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  • The Namesake
    The Namesake
    by Jhumpa Lahiri
    Hardcover: Sep 2003
    Paperback: Sep 2004
     
    Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection, The Interpreter of Maladies, an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations.
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  • The Nanny Diaries
    The Nanny Diaries : A Novel
    by Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus
    Hardcover: Feb 2002
    Paperback: Mar 2003
     
    Deftly skewers the manner in which America's over-privileged raise les petites over-privileged--as if grooming them for a Best in Show competition. Written by two former nannies, this alternately comic and poignant satire punctures the glamour of ...
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  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North
    The Narrow Road to the Deep North
    by Richard Flanagan
    Hardcover: Aug 2014
    Paperback: Apr 2015
     
    Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to contemporary Australia, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of love, death, and family, exploring the many forms of good and evil, war and truth, guilt and transcendence.
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  • Navigating Early
    Navigating Early
    by Clare Vanderpool
    Hardcover: Jan 2013
    Paperback: Dec 2014
     
    New York Times Best Seller Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool, Newbery Medalist for Moon Over Manifest, is an odyssey-like adventure of two boys' incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they deal with pirates, buried secrets, and ...
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  • The Navigator of New York
    The Navigator of New York
    by Wayne Johnston
    Hardcover: Sep 2002
    Paperback: Oct 2003
     
    The story of a young man's quest for his origins, from St. John's, Newfoundland, to the bustling streets of New York, and the remotest regions of the Arctic; set against the background of the tumultuous rivalry between Lieutenant Peary and Dr. Cook ...
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  • The Nazi Conspiracy
    The Nazi Conspiracy : The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
    by Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch
    Hardcover: Jan 2023
    Paperback: Jan 2024
     
    From the New York Times bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of World War II.
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  • Nefertiti
    Nefertiti : A Novel
    by Michelle Moran
    Hardcover: Jul 2007
    Paperback: May 2008
     
    Love, betrayal, political unrest, plague, and religious conflict — Nefertiti brings ancient Egypt to life in vivid detail. Fast-paced and historically accurate, it is the dramatic story of two unforgettable women living through a remarkable ...
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  • Netherland
    Netherland : A Novel
    by Joseph O'Neill
    Hardcover: May 2008
    Paperback: Jun 2009
     
    In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans - a banker originally from the Netherlands - finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London.
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