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  • Rock Paper Tiger
    Rock Paper Tiger
    by Lisa Brackmann
    Hardcover: Jun 2010
    Paperback: Jun 2011
     
    American Ellie Cooper, deserted by her husband, has made a number of friends in China. But suddenly one of them disappears, and security organizations are hounding her for information. Contacted through an online role-playing game by a group ...
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  • Romantic Comedy
    Romantic Comedy : A Novel
    by Curtis Sittenfeld
    Hardcover: Apr 2023
    Paperback: Mar 2024
     
    A comedy writer thinks she's sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions—a hilarious, observant, and deeply tender novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep.
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  • The Room
    The Room
    by Jonas Karlsson
    Hardcover: Feb 2015
    Paperback: Feb 2015
     
    Funny, clever, surreal, and thought-provoking, this Kafkaesque masterpiece introduces the unforgettable Bjorn, an exceptionally meticulous office worker striving to live life on his own terms.
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  • Room
    Room : A Novel
    by Emma Donoghue
    Hardcover: Sep 2010
    Paperback: May 2011
     
    To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world....

    Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience - and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.
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  • The Rosie Effect
    The Rosie Effect
    by Graeme Simsion
    Hardcover: Dec 2014
    Paperback: Jul 2015
     
    The highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Rosie Project, starring the same extraordinary couple now living in New York and unexpectedly expecting their first child. Get ready to fall in love all over again.
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  • The Round House
    The Round House : A Novel
    by Louise Erdrich
    Hardcover: Oct 2012
    Paperback: Sep 2013
     
    An exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family.
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  • Ruby
    Ruby : A Novel
    by Cynthia Bond
    Hardcover: Apr 2014
    Paperback: Feb 2015
     
    The epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her—this beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.
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  • Ruby Falls
    Ruby Falls : A Novel
    by Gin Phillips
    Hardcover: Mar 2026
     
    A tense, claustrophobic historical mystery set almost entirely underground at the onset of the Great Depression about the discovery of a 150-foot waterfall in the middle of a mountain, the unthinkable crime that happens in its caves, and a woman who'...
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