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The Stranger
Albert Camus - Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Albert Camus’s spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century... |
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The Japanese Lover: A Novel
Isabel Allende - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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Named one of the most anticipated novels of the year by New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Publishers Weekly, The Huffington Post, and more. From New York Times and internationally... |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Series Book 1)
Stieg Larsson - Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Format: Hardcover
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Murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue combine into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel, the first in Stieg Larssons thrilling Millenium series featuring Lisbeth Salander."Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman... |
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The Complete Book of Les Miserables
Edward Behr - Little Brown & Co
Format: Hardcover
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YA-- A complete history of Victor Hugo's Les Mis erables, from novel to popular musical. The creation and production of the award-winning musical are described in detail. There are interviews with cast, directors, and producers; production notes; design and costuming concerns; and a complete... |
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Jar City: A Thriller
Arnaldur Indri?ason - Minotaur Books; 1st edition
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Jar City introduces American readers to a new crime writer from Iceland whose work has created an international sensation. Arnaldur Indridason has been compared to such luminaries in the field as Henning Mankell, Georges Simenon, Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall; everyone agrees that here is a world-class... |
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Vintage; later printing edition
Format: Paperback
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In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves... |
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The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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"Gabriel Garca Mrquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show." --The New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times BestsellerBarcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book... |
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank - Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover
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In Everyman's Library for the first time - one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, read by tens of millions of people around the world since its publication in 1947.The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl... |
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Don Quixote
Magda Bogin - Stewart Tabori & Chang; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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While Don Quixote seeks adventure, his friend, Sancho Panza tries to get him to see life's realities |
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Numero Zero
Umberto Eco - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Format: Print book
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From the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder A newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news. A paranoid editor, walking through the streets... |
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Crime and Punishment: Pevear & Volokhonsky Translation
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadWith the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's... |
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The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Format: Hardcover
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho continues to change the lives of its readers forever. With more than two million copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic, universally admired.Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian... |
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Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction... |
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A Man Called Ove: A Novel
Fredrik Backman - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Read the New York Times bestseller that has taken the world by storm! In this "charming debut" (People) from one of Sweden's most successful authors, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next... |
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Night
Elie Wiesel - Hill and Wang
Format: Print book
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A New Translation From The French By Marion WieselNight is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator,... |
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