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  • Augustown
    Augustown
    by Kei Miller
    Hardcover: May 2017
    Paperback: May 2018
     
    In the wake of Marlon James's Man Booker Prize–winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Augustown - set in the backlands of Jamaica - is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, ...
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  • The Austen Affair
    The Austen Affair : A Novel
    by Madeline Bell
    Paperback: Sep 2025
     
    Two feuding co-stars in a Jane Austen film adaptation accidentally travel back in time to the Regency Era in this delightfully clever and riotously funny debut.
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  • The Austere Academy
    The Austere Academy : Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5
    by Lemony Snicket
    Hardcover: Aug 2000
    Paperback: Apr 2008
     
    Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are at first optimistic--attending school is a welcome change for the book-loving trio, and the academy is allegedly safe from the dreaded Count Olaf, who is after their fortune.
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  • Austerlitz
    Austerlitz
    by W.G. Sebald
    Hardcover: Oct 2001
    Paperback: Sep 2002
     
    Embodies the universal human search for identity, the struggle to impose coherence on memory, a struggle complicated by the mind’s defenses against trauma.
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  • Autobiography of a Face
    Autobiography of a Face
    by Lucy Grealy
    Hardcover: Sep 1994
    Paperback: Mar 2003
     
    'Despite its unblinking stare at an excruciatingly painful subject, this is not a dour book. Autobiography of a Face is a book about image, about the tyranny of the image of a beautiful - or even pleasingly average - face. In the end, this ...
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  • The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
    The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb : A Novel
    by Melanie Benjamin
    Hardcover: Jul 2011
    Paperback: Apr 2012
     
    A barnstorming novel of the Gilded Age, and of a woman's public triumphs and personal tragedies, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb is the irresistible epic of a heroine who conquered the country with a heart as big as her dreams - and whose story ...
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  • Ava's Man
    Ava's Man
    by Rick Bragg
    Hardcover: Aug 2001
    Paperback: Aug 2002
     
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All Over but the Shoutin’ continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother’s childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent ...
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  • The Avengers
    The Avengers : A Jewish War Story
    by Rich Cohen
    Hardcover: Oct 2000
    Paperback: Oct 2001
     
    The true story of a band of Jewish guerrillas, called the Avengers, in World War II. What happened to these rebels in the ghetto and in the forest, and how, fighting for the State of Israel, they moved beyond the violence of the Holocaust and made ...
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