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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Format: Paperback
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A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who dont know how to live properly. Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their... |
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir
Augusten Burroughs - Picador
Format: Paperback
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The #1 New York Times BestsellerAn Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the YearNow a Major Motion Picture Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with... |
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The Cuckoo's Calling
Robert Galbraith - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran... |
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Housekeeping: A Novel
Marilynne Robinson - Picador
Format: Print book
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A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small... |
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain - Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet,"... |
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Red Rising
Pierce Brown - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, BUZZFEED, AND SHELF AWARENESS"Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow." - Scott Sigler Pierce Brown's relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne... |
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The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye
Robert Kirkman - Image Comics
Format: Paperback
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The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled:... |
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Disappearing Earth: A novel
Julia Phillips - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Ta Obreht's The Tiger's Wife: the kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion a propulsive, evocative, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.One August afternoon,... |
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The Paying Guests
Sarah Waters - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling novel that has been called "a tour de force" (Wall Street Journal) , "unputdownable" (The Washington Post) , "a delicious hothouse of a novel" (USA Today) , "effortless"... |
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We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories
Stephanie Powell Watts - Ecco
Format: Paperback
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In these powerfully rendered, prizewinning stories, working-class African Americans across the South strive for meaning and search for direction in lives shaped by forces beyond their controlThe ten stories in this resonant collection deal with both the ties that bind and the gulf that... |
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