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Aesop's Mirror (Book)

Maryalice Huggins

ISBN:9780312655327

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING
Falling in love at first sight with a mirror in a Rhode Island auction...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:270

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Arctic Chill: A Thriller (Book)

Arnaldur Indridason

ISBN:9780312655303

INSPECTOR ERLENDUR RETURNS IN THIS ICY, INTENSE REYKJAVIK THRILLER
On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of apartments where a body has been found in the garden: a young...more details
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Been Here a Thousand Years (Book)

Mariolina Venezia

ISBN:9780312429782

In a tiny, ancient Italian hill town, where the land gives littleand money and food are scarce, Don Francesco Falcone is a man to be reckoned with: rich...more details
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Blame (Book)

Michelle Huneven

ISBN:9780312429850

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE "LOS ANGELES TIMES" BOOK PRIZE
"CHICAGO TRIBUNE" FAVORITE FICTION OF THE YEAR
"O...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:291

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Box 21 (Book)

Anders Roslund

ISBN:9780312655341

Three years ago, Lydia and Alena were two hopeful girls from Lithuania. Now they are sex slaves, lured to Sweden with the promise of better jobs and then trapped in a Stockholm brothel...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:389

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Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America (Book)

Barbara Ehrenreich

ISBN:9780312658854

A "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER
Americans are a "positive" people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: This is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:235

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But Not for Long (Book)

Michelle Wildgen

ISBN:9780312655310

Greta has left her old life behind and moved into a sustainable foods co-op in Madison, Wisconsin. Just as she begins to settle in with her two housemates...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:325

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City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism (Book)

Jim Krane

ISBN:9780312655433

Just a dusty fishing village in the 1950s, Dubai has grown faster than any other city in the world to become a glittering mecca for investors and pleasure-seekers...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:358

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Collected Prose (Book)

Paul Auster

ISBN:9780312429928

An essential collection from one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters.
The celebrated author of "The New York Trilogy...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:593

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Come Sunday (Book)

Isla Morley

ISBN:9780312429775

A wonderful new storyteller unleashes a soaring debut that sweeps from the hills of Hawaii to the veldt of South Africa. "Come Sunday "is that joyous...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:325

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Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker (Game)

James McManus

ISBN:9780312430085

A" NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW" EDITORS' CHOICE
"Cowboys Full" traces the story of poker from its roots in China, the Middle East, and Europe...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:592

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Delilah (Book)

India Edghill

ISBN:9780312655358

Given to the temple of Atargatis as a child, Delilah is raised to be a priestess to the Five Cities that rule Canaan. She grows up under the watchful eyes of high priestess Derceto...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:354

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Every Day Is Mother's Day (Book)

Hilary Mantel

ISBN:9780312668037

By the Booker Prize-Winning Author of WOLF HALL
Evelyn Axon is a medium by trade; her daughter, Muriel, is a half-wit by nature. Barricaded in their crumbling house...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:225

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Fame: What the Classics Tell Us about Our Cult of Celebrity (Book)

Tom Payne

ISBN:9780312429935

We may regard celebrities as deities, but that does not mean we worship them with deference. From prehistory to the present, humanity has possessed a primal urge first to exalt the famous but then to cut them down (Michael Jackson...more details
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Fifty Grand (Book)

Adrian McKinty

ISBN:9780312429812

This knockout punch of a thriller from a critically acclaimed author follows a young Cuban detective's quest for vengeance against her father's killer in a Colorado mountain town

A man is killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen mountain road in the town of Fairview...more details
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Fly by Wire (Book)

William Langewiesche

ISBN:9780312655389

On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York when a flock of Canada geese collided with it...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:193

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Generosity: An Enhancement (Book)

Richard Powers

ISBN:9780312429751

FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF "THE ECHO MAKER," A PLAYFUL AND PROVOCATIVE NOVEL ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAPPINESS GENE
When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:322

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How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (Book)

