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The Light Between Oceans: A Novel
by Margot L. Stedman
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 2 Apr 2013
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| A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel that opens in 1918 Australia - the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds. |
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Ordinary Grace
by William Kent Krueger
Hardcover: 26 Mar 2013
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| Told from Frank's perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. |
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The Dream Merchant
by Fred Waitzkin
Hardcover: 26 Mar 2013
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| A powerful, sexy, and exquisitely written heart-of-darkness tale of an unusually gifted, irrepressible and indefatigable salesman who must find redemption in his old age |
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A Map of Tulsa: A Novel
by Benjamin Lytal
Paperback: 26 Mar 2013
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| A stunning debut novel of first love set against the art scene of late-90s Tulsa by a former New Yorker editorial staffer |
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The Burgess Boys
by Elizabeth Strout
Hardcover: 26 Mar 2013
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| Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout's "magnificent gift for humanizing characters." Now the acclaimed author returns with a stunning novel as powerful and moving as any work in contemporary literature. |
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel
by Rachel Joyce
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 26 Mar 2013
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| A novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we all bury deep within our hearts, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry introduces Rachel Joyce as a wise - and utterly irresistible - storyteller. |
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Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
by A.S. Byatt
Hardcover: Jan 2012
Paperback: 26 Mar 2013
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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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The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
by Kristopher Jansma
Hardcover: 21 Mar 2013
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| An inventive and witty debut about a young man's quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe |
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