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Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet
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Jamie Ford |
"Sentimental, heartfelt....the exploration of Henry's changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a sha… |
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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Seth Grahame-Smith,Katherine Kellgren,Seth Grahame-Smith Jane Austen |
Great first line; it had to be polished, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”
Zombies and katanas give it the zing the ori… |
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West of the Jordan
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Laila Halaby |
Halaby's choice to alternate the narratives of the four young women offers real characterizations to latch onto, and her prose, often lyrical--particularly when the speakers relate other people's sto… |
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Circe
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Madeline Miller |
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to… |
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The incendiaries
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R. O. Kwon |
A young Korean-American woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea and then disappears, leading a fellow student into an obsessive se… |
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The disintegrations
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Alistair McCartney |
Within this dizzying investigation into the mystery of death is another mystery: who is the companion igniting these memories? This enigmatic novel blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction, stor… |
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Late empire
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Lisa Olstein |
"Signature wit, wordplay, candor, and absurdity evoke an approachable dinner conversation uncomfortably at home in the American empire"-- |
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Him, me, Muhammad Ali
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Randa Jarrar |
"In her first story collection, Jarrar employs a particular, rather than rhetorical approach to race and gender. Thus we have "How Can I Be of Use to You," with its complicated relationship between a… |
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini |
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in… |
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Q & A
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Vikas Swarup |
Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who … |
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Hope and other dangerous pursuits
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Laila Lalami |
For reasons as different as the lives they are leaving behind, four Muslims illegally cross the Strait of Gibraltar in an inflatable boat headed for Spain. What has driven these men and women to risk… |
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The lovely bones
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Alice Sebold |
This deluxe trade paperback edition of Alice Sebold's modern classic features French flaps and rough-cut pages.Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience,… |
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Stories of Your Life and Others
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Ted Chiang |
Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Me… |
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The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride
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Julia C. Collins |
"In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, a novel written by Mrs. Julia C. Collins, an Afr… |
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Mornings in Jenin
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Susan Abulhawa |
Forcibly removed from the ancient village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejas are moved into the Jenin refugee camp. There, exiled from his beloved olive groves, the… |
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