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Diary of a Madman : Government Inspector, and Selected Stories (06 Edition)
by Nikolai Gogol  Publisher Comments This expanded collection of influential Russian satirist Nikolay Gogols ingenious pieces now includes his most famous play....
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Firefly Lane
by Kristin Hannah Publisher Comments From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship.... In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food...
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Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
by Elizabeth Strout Publisher Comments In a voice more powerful and compassionate than ever before, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a novel, through the presence of one larger-than-life...
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Away
by Amy Bloom 
Powells.com Staff Pick Lyrical and moving, terribly sad but funny, too, Away is a major accomplishment and a pleasure to read. Amy Bloom's language is precise and graceful, and her characters and their journeys make America in the 1920s shine with life. Recommended by Tessa,...
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The Sirens of Baghdad
by Yasmina Khadra Publisher Comments The third novel in Yasmina Khadra's bestselling trilogy about Islamic fundamentalism has the most compelling backdrop of any of his novels: Iraq in the wake of the American invasion. A young Iraqi student, unable to attend college because of the war...
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The Lady Elizabeth
by Alison Weir Publisher Comments Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, which recounted the riveting tale of the doomed Lady Jane Grey, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelling skills to the...
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid Publisher Comments SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter… Changez...
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Book of the Dead: A Kay Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)
by Patricia Cornwell Publisher Comments From America's # 1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel. The "book of the dead" is the morgue log, a ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to take on a new...
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Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
Powells.com Staff Pick In 1938, Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges suffered a severe head wound that left him near death and unable to speak. Though he made a complete recovery, the experience appears to have tapped into the author's deepest creative reservoirs, for...
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Hollywood Crows
by Joseph Wambaugh Publisher Comments When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they're just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems. To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middle of...
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Winter in Madrid: A Novel
by C. J. Sansom Publisher Comments A compelling thriller and love story set in post–Civil War Spain. Fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind and Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong will fall in love with Winter in Madrid, the arresting new novel from C. J. Sansom. In September...
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The Raw Shark Texts
by Steven Hall Publisher Comments The Raw Shark Texts, called “clever, playful . . . sharp and clear” by the Los Angeles Times and “a horror-dystopic-philosophical mash-up” by the New York Times Magazine, is a novel unlike any other. Eric Sanderson wakes up...
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A Person of Interest
by Susan Choi Publisher Comments From an acclaimed novelist, an emotionally complex and riveting story of suspicion, innocence, and regret. When a mail bomb explodes in the campus office next door, Lee, an Asian American math professor at a second-tier university in the Midwest...
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Julien Parme
by Florian Zeller Publisher Comments Even if it blows your mind, I want to tell you about this unbelievable thing that happened to me last year. I'm not bragging, but things as unbelievable as the one I'm going to tell you about don't happen every day, I swear. In fact, they never happen...
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The Finder
by Colin Harrison Publisher Comments There's no doubt about it: Colin Harrison is a master storyteller. Critics and readers love his gripping, dark books. It's hard not to get sucked into his world. Entertainment Weekly calls him the "class act of the urban thriller," Michiko Kakutani of...
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Shadow of Power (Paul Madriani Novels)
by Steve Martini Publisher Comments The Supreme Court is one of our most sacred — and secretive — public institutions. But sometimes secrets can lead to cover-ups with very deadly consequences. Terry Scarborough is a legal scholar and provocateur who craves headline-making...
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Be Near Me
by Andrew O'hagan Publisher Comments "Always 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 two local...
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The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis
by Michael Pritchett Publisher Comments National publicity Author events Reading...
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The Rain Before It Falls
by Jonathan Coe Publisher Comments Following The Rotters' Club and its sequel, The Closed Circle, Jonathan Coe now offers his first stand-alone novel in a decade, a story of three generations of women whose destinies reach from the English countryside in World War II to London, Toronto...
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A Summer Affair
by Elin Hilderbrand Publisher Comments Sheila Crispin Cook, mother of four young children and nationally renowned glassblower, bites off more than she can chew when she agrees to co-chair the Nantucket's Children Summer Gala. Sheila is asked to chair the benefit, in part, because she is the...
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