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She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
by Haven Kimmel
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After twenty years of burrowing into the corner of the family couch, eating junk food, and reading science fiction, Indiana mother Delonda Jarvis did something that shocked her family: she went to college. Or, as her younger daughter, Haven Kimmel... ( read more)
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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
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This lavishly produced edition features 40 of Tomislav Torjanacs beautiful four-color illustrations, bringing "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel to splendid, eye-popping life. First published in 2002, the original work became an international bestseller and... ( read more)
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The Friday Night Knitting Club
by Kate Jacobs
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The New York Times bestselling sensation that's Steel Magnolias set in Manhattan (USA Today)-now in paperback. Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday Night... ( read more)
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Suite Francaise: A Novel
by Irene Nemirovsky
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A literary time capsule, Suite Française is a novel about wartime occupation written during the Nazi occupation of France. Irène Némirovsky's unfinished manuscript has been published more than 60 years after her death to worldwide... ( read more)
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A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
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Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and... ( read more)
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris
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One of these days I'll find the time to construct an actual review of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, but until I do let these words stand as my pledge: You will not regret purchasing this book. Further: You're unlikely to find more pure... ( read more)
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Sellevision Uk
by Augusten Burroughs
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An eye-popping satirical novel about America's premier retail broadcasting network. A painfully hilarious look at the dark side of consumer capitalism and the perils of minor celebrity, filled with ruthless ambition, sex with minors and Princess Diana... ( read more)
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The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
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The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin... ( read more)
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House of Leaves: A Novel
by Mark Z. Danielewski
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"Saints
be praised, this is the best book of the new millennium. A veritable tour de
force. Pynchon
meets Stephen
King meets Robert
Hughes meets Borges
meets Dante.
Joycian.
Jungian.
Mythic. Any clich used by fawning literary critics... ( read more)
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Gilded Chamber
by Rebecca Kohn
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For centuries her name has been a byword for feminine beauty, guile, and wisdom. This sweeping, meticulously researched novel restores Esther to her full, complex humanity while reanimating the glittering Persian empire in which her story unfolded... ( read more)
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
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The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his... ( read more)
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Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
by Christopher Moore
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Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail... ( read more)
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Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
by David Sedaris
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In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad... ( read more)
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Soon I Will Be Invincible
by Austin Grossman
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You don't have to have action figures on your desk to appreciate Austin Grossman's novel Soon I Will Be Invincible. Sure, superheroes and supervillains clash on a galactic scale, but it's not all about fighting for Truth and Justice. The reader gets an... ( read more)
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No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
by Miranda July
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Listen to Miranda July read her story, "The Swim Team," from No One Belongs Here More Than You.... ( read more)
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The Tesseract
by Alex Garland
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The Tesseract takes place in the Philippines and follows three sets of characters whose fates are intertwined in a deadly chase that is set in motion through a misunderstanding.
Sean is an inexperienced British merchant seaman waiting to keep an... ( read more)
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The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
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In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor — a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who... ( read more)
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The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
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Sue Monk Kidd is an extraordinary storyteller. In "The Secret Life of Bees," she explores a young girl's search for the truth about her mother; her courage to tear down racial barriers; and her joy as she claims her place within a community of women... ( read more)
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: The Inspiration for the Upcoming Major Motion Picture
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Today F. Scott Fitzgerald is better known for his novels, but in his own time, his fame rested squarely on his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted writers of stories and novellas. Now, a half-century after the author's death, the premier... ( read more)
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The Almost Moon
by Alice Sebold
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As you likely know if you're reading this, The Almost Moon opens with a startling confession: Helen Knightly has killed her mother — and the killing "came easily," she admits. What follows is a remarkable, tension-filled examination of aging and... ( read more)
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