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What Is Left the Daughter: A Novel
by Howard Norman
Hardcover: Jul 2010
Paperback: 3 May 2011
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| Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents commit suicide, causing him to move to a small-town, and setting in motion the novel's chain of life-altering passions, including the fathering of a beloved daughter. |
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Solar
by Ian McEwan
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: 8 Mar 2011
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| Michael Beard is a Nobel prize–winning physicist whose best work is behind him, and whose fifth marriage is crumbling. However, an invitation to travel to New Mexico offers him a chance for him to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and save the world from environmental disaster. Can a man who has made a mess of his life clean up the messes of humanity? |
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The Ask: A Novel
by Sam Lipsyte
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: 1 Mar 2011
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| Probing many themes—or, perhaps, anxieties—including work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row, and the eroticization of chicken wire, The Ask is a burst of genius by a young American master who has already demonstrated that the truly provocative and important fictions are often the funniest ones. |
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Shades of Grey
by Jasper Fforde
Hardcover: Dec 2009
Paperback: 1 Mar 2011
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| An astonishing, hotly anticipated new novel from the great literary fantasist and creator of Thursday Next, Jasper Fforde: Part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, Shades of Grey tells of a battle against overwhelming odds. |
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Mr. Chartwell: A Novel
by Rebecca Hunt
Hardcover: 8 Feb 2011
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| In this utterly original, moving, funny, and exuberant novel about Mr. Chartwell, a upright walking, talking black dog, an eminent statesman at the end of his career, and the vulnerable young woman. |
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Miracles, Inc.: A Novel
by T. J. Forrester
Paperback: 1 Feb 2011
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| Vernon L. Oliver, still a young man, is waiting for the death penalty. When his attorney suggests he write an autobiography to generate funds to cover legal fees incurred during the appeals process, Vernon sits down to pencil and paper and begins his narrative. |
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The Finkler Question
by Howard Jacobson
Paperback: 12 Oct 2010
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| The Finkler Question is a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best. |
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Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel
by Gary Shteyngart
Hardcover: Jul 2010
Paperback: 27 Jul 2010
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| A hilarious and heartfelt new novel, a deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink. |
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