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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death, beauty, violence."... ( read more)
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The Book of Eleanor: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
by Pamela Kaufman
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One of history’s greatest women, celebrated by her contemporaries, descendants, and biographers, comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by bestselling author Pamela Kaufman. In 1137, fifteen-year-old Eleanor became Duchess of Aquitaine, a wealthy... ( read more)
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Crossing California
by Adam Langer
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Set in Chicago's Jewish neighborhood of West Rogers Park, this is the story of three families — adults and children alike — coming of age during the tumultuous, turbulent days of the Iran hostage crisis. At the close of the 1970s, the Rovners... ( read more)
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Pravda
by Edward Docx
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Sharp, compelling, and dark. Edward Docx is fantastically gifted with prose and weaves a complex family saga and literary thriller. With descriptive powers rivaling Le Carre, and a setting that hops between Russia, London and New York, I devoured this... ( read more)
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (L'Etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a... ( read more)
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
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revisit Orwellas classic satire Animal Farm As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and... ( read more)
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The Savage Detectives
by Roberto Bolano
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Take one part Tom Robbins, one part James Joyce, add a dose of '70s nostalgia, and stir. What you get is the journey of a poetic soul across the broken landscape of our world. The Savage Detectives is at once illuminating and introspective, riveting and... ( read more)
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
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Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in... ( read more)
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
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"It is a perfect book to make you feel good about the underdogs of the world. This book makes you feel like anyone can be a hero." Jonathan, Powells... ( read more)
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The Tesseract
by Alex Garland
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The Tesseract takes place in the Philippines and follows three sets of characters whose fates are intertwined in a deadly chase that is set in motion through a misunderstanding.
Sean is an inexperienced British merchant seaman waiting to keep an... ( read more)
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The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
by Louise Murphy
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In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed "Hansel" and "Gretel." They wander in the... ( read more)
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
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Awe and exhiliration — along with heartbreak and mordant wit — abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet... ( read more)
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The Highest Tide
by Jim Lynch
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Are you captivated by stories of rare creatures living beneath the surface of the ocean? Do you like the idea of an eccentric teenage narrator handing out startlingly detailed descriptions of these creatures and other aquatic mysteries? Are you a sucker... ( read more)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
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For Whom the Bell Tolls is one of the great 20th-century war novels.
Hemingway's cast of characters are as rich and complex as you will find in
any of his works. Hemingway's portrait of Robert Jordan and his role in the Spanish Civil War is a vivid... ( read more)
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After Dark (Vintage International)
by Haruki Murakami
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More menace than melancholy, readers will find After Dark a deliciously dark entry in Murakami's oeuvre.
Recommended by Gerry, Powells.com... ( read more)
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Already Dead: A California Gothic
by Denis Johnson
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A contemporary noir, Already Dead is the tangled story of Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scion to a northern California land fortune. A relentless failure, Nelson has botched nearly every scheme he's attempted to pull off. Now his future lies... ( read more)
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House of Leaves: A Novel
by Mark Z. Danielewski
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"Saints
be praised, this is the best book of the new millennium. A veritable tour de
force. Pynchon
meets Stephen
King meets Robert
Hughes meets Borges
meets Dante.
Joycian.
Jungian.
Mythic. Any clich used by fawning literary critics... ( read more)
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Then We Came to the End: A Novel
by Joshua Ferris
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Then We Came to the End tells the story of an ad agency in decline, circa 2001. "We had a toy client, a car client, a long-distance carrier and a pet store," readers are told. We. Ferris uses the first person plural to present the agency's collective... ( read more)
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The City of Dreaming Books
by Walter Moers
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The publication in 2005 of Walter Moers's The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear was an event — the hilarious epic fantasy garnered grand reviews and surprising sales, which continue to grow. In this new Zamonian adventure, Optimus Yarnspinner, a... ( read more)
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Pilgrims
by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Gilbert's debut collection of short stories is remarkable for its breadth, range of setting, and subject matter. Each world her characters inhabit is authentic and fully realized, embracing the fabulous and bizarre with similar enthusiasm.... ( read more)
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