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...
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The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions from Public Radio's Award-Winning Food Show
by Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift

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Just when you thought the last thing the world needed was another book on weeknight cooking, along comes an entirely fresh take on the subject. As they do on their weekly show, host Lynne Rossetto Kasper and producer Sally Swift approach their topic with...
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After Dark (Vintage International)
by Haruki Murakami

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More menace than melancholy, readers will find After Dark a deliciously dark entry in Murakami's oeuvre.
Recommended by Gerry, Powells.com...
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The Host
by Stephenie Meyer

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The author of the Twilight series of #1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake.
Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded...
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
by Tony Horwitz

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With the same sly humor and neighborly curiosity he brought to Confederates in the Attic and Blue Latitudes, in A Voyage Long and Strange Tony Horwitz roams the New World, surveying the destinations of history's foremost explorers: Leif Eiriksson...
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So Brave, Young, and Handsome
by Leif Enger

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A stunning successor to his best selling novel Peace Like a River, Leif Enger’s new work is a rugged and nimble story about an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes...
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Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
by Arthur Herman

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In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and...
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Divisadero (Vintage International)
by Michael Ondaatje

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Reading Ondaatje's new book, Divisadero, is like listening to great music. You are caught up in the moment, the elegiac writing, and propelled into a different reality. The crescendo brings it altogether, the passion, the years of hurt and pain, and the...
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Child 44: A Novel
by Tom Rob Smith

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How do you solve an impossible crime?
It is a society that is, officially, a haven for its citizens. Superior to the decadent West, Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs: education, health...
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The Story of a Marriage
by Andrew Sean Greer

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From the bestselling author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a love story full of secrets and astonishments set in 1950s San Francisco. "We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect and devastating exploration of the mystery...
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by Mary Roach

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Following her usual template, Mary Roach finds a subject in the scientific community that is equal parts fascinating and scandalous, and writes an extensively researched and thoroughly amusing book about it. Beyond the initial titillation stemming from a...
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake
by Sloane Crosley

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Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to...
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Audition: A Memoir
by Barbara Walters

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Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: "I want to be you." My stock reply is always: "Then you have to take the whole package."
And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that...
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union (P.S.)
by Michael Chabon

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This book's premise is FDR's suggestion, back when Israel was being created,
that the Jewish Diaspora settle in Alaska. Chabon makes
that scenario a reality, except that when the book begins, the Sitka District is set to revert to Alaskan
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The Art of Mexican Cooking: Traditional Mexican Cooking for Aficionados
by Diana Kennedy

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There is no advocate of Mexican cooking who is more informed than Diana Kennedy. Passionate home cooks will find this classic, now back in print, an essential reference for creating authentic Mexican food. From casual to festive, these reliable...
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Careless in Red: A Novel (Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers Novels)
by Elizabeth George

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In her most eagerly anticipated novel yet, Elizabeth George brings back Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley to investigate a ruthless crime.
After the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has...
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester

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In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"—Time) brings to life the...
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Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
by Taras Grescoe

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An eye-opening look at aquaculture that does for seafood what Fast Food Nation did for beef.
Dividing his sensibilities between Epicureanism and ethics, Taras Grescoe set out on a nine-month, worldwide search for a delicious and humane ...
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The Talented Clementine (Clementine)
by Sara Pennypacker

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Winner or washout? When it comes to tackling third grade, Clementine is& nbsp; at the& nbsp; top of her game???okay, so maybe not all the time.& nbsp; After her teacher announces that the third and fourth graders will be putting on a talent show...
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The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga

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A remarkable first novel ingeniously written in the form of a letter to the Chinese premier soon to visit India, Adiga's dark yet witty debut brings to Western readers the tense drama of a developing country and a character caught up in corruption and...
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