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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
by Per Petterson
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Hailed by critics across the globe, showered with awards, Out Stealing Horses is a book that true lovers of the written word will hold close to their hearts. With its captivating prose and characters who burrow under your skin and refuse to come out, Per... ( read more)
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A Man without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut
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A Man without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut's hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life (If I die — God forbid — I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?), art (To... ( read more)
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The Road (Oprah's Book Club Selection #57)
by Cormac McCarthy
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Strike-me-dead beautiful and bleak — this is the book I put into every customer's hands. Absolutely the best thing out of 2006, and perhaps many years preceding, The Road reminds me of McCarthy's early novels, only matured to perfection. Recommended... ( read more)
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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Perfect for book groups, a charming series of letters make up this short novel set in post-WWII Europe. The correspondents, drawn together by their love of books and affection for each other, collectively tell a moving tale of endurance and friendship in... ( read more)
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir
by Augusten Burroughs
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion Picture Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to... ( read more)
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Okay, never mind that The Shadow of the Wind starts off in a wonderfully mysterious bookstore and that there's a romantic element that is not schmaltzy, but "timeless" in the best sense of the word. What I loved was how I thought I knew where the author... ( read more)
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The Geographer's Library
by Jon Fasman
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The hunt for alchemical treasure through the ages threads through this literary whodunit. A small town cub reporter is drawn into the dangerous hunt and encounters murders, smugglers and mayhem. Lots of fun!
Recommended by Kathi, Powell's City of Books... ( read more)
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
by David Sedaris
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Always a delight, never a disappointment, David Sedaris has come out with his finest offering yet. He has a deft touch, moving between sarcasm and sadness or, in this collection, between redneck babysitters and quitting smoking.
Recommended by Beth... ( read more)
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A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years (The Wicked Years #03)
by Gregory Maguire
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A worthy next chapter in the Wicked saga, A Lion among Men is a reflective, enlightening look at Maguire's Oz from an Animal's perspective.
Recommended by Tessa, Powells.com... ( read more)
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Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
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Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving... ( read more)
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Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
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Well, first, I am a sucker for any book set at the circus. But throw in the massive talent that Sara Gruen has and then tell me a love story? Far from the cliché book club pick, Water for Elephants will be read for your next club meeting and then you'll... ( read more)
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The Family Tree
by Carole Cadwalladr
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"The Family Tree combines all that you could wish of a novel — humor, pathos, sex, and tragedy. In a wry voice, reminiscent of Kate Atkinson's, Cadwalladr unravels a complicated and unerringly compelling story of three generations of women. Not to... ( read more)
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Vanishing Acts
by Jodi Picoult
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From the bestselling author of "My Sister's Keeper" and "Second Glance" comesthe shocking story of a woman caught between a past she cannot recall and thelife she cannot lead without it.... ( read more)
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Brave New World (P.S.)
by Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has... ( read more)
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Run (P.S.)
by Ann Patchett
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Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument... ( read more)
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The Glass Castle: a Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... ( read more)
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Wake Up, Sir!: A Novel
by Jonathan Ames
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Wake Up, Sir! is a brilliant work of fiction that just happens to be laugh-out-loud funny, to boot (though it also has a stirring underlying sadness).
Jonathan Ames is a daring and deeply honest writer whose work abounds with tender and heartbreaking... ( read more)
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Empress
by Shan Sa
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From the award-winning author of "The Girl Who Played Go" comes a ravishing historical novel of one of China's most controversial historical figures: its only female emperor, Empress Wu, who emerged in the Tang Dynasty and ushered in a golden age.... ( read more)
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A Ship Made of Paper
by Scott Spencer
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This intense novel, a literary thriller with a heart, deals with issues of race, passion, and betrayal, and presents them in a manner that is fresh, challenging, and riveting. Scott Spenser knows his way around a good tale, and he has never told a better... ( read more)
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Apathy and Other Small Victories
by Paul Neilan
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The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it’s complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she's his girlfriend, a rent... ( read more)
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