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How I Live Now How I Live Now
by Meg Rosoff
Hardcover: Aug 2004
Paperback: 31 Jul 2005
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'Rarely does a writer come up with a first novel so assured, so powerful and engaging that you can be pretty sure that you will want to read everything this author is capable of writing'.
Crossing California Crossing California
by Adam Langer
Hardcover: Jun 2004
Paperback: 3 May 2005
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Poignant, ambitious, and tremendously fun, Crossing California is a novel about two generations of family and friendship; set in Chicago, from November 1979 through January 1981.
You Remind Me Of Me You Remind Me Of Me
by Dan Chaon
Hardcover: May 2004
Paperback: 26 Apr 2005
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In language that is both unflinching and exquisite, Chaon moves deftly between the past and the present in the small-town prairie Midwest and shows us the extraordinary lives of "ordinary" people.
Girls In Trouble Girls In Trouble
by Caroline Leavitt
Hardcover: Jan 2004
Paperback: 1 Apr 2005
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Leavitt captures the longings of first love, the intense emotions of open adoption and the price of betrayal.
My Sister's Keeper My Sister's Keeper
by Jodi Picoult
Hardcover: Apr 2004
Paperback: 1 Feb 2005
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The emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.
The Privilege of Youth The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager's Story of Longing for Acceptance and Friendship
by Dave Pelzer
Hardcover: Jan 2004
Paperback: 30 Jan 2005
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The fourth volume in Pelzer's memoirs charts the crucial turning point in his life, from high school to a world beyond the four walls that were his prison for so many years- continuing the story that began with "A Child Called 'It'"
Sightseeing Sightseeing: Short Stories
by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Hardcover: Dec 2004
Paperback: 28 Jan 2005
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A glorious fiction debut written with exceptional acuity by an award-winning twenty-five-year-old Thai-American writer. Read a complete short story at BookBrowse.
The Fortress of Solitude The Fortress of Solitude
by Jonathan Lethem
Hardcover: Sep 2003
Paperback: 24 Aug 2004
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'A vibrant, sometimes heartbreaking ballad of Brooklyn...prose as supple as silk and as bright, explosive and illuminating as fireworks.'
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The Woman Upstairs
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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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Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism, and deep contradictions, at the heart of the Enlightenment.
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