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When She Woke : A Novel
by Hillary Jordan
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 18 Sep 2012
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When She Woke is a fable about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, who embarks on a path of self-discovery that forces her to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes faith.

Telegraph Avenue
by Michael Chabon
Hardcover: Sep 2012
Paperback: 10 Sep 2013
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Telegraph Avenue is the great American novel we've been waiting for. Generous, imaginative, funny, moving, thrilling, humane, triumphant, it is Michael Chabon's most dazzling book yet.

I Married You for Happiness
by Lily Tuck
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 11 Sep 2012
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Slender, potent, and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet.

American Dervish : A Novel
by Ayad Akhtar
Hardcover: Jan 2012
Paperback: 4 Sep 2012
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American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.

The Marriage Plot : A Novel
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 4 Sep 2012
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With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the Novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own lives.

Raising Wrecker : A Novel
by Summer Wood
Hardcover: Feb 2011
Paperback: 4 Sep 2012
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Elegant, warm-hearted and utterly unsentimental, Wrecker is a stunning and deeply moving novel about motherhood and mistakes, survival and hope. (Published as Wrecker in hardcover)

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The Woman Upstairs
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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