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The Tobacconist

by Robert Seethaler

Published: 2017-09-05

Paperback: 224 pages

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From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he ...

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Salt Creek

by Lucy Treloar

Published: 2017-09-12

Paperback: 464 pages

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"Refigures the historical novel. . . . Salt Creek introduces a capacious new talent." —The Weekend AustralianHester Finch recalls her family's move to coastal South Australia in 1855. The connections the Finches form with passing travelers and with a local Aboriginal boy, Tully, whom Hes...

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The Summer Guest

by Alison Anderson

Published: 2017-05-23

Paperback: 416 pages

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What if Anton Chekhov, undisputed master of the short story, actually wrote a novel—and the manuscript  still existed? This tantalizing possibility drives The Summer Guest, a spellbinding narrative that draws together, across two centuries, the lives of three women through the discovery...

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Ethan Frome (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Edith Wharton

Published: 1991-01-01

Paperback: 77 pages

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Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton's novels, Ethan Frome is widely considered her masterpiece. Set against a bleak New England background, the novel tells of Frome, his ailing wife Zeena and her companion Mattie Silver, superbly delineating the characters of each as t...

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A Quiet Life

by NATASHA WALTER

Published: 2017

Paperback: 0 pages

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Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit)

Published: 2012-08-30

Paperback: 288 pages

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Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States.A “border” is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geograp...

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* * * Slow,
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The Female Persuasion: A Novel

by Meg Wolitzer

Published: 2018-04-03

Hardcover: 464 pages

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A New York Times Bestseller   “A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens." —Bustle “Ultra-readable.” —Vogue    From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, comes an elec...

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The Mars Room: A Novel

by Rachel Kushner

Published: 2018-05-01

Kindle Edition: 353 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL “Gritty, empathetic, finely rendered, no sugary toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled.” —Margaret Atwood via Twitter “A page turner… one of those books that e...

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Damaged: A Rosato & DiNunzio Novel

by Lisa Scottoline

Published: 2017-08-01

Paperback: 448 pages

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“Scottoline writes riveting thrillers that keep me up all night, with plots that twist and turn.” –Harlan CobenTen-year-old Patrick O'Brien is a natural target at school. Shy, dyslexic, and small for his age, he tries to hide his first-grade reading level from everyone: from his clas...

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Call Me Zebra

by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Published: 2018-02-06

Hardcover: 304 pages

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“Hearken ye fellow misfits, migrants, outcasts, squint-eyed bibliophiles, library-haunters and book stall-stalkers: Here is a novel for you.”—Wall Street Journal“A tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bolaño and Borges.” —New York Tim...