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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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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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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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Defending Jacob: A Novel
by William Landay
Hardcover: 31 Jan 2012
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| Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis - a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control. |
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain
Hardcover: 24 Jan 2012
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| An extraordinary book with the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves. |
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The Quality of Mercy: A Novel
by Barry Unsworth
Hardcover: 10 Jan 2012
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| Spring of 1767: Erasmus Kemp has brought back fugitive settlers from America, among them Sullivan, an Irish fiddler....The Quality of Mercy is rich and rewarding historical fiction of the highest order from the master, Barry Unsworth. |
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The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel
by Adam Johnson
Hardcover: 10 Jan 2012
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| An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master's Son follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. |
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The Outlaw Album: Stories
by Daniel Woodrell
Hardcover: 5 Oct 2011
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| Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original" (Associated Press) American master. |
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