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Back to Blood
by Tom Wolfe
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 2 Jul 2013
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| Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous bestselling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times. |
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Swimming Home: A Novel
by Deborah Levy
Paperback: 16 Oct 2012
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| A subversively brilliant study of love, Swimming Home reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves. |
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Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories
by Sherman Alexie
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 8 Oct 2013
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| An indispensable collection of new and classic stories, Blasphemy reminds us, on every thrilling page, why Sherman Alexie is one of our greatest contemporary writers and a true master of the short story. |
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Luminous Airplanes: A Novel
by Paul LaFarge
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 2 Oct 2012
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| A decade after the publication of Haussmann, or the Distinction, his acclaimed novel about nineteenth-century Paris, Paul La Farge turns his imagination to America at the dawn of the twenty-first century. |
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
by Jonas Jonasson
Paperback: 11 Sep 2012
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| A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka) decides it’s not too late to start over... |
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Fobbit
by David Abrams
Paperback: 4 Sep 2012
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| Darkly humorous and based on the author's own experiences in Iraq, Fobbit is a fantastic debut that shows us a behind-the-scenes portrait of the real Iraq war. |
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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
by Simon Garfield
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 4 Sep 2012
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| A hugely entertaining and revealing guide to the history of type that asks, What does your favorite font say about you? |
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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 |
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