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Let The Great World Spin
by Colum McCann
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 (8 customer reviews)
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Jun 22 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009: Colum McCann has worked some exquisite magic with Let the Great World Spin, conjuring a novel of electromagnetic force that defies gravity. It's August of 1974, a summer "hot and serious and full of death and betrayal," and Watergate and the Vietnam ...
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Strength in What Remains
by Tracy Kidder
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 (3 customer reviews)
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Random House
Aug 25 2009
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Praise for Tracy Kidder’s Strength In What Remains“That 63-year-old Tracy Kidder may have just written his finest work -- indeed, one of the truly stunning books I've read this year -- is proof that the secret to memorable nonfiction is so often the writer’s readiness to be surprised. ...
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The Bishop's Man
by Linden MacIntyre
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 (31 customer reviews)
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Random House Canada
July 28 2009
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Father Duncan MacAskill is called The Exorcist. Not in the traditional sense, however: at his bishop...
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Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
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(39 customer reviews)
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HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Sep 16 2009
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"A magnificent achievement: the scale of its vision and the fine stitching of its detail; the teeming canvas of characters; the style with its clipped but powerful immediacy; the wit, the poetry and the nuance."...
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The Golden Mean
by Annabel Lyon
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 (26 customer reviews)
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Random House Canada
Aug 11 2009
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In her first novel, Annabel Lyon brilliantly re-imagines the real-life teacher/student relationship between Aristotle and a 13-year-old boy who would soon transform the world as Alexander the Great. The novel opens with Aristotle taking his wife and nephew...
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Brooklyn
by Colm Toibin
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(6 customer reviews)
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McClelland & Stewart
May 5 2009
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“Tóibín’s genius is that he makes it impossible for us to walk away.”— The New Yorker "Brooklyn is Colm Tóibín's most beautifully executed novel to date.... Reading Tóibín is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect."— Times ...
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Beautiful Creatures
by Kami Garcia
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(18 customer reviews)
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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Dec 1 2009
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Praise for Beautiful Creatures:An Instant New York Times BestsellerAn Indie Next List SelectionA William Morris YA Debut Award FinalistA New York Public Library "Book for the Teen Age" "Gorgeously crafted, atmospheric, and original. I devoured it." - Melissa Marr, NYT bestselling author of Wicked Lovely"A lush Southern gothic." - ...
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Crazy For The Storm
by Norman Ollestad
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(5 customer reviews)
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HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
May 25 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, May 2009: The story itself could take your breath away: an 11-year-old boy, the only survivor of a small-plane crash in the San Gabriel Mountains in 1979, makes his way to safety down an icy mountain face in a blizzard, using the skills and ...
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The Girl Who Played With Fire
by Stieg Larsson
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(86 customer reviews)
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Viking Canada
July 28 2009
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“Exciting and … crisply written … [Larsson] succeeds admirably, filling the book with compelling crime-solving action.” - Toronto Star“A nail-biting tale of murder and cover-ups in which the victims are tantalizingly hard to distinguish from the villains…. Believe the hype…. It’s gripping stuff.” - People“The Girl Who Played ...
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The City & The City
by China Mieville
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(7 customer reviews)
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Del Rey
May 26 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009: The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is ...
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Stitches: A Memoir
by David Small
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 (1 customer review)
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McClelland & Stewart
Sep 22 2009
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New York Times #1 Bestseller"An emotionally raw, artistically compelling and psychologically devastating graphic memoir of childhood trauma. . . . Graphic narrative at its most cathartic."— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"[A] profound and moving memoir. . . . Smalls tells his story with haunting subtlety and power."— Publishers Weekly (starred ...
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity & Hope
by William Kamkwamba
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(2 customer reviews)
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William Morrow
Sep 21 2009
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“William Kamkwamba’s achievements with wind energy should serve as a model of what one person, with an inspired idea, can do to tackle the crisis we face. His book tells a moving and exciting story.” (Al Gore, former Vice President and Nobel Laureate )“This is an amazing, inspiring and ...
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The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
by Thomas E. Ricks
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(3 customer reviews)
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Penguin Press HC, The
Feb 10 2009
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The Mistress of Nothing
by Kate Pullinger
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(9 customer reviews)
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McArthur & Co
Aug 10 2009
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"Pullinger is equally unerring at conveying the subtle cruelties of power relationships and the incremental dawnings of love and affection. Coupled with this is an almost painterly ability to depict an Egypt alternately parched and sumptuous ...
