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2007 July


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No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
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No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
by Miranda July

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Is there a creative project Miranda July can't conquer? If you've jealously posed this question before reading her fiction, stay away from the new collection. No One Belongs Here More Than You will only embitter you further. It's not enough for July to...
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Michael Tolliver Lives: A Novel
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Michael Tolliver Lives: A Novel
by Armistead Maupin

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Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, is arguably one of the most widely loved characters in contemporary fiction. Now, almost twenty years after ending his ground-breaking saga of San...
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Stray
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Stray
by Rachel Vincent

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There are only eight breeding female werecats left... And I'm one of them. I look like an all-American grad student. But I am a werecat, a shape-shifter, and I live in two worlds. Despite reservations from my family and my Pride, I escaped the...
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The Maytrees
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The Maytrees
by Annie Dillard

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Readers used to Dillard's nonfiction nature writing might initially be surprised at this novel about the subtle undercurrents that make up love. The surprise won't last; Dillard does in The Maytrees what she always does — asks big brave questions of...
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Peony in Love
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Peony in Love
by Lisa See

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Lisa See aptly follows her blockbuster novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, with a lovely book that immerses the reader deep into 17th-century Chinese culture. Part love story, part ghost story, part historical fiction; See hangs the bones of her...
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F-5: Devastating, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century
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F-5: Devastating, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century
by Mark Levine

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It was April 3, 1974. Crime was soaring. Unemployment and inflation were out of control. A costly war had just come to its demoralizing end, and an unpopular President was on his way out of office. Then, over a sixteen-hour period, nature stepped forward...
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Stalin's Ghost: An Arkady Renko Novel
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Stalin's Ghost: An Arkady Renko Novel
by Martin Cruz Smith

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Arkady Renko, intrepid Moscow investigator, was first introduced to readers in the incomparable Gorky Park. This latest adventure perfectly captures Putin's Russia, ultra-modern and ultra-corrupt, yet haunted by the sorrows and ghosts of its Stalinist...
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The Tenderness of Wolves
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The Tenderness of Wolves
by Stef Penney

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A brilliant and breathtaking debut that captivated readers and garnered critical acclaim in the United Kingdom, The Tenderness of Wolves was long-listed for the Orange Prize in fiction and won the Costa Award (formerly the Whitbread) Book of the Year...
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Origin: A Novel
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Origin: A Novel
by Diana Abu-Jaber

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A fingerprint expert's investigation of a series of crib deaths leads her back to the mystery of her own childhood. Lena is a fingerprint expert at a crime lab in the small city of Syracuse, New York, where winters are cold and deep. Suddenly, a...
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A Nail Through the Heart
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A Nail Through the Heart
by Timothy Hallinan

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Travel writer Poke Rafferty was good at looking for trouble––so good that he made a little money writing a few offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored. But that was before Bangkok stole his heart. Now the expat American is...
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Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy
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Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy
by Michael Tucker

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The actor Michael Tucker and his wife, the actress Jill Eikenberry, having sent their last child off to college, were vacationing in Italy when they happened upon a small cottage nestled in the Umbrian countryside. The three-hundred-fifty-year-old...
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Now Is the Hour
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Now Is the Hour
by Tom Spanbauer

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'Rigby John Klusener is hitchhiking to San Francisco. The year is 1967, the town is Pocatello, Idaho. Fresh out of high school, Rigby John is leaving behind a pregnant ex-girlfriend, a depressed mother, a distant father, and the haydust of his harsh...
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Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician: A Novel
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Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician: A Novel
by Daniel Wallace

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From the author of Big Fish comes this haunting, tender story that weaves a tragic secret, a mysterious meeting with the Devil, and a family of charming circus freaks recounting the extraordinary adventures of their friend Henry Walker, the Negro...
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Heart in the Right Place: A Memoir
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Heart in the Right Place: A Memoir
by Carolyn Jourdan

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Carolyn Jourdan had it all: the Mercedes Benz, the fancy soirees, the best clothes. She moved in the most exclusive circles in Washington, D.C., rubbed elbows with big politicians, and worked on Capitol Hill. As far as she was concerned, she was changing...
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Volk's Game
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Volk's Game
by Brent Ghelfi

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The explosive debut introducing Russian gangster Alexei Volkovoy—not since Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne has a hero shifted so effortlessly between hunter and hunted A firefight reverberates through Moscow’s dark, rain-soaked streets...
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The Baby Lottery
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The Baby Lottery
by Kathryn Trueblood

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A novel about five friends from college, now all on the cusp of 40 years of age, and how the decision of one of them to have a late term abortion affects their relationships. It raises questions so many women have wrestled with: marriage vs. career vs...
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A Much Married Man
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A Much Married Man
by Nicholas Coleridge

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< div> < div> < div> < div> < div> < div> From one of the sharpest observers of the modern scene, comes this witty, intelligent, and irresistible novel in the tradition of < i> Gosford< /i> < i> < /...
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Be Near Me
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Be Near Me
by Andrew O'Hagan

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A lways trust a stranger," said David’s mother when he returned from Rome. "It’s the people you know who let you down." Half a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Catholic priest with a small parish in Scotland. He befriends Mark and Lisa,...
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The Best of Friends: Two Women, Two Continents, and One Enduring Friendship
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The Best of Friends: Two Women, Two Continents, and One Enduring Friendship
by Sara James

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From sharing secrets as children to chasing unconventional dreams as adults, network correspondent Sara James and wildlife filmmaker Ginger Mauney explore their learning curve on life through the lens of their thirty-year friendship Transplanting...
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Hooked: A Thriller about Love and Other Addictions
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Hooked: A Thriller about Love and Other Addictions
by Matt Richtel

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Nat Idle, a San Francisco writer with a medical degree, narrowly survives an explosion in an Internet cafe after a stranger hands him a note warning him to exit immediately. The handwriting on the note belongs to his deceased girlfriend, a Silicon...
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