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Severina (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

by Rodrigo Rey Rosa

Published: 2014-02-25

Paperback: 112 pages

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“Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she didn’t take anything. . . . I knew she’d be back,” the narrator/bookseller of Severina recalls in this novel’s opening pages. Imagine a dark-haired book thief as alluring as she is dangerous. Imagine the mesmer...

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The Possibility of an Island (Vintage International)

by Michel Houellebecq

Published: 2007-05-08

Paperback: 352 pages

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A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus–a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished.Surprisingly poignant, philosophically compelling, and occasionall...

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Definitely Maybe (Neversink)

by Arkady Strugatsky, Strugatsky Boris

Published: 2014-02-04

Paperback: 160 pages

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In its first-ever unexpurgated edition, a sci-fi landmark that's a comic and suspenseful tour-de-force, and puts distraction in a whole new light: It's not you, it's the universe!Boris and Arkady Strugatsky were the greatest science fiction writers of the Soviet era: their books were intel...

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How I Became a Nun

by César Aira

Published: 2007-02-28

Paperback: 128 pages

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A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice cream. "My story, the story of 'how I became a nun,' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which I can reconstruct ...

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The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel

by Benjamin Black

Published: 2014-03-04

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Raymond Chandler’s incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the most difficult and dangerous case of his career“It was one of those summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin to wonder if the earth has stopped revolving. The telephone on my desk had the ...

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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

by Evan Osnos

Published: 2014-05-13

Hardcover: 416 pages

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Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction.An Economist Best Book of 2014.A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformationFrom abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicate...

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Adam

by Ariel Schrag

Published: 2014-06-10

Paperback: 320 pages

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When Adam Freedman -- a skinny, awkward, inexperienced teenager from Piedmont, California -- goes to stay with his older sister Casey in New York City, he is hopeful that his life is about to change. And it sure does. It is the Summer of 2006. Gay marriage and transgender rights are in the...

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Friendswood: A Novel

by Rene Steinke

Published: 2014-08-14

Hardcover: 368 pages

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?Steinke's sense of this small Texas town, with its explosive and interconnected lives and deaths, is absolutely masterful.”?Elizabeth Gilbert A big, moving novel of one tight-knit Texas community and the events that alter its residents’ lives forever. Friendswood, Texas, is ...

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Land of Love and Drowning: A Novel

by Tiphanie Yanique

Published: 2014-07-10

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Recipient of the 2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation AwardA major debut from an award-winning writer—an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands. In the early 1900s, the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American...

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The Last Magazine: A Novel

by Michael Hastings

Published: 2014-06-17

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The year is 2002. Weekly newsmagazines dominate the political agenda in New York and Washington. A young journalist named Michael M. Hastings is a twenty-two- year-old intern at The Magazine, wet behind the ears, the only one in the office who’s actually read his coworker’s books. He...