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Parasites like Us
by Adam Johnson
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Hailed as "remarkable" by the New Yorker, Emporium earned Adam Johnson comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and T. C. Boyle. Now, in Parasites Like Us, he takes us on an enthralling journey through memory, time, and the cost of mankind's quest for his own past.... ( read more)
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Story of O
by Pauline Reage
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The classic erotic novel, THE STORY OF O relates the love of a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer for Rene. As part of that intense love, she demands debasement and severe sexual and pychological tests. It is a unique work not to be missed.... ( read more)
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The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac
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Another autobiographical novel from Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, encompasses the ideals of freedom set forth by Whitman and Thoreau, with Buddhism thrown in for good measure. Focusing on the friendship between Ray Smith (modelled on Kerouac) and Japhy Ryder... ( read more)
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March: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
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In her follow-up to Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks has taken historical fiction to another dimension altogether. Using America's Civil War as her frame, she plants a famous (but deeply mysterious) literary figure at its center: Mr. March, the absent... ( read more)
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Hunter S Thompson
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When Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought the Modern Library in 1925, its mission
was ? and still is ? to provide attractive, hardcover editions of important works
of literature and thought to serious readers on a budget. The Modern Library became... ( read more)
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The General in His Labyrinth
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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General Simon Bolivar, “the Liberator” of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely... ( read more)
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Brooklyn Follies
by Paul Auster
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Nathan and Tom are an uncle and nephew double-act - one in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career. Matters change when Lucy, a little girl who refuses to... ( read more)
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Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
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On one list are the books you like to recommend. You want to turn on someone to your favorite unknown author or introduce them to the season's latest, greatest novel. If you've read widely enough over the years, you'll match reader to occasion. The list... ( read more)
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Travels in HyperReality
by Umberto Eco
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Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. His range is wide, and his insights are acute, frequently ironic, and often downright funny. Translated... ( read more)
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
by Dinaw Mengestu
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In a season rife with internationally flavored books about the dispossessed and the exploited, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears rises to the top. An unforgettable tale of an Ethiopian immigrant's struggle with his violent past and an uncertain... ( read more)
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The Magician's Assistant
by Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett's writing delves into a new world with each successive novel. This time she takes us on a captivatingly American journey of love, loss, and redemption. Patchett uses a delightfully modern story to explore timeless questions that will... ( read more)
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Case Histories
by Kate Atkinson
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Discover one of my favorite writers with this artful detective story.
Fans of Atkinson's earlier novels will marvel again at her skill in interweaving several narratives to find one central thread of truth.
A real knock-out. Danielle, Powells... ( read more)
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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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Snuff: A Novel
by Chuck Palahniuk
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From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before...
Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for... ( read more)
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake
by Sloane Crosley
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Funny, charming, and self-effacing, Sloane Crosley's essays will resonate
with you, whether or not you grew up playing Oregon Trail on the computer or
have ever locked yourself out of your house — twice in the same day.
Crosley's voice is... ( read more)
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
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On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and... ( read more)
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The Garden of Last Days: A Novel
by Andre Dubus III
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog — a new big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel.
One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. April's usual... ( read more)
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Bad Monkeys (P.S.)
by Matt Ruff
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Bad Monkeys twists, turns, shifts, and shakes its way through the story of Jane Charlotte, a woman who claims to be a member of a clandestine organization dedicated to fighting evil known as the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons. A gripping... ( read more)
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Empire Falls: A Novel
by Richard Russo
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In lieu of the driving narrative voice of Straight Man, Empire Falls delves into a large cast of strong characters who will live on in the reader's mind long after the novel proper has ended. Russo's sprawling Pulitzer Prize winner impresses on many... ( read more)
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The River Why
by David James Duncan
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Not in recent memory has there been such a unique and vibrant fictional character — a character who could make us laugh so easily, feel so deeply, who speaks with such startling truth about the way we live — as Gus Orviston, the irreverent young... ( read more)
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