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The Whistling Season
The Whistling Season
by Ivan Doig
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A New York Times Editors Choice A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year   [quote side bar] "Flawless."—O, the Oprah Magazine "Courageous."—Washington Post Book World "Evocative."—The New Yorker "Life-affirming."—... (read more)

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Going After Cacciato
Going After Cacciato
by Tim O'Brien
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"To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales." So wrote The New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures... (read more)

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Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove
by Larry Mcmurtry
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A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtrys Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of... (read more)

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Lord of Misrule
Lord of Misrule
by Jaimy Gordon
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Jaimy Gordon's National Book Award came as no surprise to those of us who had already fallen in love with the mythic, bewitching voices of Lord of Misrule. The characters — and horses — of Indian Mound Downs dwell on a dangerous fringe, powerfully... (read more)

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The War of the End of the World
The War of the End of the World
by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no... (read more)

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The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
by Monique Roffey
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A mesmerizing tale of a father and daughters sailing adventure from Trinidad to the Galapagos Islands, longlisted for the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature   Monique Roffey, vibrant new voice in Caribbean fiction and author of the... (read more)

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Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction
Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction
by Elissa Schappell
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Blueprints for Building Better Girls delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female characters—from the high school slut to the good girl, the struggling artist to the college party girl, the wife who yearns for a child to the... (read more)

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan... (read more)

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The Color Purple
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award,The Color Purpleis the moving story of a young womans endurance of shame and suffering to become whole and to know God. The novel became an instant classic and has been adapted into a film and... (read more)

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Incendiary: A Novel
Incendiary: A Novel
by Chris Cleave
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You really have to give some giant props to a novel that starts out, "Dear Osama."  What follows is a searing portrait of a woman riven by grief, pain, guilt, and horror at the (particularly gruesome) death of her husband and child due to a terrorist... (read more)

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The Forgotten Waltz
The Forgotten Waltz
by Anne Enright
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In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, it has snowed. Gina Moynihan, girl about town, recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for "the love of her life," Seán Vallely. As the city outside comes to a halt, Gina... (read more)

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Home Uk Edition
Home Uk Edition
by Marilynne Robinson
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WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE 2009 A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of... (read more)

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William Trevor: Selected Stories
William Trevor: Selected Stories
by William Trevor
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A second volume of short fiction—featuring fourteen uncollected stories—from the bestselling author and master of the form Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T.C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his... (read more)

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The Emperor of Lies. Steve Sem-Sandberg
The Emperor of Lies. Steve Sem-Sandberg
by Steve Sem Sandberg
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Fiction of true moral force, brilliantly sustained and achieved...I find it difficult to think of any book that has had such an immediate and powerful impact on me...Brave and brillant.--Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall In February 1940, the Nazis... (read more)

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Bad Girl
Bad Girl
by Mario Vargas Llosa
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s.--The New York Times Book Review Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He... (read more)

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Say Her Name
Say Her Name
by Francisco Goldman
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In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing. Francisco,... (read more)

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The Box: Tales from the Darkroom
The Box: Tales from the Darkroom
by Gunter Grass
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“It is impossible not to be impressed by [Grasss] inexhaustible desire to experiment with the novel and by the many good stories and passages of exquisite writing in The Box.”—Charles Simic, New York Review of Books In this inspired... (read more)

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In Other Rooms Other Wonders
In Other Rooms Other Wonders
by Daniyal Mueenuddin
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Passing from the mannered drawing rooms of Pakistan s cities to the harsh mud villages beyond, Daniyal Mueenuddin s linked stories describe the interwoven lives of an aging feudal landowner, his servants and managers, and his extended family... (read more)

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Room Uk
Room Uk
by Emma Donoghue
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Olive Kitteridge Uk
Olive Kitteridge Uk
by Elizabeth Strout
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