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Five Stories
by Simon Van Booy
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Published Sep 2012
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by Alice Munro
Published Nov 2010
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by Rivka Galchen
Published Apr 2009
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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
by Kevin Wilson
Published Apr 2009
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by Nicole Krauss
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsA long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
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