, the nature of memory and reality, and America's relationship to the rest of the world, both past and present. It's blackly funny, crackling with intelligence, and populated by realistic... ( read more)
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The Angel's Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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If you've read The Shadow of the Wind, you won't need to read another word — you were likely so enthralled with Carlos Ruiz Zafón's breathtaking literary thriller that you've already ordered your copy of Angel's Game. For those who don't know, Zaf... ( read more)
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Unaccustomed Earth (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Jhumpa Lahiri
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These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers,... ( read more)
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Border Songs
by Jim Lynch
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If Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Border Songs. Northwest... ( read more)
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Who Is Mark Twain? (With Free eBook)
by Mark Twain
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People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks
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The "complex and moving" (The New Yorker) novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war. Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate... ( read more)
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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
by David Foster Wallace
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Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in This Is Water.
How does one keep from going through... ( read more)
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Nobody Move
by Denis Johnson
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From the National Book Award winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield... ( read more)
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Netherland (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Joseph O'neill
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The author of "Blood-Dark Track" delivers a mesmerizing novel about a man trying to make his way in an America of shattered hopes and values, and the unlikely occurrences that pull him back into an authentic, passionately engaged life.... ( read more)
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Pygmy
by Chuck Palahniuk
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"Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc."
Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a... ( read more)
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by Stieg Larsson
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An International Bestselling Sensation A murder mystery, family saga, love story, and a tale of financial intrigue wrapped into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. Harriet Vanger, scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families... ( read more)
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Burn This Book: Pen Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word
by Toni Morrison
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Shanghai Girls
by Lisa See
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In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided... ( read more)
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The Crying Tree
by Naseem Rakha
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Irene and Nate Stanley are living a quiet and contented life with their two children, Bliss and Shep, on their family farm in southern Illinois when Nate suddenly announces he's been offered a job as a deputy sheriff in Oregon. Irene fights her husband... ( read more)
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The Women
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
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The muse is always the last to know. Yet, if she was aware of the artist's failings from the beginning, would that be enough to deter her? That is the question Boyle raises in his novel of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. This fictionalized biography is... ( read more)
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Dear American Airlines
by Jonathan Miles
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Creatively constructed, this novel-in-a-letter has more to do with the main character's complaints about his own life than his missed flight. Dear American Airlines, the first novel by the New York Times cocktail columnist Jonathan Miles was surely... ( read more)
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The Outlander (P.S.)
by Gil Adamson
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The Outlander is a rare novel. Its beautifully breathless language seduces your attention to the smallest detail. From the first sentence you find yourself running, running with a woman you've just met, for reasons unclear, from pursuers unknown. Yet you... ( read more)
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Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir
by Christopher Buckley
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In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most glamorous and colorful... ( read more)
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A Mercy: A Novel
by Toni Morrison
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I disappeared into A Mercy like no novel in ages. Morrison's 17th-century panorama builds upon vivid scenes and characters until what emerges is nothing less than the forecast of America — both its ills and dreams.... ( read more)
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A Short History of Women
by Kate Walbert
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National Book Award finalist Kate Walbert's A Short History of Women is a profoundly moving portrayal of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters, chronicling five generations of women from the close of the nineteenth century through the early... ( read more)
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Brooklyn
by Colm Toibin
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Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Toibin's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself. Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in... ( read more)
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My Sister's Keeper
by Jodi Picoult
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New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that... ( read more)
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage)
by Stieg Larsson
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National Bestseller An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. Harriet... ( read more)
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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
by Katherine Howe
