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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 29 Sep 2009
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The runaway French bestseller hailed by the New York Times as “a survivor’s guide to life in the chattering classes.”
Beat the Reaper Beat the Reaper : A Novel
by Josh Bazell
Hardcover: Jan 2009
Paperback: 14 Sep 2009
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Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital; Pietro "Bearclaw" Brwna is a hitman for the mob.

And Nicholas LoBrutto, Dr. Brown's new patient who has three months to live, has a very strange idea: that Peter Brown and Pietro Brwna might - just might - be the same person ...
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa A Guide to the Birds of East Africa : A Novel
by Nicholas Drayson
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 10 Sep 2009
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A beguiling novel that does for contemporary Kenya and its 1,000 species of birds what Alexander McCall Smith’s Ladies Detective series does for Botswana
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
by E Lockhart
Hardcover: Mar 2008
Paperback: 25 Aug 2009
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Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16: No longer the kind of girl to take "no" for an answer and possibly a criminal mastermind. This is the story of how she got that way.
This Is Where I Leave You This Is Where I Leave You
by Jonathan Tropper
Hardcover: 6 Aug 2009
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A riotously funny, emotionally raw novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bind—whether we like it or not.
Curse of the Pogo Stick Curse of the Pogo Stick
by Colin Cotterill
Hardcover: Jul 2008
Paperback: 1 Aug 2009
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In the engaging fifth entry in Cotterill's unusual crime series set in 1970s Laos, A Pogo Stick Brings a Curse Down upon a Hmong Village.
Play Dead Play Dead
by David Rosenfelt
Hardcover: May 2007
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Attorney Andy Carpenter loves dogs, especially his own beloved Tara. When Andy discovers that this gentle dog is a key witness to a murder, it will take all the tricks he knows to convince a jury to take canine testimony seriously.
K Blows Top K Blows Top : A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist
by Peter Carlson
Hardcover: Jun 2009
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This hilarious account of Khrushchev's 1959 U.S. tour is also a supremely entertaining evocation of the history and atmosphere of Cold War America
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