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When She Woke 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.
Pym Pym: A Novel
by Mat Johnson
Hardcover: Mar 2011
Paperback: 4 Sep 2012
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A comic journey into the ultimate land of whiteness by an unlikely band of African American adventurers
Zone One Zone One: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 10 Jul 2012
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Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One brilliantly subverts the genre's conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century.
The Map of Time The Map of Time: A Novel
by Felix J. Palma
Hardcover: Jun 2011
Paperback: 5 Jun 2012
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A skeptical H. G. Wells investigates time-travel mysteries including an aristocrat's love affair with a murdered prostitute from the past, a Victorian woman's escape to the future, and a plot to murder celebrated authors to steal their written works.
Embassytown Embassytown
by China Mieville
Hardcover: May 2011
Paperback: 31 Jan 2012
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With Embassytown Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war.
Home Fires Home Fires
by Gene Wolfe
Hardcover: Jan 2011
Paperback: 17 Jan 2012
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Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange.
Prospero Regained Prospero Regained: Book 3
by L. Jagi Lamplighter
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 17 Dec 2013
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Prospero, the sorcerer on whose island of exile William Shakespeare set his play, The Tempest, has been captured and imprisoned in Hell, and time is running out for his daughter Miranda and for the great magician himself.
The Passage The Passage
by Justin Cronin
Hardcover: Jun 2010
Paperback: 17 May 2011
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First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered.
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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today's globalized world.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler

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The story of an American family, middle class in middle America, ordinary in every way but one. But that exception is the beating heart of this extraordinary novel.
TransAtlantic
Colum McCann

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The most mature work yet from an incomparable storyteller, TransAtlantic is a profound meditation on identity and history in a wide world that grows somehow smaller and more wondrous with...
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