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Atonement
by Ian Mcewan
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Ian McEwan's symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.
On a hot summer day in 1935,... ( read more)
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
by William S Burroughs
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Reedited by Burroughs scholar Barry Miles and Burroughs' longtime editor James Grauerholz, "Naked Lunch: The Restored Text" includes many editorial corrections to errors present in previous editions, and incorporates Burroughs' notes on the text, several... ( read more)
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The Other: A Novel
by David Guterson
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From the author of the best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars, a dazzling new novel about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life.
John William Barry has inherited the... ( read more)
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Paris Stories
by Mavis Gallant
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A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade. Michael... ( read more)
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At First Sight
by Nicholas Sparks
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There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and, most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of... ( read more)
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The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog
by Doris Lessing
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Dann is grown up now, hunting for knowledge and despondent over the inadequacies of his civilization. With his trusted companions — Mara's daughter, his hope for the future; the abandoned child-soldier Griot, who discovers the meaning of love and... ( read more)
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A Sudden Country: A Novel
by Karen Fisher
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A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption.
James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious... ( read more)
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Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had
by Rick Bass
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"Colter" pairs one of America's most treasured writers with a treasured "best friend"--the runt of the litter, a German shorthair pup. "A gorgeous, heart-tugging man-and-dog memoir".--"Milwaukee Journal Sentinel".... ( read more)
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
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With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the... ( read more)
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Story of the Eye
by Georges Bataille
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In 1928, Georges Bataille published this first novel under a pseudonym, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of... ( read more)
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The Baker's Apprentice
by Judith R Hendricks
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This is a delicious sequel to Judith Hendricks's Bread Alone. Beautiful
symbolism and vivid descriptions make this novel a joy to read. Join
Wanter Morrison as she bakes her creations and discovers the beautiful
symbolisms between food and life. This... ( read more)
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
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The saga of two Yorkshire families in the remote Pennine Hills. The book has been interpreted as an historical romance, a ghostly thriller, a psychological love-story, a religious allegory and a nature poem. This is the author's only novel.... ( read more)
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The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation (P.S.)
by Paulo Coelho
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Coelho's parable of good versus evil relates the story of a stranger who enters a remote village and proposes a wager to the town: if someone turns up murdered within a week, he'll give the town enough gold to make everyone wealthy.... ( read more)
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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
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By the time The Lovely Bones landed on bookstore shelves it had become the most highly anticipated book of the season. Then came the astonishingly enthusiastic critical response. Within two months, a million copies were in print. Still, readers... ( read more)
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Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott
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A chronicle of faith and spirituality that is at once tough, personal, affectionate, wise, and very funny. Anne Lamott claims the best two prayers she knows are "Help me, help me, help me" and "Thank you, thank you, thank you." Despite — or because... ( read more)
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A Cup of Light
by Nicole Mones
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When Lia Frank travels to China to evaluate a cache of rare antique porcelain she enters an exotic world full of danger, mystery, and romance. I was so entranced by the story I actually went to see a real "chicken cup" at the Metropolitan Museum in New... ( read more)
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Willful Creatures: Stories
by Aimee Bender
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Funny, tender, very often bracing and constantly surprising, Aimee Bender... Oh, forget the pretense: Aimee Bender writes like no one else, and I love her for it. On the surface, most of the stories in Willful Creatures shouldn't ring true at all —... ( read more)
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A Walk to Remember
by Nicholas Sparks
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Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was... ( read more)
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
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Night -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary Of... ( read more)
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Never Let Me Go: A Novel
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Set in a (barely?) alternate England in the late 1990s, Never Let Me Go is
the sum of Kathy's memories. Kathy is one of many "donors" who have been
brought into being for purposes that, while well-intended, can come to no
good. Ishiguro's novel... ( read more)
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