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   This Week's Featured Reading Guides
Book Jacket The Gods of Gotham
by Lyndsay Faye

Paperback (March 2013)
1845. New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two seemingly disparate events will change...
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Book Jacket Forgotten Country
by Catherine Chung

Paperback (March 2013)
Weaving Korean folklore within a modern narrative of immigration and identity, Forgotten Country is a fierce exploration of the...
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Book Jacket Philida
by André Brink

Paperback (February 2013)
In Philida, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, André Brink—"one of South Africa's greatest novelists" (The...
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Book Jacket Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn

Hardback (June 2012)
Marriage can be a real killer. Gillian Flynn, takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage...
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Claire Messud

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The riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and betrayed by passion and desire for a world beyond her own.
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Wendy Moore

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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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Erica Brown

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A wise and affirming meditation on living fully and preparing for death, written by a highly regarded spiritual teacher.
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