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... (read more)

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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
by Per Petterson




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How we translate our past actions and experiences is at least as important as those actions and experiences themselves. Out Stealing Horses, itself superbly translated from the Norwegian, follows the arc of Trond Sander's life as he reflects during a... (read more)

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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... (read more)

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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... (read more)

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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... (read more)

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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... (read more)

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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... (read more)

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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... (read more)

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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... (read more)

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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
by Paul Hawken




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Feeling crushed beneath the weight of ominous news, borderline-apocalyptic statistics, and global warming alerts that offer no recourse but panic? Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest is the book you've been waiting for. Here is a call to arms with concrete... (read more)

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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... (read more)

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Bigfoot: I Not Dead
by Graham Roumieu


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In his eagerly anticipated follow-up to Me Write Book, Bigfoot returns from exile to share his inspiring, hilarious, and often deeply disturbing experiences as a misunderstood forest gentleman and tragic media darling. These entertaining and often... (read more)

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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
by Kate Summerscale




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At once a mystery and a history of early mystery novels, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher is a page-turner. Summerscale picks apart a famous Victorian murder, the murder that sparked "detective fever" and inspired Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to... (read more)

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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... (read more)

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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 —... (read more)

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The Film Club: A Memoir
by David Gilmour




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What kind of father would allow his son to drop out of high school as long as the kid would agree to watch three movies of the father's choosing each week? Want to start an interesting conversation about parenting and education? Talk about what Gilmore... (read more)

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The Gift of Rain
by Tan Twan Eng




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I loved The Gift of Rain and will recommend it to all my bookselling friends. It's a beautiful work of historical fiction, but its themes also make it timely and relevant — a look at the excruciating choices that war inflicts on civilians. A small... (read more)

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The Art of Racing in the Rain
by Garth Stein


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Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift,... (read more)

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