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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by Oliver Sacks

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Revised and Expanded With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a... (read more)

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver

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After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my... (read more)

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The White Tiger The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga

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Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. Balram... (read more)

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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 Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

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Perfect for book groups, a charming series of letters make up this short novel set in post-WWII Europe. The correspondents, drawn together by their love of books and affection for each other, collectively tell a moving tale of endurance and friendship in... (read more)

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The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One
by Patrick Rothfuss

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The riveting first-person narrative of a young man who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime- ridden city, to his daringly... (read more)

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Ahab's Wife (P.S.) Ahab's Wife (P.S.)
by Sena Jeter Naslund

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From the opening line — "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last" — you will know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena... (read more)

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Run (P.S.) Run (P.S.)
by Ann Patchett

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Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument... (read more)

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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.) Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)
by Laurence Bergreen

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Laurence Bergreen brings Magellan's groundbreaking circumnavigation of the globe to life in this excellent, highly readable history. Through exhaustive research, including many first person accounts previously unavailable in English, Bergreen weaves... (read more)

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The Way the Crow Flies (P.S.) The Way the Crow Flies (P.S.)
by Ann-Marie MacDonald

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Ann-Marie MacDonald writes beautifully; her words wrap around you and envelop you. The Way the Crow Flies is engaging and evocative. She captures the pure joy and pain of childhood better than anyone since Margaret Atwood. That would be enough but then... (read more)

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The Yiddish Policemen's Union (P.S.) The Yiddish Policemen's Union (P.S.)
by Michael Chabon

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This book's premise is FDR's suggestion, back when Israel was being created, that the Jewish Diaspora settle in Alaska. Chabon makes that scenario a reality, except that when the book begins, the Sitka District is set to revert to Alaskan control... (read more)

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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper Fiction) Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper Fiction)
by Gregory Maguire

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When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the... (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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Bigfoot: I Not Dead Bigfoot: I Not Dead
by Graham Roumieu

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In my many years of gallivanting through the forest with my dear friend Sasquatch, we've often discussed fictional portrayals of him in books and on film. Somehow, these depictions always miss the essential bigfootiness of my huge, hairy companion. But... (read more)

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What the Dead Know What the Dead Know
by Laura Lippman

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Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who — or what — could have lured the two... (read more)

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Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by Anthony Bourdain

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When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded that appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectable... (read more)

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Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.) Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.)
by Pete Jordan

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Dishwasher is Pete Jordan's amusing memoir of his itinerant dishwashing extravaganza. For 12 years, I was the most prolific dishlicker of them all. From 1989 - 2001, I dished my way around the country, unwittingly searching for direction. From a bagel... (read more)

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Quicksilver: Baroque Cycle #01 Quicksilver: Baroque Cycle #01
by Neal Stephenson

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Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where... (read more)

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The Patron Saint of Liars (P.S.) The Patron Saint of Liars (P.S.)
by Ann Patchett

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St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Not so for Rose, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed. She plans to give up her baby because she... (read more)

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson

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An amazing history that recounts the inconceivable events surrounding the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Larson's tale captures a time and place that vividly come to life. The central characters in this tale are Daniel H. Burnham, the architect... (read more)

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