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A Good American: A Novel
by Alex George
Hardcover: 7 Feb 2012
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| An uplifting novel about the families we create and the places we call home. |
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Vaclav & Lena: A Novel
by Haley Tanner
Hardcover: May 2011
Paperback: 7 Feb 2012
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| In Vaclav & Lena Haley Tanner has created two unforgettable young protagonists who evoke the joy, the confusion, and the passion of having a profound, everlasting connection with someone else. |
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No One is Here Except All of Us: A Novel
by Ramona Ausubel
Hardcover: 2 Feb 2012
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| A beguiling, imaginative, inspiring story about the bigness of being alive as an individual, as a member of a tribe, and as a participant in history, exploring how we use storytelling to survive and shape our own truths. |
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The Snow Child: A Novel
by Eowyn Ivey
Hardcover: 1 Feb 2012
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| Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart. In a moment of levity they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. |
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Three Weeks in December
by Audrey Schulman
Paperback: 31 Jan 2012
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| Evoking both Barbara Kingsolver and Andrea Barrett, this enthralling fiction, wise and generous, explores some of the crucial social and cultural challenges that, over the years, have come to shape our world. |
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Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
by A.S. Byatt
Hardcover: 31 Jan 2012
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| War, natural disaster, reckless gods and the recognition of impermanence in the world are just some of the threads that AS Byatt weaves into this most timely of books. Linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant, this is a landmark. |
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Home Front
by Kristin Hannah
Hardcover: 31 Jan 2012
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| Bestselling author Kristin Hannah explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband and wife, in love and at war. |
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Running the Rift: A Novel
by Naomi Benaron
Hardcover: 17 Jan 2012
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| Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. |
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