Literature
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Annie Fiery Barrows  Publisher Comments I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking...
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The Other Queen
by Philippa Gregory Publisher Comments Two women competing for a man's heart Two queens fighting to the death for dominance The untold story of Mary, Queen of Scots This dazzling novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of...
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Anathem
by Neal Stephenson Publisher Comments Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable--yet strangely inverted-...
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz Publisher Comments The most talked aboutaand praisedafirst novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd whoafrom the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sistera dreams of becoming...
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The Good Thief
by Hannah Tinti Publisher Comments 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...
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The Butt
by Will Self Publisher Comments One of contemporary fiction’s most “wickedly brilliant…endlessly talented” (Publishers Weekly) satirists delivers a dystopian novel skewering global politics and Big Brother-style government post-9/11. When Tom Brodzinksi tries to...
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Smoke Screen
by Sandra Brown Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with a sizzling tale of corruption and betrayal, revenge and reversal - where friends become foes, and criminals become heroes in the ultimate abuse of power....
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Engleby (Vintage International)
by Sebastian Faulks Publisher Comments Sebastian Faulks's new novel is a bolt from the blue: contemporary, demotic, angry, heart-wrenching, and funny, in the deepest shade of black. Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, he rises...
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To Siberia
by Per Petterson Publisher Comments I was fourteen and a half when the Germans came. On that 9th April we woke to the roar of aeroplanes swooping so low over the roofs of the town that we could see the black iron crosses painted on the underside of their wings when we leaned out of the...
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The Bible Salesman
by Clyde Edgerton Publisher Comments Preston Clearwater has been a criminal since stealing two chain saws and 1600 pairs of aviator sunglasses from the Army during the Second World War. Back on the road in post-war North Carolina, a member of a car-theft ring, he picks up hitch-hiking Henry...
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House of Illusions
by Pauline Gedge Synopsis House of Illusions opens on Gedge's vividly recreated Egypt, sixteen years after Thu's banishment. During her exile she writes an account of her court life and the betrayal for which she seeks revenge. Taking place three thousand years ago, ancient Egypt'...
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The Crow Road
by Iain Banks Publisher Comments "It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach’s Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach." So begins Iain...
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Protect and Defend
by Vince Flynn Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn returns with his most explosive political thriller yet. A tour de force of action-packed suspense, Protect and Defend delivers an all-too-realistic and utterly compelling vision of nations navigating the...
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The Eleventh Man
by Ivan Doig Publisher Comments Driven by the memory of a dead teammate, TSU’s 1941 starting lineup went down as legend in Montana football history, charging through the season undefeated. Two years later, the "Supreme Team" is caught up in World War II. Ten of them are scattered...
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Alfred and Emily
by Doris May Lessing Publisher Comments I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in...
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An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
by Brock Clarke Publisher Comments A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's house and unwittingly killing two people...
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The Night Villa
by Carol Goodman Synopsis Bestselling author Goodman's novel sweeps across the dramatic skies of present day Texas to ancient Capri, evocatively telling a tale of intrigue, romance, and treachery that changes two women's lives centuries apart....
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Night Train to Lisbon
by Pascal Mercier Publisher Comments A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and literature itself. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of Europe’s biggest...
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Motion to Suppress
by Perri O'shaughnessy Publisher Comments The suspect confessed. Now her only hope is a lawyer who believes she lied. Misty Patterson only remembered the fight, the polar bear statue she used as a bludgeon, a trail of blood, and the comatose sleep that followed. When she awoke, her husband and...
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A Better Angel: Stories
by Chris Adrian Publisher Comments The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering--illness, regret, mourning, sympathy--in the most unusual of ways. In Stab, a bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow lead him...
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