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Connie Goodwin should be spending her summer doing research for her Ph.D. dissertation in American History. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she's compelled to help. It's not long before... ( read more)
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My Father's Tears and Other Stories
by John Updike
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John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel. Personal... ( read more)
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Stone's Fall
by Iain Pears
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A return to the form that launched Iain Pears onto bestseller lists around the world: a vast historical mystery, marvelous in its ambition and ingenius in its complexity. In his most dazzling novel since the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller An... ( read more)
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April and Oliver
by Tess Callahan
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Best friends since childhood, the sexual tension between April and Oliver has always been palpable. Years after being completely inseparable, they become strangers, but the wildly different paths of their lives cross once again with the sudden death of... ( read more)
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Downtown Owl
by Chuck Klosterman
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Chuck — unleashed! Downtown Owl thrives on Klosterman's familiar brew of sharp commentary, pop culture references, and endlessly entertaining digressions into the inane and bizarre... served here in his predictably funny (but perhaps surprisingly... ( read more)
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Sunnyside
by Glen David Gold
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A great American novel, Sunnyside contains multitudes. Glen David Gold follows his bestselling debut (Carter Beats the Devil) with an audaciously imagined history of Hollywood at the start of World War I, so unceasingly vibrant that even the book's... ( read more)
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Lilac Mines
by Cheryl Klein
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“Klein’s characters are compelling, one and all.”—San Diego Union-Tribune Felix Ketay, a twenty-five-year-old Los Angeles dyke, has her foundations shaken when she’s ditched by her pomosexual girlfriend and then gay-bashed... ( read more)
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
by Garth Stein
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A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope--a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell... ( read more)
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John the Baptizer
by Brooks Hansen
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Traditionally, John the Baptist is seen as little more than an opening act'"'the voice crying in the wilderness"in the great Christian drama. In presenting the epic of John"s life, novelist Brooks Hansen draws on an extraordinary array of inspirations... ( read more)
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Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits
by Jack Murnighan
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Feel bad about not reading or not enjoying the so-called great books? Don't sweat it, it's not your fault. Did anyone tell you that Anna Karenina is a beach read, that Dickens is hilarious, that the Iliad's battle scenes rival Hollywood's for gore, or... ( read more)
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The Wednesday Sisters
by Meg Waite Clayton
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Five women, one passion, and the unbreakable bond of friendship When five young mothers — Frankie, Linda, Kath, Ally, and Brett-first meet in a neighborhood park in the late 1960s, their conversations center on marriage, raising children, and a... ( read more)
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Bulls Island
by Dorothea Benton Frank
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Elizabeth Betts McGee loved those lazy afternoons on pristine Bulls Island in the Carolina Lowcountry. But everything came crashing down when tragic fate--coupled with nasty rumor and innuendo--ended her engagement to Charleston golden boy J.D. Langley... ( read more)
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The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
by Rebecca Wells
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Known for her beloved Ya-Ya books (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Little Altars Everywhere, and Ya-Yas in Bloom), Rebecca Wells has helped women name, claim, and celebrate their shared sisterhood for over a decade. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya... ( read more)
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Six Suspects
by Vikas Swarup
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There's a caste system--even in murder From the author of the international bestseller Slumdog Millionaire comes a richly-textured tale of murder, corruption, and opportunity. Seven years ago, Vivek Vicky Rai, the playboy son of the Home Minister of... ( read more)
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All Souls
by Christine Schutt
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In 1997, at the distinguished Siddons School on Manhattans Upper East Side, the school year opens with distressing news: Astra Dell is suffering from a rare disease. Astras friends try to reconcile the girls suffering with their own fierce longings and... ( read more)
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Home: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
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Set in the same time and place as Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's new masterpiece is at once profoundly sad and hopeful.... ( read more)
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Ugly Man: Stories (P.S.)
by Dennis Cooper
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The most dangerous writer in America* is back with an uncommon book of death and comedy. Internationally acclaimed writer Dennis Cooper continues to study the material he's always explored honestly, but does so now--in stories--with a sense of awareness... ( read more)
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Don't Cry: Stories
by Mary Gaitskill
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Following the extraordinary success of her novel Veronica, Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories--her first in more than ten years. In "College Town 1980," young people adrift in Ann Arbor debate the meaning of personal... ( read more)
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The 19th Wife
by David Ebershoff
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It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of her... ( read more)
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Four Freedoms
by John Crowley
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One of the most admired and honored of our contemporary literary artists, author John Crowley now brilliantly re-creates a time in America when ordinary people were asked to sacrifice their comforts and uproot their lives for the cause of freedom.
