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Canada
by Richard Ford
Hardcover: 22 May 2012
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| A true masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision from one of our greatest writers, Canada is a profound novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost and reconciled, and the mysterious and consoling bonds of family. |
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I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
by Steve Earle
Hardcover: May 2011
Paperback: 22 May 2012
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| A brilliant excavation of an obscure piece of music history, Steve Earle's I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is a ballad of regret and redemption, and of the ways in which we remake ourselves and our world through the smallest of miracles. |
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Next to Love
by Ellen Feldman
Hardcover: Jul 2011
Paperback: 15 May 2012
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| Beautifully crafted and unforgettable, Next to Love depicts the enduring power of love and friendship, and illuminates a transformational moment in American history. |
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The Lola Quartet
by Emily St. John Mandel
Hardcover: 8 May 2012
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| The Lola Quartet is a work that pays homage to literary noir, is concerned with jazz, Django Reinhardt, economic collapse, love, Florida's exotic wildlife problem, crushing tropical heat, the leavening of the contemporary world, compulsive gambling, and the unreliability of memory. |
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Home
by Toni Morrison
Hardcover: 8 May 2012
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| A taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war. |
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Luminarium: A Novel
by Alex Shakar
Hardcover: Aug 2011
Paperback: 8 May 2012
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| Do you feel... Your life is without purpose? Your days are without meaning? There's something about existence you're just not getting? |
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All Woman and Springtime: A Novel
by Brandon W. Jones
Hardcover: 1 May 2012
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| This spellbinding debut, reminiscent of Memoirs of a Geisha, depicts, with chilling accuracy, life behind North Korea's iron curtain. |
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The Newlyweds: A Novel
by Nell Freudenberger
Hardcover: 1 May 2012
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| A powerful, funny, richly observed tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed young writers: a story of love and marriage, secrets and betrayals. |
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