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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
: A Novel
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Maria Semple
Hardcover: Dec 2012
Paperback: 2 Apr 2013
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A compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world. |
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The Light Between Oceans
: A Novel
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Margot L.
Stedman
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 2 Apr 2013
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A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel that opens in 1918 Australia - the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds. |
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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Jeanette Winterson
Hardcover: Mar 2012
Paperback: 12 Mar 2013
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Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother. |
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A Monster Calls
: Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd
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Siobhan Dowd
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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. |
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Forgotten Country
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Catherine Chung
Hardcover: Mar 2012
Paperback: 5 Mar 2013
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Weaving Korean folklore within a modern narrative of immigration and identity, Forgotten Country is a fierce exploration of the inevitability of loss, the conflict between obligation and freedom, and a family struggling to find its way out of silence and back to one another. |
Defending Jacob
: A Novel
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William Landay
Hardcover: Jan 2012
Paperback: 26 Feb 2013
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Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis - a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control. |
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