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Rodham: A Novel

Curtis Sittenfeld - Random House
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Eligible, a novel that imagines a deeply compelling what-might-have-been: What if Hillary Rodham hadn't married Bill Clinton?
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The Goldfinch: A Novel

Donna Tartt - Little Brown & Company
Format: Hardcover

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."--Stephen King,...
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The Dreamers: A Novel

Karen Thompson Walker - Random House
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles comes a mesmerizing novel about a town transformed by a mysterious sickness that locks victims in perpetual sleep and triggers extraordinary, life-altering dreams. One night in an isolated college town in the hills...
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The Nickel Boys: A Novel

Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced...
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To Kill a Mockingbird, 50th Anniversary Edition

Harper Lee - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes...
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Red at the Bone: A Novel

Jacqueline Woodson - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.Two families from different social classes are joined together...
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Inland: A Novel

Téa Obreht - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife returns with "a bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West" (Entertainment Weekly) .In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona...
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Lolita

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov - Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover

When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause clbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth...
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The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy
Format: Print book

"They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. "The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded o
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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Scribner
Format: eBook

The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925) , stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken...
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The Bell Jar: A Novel

Sylvia Plath - HarperCollins / Perennial Classics
Format: Hardcover

A Special Hardcover Edition to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of Sylvia Plath's Remarkable NovelSylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanityEsther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously...
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