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A Feast of Snakes
by Harry Crews
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From the acclaimed author of such novels as Blood and Grits and Childhood comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic... ( read more)
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Summer
by Edith Wharton
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One of the first American novels to deal frankly with a young woman's sexual awakening, Summer shocked much of its early 20th-century audience, when it was first published in 1917. A groundbreaking study of society, nature, and human needs, this starkly... ( read more)
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The Commoner
by John Burnham Schwartz
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It is 1959 when Haruko, a young woman of good family, marries the Crown Prince of Japan, the heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne. She is the first non-aristocratic woman to enter the longest-running, almost hermetically sealed, and mysterious monarchy in... ( read more)
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Rosamunde Pilcher: A Third Collection of Three Complete Novels
by Rosamunde Pilcher
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One of the most beloved writers of all time, Rosamunde Pilcher is the author of such internationally acclaimed bestsellers as The Shell Seekers and September. The Empty House is about being in love with the wrong man; The Day of the Storm is about... ( read more)
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Empress Orchid
by Anchee Min
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From a master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story of a young concubine who becomes China's last empress. Min introduces the beautiful Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, and... ( read more)
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Tell Me: 30 Stories
by Mary Robison
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From the celebrated author David Gates in Newsweek described as a "literary master," a selection from over twenty-five years.
Chosen from Robison's three long-unavailable collections, along with four new stories, Tell Me reflects the early brilliance... ( read more)
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Tapping the Source
by Kem Nunn
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People come to Huntington Beach in search of the endless party, the ultimate high, and the perfect wave. Ike Tucker has come to look for his sister and the three men who might have murdered her. His search takes him on a dangerous journey through a world... ( read more)
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The Journey Home
by Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey, our foremost "ecological philosopher," has a voice like no other. He can be wildly funny, ferociously acerbic, and unexpectedly moving as he ardently champions our natural wilderness and castigates those who would ravish it for the perverse... ( read more)
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Fall on Your Knees
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
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The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives -- even destroy them. Set on stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia, Fall on Your Knees is an internationally... ( read more)
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Pompeii
by Robert Harris
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All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the... ( read more)
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The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages
by N Scott Momaday
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In this stunning collection of 38 essays, allegorical stories, and autobiographical reminiscences, Pulitzer Prize-winning author N. Scott Momaday writes profoundly and lyrically of lands lost and destinies unknown. Includes four paintings by the author.... ( read more)
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Moby Dick: Or, the Whale (Modern Library Classics)
by Herman Melville
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First published in 1851, Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one... ( read more)
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, by Franz Kafka, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of... ( read more)
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Bad Monkeys
by Matt Ruff
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"Ruff throws the reader some astounding curveballs, often necessitating the need to re-read and re-re-read some passages to make tentative sense of what's going on. In this way, Bad Monkeys pleasingly resembles cinematic brain corkscrews such as Memento... ( read more)
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The Land of Mango Sunsets
by Dorothea Bent Frank
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Her sleazy husband left her for a lingerie model who's barely more than a teenager, and her kids are busy with their own lives. But before Miriam Elizabeth Swanson can work herself up into a true snit about it all, her newest tenant, Liz, arrives from... ( read more)
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The End of East
by Jen Lee
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In the tradition of Amy Tan and Jhumpa Lahiri, a moving portrait of three generations of family living in Vancouver's Chinatown From Knopf Canada's New Face of Fiction program--launching grounds for Yann Martel's Life of Pi and Ann-Marie MacDonald's... ( read more)
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Carn
by Patrick Mccabe
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Patrick McCabe, whom the San Francisco Chronicle called "one of the most brilliant writers ever to come out of Ireland," presents another compelling novel of small-town Ireland that leaves its indelible mark on the canon of classic fiction. "Carn is the... ( read more)
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Breath: A Novel
by Tim Winton
Staff Pick
Small things can deliver the biggest wallop. At just over 200 pages, Tim Winton's Breath is a slim but breathtakingly potent novel about coming of age, the bonds that unite us, and the rifts that can tear us apart with lifelong consequences. Lovers of... ( read more)
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The Stud
by Barbara Delinsky
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Jenna McCue wants a baby and she wants Spencer Smith to be the father--or rather the donor. Spencer agrees, but on one condition: he donated the old-fashioned way. But getting pregnant will mean Jenna will never see him again. That's part of the deal--or... ( read more)
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The Scarlet Letter (Signet Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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An ardent young woman, her cowardly lover, and her vengeful husband come together in this classic novel of sin and salvation in the Puritan world of 17th-century Boston. Features an updated bibliography and an Introduction by Brenda Wineapple, a leading... ( read more)
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