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Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
Published: 2012-03-27
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"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its bloated Department of Homeland Secur...
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Published: 2012-02-28
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A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed.
Marketers at Procter & Gam...
The Good Father: A Novel
Published: 2012-03-20
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An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.
As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, pati...
The Song of Achilles: A Novel
Published: 2012-03-06
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The legend begins...
Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. ?The best of all the Greeks?'strong, beautiful, and the child of a goddess?Achilles is ev
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Mudwoman: A Novel
Published: 2012-03-20
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A riveting novel that explores the high price of success in the life of one woman?the first female president of a lauded ivy league institution?and her hold upon her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons, from Joyce Carol Oates, author of the New York Times bestsel
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Lone Wolf: A Novel
Published: 2012-02-28
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A life hanging in the balance . . . a family torn apart. The #1 internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells an unforgettable story about family secrets, love, and letting go.
In the wild, when a wolf knows its time is over, when it knows it is of no more use to its pack, it may s
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Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
Published: 2012-03-08
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When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a 'French parent.' Yet, the French children Druckerman knows sleep through the night at two or three months old. And while her American friends spend their visits resolving spats between their kids...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories
Published: 2012-02-07
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These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American f...
Death Comes to Pemberley
Published: 2011-12-06
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A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.
It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their l...
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The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel
Published: 2012-01-10
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"Mr. Johnson has written a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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The Wolf Gift
Published: 2012-02-14
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A daring new departure from the inspired creator of The Vampire Chronicles ("unrelentingly erotic . . . unforgettable"--The Washington Post), Lives of the Mayfair Witches ("Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature"--San Francisco Chronicle), and the angels of The Songs of the ...
The Flame Alphabet
Published: 2012-01-17
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In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families.
A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children's ...
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Published: 2011-11-08
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The Pulitzer Prize?winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkab...
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An Available Man: A Novel
Published: 2012-01-24
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In this tender and funny novel, award-winning author Hilma Wolitzer mines the unpredictable fallout of suddenly becoming single later in life, and the chaos and joys of falling in love the second time around. When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is...
The Quality of Mercy: A Novel
Published: 2012-01-10
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Barry Unsworth returns to the terrain of his Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger, this time following Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, son of a Liverpool slave ship owner who hanged himself. It is the spring of 1767, and to avenge his father's death, Erasmus Kemp has had
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The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
Published: 2011-11-15
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From one of the greatest writers of our time, his first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011, chronicling--and foretelling--three decades of American life
Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmeriz
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11/22/63: A Novel
Published: 2011-11-08
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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King's heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination--a thousand page tour de force...
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Published: 2011-10-25
Hardcover: 944 pages
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"Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it oursel...
Cool, Calm & Contentious
Published: 2011-11-01
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In this hilarious collection of personal essays, New York Times bestselling author Merrill Markoe reveals, among other things, the secret formula for comedy: Start out with a difficult mother, develop some classic teenage insecurities, add a few relationships with narcissistic men, toss in...
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The Time of Our Lives: A conversation about America; Who we are, where we've been, and where we need to go now, to recapture the American dream
Published: 2011-11-01
Hardcover: 320 pages
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Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for his landmark work in American journalism and for the New York Times bestsellers The Greatest Generation and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America's great...
Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy
Published: 2011-11-08
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President Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matters--presenting his ideas on restoring energy, economic growth, job creation, financial responsibility, resolving the mortgage crisis, and pursuing a strategy, job creation, an...
The Marriage Plot: A Novel
Published: 2011-10-11
Hardcover: 416 pages
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It's the early 1980s--the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen...
The Cat\'s Table
Published: 2011-10-04
Hardcover: 288 pages
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In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its wa...
Falling Together: A Novel
Published: 2011-10-04
Hardcover: 368 pages
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What if saying hello to an old friend meant saying good-bye to life as you know it?
It's been six years since Pen Calloway watched her best friends walk out of her life. And through the birth of her daughter, the death of her father, and the vicissitudes of single motherhood, she has ne
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Nanjing Requiem: A Novel
Published: 2011-10-18
Hardcover: 320 pages
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The award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash returns to his homeland in a searing new novel that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century: the Rape of Nanjing.
In 1937, with the Japanese poised to invade Nanjing, Minnie Vautrin--an American missionary and the
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The Stranger\'s Child
Published: 2011-10-11
Hardcover: 448 pages
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From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.
In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate--a handsome, aristocratic young ...
The Litigators
Published: 2011-10-25
Hardcover: 400 pages
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The partners at Finley & Figg--all two of them--often refer to themselves as "a boutique law firm." Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation always in search of their big break, ambulance chasers wh...
Damned
Published: 2011-10-18
Hardcover: 256 pages
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"Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison," declares the whip-tongued eleven-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her ...
Ed King
Published: 2011-10-18
Hardcover: 320 pages
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A sweeping, propulsive, darkly humorous new novel by the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars: a story of destiny, desire, and destruction that reimagines Sophocles's Oedipus Rex for our own era.
In Seattle in 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary--"a guy who weighs risk...
The Lady of the Rivers: A Novel (The Cousins\' War)
Published: 2011-10-18
Hardcover: 464 pages
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Passion. Danger. Witchcraft . . .
The Lady of the Rivers is #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory's remarkable story of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, a woman who navigated a treacherous path through the battle lines in the Wars of the Roses.
Descended from Melusina, the ri
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