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All the Living by C. E. Morgan

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A first novel by the most significant new American writer to have emerged in years. Aloma is a young woman who has put her life aside - and her dreams of becoming a pianist - to move in with her lover, Orren. His family has recently been killed in an accident. Stricken with grief and overwhelmingly burdened by the...

Dubliners by James Joyce, Jeri Johnson

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'I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne' James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24...

The Treatment by Mo Hayder

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The troubled hero of Mo Hayder's "Birdman,"" "which "gripped the mind even as it quickened the pulse" ("New York Times"), returns in an expertly crafted chiller that brings him face to face with haunting memories and palpable fears. A riveting mixture of psychological intrigue and forensic detail, "Birdman...

Ulysses by James Joyce

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Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, "Ulysses" follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin. From this starting point, James Joyce constructs a novel of extraordinary imaginative richness and depth. Unique in the history of literature, "Ulysses" is one of the most...

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story by Timothy B. Tyson

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""Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger." " Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by a playmate, heralded a ?restorm that would forever transform the tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina. On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store...

A Duty to the Dead: A Bess Crawford Mystery by Charles Todd

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From the brilliantly imaginative "New York Times" bestselling author Charles Todd comes an unforgettable new character in an exceptional new series "England, 1916." Independent-minded Bess Crawford's upbringing is far different from that of the usual upper-middle-class British gentlewoman. Growing up in India,...

Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey

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Seanas blond-bombshell mother regularly entertains Black Panthers and movie stars in the familyas marble and glass penthouse. His enigmatic father uses a jet helicopter to drop Sean off at the video arcade. The three live happily together aeight-hundred feet in the air above San Francisco; in an apartment at the...

Nation by Terry Pratchett

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Finding himself alone on a desert island when everything and everyone he knows and loved has been washed away in a huge storm, Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He's also completely alone - or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather...

Making Money by Terry Pratchett

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It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something...

Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh

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In her masterful first novel "Mrs. Kimble," Jennifer Haigh delivers the riveting story of three women who marry the same man. Ken Kimble is revealed through the eyes of the women he seduces: his first wife, Birdie, who struggles to hold herself together following his desertion; his second wife, Joan, a lonely...

The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J. R. R Tolkien, David T. Wenzel

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Whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in his hobbit-hole in Bag End by Gandalf the wizard and a company of dwarves, Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Although quite reluctant to take part in this...

Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth

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What if a look-alike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? In his extraordinary new book, his most ingenious and original work since "The Counterlife", Phillip Roth confronts his double, an imposter whose self-appointed task is to lead the jews out of...

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

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Turning his back on the carnage of the Civil War, Inman begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war. As he crosses the devastated landscape of the South, Ada struggles to make a living from the land. Neither knows if the other is still alive.

Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale

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The new novel from the bestselling Patrick Gale. Renowned Canadian artist Rachel Kelly -- now of Penzance -- has buried her past and married a gentle and loving Cornish man. Her life has been a sacrifice to both her extraordinary art and her debilitating manic depression. When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies...

Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen

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'I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me.' Thus begins 'Strung Out', Woody Allen's hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. "Mere Anarchy", Woody Allen's first new collection in over 25 years, features eighteen witty, wild and...

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

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When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Lindbergh had publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany. Then, upon...

The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad

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Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict. In the following spring she returned to live with a bookseller and his family for several months. The Bookseller of Kabul is the fascinating account of her time spent living with the family of...

Firmin by Fernando Krahn, Sam Savage

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In the basement of a Boston bookstore, Firmin is born in a shredded copy "Finnegans Wake, "nurtured on a diet of Zane Grey, "Lady Chatterley's Lover, "and "Jane Eyre" (which tastes a lot like lettuce). While his twelve siblings gnaw these books obliviously, for Firmin the words, thoughts, deeds, and hopes--all the...

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

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When a motherless American girl living in Europe finds a medieval book and a package of letters, all addressed ominously to "My dear and unfortunate successor . . ." she unwittingly assumes a quest she will discover is her birthright - a hunt that nearly brought her father to ruin and may have claimed the life of...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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"Heart of Darkness" has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to that time. Conrad's narrator...

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