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This Is Where I Leave You
by Jonathan Tropper
Hardcover: Aug 2009
Paperback: 6 Jul 2010
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| A riotously funny, emotionally raw novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bind—whether we like it or not. |
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K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist
by Peter Carlson
Hardcover: Jun 2009
Paperback: 6 Jul 2010
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| This hilarious account of Khrushchev's 1959 U.S. tour is also a supremely entertaining evocation of the history and atmosphere of Cold War America |
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Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled - and Knuckleheaded - Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
by Mark Obmascik
Hardcover: May 2009
Paperback: 11 May 2010
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| When Mark Obmascik's twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug, he can't resist the opportunity for some father-son bonding. But after their first joint climb, Obmascik decides to scale all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains - and to do them in less than one year. |
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The Willoughbys
by Lois Lowry
Hardcover: Mar 2008
Paperback: 23 Mar 2010
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
by Elif Batuman
Paperback: 16 Feb 2010
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| The true but unlikely stories of lives devoted — Absurdly! Melancholically! Beautifully! — to the Russian classics. |
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The Bad Book Affair: A Mobile Library Mystery
by Ian Sansom
Paperback: 1 Jan 2010
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| Israel Armstrong - the hapless librarian who solves crimes and domestic problems whilst driving a mobile library around the north coast of Ireland - suspects a teenage girl's disappearance has something to do with his lending her American Pastoral from the library's special "Unshelved" category. Now he has to find the lost teen before he's run out of town. |
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 29 Sep 2009
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| The runaway French bestseller hailed by the New York Times as “a survivor’s guide to life in the chattering classes.” |
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Beat the Reaper: A Novel
by Josh Bazell
Hardcover: Jan 2009
Paperback: 14 Sep 2009
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Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital; Pietro "Bearclaw" Brwna is a hitman for the mob.
And Nicholas LoBrutto, Dr. Brown's new patient who has three months to live, has a very strange idea: that Peter Brown and Pietro Brwna might - just might - be the same person ... |
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