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House of Sand and Fog House of Sand and Fog
by Andre Dubus III

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Colonel Massoud Amir Behrani was once a powerful and respected officer in the Shah of Iran's air force. Having fled the country with his family, he works by day spearing trash on California highways and by night as a clerk in a convenience store while... (read more)

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Midnight at the Dragon Cafe Midnight at the Dragon Cafe
by Judy Fong Bates

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Judy Fong Bates's fresh and engaging first novel is the story of Su-Jen Chou, a Chinese girl growing up the only daughter of an unhappy and isolated immigrant family in a small Ontario town in the 1950s. Through Su-Jen's eyes we see the hard life behind... (read more)

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The Night Villa The Night Villa
by Carol Goodman

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For a limited time, buy any two new books featured in our Mystery Loves Company sale, and choose a third book free!... (read more)

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Clown Girl: A Novel Clown Girl: A Novel
by Monica Drake

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A famous author once said, "Characters to me, the ones I write, aren't persuasive till I can postulate what they do for a living." In her full-length debut, Monica Drake postulates into life a young woman named Nita, otherwise known as Sniffles, a... (read more)

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Clearcut Clearcut
by Nina Shengold

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Set in the gloriously rugged backwoods of the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, Nina Shengold's gripping debut novel follows three people in search of new lives deep into uncharted terrain of the body and heart. When rough-hewn loner Earley Ritter... (read more)

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The Secret History The Secret History
by Donna Tartt

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Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement — both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric... (read more)

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The Gift The Gift
by Richard Paul Evans

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Beloved inspirational author Richard Paul Evans crafts a heartwarming Christmas story in the tradition of "The Christmas Box" and "Finding Noel." Simon &... (read more)

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Lost in the City Lost in the City
by Edward P Jones

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“ To the list of fine short-story writers, add the name of Edward P. Jones....These 14 stories of African-American life...affirm...humanity as only good literature can.”... (read more)

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Pulp Pulp
by Charles Bukowski

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Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.... (read more)

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The Plague of Doves The Plague of Doves
by Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich's mesmerizing new novel, her first in almost three years, centers on a compelling mystery. The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and... (read more)

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The Lazarus Project The Lazarus Project
by Aleksandar Hemon

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Great literary style. Expressive, deeply moving, and insightful. Perceptively intertwines past and present. Recommended by Adrienne, Powells.com... (read more)

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The Fall (Vintage International) The Fall (Vintage International)
by Albert Camus

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Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.... (read more)

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South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel
by Haruki Murakami

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In South of the Border, West of the Sun, the simple arc of a man's life — with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment — becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Haruki Murakami's most haunting work. Born in 1951 in an... (read more)

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The Most Beautiful Woman in Town The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
by Charles Bukowski

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These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France where... (read more)

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The Rescue The Rescue
by Nicholas Sparks

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Volunteer fireman Taylor McAden couldn't bring himself to take one risk: to fall in love. When he meets single mother Denise Holton, who's involved in a near-fatal car crash during a violent storm in their small North Carolina town, Taylor must look into... (read more)

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Resurrection Resurrection
by Tucker Malarkey

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A lost past. A hidden Gospel. A shocking discovery. It's 1948, and British nurse Gemma Bastian travels to Cairo to close the affairs of her late father, staying at the home of David Lazar, her father's oldest friend, and his enigmatic sons. While she's... (read more)

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City of Thieves: A Novel City of Thieves: A Novel
by David Benioff

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As wise and funny as it is thrilling and original — the story of two young men on an impossible adventure. A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother... (read more)

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The Historian: A Novel The Historian: A Novel
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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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)
by Willa Cather

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Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.... (read more)

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Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics) Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
by Jane Austen

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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that... (read more)

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