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Something Red
by Douglas Nicholas
Hardcover: Sep 2012
Paperback: 18 Jun 2013
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| An intoxicating and spirited blend of fantasy, mythology, and history, Something Red features the most fascinating of characters, as well as an epic snowstorm that an early reader described as "one of the coldest scenes since Snow Falling on Cedars." |
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When She Woke: A Novel
by Hillary Jordan
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 18 Sep 2012
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| When She Woke is a fable about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, who embarks on a path of self-discovery that forces her to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes faith. |
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
by Jonas Jonasson
Paperback: 11 Sep 2012
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| A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka) decides it’s not too late to start over... |
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Telegraph Avenue
by Michael Chabon
Hardcover: Sep 2012
Paperback: 10 Sep 2013
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| Telegraph Avenue is the great American novel we've been waiting for. Generous, imaginative, funny, moving, thrilling, humane, triumphant, it is Michael Chabon's most dazzling book yet. |
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I Married You for Happiness
by Lily Tuck
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 11 Sep 2012
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| Slender, potent, and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet. |
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Fobbit
by David Abrams
Paperback: 4 Sep 2012
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| Darkly humorous and based on the author's own experiences in Iraq, Fobbit is a fantastic debut that shows us a behind-the-scenes portrait of the real Iraq war. |
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The Garden of Evening Mists
by Tan Twan Eng
Paperback: 4 Sep 2012
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| Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. |
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American Dervish: A Novel
by Ayad Akhtar
Hardcover: Jan 2012
Paperback: 4 Sep 2012
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| American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life. |
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