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The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)
by Franz Kafka  Publisher Comments A novel about a man who finds himself transformed into a huge insect, and the effects of this change upon his life....
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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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Absurdistan : a Novel (06 Edition)
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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The Lemur
by Benjamin Black Publisher Comments A new thriller from the Booker Prize–winning and Edgar-nominated author of Christine Falls and The Silver Swan John Glass's life in New York should be plenty comfortable. He's given up his career as a journalist to write an authorized biography of...
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Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert Publisher Comments Novel in which a woman defies the standards of conventional French society....
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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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The Hearts of Horses
by Molly Gloss Publisher Comments A breakout novel from the author of The Jump-Off Creek, the heartwarming story of a determined young woman with a gift for gentling wild horses In the winter of 1917, when a young woman shows up at his doorstep looking for work breaking horses, George...
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl
Powells.com Staff Pick What begins as an innocent (if quirky) adolescent tale swiftly transforms into an absorbing high school whodunit. If I had to compare it to a few recent films, it manages to come across both as gritty as Brick and as refreshing as Juno, but with a...
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Song Yet Sung: A Novel
by James McBride Publisher Comments From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Color of Water comes a powerful page-turner about a runaway slave and a determined slave catcher. Nowhere has the drama of American slavery played itself out with more tension than in the dripping...
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The Shadow Catcher
by Marianne Wiggins Publisher Comments Following her National Book Award finalist, Evidence of Things Unseen, Marianne Wiggins turns her extraordinary literary imagination to the American West, where the life of legendary photographer Edward S. Curtis is the basis for a resonant exploration...
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The Red Scarf
by Kate Furnivall Publisher Comments The Russian Concubine dazzled readers. Now, its gifted author delivers another sweeping historical novel. Davinsky Labor Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect of freedom, and the stories...
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The Rest of Her Life
by Laura Moriarty Publisher Comments This incredibly nuanced, beautifully written novel treats moral dilemma with the riveting, character-driven& nbsp; plot& nbsp; of a Jane Hamilton or a Jodi Picoult. This novel looks at one incident and how it changes everything for Leigh, the mother of a...
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (06 Edition)
by Haruki Murakami
Powells.com Staff Pick There are two kinds of people in this world: those who have never read Haruki Murakami and those who love his books with feverish devotion. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is a career-spanning collection of short stories guaranteed to amuse, disturb...
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The Size of the World
by Joan Silber Publisher Comments Love and family loyalty meet up with the allure of far-off vistas in elegant new fiction by an acclaimed novelist. A richly imagined novel—set in wartime Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, Sicily, and contemporary America—about men and women whose...
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The Bastard of Istanbul
by Elif Shafak Publisher Comments When The Bastard of Istanbul was published in Turkey, Elif Shafak was accused by nationalist lawyers of insulting Turkish identity. The charges were later dropped, and now readers in America can discover for themselves this bold and powerful tale...
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Telegraph Days
by Larry Mcmurtry Publisher Comments Not since the publication of his own beloved classic Lonesome Dove has there been a novel like this one -- another big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the West from Larry McMurtry. Telegraph Days is at once a major work of literature and a completely...
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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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Stormy Weather (P.S.)
by Paulette Jiles Publisher Comments Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls—responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea—know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he...
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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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Matter
by Iain M. Banks
Powells.com Staff Pick Matter continues Iain Banks's humorous, thrilling, and complex universe, the Culture, where interstellar ships are the smartest and funniest characters of them all. Recommended by Doug Chase, Powells.com...
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