In... ( read more)
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I Do Not Come to You by Chance
by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
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We've all seen the scams--those infamous 419 emails (named after a section of Nigerian law), that invade inboxes daily with a plea: Dear Friend, I'm a retired barrister. I alone know the existence of this ten million dollar deposit. I am looking for your... ( read more)
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Commencement
by J. Courtney Sullivan
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A sparkling debut novel: a tender story of friendship, a witty take on liberal arts colleges, and a fascinating portrait of the first generation of women who have all the opportunities in the world, but no clear idea about what to choose. Assigned to the... ( read more)
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Gone to the Dogs
by Mary Guterson
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Rena never meant to steal her ex-boyfriend's dog. She was just casually driving by his new house, taking stock of his new life, when the dog invited himself into her car...Okay, so she stole the dog. But how could Brian, her boyfriend of seven years (not... ( read more)
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Do Not Deny Me: Stories
by Jean Thompson
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If there are Jean Thompson characters, ' they're us, and never have we been so articulate and worthy of compassion. These stories confirm that no one is beneath her interest, or beyond her sure and seemingly limitless reach.--David Sedaris.... ( read more)
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When I Forgot
by Elina Hirvonen
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Given its surprising beauty and assured voice, it's hard to believe that When I Forgot is Elina Hirvonen's first novel. While on her way to the hospital where her brother is institutionalized, Anna experiences a moment of recollection so arresting it... ( read more)
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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
by Peter Manseau
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Summer, sweltering, 1996. A book warehouse in western Massachusetts. A man at the beginning of his adult life -- and the end of his career rope -- becomes involved with a woman, a language, and a great lie that will define his future. Most auspiciously... ( read more)
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Into the Beautiful North
by Luis Alberto Urrea
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Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the... ( read more)
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford
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Sentimental, heartfelt....the exploration of Henry's changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to... ( read more)
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Persona Non Grata: A Novel of the Roman Empire
by Ruth Downie
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The third novel in the acclaimed Gaius Petreius Ruso series by the New York Times bestselling Ruth Downie--this time set in ancient Gaul. At long last, Gaius Petreius Ruso and his companion, Tilla, are headed home--to Gaul. Having received a note... ( read more)
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A Summer Affair
by Elin Hilderbrand
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Claire Danner Crispin, mother of four young children and nationally renowned glassblower, bites off more than she can chew when she agrees to co-chair the Nantucket's Children Summer Gala. Claire is asked to chair the benefit, in part, because she is the... ( read more)
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The Widow's Season
by Laura Brodie
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A mesmerizing debut novel about love, grief, and the ghosts who show up where we least expect them. Sarah McConnellas husband had been dead for three months when she saw him in the grocery store. What does a woman do when sheas thirty-nine, childless... ( read more)
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The Gilded Seal
by James Twining
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It takes a thief to catch a killer . . . Once one of the world's foremost art thieves, Tom Kirk now operates on the other side of the law. But a grisly discovery at the site of the brazen theft of a Da Vinci painting--a crime that bears the unmistakable... ( read more)
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Then We Came to the End: A Novel
by Joshua Ferris
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This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented new writer.
The characters in Then We Came to the End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance... ( read more)
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Primo Levi's Universe: A Writer's Journey
by Sam Magavern
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Primo Levi is best known as a memoirist of Auschwitz, but he was also a scientist, fiction writer, and poet: in short, a Renaissance man. Primo Levis Universe offers a multi-faceted portrait of the heroic man who turned the concentration... ( read more)
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You or Someone Like You
by Chandler Burr
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Anne Rosenbaum leads a life of quiet Los Angeles privilege, the wife of Hollywood executive Howard Rosenbaum and mother of their seventeen-year-old son, Sam. Years ago Anne and Howard met studying litera-ture at Columbia--she, the daughter of a British... ( read more)
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God Is an Englishman
by R. F. Delderfield
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From master author R. F. Delderfield, the first in the beloved classic God Is an Englishman series. The first novel in the epic God Is an Englishman series, this book is a stirring saga of England in the 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution takes... ( read more)
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Greetings from Somewhere Else
by Monica Mcinerney
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Lainey Byrne is a master at controlled chaos, juggling her hectic, demanding job, her chef boyfriend with his crazy hours, and her roiling family with all its daily dramas. But her life truly threatens to spin out of control when her aunt May, who owns a... ( read more)
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The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
by Rebecca Wells
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Known for her beloved New York Times bestselling Ya-Ya books (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Little Altars Everywhere, and Ya-Yas in Bloom), Rebecca Wells now debuts an entirely new cast of characters in this shining stand-alone novel about the... ( read more)
