New: $7.99 Mass Market available June 2008 add to wish list |
Outback Legacy (Outback Sagas)
by Aaron Fletcher Synopsis Called to the Australian Outback, Lesley Holleck soon realizes the untamed region could exact a brutal price from all who dare to enter it. Now disguised as a rowdy jackaroo, Lesley attempts to find her place on the outback frontier. Reissue....
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New: $9.95 Trade Paper available June 2008 add to wish list |
The Cranford Chronicles (Vintage Classics)
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Publisher Comments The TV tie-in edition to the BBC adaptation, starring Judi Dench. Based on three Elizabeth Gaskell novels, The Cranford Chronicles follows the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives of the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire market town...
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New: $24.95 Hardcover available May 20, 2008 add to wish list |
Snuff: A Novel
by Chuck Palahniuk Publisher Comments From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before... Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for...
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New: $14.95 Trade Paper available August 2008 add to wish list |
Old Devil Moon
by Christopher Fowler Publisher Comments "[Christopher] Fowler repeatedly challenges the reader to redraw the boundaries between innocence and malevolence, rationality and paranoia. His strength lies in the way he unveils the darker side of the ordinary."-Guardian A geologist trapped in a town...
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New: $14.95 Trade Paper available August 2008 add to wish list |
August: A Novel
by Gerard Woodward Publisher Comments Shortlisted for the Whitbread Award, August is the life of a family through fifteen summer trips to Wales. Little did Aldous Jones know when he careened over his bicycle handlebars back in 1955, landing next to farmer Evans's field, that it would turn...
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New: $23.00 Hardcover available May 27, 2008 add to wish list |
Breath: A Novel
by Tim Winton Publisher Comments Tim Winton is Australia's best-loved novelist. His new work, Breath, is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one's limits against nature, finding like-minded souls, and discovering just how far one breath will...
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New: $12.00 Trade Paper available July 29, 2008 add to wish list |
The Black Path
by Asa Larsson Publisher Comments A grisly torture-murder, a haunting northern Sweden backdrop, and a dark drama of twisted sexuality collide memorably in Asa Larsson's masterpiece of suspense--a tale of menace, hope, longing, and darkness beyond imagining. The dead woman was found on a...
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New: $25.00 Hardcover available June 10, 2008 add to wish list |
July and August
by Nancy Clark Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of The Hills at Home comes this funny, bittersweet, wonderfully peopled family saga of beginnings and endings, couplings and uncouplings, of new friendships and old alliances. Great-aunt Lily’s gracious pile of a house in...
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New: $24.95 Hardcover available June 3, 2008 add to wish list |
The Other: A Novel
by David Guterson Publisher Comments From the author of the best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars, a dazzling new novel about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life. John William Barry has inherited the...
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New: $22.00 Hardcover available May 20, 2008 add to wish list |
The Sugar Queen
by Sarah Addison Allen Publisher Comments In this irresistible follow-up to her New York Times bestselling debut, Garden Spells, author Sarah Addison Allen tells the tale of a young woman whose family secrets—and secret passions—are about to change her life forever. Twenty-seven-year-...
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New: $24.95 Hardcover available May 15, 2008 add to wish list |
City of Thieves
by David Benioff Publisher Comments As wise and funny as it is thrilling and originalathe story of two young men on an impossible adventure A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother wonat talk...
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New: $27.50 Hardcover available May 27, 2008 add to wish list |
Beijing Coma
by Ma Jian Publisher Comments Dai Wei has been unconscious for almost a decade. A medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, he was struck by a soldier’s bullet and fell into a deep coma. As soon as the hospital authorities discovered...
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New: $9.95 Trade Paper available July 2008 add to wish list |
Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)
by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky Publisher Comments Dostoevsky's characters are unbelievably, almost painfully fleshed out, leading the German romantic philosopher Friedrich Netzsche to proclaim: Dostoevsky is] the only psychologist, incidentally, from whom I had something to learn; he ranks among the...
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New: $12.95 Library Bound available July 2008 add to wish list |
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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New: $27.00 Hardcover available June 24, 2008 add to wish list |
America America
by Ethan Canin Publisher Comments From Ethan Canin, bestselling author of The Palace Thief, comes a stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man’s life. In the early 1970s...
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New: $24.95 Hardcover available June 2008 add to wish list |
The Garden of Last Days: A Novel
by Andre Dubus III Publisher Comments From the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog a new big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel. One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. April's usual...
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New: $24.99 Hardcover available June 10, 2008 add to wish list |
Slumberland
by Paul Beatty Publisher Comments The breakout novel from a literary virtuoso about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berlin in search of his transatlantic doppelganger. Hailed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best writers of his...
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New: $15.00 Trade Paper available June 3, 2008 add to wish list |
Tipperary
by Frank Delaney Publisher Comments “My wooing began in passion, was defined by violence and circumscribed by land; all these elements molded my soul.” So writes Charles O’Brien, the unforgettable hero of bestselling author Frank Delaney’s extraordinary new novel...
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New: $22.95 Hardcover available May 2008 add to wish list |
Lost Orwell
by Peter Davison Synopsis A collection of George Orwell's previously unpublished letters, documents and photographs....
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New: $26.00 Hardcover available June 2008 add to wish list |
Mistress of the Sun
by Sandra Gulland Publisher Comments The author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine Bonaparte trilogy returns with another irresistible historical novel, this one based on the life of Louise de la Vallière, who, against all odds, became one of the most mysterious consorts of...
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