John Cassidy

ISBN:9780312430047

For fifty years, economists have been developing elegant theories or how markets facilitate innovation, create wealth, and allocate society's resources efficiently. But what about when they fail...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:409

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Invisible (Book)

Paul Auster

ISBN:9780312429829

"One of America's greatest novelists" dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most passionate and surprising book to date

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts...more details
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Israel Is Real: An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History (Book)

Rich Cohen

ISBN:9780312429768

"It's a great irony that Israel was more secure as an idea than it's ever been as a nation with an army."In AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:383

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It's Beginning to Hurt: Stories (Book)

James Lasdun

ISBN:9780312429867

The stories in this remarkable collection--including "An Anxious Man," winner of the National Short Story Prize (UK)--are vibrant and gripping. James Lasdun's great gift is his unfailing psychological instinct for the vertiginous moments when the essence of a life discloses itself. With forensic skill he exposes his characters' hidden desires and fears...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:227

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Mathilda Savitch (Book)

Victor Lodato

ISBN:9780312430030

A "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR" BEST BOOK OF 2009A "BOOKLIST" BEST BOOK OF 2009A "GLOBE AND MAIL" BEST BOOK OF 2009"
"Fear doesn't come naturally to Mathilda Savitch. She prefers to look right at the things nobody else can bear to mention: for example...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:292

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On Kindness (Book)

Adam Phillips

ISBN:9780312429744

Kindness is the foundation of the world's great religions and most-enduring philosophies. Why, then, does being kind feel so dangerous? If we crave kindness with such intensity...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:114

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Sellevision (Book)

Augusten Burroughs

ISBN:9780312430078

The hilarious first novel by the #1 bestselling author of "Running with Scissors," "Dry," "A Wolf at the Table," and "You Better Not Cry," "Sellevision" is Augusten Burrough's darkly funny and vastly entertaining skewering of a very troubled home-shopping channel.
Welcome to the world of Sellevision...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:229

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Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire (Book)

Robert Perkinson

ISBN:9780312680473

In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. A pioneer in criminal justice severity--from assembly-line executions to supermax isolation...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:484

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The American: A Special Edition of a Very Private Gentleman (Book)

Martin Booth

ISBN:9780312430016

The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla--Mr. Butterfly: for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. His life is inconspicuous--mornings spent brushing at a canvas...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:274

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The Appointment (Book)

Herta Mueller

ISBN:9780312655372

From the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Nobel Prize, a fierce novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life
"I've been summoned. Thursday...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:230

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Book)

Atul Gawande

ISBN:9780312430009

The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Better" and "Complications" reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist

We live in a world of great and increasing complexity...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:215

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The City of Your Final Destination (Book)

Peter Cameron

ISBN:9780312656546

Omar Razaghi is a graduate student determined to write the authorized biography of the late Latin American author Jules Gund. But when his request is denied by the author's family...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:311

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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (Book)

Lydia Davis

ISBN:9780312655396

A "NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW" EDITORS' CHOICE
A "LOS ANGELES TIMES" FICTION FAVORITE FOR 2009
A "SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE" BEST BOOK OF 2009
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:733

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The Good Soldiers (Book)

David Finkel

ISBN:9780312430023

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR:
"THE NEW YORK TIMES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE"
SLATE.COM
"THE BOSTON GLOBE
THE KANSAS CITY STAR
THE PLAIN DEALER" (CLEVELAND)
"THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR"""WINNER OF THE HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM
It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:316

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The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War (Book)

Nicholas Thompson

ISBN:9780312658861

Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War. The two men embodied opposing strategies for winning the conflict. Yet they dined together...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:403

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The Land of Green Plums (Book)

Herta Mueller

ISBN:9780312429942

From the winner of the Intertantional IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, a devastating picture of a society and a generation ruined by fear Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign of terror...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:258

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The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us about Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life (Book)

Alison Gopnik

ISBN:9780312429843

For most of us, having a baby is the most profound, intense, and fascinating experience of our lives. Now scientists and philosophers are starting to appreciate babies...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

