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The Woman Upstairs
by Claire Messud
Hardcover: 30 Apr 2013
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| The riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and betrayed by passion and desire for a world beyond her own. |
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The Yellow Birds: A Novel
by Kevin Powers
Hardcover: Sep 2012
Paperback: 30 Apr 2013
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| With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic. |
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Gold
by Chris Cleave
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 30 Apr 2013
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| Building on the tradition of Little Bee, Chris Cleave again writes with elegance, humor, and passion about friendship, marriage, parenthood, tragedy, and redemption. |
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The Lola Quartet
by Emily St. John Mandel
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 30 Apr 2013
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| The Lola Quartet is a work that pays homage to literary noir, is concerned with jazz, Django Reinhardt, economic collapse, love, Florida's exotic wildlife problem, crushing tropical heat, the leavening of the contemporary world, compulsive gambling, and the unreliability of memory. |
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Amity & Sorrow
by Peggy Riley
Hardcover: Apr 2013
Paperback: 11 Feb 2014
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| Amity & Sorrow is a story about God, sex, and farming. It's an unforgettable journey into the horrors a true believer can inflict upon his family, and what it is like to live when the end of the world doesn't come. |
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The Sandcastle Girls: A Novel
by Chris Bohjalian
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 16 Apr 2013
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| The Sandcastle Girls is a sweeping historical love story steeped in Chris Bohjalian's Armenian heritage. |
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The Coldest Night: A Novel of Love and War
by Robert Olmstead
Hardcover: Apr 2012
Paperback: 16 Apr 2013
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| Olmstead reveals an unspoken truth about combat: That for many men, the experience of war is the most enlivening, electric, and extraordinary experience of their lives. |
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The Interestings
by Meg Wolitzer
Hardcover: 9 Apr 2013
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| The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life. |
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