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Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (Persephone Classics)
by Julia Strachey
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Strachey's] sharp eye, playful language and perfect comic timing will not only have you laughing, it'll leave you wondering why the rom-com formula isn't imaginatively tweaked more often.--NPR's 'Books We Like' A brilliant, bittersweet upstairs... ( read more)
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Sister's Choice (Shenandoah Album)
by Emilie Richards
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Kendra and Jamie were never storybook sisters. But after a long estrangement, Jamie has offered Kendra and her husband their ultimate dream--a child of their own. Despite some lingering misgivings about her once-wayward younger sister, Kendra agrees, and... ( read more)
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Glover's Mistake
by Nick Laird
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From a rising British novelist, an artful meditation on love and life in contemporary London When David Pinner introduces his former teacher, the American artist Ruth Marks, to his friend and flatmate James Glover, he unwittingly sets in place a love... ( read more)
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Niki: The Story of a Dog
by Tibor Dery
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The Dog adopted the Ancsas in the spring of '48: so the story begins. The Ancsas are a middle-aged couple living on the outskirts of Budapest in a ruinous Hungary that is just beginning to wake up from the nightmare of World War II. The new Communist... ( read more)
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Plants Don't Drink Coffee
by Unai Elorriaga
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“I read Unai Elorriaga’s latest novel almost without stopping to breathe. Breathlessly, yes, but not quickly, because Elorriaga’s books are not the kind you read in two or three hours and put back on the shelf. It is a very good novel... ( read more)
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Last Night in Montreal
by Emily St John Mandel
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Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood and adolescence traveling constantly and changing identities. In adulthood, she finds it impossible to stop. Haunted by an inability to remember her early childhood,... ( read more)
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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
by Maile Meloy
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Award-winning writer Maile Meloyas return to short stories explores complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers. Meloyas first return to short stories since her critically acclaimed debut, Both Ways... ( read more)
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This Wicked World
by Richard Lange
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Elmore Leonard meets Denis Johnson in this explosive first novel set on the seedy side of Southern California. Ex-marine Jimmy Boone-former bodyguard to Los Angeles's rich and famous-is fresh out of Corcoran, on parole, and trying to keep his nose clean... ( read more)
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Amateur Barbarians
by Robert Cohen
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Teddy Hastings is more of a doer than a thinker, a man who measures his life by what he has built: a successful career as a middle school principal, a solid marriage, two lovely if distant daughters. But once he hits fifty, in the shadow of his younger... ( read more)
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Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire
by Margot Berwin
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In the heart of New York City, hidden in the back room of an old Laundromat, are nine rare and valuable plants. Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire tells the story of this legendary garden, and the distance one woman must travel--from the cold,... ( read more)
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What She Wants
by Cathy Kelly
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Hope Parker is married to gorgeous Matt, has two enchanting toddlers (even if little Millie wants to run the family), and a successful job. But childhood insecurities keep Hope worrying that she's not good enough. When Matt suddenly decides to take a... ( read more)
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The Husband Habit
by Alisa Valdes-rodriguez
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Why does Vanessa keep falling for married men? Not that she knows she does. At least not at first. But every man who seems like he might be the one turns out to be someone else's. So maybe the right thing to do is take a vow to stay single, to keep away... ( read more)
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I Love You, Beth Cooper
by Larry Doyle
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Denis Cooverman wanted to say something really important in his high school graduation speech. So, in front of his 512 classmates and their 3,000 relatives, he announced: It could have been such a sweet, romantic moment. Except that Beth, the head... ( read more)
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The Scenic Route (P.S.)
by Binnie Kirshenbaum
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"This is the story of Henry and me. I wish it had a different end," Sylvia Landsman begins what is, in part, the story of her ill-fated romance. Divorced, alone, and unexpectedly unemployed, Sylvia escapes to Italy where she meets Henry, a middle-aged... ( read more)
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Concord, Virginia: A Southern Town in Eleven Stories
by Peter Neofotis
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In the places set between folds in the Earth, voices echo against mountains... So begins the story of Concord, Virginia, one of those places set between folds in the Earth. It's a place like almost any other Southern town filled with self-righteous... ( read more)
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Shimmer
by Eric Barnes
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This beach-bag perfect combination of intrigue and deceit is the timely, gripping tale of a worldwide corporate Ponzi scheme.... ( read more)
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
by Gerald Martin
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The first full and authorized biography of the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature--the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years. Over the course of the nearly two decades Gerald Martin gave to the research and writing of this... ( read more)
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Hope in a Jar
by Beth Harbison
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Twenty years ago, Allie Denty was the pretty one and her best friend Olivia Pelham was the smart one. Throughout high school, they were inseparable…until a vicious rumor about Olivia a rumor too close to the truthended their friendship. Now, on the... ( read more)
