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This Week's Featured Hardcovers
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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews, excerpts, author bios & more from exceptional recently published books.
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And the Mountains Echoed
by Khaled Hosseini
Hardcover: 21 May 2013
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| Khaled Hosseini has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations |
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Live by Night
by Dennis Lehane
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 14 May 2013
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| Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. |
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The Headmaster's Wager: A Novel
by Vincent Lam
Hardcover: Aug 2012
Paperback: 14 May 2013
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| A superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting debut novel about one man's loyalty to his country, his family and his heritage |
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My First Coup d'Etat: And Other True Stories from the Lost Decades of Africa
by John Mahama
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 14 May 2013
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| My First Coup d'Etat chronicles the coming-of-age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence "lost decades" of Africa. |
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The Laws of Gravity
by Liz Rosenberg
Hardcover: 7 May 2013
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| An exquisite tour de force, The Laws of Gravity is a testament to what it means to be a family, what it takes to save a life, and the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love. |
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Bring Up the Bodies: Wolf Hall Trilogy #2
by Hilary Mantel
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 7 May 2013
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| The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall, delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn. |
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City of Women: A Novel
by David R. Gillham
Hardcover: Aug 2012
Paperback: 7 May 2013
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| It is 1943 - the height of the Second World War - and Berlin has essentially become a city of women. In this page-turning novel, David Gillham explores what happens to ordinary people thrust into extraordinary times, and how the choices they make can be the difference between life and death. |
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Code Name Verity
by Elizabeth Wein
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 7 May 2013
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| Oct. 11th, 1943 - A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. |
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