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  • Lily and the Octopus
    Lily and the Octopus
    Steven Rowley
    Paperback: 05/30/2017
     
    Combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life of Pi, Lily...
  • The Portable Veblen
    The Portable Veblen: A Novel
    Elizabeth McKenzie
    Paperback: 11/01/2016
     
    An exuberant, one-of-a-kind novel about love and family, war and nature, new money and old values by a ...
  • A Man of His Own
    A Man of His Own
    Susan Wilson
    Paperback: 01/27/2015
     
    Three broken souls, and one dog: Pax. All three of them need healing. All three of them are lost. And in Susan...
  • We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
    We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
    Karen Joy Fowler
    Paperback: 02/25/2014
     
    The story of an American family, middle class in middle America, ordinary in every way but one. But that ...
  • Magnificence
    Magnificence
    Lydia Millet
    Paperback: 11/11/2013
     
    Funny and heartbreaking, Magnificence is the story of a woman emerging from the sudden dissolution of her ...
  • Birds of a Lesser Paradise
    Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
    Megan Mayhew Bergman
    Paperback: 11/06/2012
     
    A heartwarming and hugely appealing debut collection that explores the way our choices and...
  • The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe
    The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe
    Andrew O'Hagan
    Paperback: 08/04/2011
     
    In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Mafia Honey, or Maf for short. ...

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