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Unspoken

A Story From the Underground Railroad

A young girl's courage is tested when she discovers a runaway slave hiding in the barn.

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• 'This Is Not My Hat' Wins Caldecott Medal For Picture Book Artistry

Death Comes To Pemberley

Pemberley is thrown into chaos after Elizabeth Bennett's disgraced sister Lydia arrives and announces that her husband, Wickham, has been murdered.NPR Bestseller

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• Dec. 31-Jan. 6: A Whodunit, A Mountain Survival And A JFK Affair
• In 'Pemberley,' James Picks Up Where Austen Left Off
• 'Pride And Prejudice' Meets 'Clue' At 'Pemberley'

Wolf Hall

Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price.NPR Bestseller, Literary Award Winner

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• Mantel Takes Up Betrayal, Beheadings In 'Bodies'
• New In Paperback, Sept. 6-12

The Snow Child

A childless couple working on a farm in the brutal landscape of 1920 Alaska discover a little girl living in the wilderness with a red fox and begin to love the strange, almost supernatural child as their own.NPR Bestseller

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• Revisiting A Sad Yet Hopeful Winter's Tale In 'The Snow Child'

Rules Of Civility

A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multimillionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well and a single-minded widow. NPR Bestseller

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• New In Paperback: June 25-July 1
• Booksellers' Picks: Catch The Year's Freshest Reads
• NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Fiction, Week Of Aug. 4, 2011

Home

Embittered Korean War veteran Frank Money struggles against trauma and racism to rescue his medically abused sister and work through identity-shattering memories.NPR Bestseller

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• Finders Keepers: 2012's Books To Hang On To
• Sail Into Summer With Novel Picks From Alan Cheuse
• 'Home': Toni Morrison's Taut, Triumphant New Novel

The Last Runaway

Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio, and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad to help runaway slaves escape to freedom. By the best-selling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.NPR Bestseller

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• New World, Old Evil In Tracy Chevalier's 'Runaway'
• A Story Of Slavery, Loss And Hope In 1850s Ohio

The Painted Girls

In belle âepoque Paris, the Van Goethem sisters struggle for survival after the sudden death of their father, a situation that prompts young Marie's ballet training and her introduction to a genius painter.

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• The Seedy Underbelly Of The Belle Epoque, 'Painted'

The Twelve Tribes Of Hattie

In 1923, 15-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children, whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. Captured here in 12 luminous narrative threads, their lives tell the story of a mother's monumental courage and the journey of a nation.NPR Bestseller

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• Oprah's Second Pick: A First-Time Novelist

Bring Up The Bodies

The spark has gone out of Henry VIII's second marriage. When his roving eye leaves Anne Boleyn and begins to settle on Jane Seymour, another woman at court, the monarch turns to his chief adviser, Thomas Cromwell, for help. Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies is the second book in a planned trilogy about Cromwell.NPR Bestseller

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• May 6-12: An Apocalypse, A Trip To Malawi And Anne Boleyn
• Time Passages: The Year's Best Historical Fiction
• Mantel Takes Up Betrayal, Beheadings In 'Bodies'

Sweet Tooth

Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War in 1972, Cambridge student Serena Frome, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government.NPR Bestseller

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• Delicious Deceit Abounds In McEwan's 'Sweet Tooth'
• Ian McEwan's 'Sweet Tooth' Leaves A Sour Taste
• Ian McEwan's 'Sweet Tooth' Pits Spy Vs. Scribe

The Art Forger

An artist whose reputation has been tarnished stumbles on a piece of art that disappeared 25 years ago and agrees to forge it for a gallery owner — until she realizes that the art she is forging may itself be a forgery.NPR Bestseller

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• Great Reads In Store: Indie Booksellers Pick 2012's Best

The Lifeboat

Forced into an overcrowded lifeboat after a mysterious explosion on their trans-Atlantic ocean liner, newly widowed Grace Winter battles the elements and the other survivors, and remembers her husband, Henry, who set his own safety aside to ensure Grace's.NPR Bestseller

News and Reviews

• Jan. 7-13: Haiti, Watergate, The Universe And 'Religion For Atheists'
• Now You're Talking! The Year's Best Book Club Reads

Watergate

A retelling of the Watergate scandal from the perspectives of seven of its perpetrators and investigators illuminates the drama and high comedy of the Nixon presidency.

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• Jan. 7-13: Haiti, Watergate, The Universe And 'Religion For Atheists'
• 'Watergate' Revisited: Inside The Criminal Minds
• What Happened In 'Watergate': An Alternate Take

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec

Pterror over Paris and The Eiffel Tower Demon

Adèle becomes involved in an interlocking series of mysteries that involve a revived pterodactyl, a frightful on-stage murder, a looming execution by guillotine and a demon from the depths of hell.

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• Pterrifying Pterodactyl Meets Sexy Detective

A Lady Never Lies

Desperate to reverse her fortunes, Lady Alexandra Morley, a beautiful widow, finds fate taking a strange turn when she ends up in the arms of Phineas "Finn" Burke, a brilliant inventor with a shocking past who is intent only on perfecting his "horseless carriage" engine. Original. 50,000 first printing.

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• Romantic Reads From Shakespeare To Steampunk (Heavy On The Steam)

Code Name Verity

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

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• 5 Young Adult Novels That You'll Never Outgrow
• Librarian Nancy Pearl's Picks For The Omnivorous Reader