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The Ancient Minstrel: Novellas
Jim Harrison · Grove Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover |
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"Among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years . . . [Harrison] remains at the height of his powers." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times on The River SwimmerNew York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison is one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers,... |
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The Best Place on Earth: Stories
Ayelet Tsabari · Random House
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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Reminiscent of the early work of Jhumpa Lahiri, Ayelet Tsabari's award-winning debut collection of stories is global in scope yet intimate in feel, beautifully written, and emotionally powerful. From Israel to India to Canada, Tsabari's indelible characters grapple with love, violence,... |
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Dimestore: A Writer's Life
Lee Smith · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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In her first work of nonfiction, Lee Smith deploys the wit, wisdom, and graceful prose for which she is beloved to conjure her early days in the small coal town of Grundy, Virginia - and beyond. For the inimitable Lee Smith, place is paramount. For forty-five years, her fiction has lived... |
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I'm Glad About You
Theresa Rebeck · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover |
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The pathos of Beautiful Ruins meets the hilarity of Crazy Rich Asians in this comedic and tender novel. Their meeting in a parking lot outside a high school football game was both completely forgettable and utterly life-changing. Because no matter how you look at it, it is piss-poor... |
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Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife
Barbara Bradley Hagerty · Riverhead Books
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A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better - and for good.There's no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book.... |
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News of the World: A Novel
Paulette Jiles · William Morrow,
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family,... |
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Noonday: A Novel
Pat Barker · Doubleday Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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A new novel from the Booker Prize winning Pat Barker, author of the Regeneration Trilogy, that unforgettably portrays London during the Blitz (her first portrayal of World War II) and reconfirms her place in the very top rank of British novelists.London, the Blitz, Autumn 1940. As the bombs... |
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Peacekeeping: A Novel
Mischa Berlinski · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover |
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Hilary Mantel called Fieldwork "a quirky, often brilliant debut, bounced along by limitless energy, its wry tone not detracting from its thoughtfulness." Stephen King said it was "a story that cooks like a mother." Now Mischa Berlinski returns with his second novel,... |
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Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia
Anne Garrels · Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016.
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels began to visit the region of Chelyabinsk, an aging military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow that is home to the Russian nuclear program. Her goal was to chart the social and political aftershocks... |
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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
Adam Hochschild · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Pages: 464
Format: Print book |
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From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed For three crucial years in the 1930s,... |
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Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening
John Elder Robison · Random House Inc
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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"When John Elder Robison published Look Me in the Eye, his darkly funny bestselling memoir about growing up with Asperger's Syndrome, he was launched into international prominence as an autism expert. But in spite of his success, he still struggled to decode the secret language... |
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Work Like Any Other: A Novel
Virginia Reeves · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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In this astonishingly accomplished, morally complicated, "exceptional and starkly beautiful debut" (Kevin Powers, National Book Award-nominated author of The Yellow Birds) , a prideful electrician in 1920s rural Alabama struggles to overcome past sins and find peace after being... |
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