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Search results: The best new books - The best recent hardcover books, each with an excerpt, reviews, author information and more.
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Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp
by Helga Weiss
Hardcover: 22 Apr 2013
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| The remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaust—appearing in English for the first time. |
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Hour of the Red God: A Detective Mollel Novel
by Richard Crompton
Hardcover: 16 Apr 2013
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| The Maasai believe in two gods. Enkai Narok, the Black God, is benign. Enkai Nanyokie, the Red God, is the god of anger, vengeance, and death. |
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Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism
by Elizabeth Becker
Hardcover: 16 Apr 2013
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| Elizabeth Becker investigates global travel industry practices in an eye-opening examination of this $6.5 trillion phenomenon. |
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Amity & Sorrow
by Peggy Riley
Hardcover: 16 Apr 2013
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| Amity & Sorrow is a story about God, sex, and farming. It's an unforgettable journey into the horrors a true believer can inflict upon his family, and what it is like to live when the end of the world doesn't come. |
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How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and his Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
by Wendy Moore
Hardcover: 9 Apr 2013
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| Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism, and deep contradictions, at the heart of the Enlightenment. |
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The Interestings
by Meg Wolitzer
Hardcover: 9 Apr 2013
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| The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life. |
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American Dream Machine
by Matthew Specktor
Hardcover: 9 Apr 2013
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| American Dream Machine is the story of two talent agents and their three troubled boys, heirs to Hollywood royalty. It's a sweeping narrative about fathers and sons, the movie business, and the sundry sea changes that have shaped Hollywood and, by extension, American life |
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The House at the End of Hope Street
by Menna van Praag
Hardcover: 4 Apr 2013
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| Filled with a colorful and unforgettable cast of literary figures, The House at the End of Hope Street is a charming, whimsical novel of hope and feminine wisdom. |
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