Zorro: A Novel
by Isabel Allende




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When was it decided that literary writers shouldn't write about adventure? Once upon a time authors like Stevenson and Dumas were associated with swashbucklers, now classics, Treasure Island and The Three Musketeers; today they'd be laughed right out of... (read more)

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Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri




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Unaccustomed Earth is in many ways a deeply and authentically sad book. I would not advise reading the stories too quickly; they will each haunt you for days afterward (and, unusually in a collection like this, they are all equally strong). But Lahiri's... (read more)

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Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
by Christopher Moore


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Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail... (read more)

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A Model World: And Other Stories
by Michael Chabon


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By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &Clay.... (read more)

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Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx


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Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they'... (read more)

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Lavinia: A Novel
by Ursula K. Le Guin




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A living legend who leaps fearlessly across genre boundaries, Ursula Le Guin offers one of her very best novels to date in this retelling of Virgil's The Aeneid, told from a perspective that very often got lost in even the most compelling Greek myths... (read more)

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The Historian: A Novel
by Elizabeth Kostova




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With The Historian Elizabeth Kostova has written a love letter to Dracula, Eastern Europe, and the study of history. Writing an epistolary novel (just like the original Dracula) might have seemed risky in the age of email, but it works. We are drawn into... (read more)

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Greed
by Elfriede Jelinek


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Kurt Janisch is an ambitious but frustrated country policeman who gets talking to a lot of people in the line of duty, particularly to women: lonely, middle-aged women with a bit of extra property. . . . Things go from bad to worse, for Kurt Janisch and... (read more)

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Wake Up, Sir!: A Novel
by Jonathan Ames




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Wake Up, Sir! is a brilliant work of fiction that just happens to be laugh-out-loud funny, to boot (though it also has a stirring underlying sadness). Jonathan Ames is a daring and deeply honest writer whose work abounds with tender and heartbreaking... (read more)

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A Ship Made of Paper
by Scott Spencer




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This intense novel, a literary thriller with a heart, deals with issues of race, passion, and betrayal, and presents them in a manner that is fresh, challenging, and riveting. Scott Spenser knows his way around a good tale, and he has never told a better... (read more)

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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (P.S.)
by Michael Chabon




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Pulitzer Prize-winner Chabon's first novel (written for his master's thesis at UC Irvine) was published when he was twenty-five, and quickly became a bestseller. Set in the steel ciy, this hilarious coming-of-age story tells the tale of Art Bechstein's... (read more)

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The Painted Kiss
by Elizabeth Hickey


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In this passionate and atmospheric debut novel, Elizabeth Hickey reimagines the tumultuous relationship between the Viennese painter Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge, the woman who posed for Klimt's masterpiece The Kiss -- and whose name he uttered... (read more)

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The Crimson Petal and the White
by Michel Faber




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This entertaining and morally persuasive portrait of 19th-century London society, from the lowliest of the low to the haughtiest of the high, has been widely hailed as "Dickensian." A better term would be "hyper-Dickensian." Faber's filthy guttersnipes... (read more)

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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
by Umberto Eco




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Umberto Eco's new novel, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, concerns Yambo, a rare book dealer who's lost his experiential memory — he can remember languages, how to drive a car, and endless quotations from books he's read and loved, but not... (read more)

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Light on Snow
by Anita Shreve


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- More than seven million Anita Shreve novels have been sold in the US alone. - Novels by Anita Shreve have a huge presence in stores, homes, and readers' lives. All He Ever Wanted appeared on the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal bestseller... (read more)

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The Poisonwood Bible (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver




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The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but... (read more)

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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway




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The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between... (read more)

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A Disorder Peculiar to the Country
by Ken Kalfus


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Joyce and Marshall each think the other is killed on September 11—and must swallow their disappointment when the other arrives home. As their bitter divorce is further complicated by anthrax scares, suicide bombs, and foreign wars, they suffer, in... (read more)

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