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Beautiful Ruins (P.S.)
by Jess Walter
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Jess Walter gets nearer the Pulitzer with Beautiful Ruins. Chance meetings during the 1962 filming of Cleopatra in Italy set in motion events that spiral into the present day. Walter captures perfectly how the best part of life is that it doesn't turn... (read more)

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Flight Behavior
by Barbara Kingsolver
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Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. In the lyrical language of her native Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of... (read more)

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A Land More Kind Than Home
by Wiley Cash
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Sacre Bleu: A Comedy D'Art (P.S.)
by Christopher Moore
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The Stockholm Octavo
by Karen Engelmann
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Night Film
by Marisha Pessl
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
by Ben Fountain
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A finalist for the National Book Award! Three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare with Iraqi insurgents has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America's most sought-after heroes. Now they're on a media... (read more)

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The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
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The Song of Achilles revisits the sprawling story of the Trojan War but focuses on the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus. It is a love story so intensely searing, the brutal 10-year Trojan War somehow takes a backseat: the love they share... (read more)

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Night
by Elie Wiesel
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This powerful and gripping novel explores what life in the secret annex might have been like for Peter Van Pels. What it was like to be forced into hiding with Anne, first to hate her and then begin falling in love with her.To sit and... (read more)

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The Casual Vacancy
by J.K. Rowling
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A big novel about a small town... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty... (read more)

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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J D Salinger
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We the Animals
by Justin Torres
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The Returned
by Jason Mott
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Mink River
by Brian Doyle
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1984 (Signet Classics)
by George Orwell
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
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TransAtlantic
by Colum McCann
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