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House Of Earth
The only finished novel from the legendary American folk singer portrays life in Dust Bowl America with the story of Tike and Ella May Hamil, who struggle to plant roots in the arid land of the Texas Panhandle.NPR Bestseller
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No Time Like The Present
Interracial couple Steve and Jabulile are able to live happily together with their two children in a newly free South Africa, but their lives are defined by the constant struggle to marry their nation's past with its present.
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The Love Song of Jonny Valentine
Jonny Valentine, 11-year-old superstar, is worried about his album sales, his party-loving manager mother and his safety. He's also on a quest — like one of the heroes in his video games — to find his missing father. Teddy Wayne's second novel is not just a witty critique of America's pop-music machine, but also the story of a compelling child narrator's journey toward adulthood.
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
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The House Girl
Tara Conklin's debut novel links the stories of Lina Sparrow, a 21st-century lawyer, and Josephine Bell, an artistically talented 19th-century slave. As Josephine plans her escape from a Virginia plantation, Lina goes in search of the perfect plaintiff for a slavery reparations lawsuit.
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The Newlyweds
Amina Mazid is 24 when she moves from Bangladesh to Rochester, N.Y., for love. She has wooed — and been wooed by — George Stillman online. For Amina, George offers a chance at a new life for her and her parents, as well as a different kind of happiness than she might find back home. For George, Amina is a woman who doesn't play games. But each of them is hiding something — someone from the past they thought they could leave behind. It is only when Amina returns to Bangladesh that she and George find out if their secrets will tear them apart, or if they can build a future together.
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The Chemistry Of Tears
Peter Carey's hero and heroine, Catherine and Henry, are separated by 150 years. What brings them together is an enormous, 19th-century mechanical duck. Catherine, a horologist, or clock expert, is restoring it in the present day. It's a distraction from the sudden death of her married lover. More than a century earlier, Henry commissions the duck as a giant toy for his beloved but very sick child. As the two narratives unfold, the duck becomes a swan, and many of its inner workings are revealed. That's not exactly true, however, for the difficult, mysterious characters who populate the book.
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Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
In this story inside a story inside a story, shifting narrators and plot lines explore the relationship between fathers and sons.
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A Hazard of New Fortunes
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The Alienist
When a madman begins stalking victims on the streets of 1896 New York, a team of investigators is forced to apply radical and untested techniques that include fingerprinting and the controversial science of psychology. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Above All Things
This debut novel, inspired by the life and mysterious fate of George Mallory, traces the experiences of his wife, Ruth. In 1924 she maintains a hopeful vigil in war-ravaged England during Mallory's fateful third expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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The Dinner
Meeting at an Amsterdam restaurant for dinner, two couples move from small talk to the wrenching shared challenge of their teenage sons' act of violence that has triggered a police investigation and revealed the extent to which each family will go to protect those it loves.NPR Bestseller
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If a Stranger Approaches You
Stories
Kasischke's first collection of short stories, after numerous novels and poetry collections, reveals the unexpected within characters' domestic lives.
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The Fall of the Stone City
During World War II, an Albanian town is invaded by Nazis, who are wined and dined by a town resident. The next morning, the Nazis have vanished, leaving behind a mystery that slowly must be unraveled. Translated by John Hodgson.
