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The Shell Collector: Stories
by Anthony Doerr
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Like shells themselves, each story in Anthony Doerr's collection
glows with beauty, complexity, and mystery. They seem to spiral
through the natural world, linking their characters — and us —
with the larger, grander picture. Lovers of... ( read more)
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The Electric Michelangelo (P.S.)
by Sarah Hall
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Cy Parks is the Electric Michelangelo, an artist of extraordinary gifts whose medium happens to be the pliant, shifting canvas of the human body. Fleeing his mother's legacy — a consumptives' hotel in a fading English seaside resort — Cy... ( read more)
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Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking
by Aoibheann Sweeney
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Critically acclaimed by reviewers across the country, Aoibheann Sweeney's beautifully written debut novel is a story of the profound human need for intimacy. For Miranda, the adolescence spent in her fog-shrouded Maine home has been stark and... ( read more)
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The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
by William Faulkner
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Faulkner is in a class of his own, and this is his best work. Moving
seamlessly from its opening incoherence to its revelatory finale, it's
almost as if he is teaching you how to read the novel as you are reading
it! A family drama with some of the... ( read more)
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Where I'm Calling from: New and Selected Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Raymond Carver
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By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imagination of thousands of readers... ( read more)
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The Other Boleyn Girl
by Philippa Gregory
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Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: the love of a king.
When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing... ( read more)
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan
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Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam, has created a symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative combined with the provocation we have come to... ( read more)
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Small Wonder: Essays
by Barbara Kingsolver
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In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us, out of one of history's darker moments, an extended love song to the world we still have. Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood,... ( read more)
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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
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Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). In... ( read more)
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
by Betty Smith
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I read this when I was around 11 years old, and it made a huge
impression on me. Set in a time when Brooklyn might not have been
the chic neighborhood it is now, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is about an inner-city girl seeing hope in her hard world... ( read more)
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Madeleine Is Sleeping (Harvest Book)
by Sarah Shun Li Bynum
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A fat woman sprouts delicate wings and takes flight; a failed photographer
stumbles into the role of pornographer; a beautiful young wife grows to
resemble her husband's viol: these are all characters in Sarah Shun Li
Bynum's marvelous gem of a novel.... ( read more)
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Oil!
by Upton Sinclair
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In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and... ( read more)
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Lucky
by Alice Sebold
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Enormously visceral, emotionally gripping, and imbued with the belief that justice is possible even after the most horrific of crimes, Sebold's compelling memoir of her rape at the age of 18 is a story that takes hold and won't let go.... ( read more)
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Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
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In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo — Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with tales of the cities he has seen in his travels around... ( read more)
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Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger
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A collection of brilliant, sad, and influential stories that includes favorites like "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," "Teddy," and "For Esmé, with Love and Squalor," as well as the underrated gem, "Just Before the War With the Eskimos." Almost invariably,... ( read more)
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Emma
by Jane Austen
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Emma, first published in 1816, was written when Jane Austen was at the height of her powers. In a novel remarkable for its sparkling wit and modernity, Austen presents readers with two of literature’s greatest comic creations—the eccentric Mr.... ( read more)
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Women
by Charles Bukowski
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Tells the story of an ugly middle-aged man who has gone unloved for too long, but a change comes over him at the age of fifty as he begins more and more relationships with women, in a compelling study of life lived on the edge. Reprint. 15,000 first... ( read more)
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The Post-Birthday World (P.S.)
by Lionel Shriver
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American children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a secure, settled life in London with her smart, loyal, disciplined partner, Lawrence—until the night she finds herself inexplicably drawn to kissing another man, a passionate, extravagant,... ( read more)
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The Last Kingdom
by Bernard Cornwell
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In the middle years of the ninth-century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. Kingdom after kingdom fell to the ruthless invaders until but one realm remained. And suddenly the fate of all England -- and the course... ( read more)
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Love Walked in
by Maris De Los Santos
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When Martin Grace enters the hip Philadelphia coffee shop Cornelia Brown manages, her life changes forever. But little does she know that her newfound love is only the harbinger of greater changes to come. Meanwhile, across town, Clare Hobbsaeleven years... ( read more)
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