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Wish You Were Here
by Graham Swift
Hardcover: Apr 2012
Paperback: 8 Jan 2013
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A hauntingly intimate, deeply compassionate story about things that touch and test our human core, Wish You Were Here also looks, inevitably, to a wider, afflicted world. Moving toward a fiercely suspenseful climax, it brilliantly transforms the stuff of headlines into heart-wrenching personal truth.

A Possible Life : A Novel in Five Parts
by Sebastian Faulks
Hardcover: Dec 2012
Paperback: 26 Nov 2013
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From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war—five transporting stories and five unforgettable lives, linked across centuries.

The Undertow : A Novel
by Jo Baker
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 11 Dec 2012
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The American debut of an enthralling new voice: a vivid, indelibly told work of fiction that follows four generations of a family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century - a novel about inheritance, about fate and passion, and about what it means to truly break free of the past.

The Paris Wife : A Novel
by Paula McLain
Hardcover: Feb 2011
Paperback: 27 Nov 2012
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A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.

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.

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Khaled Hosseini has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations
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The remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaust—appearing in English for the first time.
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