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Red Rising

Pierce Brown - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

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...
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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

Allie Brosh - Touchstone Books
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times Bestseller "Funny and smart as hell" (Bill Gates) , Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations.FROM THE PUBLISHER:Every time Allie Brosh posts...
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Eragon

Christopher Paolini - Roca; Tra Rei edition
Format: Hardcover

Eragon es el primer titulo de la trilogia de El Legado, que tiene como protagonistas a este valiente joven y a su indomable dragona Saphira. En el reino legendario de Alagaesia la guerra se esta gestando. Los Jinetes protectores de la paz del Imperio y los unicos capaces de controlar a los inteligentes...
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The Tiger's Wife: A Novel

Tea Obreht - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn...
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Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Deckle Edge]

A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,” Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent...
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The Bone Season: A Novel

Samantha Shannon - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

A TODAY BOOK CLUB PICK! It is the year 2059. Several major world cities are under the control of a security force called Scion. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London, part of a secret cell known as the Seven Seals. The work she does is unusual: scouting for information...
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Everything Is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer - Mariner Books; Reissue edition
Format: Print book

"Imagine a novel as verbally cunning as A Clockwork Orange, as harrowing as The Painted Bird, as exuberant and twee as Candide, and you have Everything Is Illuminated . . . Read it, and you'll feel altered, chastened - seared in the fire of something new." - Washington...
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Swamplandia!

Karen Russell - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell’s . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire”—Los...
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The Luminaries: A Novel (Man Booker Prize)

Eleanor Catton - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealands booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles...
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Alif the Unseen

G. Willow Wilson - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clientsdissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groupsfrom surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alifthe first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide...
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Ghostman

Roger Hobbs - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Stunningly dark, hugely intelligent and thoroughly addictive, Ghostman announces the arrival of an exciting and highly distinctive novelist. When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry, the man who orchestrated it is obliged to call in a favor from someone who's occasionally...
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The People of Forever Are Not Afraid: A Novel

Shani Boianjiu - Hogarth; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A “searing debut” about three young women coming of age, experiencing “the absurdities of life and love on the precipice of violence” (Vogue)    Yael, Avishag, and Lea grow up together in a tiny, dusty Israeli village, attending a high school...
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Anthony Marra - Hogarth; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A National Book Awards Longlist SelectionA New York Times and Washington Post bestsellerA story of the transcendent power of love in wartime, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is a work of sweeping breadth, profound compassion, and lasting significance. Two doctors risk everything to save...
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