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The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
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Alfred, the patriarch of the Lambert family, is in declining health due to Parkinson's, and Enid wants their adult children to come home for one last Christmas together. The novel focuses on Enid and Alfred's lives in suburban St. Jude, and on each of... ( read more)
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Songs for the Missing
by Stewart O'Nan
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An enthralling portrait of one family in the aftermath of a daughter's disappearance. It was the summer of her Chevette, of J.P. and letting her hair grow, It was also the summer when, without warning, popular high school student Kim Larsen disappeared... ( read more)
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The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
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With The Historian Elizabeth Kostova has written a love letter to Dracula, Eastern Europe, and the study of history. Writing an epistolary novel (just like the original Dracula) might have seemed risky in the age of email, but it works. We are drawn into... ( read more)
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Body Surfing
by Anita Shreve
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At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing, she has signed on to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. But... ( read more)
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Citizen Girl: A Novel
by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin
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Another biting satire from Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Nanny Diaries.
Working in a world where a college degree qualifies her to make photocopies and color-coordinate file folders, twenty-four... ( read more)
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Across a Hundred Mountains
by Reyna Grande
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After a tragedy separates her from her mother, Juana García leaves her small town in Mexico to find her father, who left his family two years earlier to find work in America and rise above the oppressive poverty of his country. Out of money and in... ( read more)
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The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
by Gail Tsukiyama
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It is Tokyo in 1939. On the Street of a Thousand Blossoms, two orphaned brothers dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition. The older boy, Hiroshi, shows early signs of promise at the national obsession of sumo wrestling, while... ( read more)
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Blindness
by Jose Saramago
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women.... ( read more)
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Close Range: Wyoming Stories
by Annie Proulx
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short-story collections of our time. Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these... ( read more)
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Trask
by Don Berry
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Set in 1848 on the wild edge of the continent, in the rain forests and rugged headlands of the Oregon coast "Trask follows a mountain man's quest for new opportunities and new land to settle. The OSU Press is proud to reissue Berry's celebrated first... ( read more)
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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
by Evelyn Waugh
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the... ( read more)
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Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott
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"Lamott has chronicled her wacky and (sometimes) wild adventures in faith in...the wonderful Grace (Eventually)." (Chicago Sun- Times) In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, the author of the bestsellers Traveling Mercies and Plan B delivers a... ( read more)
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Meridon (Wideacre Trilogy #03)
by Philippa Gregory
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Meridon knows she does not belong in the dirty, vagabond life of a gypsy bareback rider. The half-remembered vision of another life burns in her heart, even as her beloved sister, Dandy, risks everything for their future. Alone, Meridon follows the... ( read more)
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Dear John
by Nicholas Sparks
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In Sparks's #1 "New York Times"-bestselling novel of duty, longing, and heartbreak, two lives change forever after the tragedy of 9/11. Returning home from war, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love.... ( read more)
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Vintage International)
by Jean-Dominique Bauby
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In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare... ( read more)
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A Model World: And Other Stories
by Michael Chabon
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By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &Clay.... ( read more)
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The Tenderness of Wolves
by Stef Penney
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A brilliant and breathtaking debut that captivated readers and garnered critical acclaim in the United Kingdom, The Tenderness of Wolves was long-listed for the Orange Prize in fiction and won the Costa Award (formerly the Whitbread) Book of the Year... ( read more)
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Reading Like a Writer : a Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want To Write Them (06 Edition)
by Francine Prose
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Reading Like a Writer is a treasure chest. You can crack it open at any chapter and come away enriched. Prose is one of the best teachers around, and for the price of a paperback, you are getting an Ivy League education in writing. For people who love... ( read more)
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Message in a Bottle
by Nicholas Sparks
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On the shores of Cape Cod, a single mother discovers a bottle containing a poignant message--a deeply-felt love letter that launches her on a mysterious voyage of self-discovery and renewal. On her journey, she finds a remarkable man who restores her... ( read more)
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Confessions of a Shopaholic
by Sophie Kinsella
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Rebecca Bloomwood just hit rock bottom. But she's never looked better.... Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. The only... ( read more)
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