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The Likeness : A Novel
by Tana French
Hardcover: Jul 2008
Paperback: 26 May 2009
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The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestselling psychological thriller In the Woods.

Atmospheric Disturbances : A Novel
by Rivka Galchen
Hardcover: May 2008
Paperback: 28 Apr 2009
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Atmospheric Disturbances is at once a moving love story, a dark comedy, a psychological thriller, and a deeply disturbing portrait of a fracturing mind.

Ghostwalk
by Rebecca Stott
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 3 Jun 2008
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Filled with evocative descriptions of Cambridge, past and present, of seventeenth-century glassmaking, alchemy, the Great Plague, and Newton’s scientific innovations, Ghostwalk centers around a real historical mystery that Rebecca Stott has uncovered involving Newton’s alchemy.

The Savage Garden
by Mark Mills
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 6 May 2008
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The story of two murders, four hundred years apart - and the ties that bind them together.

Origin : A Novel
by Diana Abu-Jaber
Hardcover: Jun 2007
Paperback: 5 May 2008
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A fingerprint expert's investigation of a series of crib deaths leads her back to the mystery of her own childhood.

Delirium : A Novel
by Laura Restrepo
Hardcover: Apr 2007
Paperback: 11 Mar 2008
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Aguilar, an unemployed literature professor who has resorted to selling dog food for a living, returns home from a short trip to discover that his wife, Agustina, has gone mad. He doesn’t know what has happened during his absence, and in his search for answers, he gradually unearths profound and shadowy secrets about her past.

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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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