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Killed at the Whim of a Hat: A Jimm Juree Mystery, #1
by Colin Cotterill
Hardcover: Jul 2011
Paperback: 22 May 2012
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| Set in present day rural Thailand, Cotterill launch of a brand new series which is as sharp and witty, yet more engaging and charming, than ever before. |
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Orientation: And Other Stories
by Daniel Orozco
Hardcover: May 2011
Paperback: 22 May 2012
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| Orientation introduces a writer at the height of his powers, whose work surely invites us to reassess the landscape of American fiction. |
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No Biking in the House Without a Helmet
by Melissa Fay Greene
Hardcover: Apr 2011
Paperback: 24 Apr 2012
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| A loving portrait of a unique twenty first-century family with nine children as it wobbles between disaster and joy: "We so loved raising our four children by birth, we didn't want to stop. When the clock started to run down on the home team, we brought in ringers." |
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The Family Fang: A Novel
by Kevin Wilson
Hardcover: Aug 2011
Paperback: 17 Apr 2012
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| Meet The Family Fang, an unforgettable collection of demanding, brilliant, and absolutely endearing oddballs whose lives are risky and mischievous performance art. |
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As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth
by Lynne Rae Perkins
Hardcover: May 2010
Paperback: 10 Apr 2012
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Train. Car. Plane. Boat. Feet.
He'll get there.
Won't he? |
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The Great Northern Express: A Writer's Journey Home
by Howard F. Mosher
Hardcover: 6 Mar 2012
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| From bestselling, nationally celebrated author Howard Frank Mosher, a wildly funny and deeply personal account of his three-month, 20,000-mile sojourn to discover what he loved enough to live for. |
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The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by Kim Barker
Hardcover: Mar 2011
Paperback: 6 Mar 2012
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| A true-life Catch-22 set in the deeply dysfunctional countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, by one of the region's longest-serving correspondents. |
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Zone One: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
Hardcover: 18 Oct 2011
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| Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One brilliantly subverts the genre's conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century. |
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