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Lush Life: A Novel
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Lush Life: A Novel
by Richard Price

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It's a given that fans of Price's earlier novels will rush to read Lush Life. In addition, fans of the HBO series The Wire — or anyone who enjoys a gripping read, period — won't want to miss this fantastic novel, which peels back the shiny...
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Knockemstiff
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Knockemstiff
by Donald Ray Pollock

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In this unforgettable work of fiction, Donald Ray Pollock peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents. Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the linked...
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What Now?
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What Now?
by Ann Patchett

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Based on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by bestselling author Ann Patchett offers hope and inspiration for anyone at a crossroads, whether graduating, changing careers, or transitioning from one life stage...
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Change of Heart Signed
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Change of Heart Signed
by Jodi Picoult

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The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author presents a spellbinding tale of a mother's tragic loss and one man's last chance at gaining salvation. Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe always the truth?...
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Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon
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Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon
by Chuck Palahniuk

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"Fugitives and Refugees is more than a book about the weird people and dark corners of Portland. Tucked surreptitiously between chapters are eleven 'postcards,' which, cobbled together, make up a sort of memoir of Palahniuk's years in his adopted city...
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Perfect Match
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Perfect Match
by Jodi Picoult

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Assistant DA Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters, and in the course of her everyday work she endures the frustration of seeing too many criminals slip through the system and walk free. So when she realises that her son Nathaniel has been sexually...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
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Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton

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Cry, the Beloved Country is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such keen empathy and...
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My Name is Red
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My Name is Red
by Orhan Pamuk

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At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent...
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Change of Heart
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Change of Heart
by Jodi Picoult

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The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author presents a spellbinding tale of a mother's tragic loss and one man's last chance at gaining salvation. Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe always the truth?...
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Harvesting the Heart
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Harvesting the Heart
by Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult earned rave notices for her debut novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale. Now this gifted young writer turns her considerable literary talents to the story of a young woman overcome by the demands of having a family. Written with astonishing...
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Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
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Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
by Julie Powell

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Finally, someone willing to admit just how dirty a kitchen can get! Powell's story is at once a comic tale of struggling to find one's balance in the adult world, and a witty exploration of why — and how — we cook. Gastronomes, as well as those...
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Snow
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Snow
by Orhan Pamuk

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From the acclaimed author of My Name is Red ("a sumptuous thriller" — John Updike; "chockful of sublimity and sin" — New York Times Book Review) comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings — for love, art, power, and God — set in...
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Run: A Novel
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Run: A Novel
by Ann Patchett

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Run, a worthy successor to Bel Canto, shows off Patchett's trademark gorgeous prose and emotional depth. Her characters are believably flawed, but ultimately good and decent human beings who you want to spend time with. Recommended by Jill, Powells...
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My Sister's Keeper
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My Sister's Keeper
by Jodi Picoult

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New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that...
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Nineteen Minutes
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Nineteen Minutes
by Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy. Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where...
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The Echo Maker
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The Echo Maker
by Richard Powers

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Winner of the 2006 National Book Award   The Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it" (Booklist, starred review).   On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty...
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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
by Per Petterson

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How we translate our past actions and experiences is at least as important as those actions and experiences themselves. Out Stealing Horses, itself superbly translated from the Norwegian, follows the arc of Trond Sander's life as he reflects during a...
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The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
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The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
by Thomas Pynchon

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The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge....
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Haunted
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Haunted
by Chuck Palahniuk

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Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of them to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter - sometimes all at once. They are told by the people who have all...
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Bel Canto: A Novel
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Bel Canto: A Novel
by Ann Patchett

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The government of a small South American country holds a birthday party for the head of Japan's leading electronics manufacturer, hoping to attract its business. Mr. Hosokawa, they know, can't resist the opportunity of a private performance by the world...
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