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IndieBound Next List
2008 September


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American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics
American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics
by Roland Merullo
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In a country divided by partisan politics, into a world torn by hatred and war, at a time when it seems that everyone and no one has a solution to the problems that plague humankind, there suddenly appears someone who can rise above the madness, someone... (read more)

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Just Breathe
Just Breathe
by Susan Wiggs
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Chicago cartoonist Sarah Moon tackles life's real issues with a healthy dose of sharp wit in her syndicated comic strip Just Breathe. As Sarah's cartoon alter ego, Shirl, undergoes artificial insemination, her situation begins to mirror Sarah's own... (read more)

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The Good Thief: A Novel
The Good Thief: A Novel
by Hannah Tinti
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Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist, The Good Thief introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting new... (read more)

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Anathem
Anathem
by Neal Stephenson
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As a novelist of ideas, Neal Stephenson is known for writing books that are thematically dense. Anathem is no exception. In a world where mathematical philosophers live isolated like monks, the appearance of an orbiting alien spaceship — which has a... (read more)

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Home: A Novel
Home: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
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Set in the same time and place as Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's new masterpiece is at once profoundly sad and hopeful.... (read more)

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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
by Peter Manseau
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Summer, sweltering, 1996. A book warehouse in western Massachusetts. A man at the beginning of his adult life -- and the end of his career rope -- becomes involved with a woman, a language, and a great lie that will define his future. Most auspiciously... (read more)

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Feather Man
Feather Man
by Rhyll Mcmaster
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"In this beautifully written and disturbing Australian coming-of-age novel, McMaster tells the story of Sooky, who struggles to overcome her difficult childhood, the effects of which are powerfully portrayed as she moves from relationship to relationship... (read more)

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City of Refuge: A Novel
City of Refuge: A Novel
by Tom Piazza
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In the heat of late summer, two New Orleans families — one black and one white — confront a storm that will change the course of their lives. SJ Williams, a carpenter and widower, lives and works in the Lower Ninth Ward, the community... (read more)

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The Black Tower
The Black Tower
by Louis Bayard
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Vidocq. The name strikes terror in the Parisian underworld of 1818. As founder and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq has used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to capture some of France's most notorious and elusive... (read more)

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The Heretic's Daughter
The Heretic's Daughter
by Kathleen Kent
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Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with... (read more)

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Hurry Down Sunshine
Hurry Down Sunshine
by Michael Greenberg
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HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE TELLS THE STORY OF THE extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenbergs daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sallys visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in... (read more)

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American Wife
American Wife
by Curtis Sittenfeld
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On what might become one of the most significant days in her husband's presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led her to the White House — and the repercussions of a life lived, as she puts it, almost in... (read more)

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Man in the Dark
Man in the Dark
by Paul Auster
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A new novel with a dark political twist from “one of Americas greats.”* Man in the Dark is Paul Austers brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is... (read more)

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My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
by Ariel Sabar
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"I am the keeper of my family's stories. I am the guardian of its honor. I am the defender of its traditions. As the first-born son of a Kurdish father, these, they tell me, are my duties. And yet even before my birth I resisted." So begins Ariel Sabar's... (read more)

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America Eats!: On the Road with the WPA: The Fish Fries, Box Supper Socials, and Chitlin Feasts That Define Real American Food
America Eats!: On the Road with the WPA: The Fish Fries, Box Supper Socials, and Chitlin Feasts That Define Real American Food
by Pat Willard
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What the Sterns did for road food, Pat Willard does for festive American group eating in this exploration of our national cuisine, with a never-before-published WPA manuscript as her guide. In America Eats! Pat Willard takes readers on a journey into the... (read more)

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Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3
by Annie Proulx
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Returning to the territory of "Brokeback Mountain" (in her first volume of Wyoming Stories) and "Bad Dirt" (her second), National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx delivers a stunning and visceral new collection. In Fine Just the Way It... (read more)

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In Hovering Flight (08 Edition)
In Hovering Flight (08 Edition)
by Joyce Hinnefeld
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