When You Are Engulfed in Flames
by David Sedaris

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Always a delight, never a disappointment, David Sedaris has come out with his finest offering yet. He has a deft touch, moving between sarcasm and sadness or, in this collection, between redneck babysitters and quitting smoking.
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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
by Per Petterson

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Hailed by critics across the globe, showered with awards, Out Stealing Horses is a book that true lovers of the written word will hold close to their hearts. With its captivating prose and characters who burrow under your skin and refuse to come out, Per...
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller

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If your only experience with Catch-22 was reading it for a class in high school or if you haven't even read it at all you owe it to yourself to revisit this book. It's a comic masterpiece, yes, but more than that: Catch-22 is a blast of...
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Okay, never mind that The Shadow of the Wind starts off in a wonderfully mysterious bookstore and that there's a romantic element that is not schmaltzy, but "timeless" in the best sense of the word. What I loved was how I thought I knew where the author...
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Perfect Match
by Jodi Picoult

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How far would or should a mother go to protect her child? That is the issue at the heart of Jodi Picoult's compelling novel, now available in a new edition....
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Vanishing Acts
by Jodi Picoult

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New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her ability to tap into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she explores what happens when a young woman's past a past she didn't even know she had catches up to...
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The Great Gatsby
by F Scott Fitzgerald

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The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James...
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Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell

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While it was hard to narrow down my list to just five "best of" picks, I didn't have to think twice about what would be my favorite book of the year. In Cloud Atlas Mitchell again uses the format of connecting short stories with recurring motifs into a...
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safra Foer

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Wildly inventive and moving follow-up to the acclaimed and award-winning "Everything Is Illuminated". When nine-year-old Oskar's father is killed in the September 11th attacks, he begins a journey through five boroughs of New York as he attempts to solve...
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Flight: A Novel
by Sherman Alexie

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Darkly funny, sharply observant, Flight lays bare the experience of a teenaged outsider circa 2007. Alternately heartbreaking and wondrous, Sherman Alexie's first novel in ten years tells the story of an orphan careening through foster homes until...
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The Glass Castle: a Memoir
by Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in...
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake
by Sloane Crosley

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Funny, charming, and self-effacing, Sloane Crosley's essays will resonate
with you, whether or not you grew up playing Oregon Trail on the computer or
have ever locked yourself out of your house twice in the same day.
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A Man without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut

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A Man without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut's hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life (If I die God forbid I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?), art (To...
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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel

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Mass market edition of Martel's Booker-winner which looks set to be a huge seller for the Edinburgh-based independent publisher, and for the rest of us. A spellbinding allegory with a wrenching literary twist - this is a modern classic in the making. "A...
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Harvesting the Heart
by Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult earned rave notices for her debut novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale. Now this gifted young writer turns her considerable literary talents to the story of a young woman overcome by the demands of having a family. Written with astonishing...
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The Boleyn Inheritance
by Philippa Gregory

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Three women who share one fate: the Boleyn Inheritance ANNE OF CLEVES: She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a court ruled by the terror of a vengeful king who despises her. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and...
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Salem Falls
by Jodi Picoult

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A riveting drama of ordinary people under pressure from the "Richard & Judy Book Club" bestselling author Jodi Piccoult. Former teacher Jack St. Bride is trying to rebuild his life after an eight-month jail sentence due to a child's accusations in...
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The Host
by Stephenie Meyer

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Stephenie Meyer's wildly popular Twilight Saga concludes with Breaking Dawn. Join us at Powell's City of Books to celebrate the release of this long-anticipated book! On Friday, August 1, we are thrilled to host Bella's Ball, a midnight release party for...
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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).
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
by David Wroblewski

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Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is...
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