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The Hakawati
by Rabih Alameddine  Publisher Comments An astonishingly inventive, wonderfully exuberant novel that takes us from the shimmering dunes of ancient Egypt to the war-torn streets of twenty-first-century Lebanon. In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand...
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Absurdistan
by Gary Shteyngart 
Powells.com Staff Pick An intelligent satire that entertains from start to finish — in fact, you're unlikely to find a funnier, sharper political novel this year. Shteyngart's hero is a 325-pound Russian Jew whose idea of sexy pillow talk is reciting the Zagat's guide to...
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Executive Privilege
by Phillip Margolin Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin is back, this time with a powerful tale of murder that snakes its way through Washington, D.C.'s halls of power, leading straight to the White House and the most powerful office on earth. When...
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Dictation: A Quartet
by Cynthia Ozick Publisher Comments Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge, including one previously unpublished, from the acclaimed author of Heir to the Glimmering World. Cynthia Ozick's new work of fiction brings together four long stories that showcase this incomparable writer...
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The Creator's Map
by Emilio Calderon Publisher Comments Through the eyes of a Spanish architect in Rome, the dark period surrounding the rise and fall of Fascism roars to life as the architect, a passionate young librarian, and an Italian prince become entangled in a web of intrigue, love, and deceit...
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Damage Control: A Novel of Suspense (Joanna Brady Mysteries)
by J. A. Jance Publisher Comments On a beautiful sunny day in the Coronado National Monument, an elderly couple's car goes off the side of a mountain and into oblivion. The terrain is so rocky that a helicopter must be flown in to retrieve the bodies, and to make matters worse, a thunder-...
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The Last Oracle
by James Rollins Publisher Comments What if you could bioengineer the next great world prophet: scientifically produce the next Buddha, the next Muhammad, or the next Jesus? Would it mark the Second Coming or initiate a chain reaction with disastrous consequences? A master at combining...
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Finding Nouf
by Zoe Ferraris
Publisher Comments A captivating page-turner that vividly evokes Saudi Arabian society and introduces an original new hero. When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing and is found drowned in the desert outside Jeddah, Nayir — a desert guide hired by her prominent...
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Mistress of the Art of Death
by Ariana Franklin Publisher Comments A chilling, mesmerizing novel that combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of historical fiction. In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish...
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The Secret Scripture
by Sebastian Barry Publisher Comments A gorgeous new novel from the author of the Man Booker finalist A Long Long Way As a young woman, Roseanne McNulty was one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland. Now, as her hundredth year draws near, she is a patient at...
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The Appeal: A Novel
by John Grisham Publisher Comments Politics has always been a dirty game. Now justice is, too. In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst...
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One Good Turn: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson Publisher Comments Two years after the events of Case Histories left him a retired millionaire, Jackson Brodie has followed Julia, his occasional girlfriend and former client, to Edinburgh for its famous summer arts festival. But when he witnesses a man being brutally...
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Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome (Novels of Ancient Rome)
by Steven Saylor Publisher Comments Spanning a thousand years, and following the shifting fortunes of two families though the ages, this is the epic saga of Rome, the city and its people. Weaving history, legend, and new archaeological discoveries into a spellbinding narrative...
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Plague Ship (Oregon Files)
by Clive Cussler Synopsis "Plague Ship" is the fifth exhilarating new adventure in the bestselling series that charts the exploits of the "Oregon," a covert ship completely dilapidated on the outside but, on the inside, packed with sophisticated weaponry and intelligence...
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Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)
by James Lee Burke Publisher Comments Trouble follows Dave Robicheaux. James Lee Burke's new novel, Swan Peak, finds Detective Robicheaux far from his New Iberia roots, attempting to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural Montana. He, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcell have...
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The Stolen Child: A Novel
by Keith Donohue Publisher Comments "I am a changeling — a word that describes within its own name what we are bound and intended to do. We kidnap a human child and replace him or her with one of our own..." The double story of Henry Day begins in 1949, when he is kidnapped at age...
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Skeletons at the Feast
by Chris Bohjalian Publisher Comments In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines....
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Night Train to Lisbon
by Pascal Mercier
Powells.com Staff Pick The story of a dependable, rather boring classic-languages professor at a Swiss lycée. Mundus, as he is called, seems to thrive on predictability. One rainy morning on his way to the school he encounters a woman possibly considering suicide. He...
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Fire in the Blood (Vintage International)
by Irene Nemirovsky Publisher Comments From the celebrated author of the international bestseller Suite Francaise, a newly discovered novel, a story of passion and long-kept secrets, set against the background of a rural French village in the years before World War II. Written in 1941, Fire...
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All Souls
by Christine Schutt Publisher Comments In 1997, at the distinguished Siddons School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the school year opens with distressing news: Astra Dell, "that pale girl from the senior class," is suffering from a rare disease. Astra's friends try to reconcile the sick girl'...
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