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Mirror Mirror: A Novel Mirror Mirror: A Novel
by Gregory Maguire

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Maguire's latest retelling of a classic fairy tale is Snow White set in Renaissance Italy and features Lucrezia Borgia as the wicked stepmother. Intriguing, surreal, exotic, and sensual, the author's style is mature, assured, and utterly engaging. This... (read more)

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The Plague of Doves The Plague of Doves
by Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich's mesmerizing new novel, her first in almost three years, centers on a compelling mystery. The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and... (read more)

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Cloud Atlas: A Novel Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell

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"For readers who enjoy good stories wrapped around an inventive structure. Each tale is obliquely connected to another moving forward through time. And each has a totally different voice and style." Salli, Powells... (read more)

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Small Wonder: Essays Small Wonder: Essays
by Barbara Kingsolver

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In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us, out of one of history's darker moments, an extended love song to the world we still have. Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood,... (read more)

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The Rescue The Rescue
by Nicholas Sparks

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Volunteer fireman Taylor McAden couldn't bring himself to take one risk: to fall in love. When he meets single mother Denise Holton, who's involved in a near-fatal car crash during a violent storm in their small North Carolina town, Taylor must look into... (read more)

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The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club) The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)
by Toni Morrison

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From Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison comes the story of a young black girl who longs to be like the blond, blue-eyed children that America loves-a novel "so charged with pain and wonder that it becomes poetry" (The New York Times).... (read more)

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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
by John Steinbeck

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A modern retelling of the legendary Arthurian tales from one of the 20th centurys greatest writers, this work represents Steinbecks only work of fantasy literature.... (read more)

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Madeleine Is Sleeping (Harvest Book) Madeleine Is Sleeping (Harvest Book)
by Sarah Shun Li Bynum

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A fat woman sprouts delicate wings and takes flight; a failed photographer stumbles into the role of pornographer; a beautiful young wife grows to resemble her husband's viol: these are all characters in Sarah Shun Li Bynum's marvelous gem of a novel.... (read more)

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The Pale Blue Eye (P.S.) The Pale Blue Eye (P.S.)
by Louis Bayard

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From the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Timothy comes an ingenious tale of murder and revenge, featuring a retired New York City detective and a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe. At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is... (read more)

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The Power of One The Power of One
by Bryce Courtenay

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In this magical novel, an irresistible boy tells the story of his survival and coming of age against the background of South Africa during and just after World War II.... (read more)

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The Eight The Eight
by Katherine Neville

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New York City, 1972 — A dabbler in mathematics and chess, Catherine Velis is also a computer expert for a Big Eight accounting firm. Before heading off to a new assignment in Algeria, Cat has her palm read by a fortune-teller. The woman warns Cat of... (read more)

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Drop City Drop City
by T. C. Boyle

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In Drop City, Boyle gives us an insider's view of two very different, self-constructed realities, each with their own set of mores. From the rugged individuals eking out a living in wild Alaska to the communal hippies struggling to be "one," Boyle lays... (read more)

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Earthly Joys Earthly Joys
by Philippa Gregory

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Whether he is nurturing a single rare seedling into a blossoming tree or planning acres of exquisitely conceived royal gardens, John Tradescant's fame and skill as a gardener are unsurpassed in seventeenth-century England. But it is Tradescant's clear... (read more)

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Plain Truth Plain Truth
by Jodi Picoult

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A shocking murder shatters the picturesque calm of Pennsylvania's Amish country -- and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer who steps in to defend the young woman at the center of the storm.... Plain Truth The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish... (read more)

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As I Lay Dying As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner

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At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member--including Addie--and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.... (read more)

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A Christmas Carol (Dover Thrift Editions) A Christmas Carol (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charles Dickens

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This engrossing tale relates Ebenezer Scrooge's ghostly journeys through Christmases past, present, and future and his ultimate transformation from a harsh and grasping old miser to a charitable and compassionate human being. A perennial classic that has... (read more)

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Love Walked in Love Walked in
by Maris De Los Santos

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When Martin Grace enters the hip Philadelphia coffee shop Cornelia Brown manages, her life changes forever. But little does she know that her newfound love is only the harbinger of greater changes to come. Meanwhile, across town, Clare Hobbsaeleven years... (read more)

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Rhett Butler's People Rhett Butler's People
by Donald Mccaig

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Rhett Butler Renegade. Outcast. Rebel. Lover. Gambler. Southerner. A mystery… Until now. Rhett Butler’s People fulfills the dreams of those whose imaginations have been indelibly marked by America’s greatest novel, Gone With The... (read more)

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The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children) The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children)
by Jean M Auel

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The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar’s people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the... (read more)

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The Rum Diary The Rum Diary
by Hunter S Thompson

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Begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. Exuberant and... (read more)

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