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The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued (Book)

Ann Crittenden

ISBN:9780312655402

THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT CHANGED AMERICA'S VIEW OF MOTHERHOOD
In the pathbreaking tradition of  "Backlash" and "The Second Shift...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:322

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The Romantics (Book)

Galt Niederhoffer

ISBN:9780312545994

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KATIE HOLMES, JOSH DUHAMEL, AND ANNA PAQUIN, IN THEATERS SEPTEMBER 24th, 2010
Laura and Lila were college roommates--one brooding and Jewish...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:277

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The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories (Book)

Edward Hollis

ISBN:9780312655365

Few man-made things seem as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. The Parthenon...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:370

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The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Francoise D'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon (Book)

Veronica Buckley

ISBN:9780312430054

Francoise d'Aubigne, marquise de Maintenon, was born in a French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor and murderer, her mother the warden's seduced daughter. Yet...more details
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The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves (Book)

Siri Hustvedt

ISBN:9780312429577

In this unique neurological memoir, Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition

While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:214

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The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda (Book)

Andrew Rice

ISBN:9780312429737

From a new star of American journalism, a riveting murder mystery that reveals the forces roiling today's Africa

From Rwanda to Sierra Leone...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:363

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The Venona Cable: A Thriller (Book)

Brent Ghelfi

ISBN:9780312429874

Russian agent and criminal Alexei Volkovoy pays an action-packed visit to the U.S. to uncover secrets of the infamous Venona cables and to attempt to clear his family name

The past erupts into the present when the police arrest Alexei Volkovoy...more details
Pages:336

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The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II (Book)

Ilaria Dagnini Brey

ISBN:9780312429904

In 1943, with the world convulsed by war and a Fascist defeat in Europe far from certain, a few visionaries--civilians and soldiers alike--saw past questions of life and death to realize that victory wasn't the only thing at stake. So was the priceless cultural heritage of thousands of years.
In the midst of the conflict...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:308

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There Is No Freedom Without Bread!: 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism (Book)

Constantine Pleshakov

ISBN:9780312655334

The conventional story of the end of the Cold War is simple: Ronald Reagan waged an aggressive campaign against communism, outspent his opponent...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:289

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Vacant Possession (Book)

Hilary Mantel

ISBN:9780312668044

Ten years have passed since Muriel Axon was locked away for society's protection, but psychiatric confinement has only increased her malice and ingenuity. At last free...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:242

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Wolf Hall (Book)

Hilary Mantel

ISBN:9780312429980

In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:640

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You Better Not Cry: Stories (Book)

Augusten Burroughs

ISBN:9780312430061

A "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER about Christmases past and present from the #1 bestselling author of "Running with Scissors," "Dry," and" A Wolf at the Table"
At eight years old...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:206

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Beyond America's Grasp: A Century of Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East (Book)

Stephen P Cohen

ISBN:9780312655440

AN INCISIVE "WHITE PAPER" ON THE UNITED STATES'S STRUGGLE TO FRAME A COHERENT MIDDLE EAST POLICY
In this book, the Middle East expert Stephen P. Cohen traces U.S. policy in the region back to the breakup of the Ottoman Empire...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:284

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Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women (Book)

Harriet Reisen

ISBN:9780312658878

A "BOSTON GLOBE" BESTSELLER
In a fresh, modern take on the remarkable Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Reisen’s vivid biography explores the author’s life in the context of her works...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:444

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Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly (Book)

Michael D Gordin

ISBN:9780312655426

On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed First Lightning, exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. The startling event was not simply a technical experiment that confirmed the ability of the Soviet Union to build nuclear bombs during a period when the United States held a steadfast monopoly...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:402

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Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution (Book)

Caroline Fraser

ISBN:9780312655419

A "Library Journal" Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year

If environmental destruction continues at its current rate, a third of all plants and animals could disappear by 2050--along with earth's life-support ecosystems...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:400

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