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The Art of Fielding: A Novel
Published: 2011-09-07
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At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.
Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his futur...
State of Wonder: A Novel (P.S.)
Published: 2012-05-08
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In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual transformations, State of Wonder presents a world of stunning surprise and danger, rich in emotional resonance and moral complexity.
As Dr. Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain odyssey into
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The Language of Flowers: A Novel
Published: 2012-04-03
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it's been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the
Clara and Mr. Tiffany: A Novel
Published: 2012-03-20
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It's 1893, and at the Chicago World's Fair, Louis Comfort Tiffany makes his debut with a luminous exhibition of innovative stained-glass windows that he hopes will earn him a place on the international artistic stage. But behind the scenes in his New York studio is the f
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The Family Fang: A Novel
Published: 2012-04-17
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Annie and Buster Fang have spent most of their adult lives trying to distance themselves from their famous artist parents, Caleb and Camille. But when a bad economy and a few bad personal decisions converge, the two siblings have nowhere to turn but their family home. Reunited under one r
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A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast. George R.R. Martin (Song of Ice & Fire 5 Part 2)
Published: 2012-03
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The fifth volume, part two of A Song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. GAME OF THRONES is now a major Sky Atlantic TV series from HBO, featuring a stellar cast. The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance. In King's Landing the Queen Regent, Cersei Lannister, awaits...
Salvage the Bones: A Novel
Published: 2012-04-24
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Winner of the 2011 National Book Award
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers ar
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The Dovekeepers: A Novel
Published: 2012-04-03
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The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of research and imagination. Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. According to the ancient historian...
Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
Published: 2011-05-25
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When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind - until he happens to t...
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet\'s Nest
Published: 2012-02-21
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In the concluding volume of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head.
But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of Mi
The Story of Beautiful Girl
Published: 2012-02-13
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It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the...
Dreams of Joy: A Novel
Published: 2012-02-07
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In her most powerful novel yet, acclaimed author Lisa See returns to the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl's strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy. Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, Joy runs away to Shanghai in earl
The Tragedy of Arthur: A Novel
Published: 2012-02-21
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The Tragedy of Arthur is an emotional and elaborately constructed tour de force from ?one of the best writers in America? (The Washington Post). Its doomed hero is Arthur Phillips, a young novelist struggling with a con artist father who works wonders of deception. Imprisoned for decades a
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The Five Love Languages of Children
Published: 2012-02-01
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Does your child speak a different language' Sometimes they wager for your attention, and other times they ignore you completely. Sometimes they are filled with gratitude and affection, and other times they seem totally indifferent. Attitude. Behavior. Development. Everything depends on the...
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Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel
Published: 2012-02-07
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Memories define us.
So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep?
Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love?all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may be telling you only half the story.
Welcome to Christine's life.
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West of Here
Published: 2012-01-31
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At the foot of the Elwha River, the muddy outpost of Port Bonita is about to boom, fueled by a ragtag band of dizzyingly disparate men and women unified only in their visions of a more prosperous future. A failed accountant by the name of Ethan Thornburgh has just arrived in Port Bonita to...
Bossypants
Published: 2011
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Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both...
A Discovery of Witches: A Novel
Published: 2011-12-27
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"A wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight."
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In a sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches became the "it" book of early 2011, bringing Deborah Harkness into the spotlight and galvanizing fans around the world. In this tale of pass
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Firefly Lane
Published: 2009-01-06
Paperback: 528 pages
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From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . .
In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the ?coole
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The Tiger's Wife: A Novel
Published: 2011-11-01
Paperback: 368 pages
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ? NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather's recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Published: 2011-09-20
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Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love'such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obses...
Travels in Siberia
Published: 2011-09-27
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New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2010
A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2010
A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Books of 2010
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
A Kansas City Star 100 Best Books of 2010
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The Red Garden
Published: 2011-01-25
Hardcover: 288 pages
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The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives.
In exquisite prose, Hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small-town America, presenting us with some three hundred years ...
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Published: 2010-11-16
Hardcover: 592 pages
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The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane ?biography? of cancer?from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, re...
By Nightfall: A Novel
Published: 2011-08-30
Paperback: 256 pages
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A New York Times Bestseller
Peter and Rebecca Harris, midforties, are prosperous denizens of Manhattan. He's an art dealer, she's an editor. They live well. They have their troubles?their ebbing passions, their wayward daughter, and certain doubts about their careers?but they feel as though
How to Be an American Housewife
Published: 2010-08-05
Hardcover: 288 pages
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A lively and surprising novel about a Japanese woman with a closely guarded secret, the American daughter who strives to live up to her mother's standards, and the rejuvenating power of forgiveness.
How to Be an American Housewife is a novel about mothers and daughters, and the pull of t...
Bitter in the Mouth: A Novel
Published: 2010-08-31
Hardcover: 304 pages
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From Monique Truong, the bestselling and award-winning author of The Book of Salt, comes a brilliant, mesmerizing, beautifully written novel about a young woman's search for identity and family, as she uncovers the secrets of her past and of history.
Growing up in the small town of Boiling...
The Irresistible Henry House: A Novel
Published: 2010-03-16
Hardcover: 432 pages
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It is the middle of the twentieth century, and in a home economics program at a prominent university, real babies are being used to teach mothering skills to young women. For a young man raised in these unlikely circumstances, finding real love and learning to trust will prove to be the wo...
Every Secret Thing
Published: 2004-10-01
Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages
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Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party take a wrong turn down an unfamiliar Baltimore street?and encounter an abandoned stroller with an infant inside. What happens next is shocking and terrible, and three families are irreparably destroyed.
Seven years later, Alice M
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The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise: A Novel
Published: 2010-08-10
Hardcover: 320 pages
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Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie.
Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoi...
The Good Daughters: A Novel (P.S.)
Published: 2011-08-23
Paperback: 304 pages
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They were born on the same day, in the same small New Hampshire hospital?but Ruth Plank and Dana Dickerson are different in nearly every way.
Ruth is an artist, a romantic with a rich, passionate, imaginative life?the fifth daughter born to a gentle, caring farmer and his stolid wife. R
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The False Friend
Published: 2011-08-23
Paperback: 272 pages
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Twenty years after Celia's best friend, Djuna, went missing, memories of that terrible day come rushing back?including the lie Celia remembers having told to conceal her role in Djuna's disappearance. But when Celia returns to her hometown to confess the truth, her family and childhood fri
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