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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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The Malice of Fortune
by Michael Ennis
Hardcover: Sep 2012
Paperback: 4 Jun 2013
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| Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince. |
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Flight Behavior
by Barbara Kingsolver
Hardcover: Nov 2012
Paperback: 4 Jun 2013
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| Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world. |
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The Forgiven: A Novel
by Lawrence Osborne
Hardcover: Sep 2012
Paperback: 4 Jun 2013
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| In this stylish, haunting novel, journalist and novelist Lawrence Osborne explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of Moroccan Muslims and Western visitors who converge on a luxurious desert villa for a decadent weekend-long party. |
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In the Shadow of the Banyan: A Novel
by Vaddey Ratner
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 4 Jun 2013
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| Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyan is testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience. |
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Enchanted
by Alethea Kontis
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 28 May 2013
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| It isn't easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday's only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true... |
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
by Emily M. Danforth
Hardcover: Feb 2012
Paperback: 28 May 2013
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| The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a stunning and unforgettable literary debut about discovering who you are and finding the courage to live life according to your own rules. |
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The Art Forger
by B A. Shapiro
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 21 May 2013
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| On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there's more to this crime than meets the eye. |
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Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories
by Lucia Perillo
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 20 May 2013
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| Set in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, Lucia Perillo's story collection is a sharp-edged, witty testament to the ambivalence of emotions, the way they pull in directions that often cancel one another out or twist their subjects into knots. |
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