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A Doubter's Almanac: A Novel

Ethan Canin - Random House
Format: Print book

In this mesmerizing novel, Ethan Canin, the New York Times bestselling author of America America and The Palace Thief, explores the nature of genius, rivalry, ambition, and love among multiple generations of a gifted family.Milo Andret is born with an unusual mind....
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Disgrace

J. M. Coetzee - Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Waiting for the Barbarians and the Booker-Prize-winning Life Times of Michael K, a dazzling new novel--his first in five yearsDisgrace--set in post-apartheid Cape Town and on a remote farm in the Eastern Cape--is deft, lean, quiet, and brutal. A heartbreaking novel about...
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The Fishermen: A Novel

Chigozie Obioma - Little
Format: Print book

In a Nigerian town in the mid 1990's, four brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family.Told from the point of view of nine year old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, THE FISHERMEN is the Cain and Abel-esque story of an unforgettable...
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My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel

Elizabeth Strout - Random House
Format: Hardcover

My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel
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Sweet Lamb of Heaven: A Novel

Lydia Millet - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction: Blending domestic thriller and psychological horror, this compelling page-turner follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband.Lydia Millet's chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful...
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The Danish Girl: A Novel

David Ebershoff - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Academy Award-winner Eddie Redmayne and directed by Academy Award-winner Tom Hooper A New York Times Notable Book * Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction * Winner of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy...
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The Goldfinch: A Novel

Donna Tartt - ‎Little, Brown and Company; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Hardcover

A young New Yorker grieving his mothers death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King,
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel

Maria Semple - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this whip-smart and "divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times) . Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband,...
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The Art of Fielding: A Novel

Chad Harbach - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback

At Westish College, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league until a routine throw goes disastrously off course. In the aftermath of his error, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president...
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