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Sunset Park : A Novel
by Paul Auster
Hardcover: Nov 2010
Paperback: 25 Oct 2011
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Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force, Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse.

Bury Your Dead : A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, #6
by Louise Penny
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 2 Aug 2011
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It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable, even in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society.

Anthropology of an American Girl : A Novel
by Hilary Thayer Hamann
Hardcover: May 2010
Paperback: 14 Jun 2011
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A moving depiction of the transformative power of first love, Hamann's first novel follows Eveline Auerbach from her high school years in East Hampton, New York, in the 1970s through her early adulthood in the moneyed, high-pressured Manhattan of the 1980s.

Room : A Novel
by Emma Donoghue
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 18 May 2011
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To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world....

Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience - and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.

The Lonely Polygamist
by Brady Udall
Hardcover: May 2010
Paperback: 9 May 2011
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Beautifully written, keenly observed, and ultimately redemptive, The Lonely Polygamist is an unforgettable story of an American family—with its inevitable dysfunctionality, heartbreak, and comedy—pushed to its outer limits.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet : A Novel
by David Mitchell
Hardcover: Jun 2010
Paperback: 8 Mar 2011
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A magnificent mix of luminous writing, prodigious research, and heedless imagination, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is the most impressive achievement of its eminent author.

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