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The Road (Oprah's Book Club Selection #57) The Road (Oprah's Book Club Selection #57)
by Cormac McCarthy

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Strike-me-dead beautiful and bleak — this is the book I put into every customer's hands. Absolutely the best thing out of 2006, and perhaps many years preceding, The Road reminds me of McCarthy's early novels, only matured to perfection. Recommended... (read more)

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The Glass Castle: a Memoir The Glass Castle: a Memoir
by Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... (read more)

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The Kite Runner The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini

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An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and... (read more)

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The Gathering The Gathering
by Anne Enright

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The new novel from one of Ireland's most prominent voices, The Gathering is an extraordinary anatomization of a family confronting the ghosts of its history. A dazzling writer of international stature, Anne Enright is one of Ireland's most singular... (read more)

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Sometimes a Great Notion Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey

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Reading Sometimes a Great Notion (I finally made it past the first 100 labyrinthine pages after many failed attempts) had such a profound impact on me; it spoke so directly to my core and to what brought me to the land of big trees and ocean breeze (I'm... (read more)

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Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon 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... (read more)

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The Geographer's Library The Geographer's Library
by Jon Fasman

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The hunt for alchemical treasure through the ages threads through this literary whodunit. A small town cub reporter is drawn into the dangerous hunt and encounters murders, smugglers and mayhem. Lots of fun! Recommended by Kathi, Powell's City of Books... (read more)

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The Historian: A Novel The Historian: A Novel
by Elizabeth Kostova

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With The Historian Elizabeth Kostova has written a love letter to Dracula, Eastern Europe, and the study of history. Writing an epistolary novel (just like the original Dracula) might have seemed risky in the age of email, but it works. We are drawn into... (read more)

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Suite Francaise: A Novel Suite Francaise: A Novel
by Irene Nemirovsky

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A literary time capsule, Suite Française is a novel about wartime occupation written during the Nazi occupation of France. Irène Némirovsky's unfinished manuscript has been published more than 60 years after her death to worldwide... (read more)

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Nineteen Minutes 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... (read more)

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Water for Elephants Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen

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An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a... (read more)

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Northline (Harper Perennial P.S.) Northline (Harper Perennial P.S.)
by Willy Vlautin

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Fleeing Las Vegas and her abusive boyfriend, Allison Johnson moves to Reno, intent on making a new life for herself. Haunted by the mistakes of her past, and lacking any self-belief, her only comfort seems to come from the imaginary conversations she has... (read more)

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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel 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... (read more)

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The Friday Night Knitting Club The Friday Night Knitting Club
by Kate Jacobs

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The New York Times bestselling sensation that's Steel Magnolias set in Manhattan (USA Today)-now in paperback. Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday Night... (read more)

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Harvesting the Heart 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... (read more)

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What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (Vintage) What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (Vintage)
by Dave Eggers

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I can't lie — this is first Eggers book I've felt anything for. But I haven't read a novel that was so relevant, so timely, and so humane as this in a very long time. It's beautiful, horrible, sad, funny, real; it's impossible not to connect with... (read more)

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The Family Tree The Family Tree
by Carole Cadwalladr

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"The Family Tree combines all that you could wish of a novel — humor, pathos, sex, and tragedy. In a wry voice, reminiscent of Kate Atkinson's, Cadwalladr unravels a complicated and unerringly compelling story of three generations of women. Not to... (read more)

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The Whistling Season The Whistling Season
by Ivan Doig

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"Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable... (read more)

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A Ship Made of Paper A Ship Made of Paper
by Scott Spencer

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This intense novel, a literary thriller with a heart, deals with issues of race, passion, and betrayal, and presents them in a manner that is fresh, challenging, and riveting. Scott Spenser knows his way around a good tale, and he has never told a better... (read more)

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The Poisonwood Bible (P.S.) The Poisonwood Bible (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver

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The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but... (read more)

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