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The Snow Child: A Novel
by Eowyn Ivey
Hardcover: Feb 2012
Paperback: 6 Nov 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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Magnificence
by Lydia Millet
Hardcover: Nov 2012
Paperback: 11 Nov 2013
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| Funny and heartbreaking, Magnificence is the story of a woman emerging from the sudden dissolution of her family. |
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Back to Blood
by Tom Wolfe
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 2 Jul 2013
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| Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous bestselling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times. |
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Swimming Home: A Novel
by Deborah Levy
Paperback: 16 Oct 2012
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| A subversively brilliant study of love, Swimming Home reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves. |
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Running the Rift: A Novel
by Naomi Benaron
Hardcover: Jan 2012
Paperback: 16 Oct 2012
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| Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. |
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The Story of My Assassins
by Tarun J. Tejpal
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 6 Aug 2013
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| Part thriller and part erotic romance, full of dark humor and knife-edged suspense, The Story of My Assassins is an awesome adventure into the heart of today's India. |
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The Round House: A Novel
by Louise Erdrich
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 24 Sep 2013
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| An exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. |
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Luminous Airplanes: A Novel
by Paul LaFarge
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 2 Oct 2012
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| A decade after the publication of Haussmann, or the Distinction, his acclaimed novel about nineteenth-century Paris, Paul La Farge turns his imagination to America at the dawn of the twenty-first century. |
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