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To the End of the Land: A Novel
by David Grossman
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 16 Aug 2011
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| From one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life—the greatest human drama—and the cost of war. |
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Swamplandia!: A Novel
by Karen Russell
Hardcover: Feb 2011
Paperback: 26 Jul 2011
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| From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves comes a blazingly original debut novel that takes us back to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. |
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This Must Be the Place: A Novel
by Kate Racculia
Hardcover: Jul 2010
Paperback: 5 Jul 2011
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| A sudden death, a never-mailed postcard, and a long-buried secret set the stage for a luminous and heart-breakingly real novel about lost souls finding one another. |
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Long Story Short
by Siobhan Parkinson
Hardcover: 21 Jun 2011
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| From Ireland's first laureate for children's literature comes a story of abuse and neglect told with sincerity, heart, and a healthy dose of humor. |
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Room: A Novel
by Emma Donoghue
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 18 May 2011
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To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world....
Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience - and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. |
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Father of the Rain: A Novel
by Lily King
Hardcover: Jul 2010
Paperback: 10 May 2011
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| Award-winning author Lily King's Father of the Rain: spans three decades in a riveting psychological portrait of a wildly charismatic patriarch as seen through the eyes of his daughter. |
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What Becomes: Stories
by A.L. Kennedy
Hardcover: Apr 2010
Paperback: 5 Apr 2011
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| Powerful and funny, intimate and profound, the stories in What Becomes capture the spirit of our times with dark humor, poignant hopefulness, and brilliant evocation of contemporary social and spiritual malaise. |
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Solace of the Road
by Siobhan Dowd
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 5 Apr 2011
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| Memories of mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blond locks she feels transformed. She’s not Holly anymore, she’s Solace: the girl with the slinkster walk and the supersharp talk. |
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