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Wolf Hall Wolf Hall: A Novel
by Hilary Mantel
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 1 Sep 2010
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In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power.
Leviathan Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 10 Aug 2010
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It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. The Leviathan is a living airship, the most formidable airbeast in the skies of Europe.
Brodeck Brodeck: A Novel
by Phillipe Claudel
Hardcover: Jun 2009
Paperback: 13 Jul 2010
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Set in an unnamed time and place, Brodeck blends the familiar and unfamiliar, myth and history into a work of extraordinary power and resonance. Readers of J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Kafka will be captivated by Brodeck.
Doghead Doghead: A Novel
by Morten Ramsland
Hardcover: Feb 2009
Paperback: 6 Jul 2010
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From a fiercely funny Danish John Irving, a bighearted, epic story of mad dogs, naughty boys, strange relatives, and family secrets.
Abigail Adams Abigail Adams
by Woody Holton
Hardcover: Nov 2009
Paperback: 1 Jun 2010
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Winner of BookBrowse's 2009 Nonfiction Book Award. In this vivid new biography of Abigail Adams, the most illustrious woman of America's founding era, prize-winning historian Woody Holton offers a sweeping reinterpretation of Adams's life story and of women's roles in the creation of the republic.
The Magicians The Magicians: A Novel
by Lev Grossman
Hardcover: Aug 2009
Paperback: 25 May 2010
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A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel for adults about a young man practicing magic in the real world.
Far Bright Star Far Bright Star
by Robert Olmstead
Hardcover: May 2009
Paperback: 25 May 2010
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Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, leads an expedition of inexperienced soldiers into the mountains of Mexico to hunt down Pancho Villa. But things go terribly wrong; his troop is brutally attacked, and Napoleon, left by his captors to die in the desert, reflects on his past as he struggles to survive.
Big Machine Big Machine: A Novel
by Victor LaValle
Hardcover: Aug 2009
Paperback: 9 Mar 2010
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A fiendishly imaginative comic novel about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us.
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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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