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Black Water Rising
by Attica Locke
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Writing in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke, a powerful new voice in American fiction, delivers a brilliant debut thriller that readers will not soon forget. Jay Porter is hardly the lawyer he set out to be. His most promising... ( read more)
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The Devil's Company
by David Liss
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From the acclaimed author of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Paper comes a superb new historical thriller set in the splendor and squalor of eighteenth-century London. In Benjamin Weaver, David Liss has created one of fiction's most enthralling... ( read more)
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The Convalescent
by Jessica Anthony
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The Convalescent is the story of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus parked next to a stream in suburban Virginia... and also, somehow, the story of 10,000 years of Hungarian history. Jessica Anthony, the inaugural winner of the Amanda Davis... ( read more)
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Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
by Jonathan L. Howard
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In this uproarious and clever debut, it's time to give the Devil his due. Johannes Cabal, a brilliant scientist and notorious snob, is single-mindedly obsessed in heart and soul with raising the dead. Well, perhaps not soul . . . He hastily sold his... ( read more)
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Amplified: Fiction from Leading Alt-Country, Indie Rock, Blues and Folk Musicians
by Steven Horwitz and Julie Schaper
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Sixteen original short stories by some of the most important young songwriters working today. Amplifed presents sixteen short stories by some of the most compelling songwriters performing today. With original contributions from Mary Gauthier, Chris... ( read more)
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The Sister
by Poppy Adams
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Born into a long line of distinguished lepidopterists, scientists who study moths and butterflies, Ginny and Vivien grew up in a sprawling Victorian home. Forty-seven years later, Ginny lives there alone, tending to her moths and obsessions amid the... ( read more)
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The Last War
by Ana Menendez
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A breathtaking novel of love, war, and betrayal Flash, a photojournalist, chases conflicts around the globe with her war correspondent husband, Brando. Now Brando is in Iraq, awaiting her arrival. Yet instead of racing to join him, Flash idles in... ( read more)
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Dark Places
by Gillian Flynn
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"I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ." Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas. As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow.... ( read more)
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The Touch
by F. Paul Wilson
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Suddenly, a family physician can heal any illness with a simple touch After a dozen years of practicing medicine as a family physician, Dr. Alan Bulmer discovers one day that he can cure any illness with the mere touch of his hand. At first his... ( read more)
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The Triumph of Caesar: A Novel of Ancient Rome
by Steven Saylor
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The Roman civil war has come to its conclusion – Pompey is dead, Egypt is firmly under the control of Cleopatra (with the help of Romes legions), and for the first time in many years Julius Caesar has returned to Rome itself. Appointed... ( read more)
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The New Valley
by Josh Weil
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The linked novellas that comprise Josh Weil’s masterful debut bring us into America’s remote, unforgiving backcountry, and delicately unveil the private worlds of three very different men as they confront love, loss, and their own personal... ( read more)
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Dead Before Dark
by Wendy Corsi Staub
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The Night Watchman is ready to kill again in this second book in Staub's series--the follow-up to "Dying Breath." This time, he sets his sights on a renowned psychic, and sends her startling messages through his murder victims. Original.... ( read more)
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The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy
by Maya Slater
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Have you ever wondered what Mr. Darcy was really thinking? Find out his secrets in this captivating novel of love, pride, passion, and, of course, prejudice. Mr. Darcy"s intimate diary reveals his entanglements with women, his dangerous friendship with... ( read more)
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The Blue Notebook
by James Levine
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Dear Reader: Every now and then, we come across a novel that moves us like no other, that seems like a miracle of the imagination, and that haunts us long after the book is closed. James Levine's The Blue Notebook is that kind of book. It is the story of... ( read more)
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The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos
by Margaret Mascarenhas
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Irene dos Santos disappeared at age 15. Believed to have drowned while on holiday with her best friend, Lily Martinez, her body was never found. Now, years later, she appears ghostlike in Lily's dreams, prompting a quest for the truth behind her... ( read more)
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The Summer Kitchen
by Karen Weinreb
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When Nora Banks goes to answer the doorbell very early one November 1st, she thinks it must be a group of teen pranksters still out trick-or-treating. But its no prankits the Feds, who have come to arrest her husband Evan for a white collar crime. Noras... ( read more)
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Enlightenment for Idiots
by Anne Cushman
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Nearing age thirty, Amanda thought she'd be someone else by now. Instead, she's just herself: an ex-nanny yogini-wannabe who cranks out For Idiots travel guides just to scrape by. Yes, she has her sexy photographer boyfriend, but he's usually gone... ( read more)
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