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A Novel
by Richard Flanagan
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by Tim Winton
Published May 2009
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by Joseph Weisberg
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsA former CIA case officers novel about two embattled spies who go to extraordinary lengths to keep their informants out of harms way, published as vetted by the agency itself.
by Nathan Englander
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsIn the heart of Argentinas Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan struggles with a son who wont accept him; strives for a wife who forever saves him; and spends his nights protecting the good name of a community that denies his existence--and denies a checkered history that only Kaddish holds dear.
by John Updike
Published May 2007
Read ReviewsDeserted by his father when he was three, Ahmad turned to Islam at the age of eleven. He feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in New Jersey. Nobody succeeds in diverting the boy from what his religion calls the Straight Path; when he finds employment in a furniture store owned by a family of ...
by Chris Cleave
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsA distraught woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden after her four-year-old son and her husband are killed in a massive suicide bomb attack at a soccer match in London in this stunning first novel.
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