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Then We Came to the End: A Novel
by Joshua Ferris
Hardcover: Mar 2007
Paperback: 26 Feb 2008
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| The characters in Then We Came To The End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. |
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The Dead Fathers Club
by Matt Haig
Hardcover: Feb 2007
Paperback: 18 Dec 2007
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| A ghost story with a twist—a suspenseful and poignantly funny update of the Hamlet story. |
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The Book of Dave: A Novel
by Will Self
Hardcover: Nov 2006
Paperback: 7 Nov 2007
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| London cabdriver Dave Rudman’s wife deserts him for another man taking their only son with her. Fearing his son will never know him, Dave writes him a book containing his experience and thoughts - and then buries it, intending it for him when he comes of age. Five hundred years later, the Book of Dave is discovered, where it becomes a sacred text of biblical proportions. |
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
by Bill Bryson
Hardcover: Oct 2006
Paperback: 25 Sep 2007
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| A vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of
growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last
century. A book that delivers on the promise that it is "laugh-out-loud funny". |
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Wizard of the Crow: A Novel
by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Hardcover: Aug 2006
Paperback: 28 Aug 2007
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| From the exiled Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic--a magisterial comic novel that is certain to take its place as a landmark of postcolonial African literature. |
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Cockeyed: A Memoir
by Ryan Knighton
Hardcover: May 2006
Paperback: 30 Jun 2007
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| This irreverent, tragicomic, politically incorrect, astoundingly articulate memoir about going blind – and growing up. |
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Twelve Sharp
by Janet Evanovich
Hardcover: Jun 2006
Paperback: 19 Jun 2007
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| Bounty hunter Stepahie Plum is once again struggling with her tangled love life, her chaotic family, and her gift for destroying every car she drives. Not to mention her attempts to bring in the sometimes scary bail jumpers of Trenton, and the sudden appearance of a mysterious female stalker. |
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl
Hardcover: Aug 2006
Paperback: 24 Apr 2007
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| A darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. |
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