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Search results: The best new books - The best recent hardcover books, each with an excerpt, reviews, author information and more.
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A Good American: A Novel
by Alex George
Hardcover: 7 Feb 2012
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| An uplifting novel about the families we create and the places we call home. |
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No Mark Upon Her: A Novel
by Deborah Crombie
Hardcover: 7 Feb 2012
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| New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie makes her mark with this absorbing, finely hued tale of suspense—a deeply atmospheric and twisting mystery full of deadly secrets, salacious lies, and unexpected betrayals involving the mysterious drowning of a Met detective—an accomplished rower—on the Thames. |
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No Cheating, No Dying: I Had a Good Marriage. Then I Tried To Make It Better
by Elizabeth Weil
Hardcover: 7 Feb 2012
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| Written with charm and wit, No Cheating, No Dying investigates one of the most universal human institutions--marriage. Elizabeth Weil and her husband Dan have two basic ground rules for their marriage: no cheating, no dying. For ten years it’s worked fine, but Elizabeth started to wonder if it could be better. |
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Drifting House
by Krys Lee
Hardcover: 2 Feb 2012
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| An unflinching portrayal of the Korean immigrant experience from an extraordinary new talent in fiction. |
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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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The Snow Child: A Novel
by Eowyn Ivey
Hardcover: 1 Feb 2012
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| Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart. In a moment of levity they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. |
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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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