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The White Tiger: A Novel
Aravind Adiga - Free Press
Format: Print book
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Born in a village in the dark heart of India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coal and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape. His big chance comes when a rich landlord hires him as a chauffeur for his son, daughter-in-law,... |
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Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions
Steve Almond - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Book
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Two rambunctious, romantic flameouts. One boring wedding. One heated embrace in a quiet coatroom. This is not exactly the recipe for true love. John and Jane's lusty encounter at a friend's wedding isn't really the beginning of anything with any weight to it; even they know that. When... |
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Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence
Nick Bantock - Chronicle Books
Format: Book
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Griffin: It's good to get in touch with you at last. Could I have one of your fish postcards? I think you were right -- the wine glass has more impact than the cup. --SabineBut Griffin had never met a woman named Sabine. How did she know him? How did she know his artwork? Who is she?... |
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Frances and Bernard
Carlene Bauer - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book
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In the summer of 1957, Frances and Bernard meet at an artists' colony. She finds him faintly ridiculous, but talented. He sees her as aloof, but intriguing. Afterward, he writes her a letter. Soon they are immersed in the kind of fast, deep friendship that can take over - and change the course... |
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Letters from Skye: A Novel
Jessica Brockmole - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYA sweeping story told in letters, spanning two continents and two world wars, Jessica Brockmole's atmospheric debut novel captures the indelible ways that people fall in love, and celebrates the power of the written word... |
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Upstate
Kalisha Buckhanon - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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"Baby, the first thing I need to know from you is do you believe I killed my father?"So begins Upstate, a powerful story told through letters between seventeen-year-old Antonio and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Natasha, set in the 1990's in New York. Antonio and Natasha's... |
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P.O. Box Love: A Novel of Letters
Paola Calvetti - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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A charming epistolary novel that chronicles the love story between Emma and Frederico, former high school sweethearts who meet again thirty years later.At Dreams & Desires, 50-year-old Emma's quaint bookshop in Milan dedicated to romantic fiction, the passionate bookseller serves coffee... |
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I Am China: A Novel
Xiaolu Guo - Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Format: Book
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Rock 'n' roll, revolution, and romance are seductively woven together in this intense and moving novel from the author of Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth In her flat in north London, Iona Kirkpatrick sets to work on a new project translating a collection of letters and diaries... |
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I'll Be Seeing You
Suzanne Hayes - Harlequin Enterprises
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""I hope this letter gets to you quickly. We are always waiting, aren't we? Perhaps the greatest gift this war has given us is the anticipation"" It's January 1943 when Rita Vincenzo receives her first letter from Glory Whitehall. Glory is an effervescent young mother,... |
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The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg: A Novel
Geoff Herbach - Three Rivers Press
Format: Book
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"Believe the hype. I killed myself."Having destroyed his life, the suicidal T. Rimberg strikes out on a journey through history and geography. From Minneapolis to Europe to a fiery accident near Green Bay, he searches for a father who is likely dead, digs for meaning where he's... |
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Last Days of Summer
Steve Kluger - Avon Books
Format: Book
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Last Days of Summer is the story of Joey Margolis, neighborhood punching bag, growing up goofy and mostly fatherless in Brooklyn in the early 1940s. A boy looking for a hero, Joey decides to latch on to Charlie Banks, the all-star third baseman for the New York Giants. But Joey's... |
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The Secret Letters: of Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy
Wendy Leigh - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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The Secret Letters is a thrilling, compulsive novel with a unique premise: What if Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy---the two most iconic women of our time---had met and begun a secret correspondence?A compelling page-turner set against the glittering backdrop of Hollywood and Washington... |
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The Secret Correspondence
Annette Mahon - Avalon Books
Format: Hardcover
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Julie Wong has a dilemma. Her next door neighbor, Claudia Smith, has broken her leg and moved into the care center where Julie works. Claudia has told everyone that she doesn't want her son Ned to know about her accident. He's busy with work, and this news will only worry him. Julie, however,... |
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Dear Girls Above Me: Inspired by a True Story
Charles McDowell - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
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Based on the wildly popular Twitter feed Dear Girls Above Me, a roman clef about how thinking like a couple of girls turned one single guy into a better man. When Charlie McDowell began sharing his open letters to his noisy upstairs neighbors - two impossibly ditzy female roommates in their... |
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Yours Truly
Annabel Pitcher - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Previously published under the title Ketchup CloudsDear Mr. S. Harris, Ignore the blob of red in the top left corner. Its jam, not blood, though I dont think I need to tell you the difference. It wasnt your wifes jam the police found on your shoe. I know what its like. Mine wasnt a woman.... |
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Delicious!: A Novel
Ruth Reichl - Random House
Format: Print book
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Working as a public relations hotline consultant for a once-prestigious culinary magazine, Billie Breslin unexpectedly enters a world of New York restaurateurs and artisanal purveyors while reading World War II letters exchanged between a plucky 12-year-old and James Beard. |
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Dear Committee Members: A novel
Julie Schumacher - Doubleday
Format: Paperback
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A Best Book of the Year: NPR and Boston Globe Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college... |
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We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel
Lionel Shriver - Counterpoint
Format: Book
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A stunning examination of how tragedy affects a town, a marriage, and a family, for readers of Rosellen Brown's Before and After and Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World . That neither nature nor nurture bears exclusive responsibility for a child's character is self-evident. But such generalizations... |
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Letters from Yellowstone
Diane Smith - Viking
Format: Book
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A spectacular natural backdrop, a feisty heroine, and a rich period of American history converge in a unique epistolary novel about observation and independence. It is the spring of 1898. "A. E. Bartram," a medical student from Cornell with a passion for botany and a gently astringent... |
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Brooklyn Graves: An Erica Donato Mystery
Triss Stein - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Book
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A brutally murdered family man without an enemy in the world. A box full of charming letters home, written a century ago by an unknown female worker at the famed Tiffany studios. Historic Green-Wood cemetery, where a decrepit mausoleum with stunning stained glass windows is now off limits.... |
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The Wednesday Letters
Jason F. Wright - Berkley Books
Format: Paperback
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The surprise New York Times bestseller, from an author who delivers "American storytelling at its best."The story of marriage, family, and forgiveness that has become not just a bestseller but an instant classic. Their story begins with one letter on their wedding night,... |
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