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A Monster Calls : Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd
by Siobhan Dowd , Patrick Ness
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 12 Mar 2013
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An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor.

Life : An Exploded Diagram
by Mal Peet
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 26 Feb 2013
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Can love survive a lifetime? With its urgent sense of history, sweeping emotion, and winning young narrator, Mal Peet's latest is an unforgettable, timely exploration of life during wartime.

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.

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.

The Stranger's Child
by Alan Hollinghurst
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 7 Aug 2012
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A magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake : A Novel
by Jenny Wingfield
Hardcover: Jul 2011
Paperback: 10 Jul 2012
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With characters who spring to life as vividly as if they were members of one's own family, and with the clear-eyed wisdom that illuminates the most tragic - and triumphant - aspects of human nature, The Homecoming of Samuel Lake is a memorable and lasting work of fiction.

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Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today's globalized world.
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Karen Joy Fowler

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The story of an American family, middle class in middle America, ordinary in every way but one. But that exception is the beating heart of this extraordinary novel.
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