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Atonement
by Ian McEwan  
Publisher Comments On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper’s son Robbie...
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Child of My Heart
by Alice McDermott
From Powells.com In 1998, Alice McDermott's fourth novel, Charming Billy, surprised the literary world by capturing the National Book Award. Few doubted that McDermott deserved the prize and the readership it would deliver — she'd also been nominated for...
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Little Big Man
by Thomas Berger
Publisher Comments The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated. So speaks Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger's masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the Western as serious literature...
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Unless
by Carol Shields
Publisher Comments I'm not interested, the way some people are, in being sad. I've had a look, and there's nothing down that road. Well now! What about the ripping sound behind my eyes, the starchy tearing of fabric, end to end; what about the need I have to curl up my...
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
Publisher Comments Richard Papen arrived at Hampden College in New England and was quickly seduced by an elite group of five students, all Greek scholars, all worldly, self-assured, and, at first glance, all highly unapproachable. As Richard is drawn into their inner...
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The Book of Illusions
by Paul Auster
From Powells.com Paul Auster could be postmodernism's poster child. Structurally overt, intellectually complex, metaphorically self-conscious, Auster explores surfaces in order to dig deep and borrows classical forms in order to reveal contemporary dissonance...
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The Russian Debutante's Handbook
by Gary Shteyngart
Publisher Comments The Russian Debutante's Handbook is infused with energy and wit and a brilliant use of language. Hilarious, extravagant, yet uncannily true to life, it follows the adventures of Vladimir, a young Russian-American immigrant, whose capitalist dreams and...
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When the Emperor Was Divine
by Julie Otsuka
Powells.com Staff Pick A breathtaking debut. Also a painter, Otsuka creates complex scenes and well-rounded characters with astonishing efficiency. Line by line her minimalist strokes disguise the massive canvas on which she's working: the internment of more than 120,000...
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Caramelo: En Espanol
by Sandra Cisneros
Publisher Comments La célebre autora de La casa en Mango Street, nos ofrece una nueva y extraordinaria novela narrada en un lenguaje de una originalidad arro-lladora: es la historia de varias generaciones de una familia méxicoamericana cuyas voces crean un des...
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The Soft Machine
by William S Burroughs Publisher Comments In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious...
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Twelve
by Nick McDonell Synopsis From a gifted and assured 17-year-old author comes a stunning portrait of his generation, set among wealthy kids in Manhattan....
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In the River Sweet
by Patricia Henley
Publisher Comments National Book Award finalist Patricia Henley captivates us with this engrossing novel of a woman whose long-held secret will transform her life and her marriage. From all appearances, Ruth Anne Bond is enviably lucky. Her husband, Johnny, still treats...
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Hotel World
by Ali Smith
Publisher Comments Five people: four are living; three are strangers; two are sisters; one, a teenage hotel chambermaid, has fallen to her death in a dumbwaiter. But her spirit lingers in the world, straining to recall things she never knew. And one night all five women...
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Martin Sloane
by Michael Redhill
Publisher Comments What does it really mean to love another person? The question hovers like a persistent wisp of fog over the story of Martin Sloane, an Irish-born artist who creates intricate, object-filled boxes, and Jolene Iolas, the young American woman who finds...
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Big If
by Mark Costello
Powells.com Staff Pick Vi Asplund, a Secret Service agent, returns to her childhood home to protect the vice president as he campaigns in the New Hampshire primary. Jens, her brother, still lives in Portsmouth, writing code for a wildly successful computer game. If Mark...
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Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (02 Edition)
by Sloan Wilson Publisher Comments Sloan Wilson's searing indictment of a society that favours wealth and power over spiritual integrity....
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Prague
by Arthur Phillips
Publisher Comments A first novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune—financial, romantic, and spiritual—in an...
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Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
by George Macdonald (edt) Fraser Synopsis Captain Harry Flashman's covert missions for Her Majesty's Secret Service have taken him all over the globe--Afghanistan, Borneo, Madagascar, Indian and China--but never before has he encountered so formidable a challenge and attempted to rise to it with...
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The Impressionist
by Hari Kunzru
Review "...this audaciously playful novel as a mixed-breed chameleon looking for the great, unattainable essence at the heart of British rule." The New York Times...
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Things You Should Know: A Collection of Stories
by A. M. Homes
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