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by Michael Chabon
Staff Pick
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by Vikram Chandra
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by Winfried Georg Sebald
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
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by Harper Lee
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Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond
by Denis Johnson
Staff Pick
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by Paul Auster
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The Music of Chance is a well-crafted story about taking risks — and what can happen if you lose. A driver picks up a hitchhiker and convinces him to go play some poker against two rich eccentrics in Pennsylvania. Things don't go well for the... (read more)

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The Turning: New Stories
by Tim Winton
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Seventeen searing stories with characters that come and go throughout the collection. To me, Winton is at his best in his shorter novels and stories. The Turning is no exception. If you are looking for nice, warm, endearing fiction, this is not a book... (read more)

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The Orchard Keeper
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Set in rural Tennessee between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is an apocolyptic tale of an orphan, a bootlegger, and various other roustabouts trying to make their way in an unseemly world. To readers of the Border Trilogy: this bleak, violent... (read more)

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Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (P.S.)
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A Friend of the Earth
by T. C. Boyle
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Exquisite (06 Edition)
by Laird Hunt
Staff Pick
One review of Hunt's previous novel, Indiana, Indiana, claimed the book could stand some more risk-taking. In The Exquisite, Hunt seems to have taken that to heart. It is an unnerving and slightly spooky tale set in post-9/11 New York. Henry is the... (read more)

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