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A Gate at the Stairs
by Lorrie Moore
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(2 customer reviews)
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Bond Street Books
Sep 8 2009
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“In this luminous, heart-wrenchingly wry novel … Moore's graceful prose considers serious emotional and political issues with low-key clarity and poignancy, while generous flashes of wit…endow this stellar novel with great heart.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Moore may be, exactly, the most irresistible contemporary American writer: brainy, humane, unpretentious and ...
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
by Greg Grandin
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(5 customer reviews)
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Metropolitan Books
Jun 9 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009: Proving that truth can indeed be stranger than fiction, Fordlandia is the story of Henry Ford's ill-advised attempt to transform raw Brazilian rainforest into homespun slices of Americana. With sales of his Model-T booming, the automotive tycoon saw an opportunity to expand ...
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This Is Where I Leave You
by Jonathan Tropper
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(7 customer reviews)
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Dutton Adult
Aug 11 2009
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“In a wry domestic tone nicely akin to Tom Perotta’s, Mr. Tropper . . .introduces a darkly entertaining bunch of dysfunctional relatives. . . . This author’s strong suit is wisecracks, the more irreverent the better.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Often sidesplitting, mostly heartbreaking…. [Tropper’s] ...
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Sag Harbor: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
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(1 customer review)
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Doubleday
April 28 2009
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"Whitehead's most enjoyable book--warm and funny, carefully observed, and beautifully written, studded with small moments of pain and epiphany....Whiehead seems to be having the time of his life; one can almost feel him relaxing into this book as if it actually were the summer home of his youth....The humor ...
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Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
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(38 customer reviews)
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Random House Canada
Feb 3 2009
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“A marvel of a first novel. Verghese’s generosity of spirit is beautifully embodied in this gripping family saga that brings mid-century Ethiopia to vivid life. The practice of medicine is like a spiritual calling in this book, and the unforgettable people at its center bring passion and nobility — not ...
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
by Timothy Egan
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(3 customer reviews)
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Mariner Books
Oct 7 2009
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"Egan brings a touching humanity to this story of valor and cowardice in the face of a national catastrophe, paying respectful attention to Roosevelt's great dream of conservation and of an America 'for the little man.'" -Publishers Weekly, starred review"Essential for any Green bookshelf." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Historians will ...
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Cheever: A Life
by Blake Bailey
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(2 customer reviews)
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Knopf
Mar 10 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, March 2009: In this monumental, masterful, and, at nearly 800 pages, mammoth biography, Blake Bailey (author of A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates) turns his attention to John Cheever, "the Chekhov of the suburbs," and his storied, celebrated, and deeply ...
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Too Much Happiness
by Alice Munro
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(6 customer reviews)
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Douglas Gibson Books
Aug 25 2009
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In his 2004 New York Times review of Alice Munro’s Runaway, author Jonathan Franzen painted himself into a corner by bluntly stating what has likely occurred to most reviewers of Munro’s work: “Runaway is so good that I don’t want to talk about it here. Quotation can’t do the ...
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The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
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(140 customer reviews)
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Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Feb 10 2009
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The other side of Gone with the Wind - and just as unputdownable The Sunday Times A big, warm girlfriend of a book The Times Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird has changed lives. It's direct descendent The Help has the same potential ... an a...
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All of Me
by Anne Murray
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(7 customer reviews)
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Knopf Canada
Oct 27 2009
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER"It is warm, straightforward and candid, and Posner has wisely dimmed his own stylistic light in order to let her voice come through. And it does, sometimes with low-key, self-deprecating humour and surprising honesty, and always with a lack of pretentiousness." — The Globe and Mail"In keeping with ...
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
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(25 customer reviews)
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Doubleday Canada
Feb 10 2009
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Flavia Sabina de Luce is mad about chemistry, loves poisons, and is not above dissolving...
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The Unit
by Ninni Holmqvist
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(2 customer reviews)
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Other Press
Jun 9 2009
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Named one of the Best Novels of 2009 by the Wall Street Journal Marcela Valdes, The Washington Post“A haunting, deadpan tale set vaguely in the Scandinavian future…Holmqvist’s spare prose interweaves the Unit’s pleasures and cruelties with exquisite matter-of-factness…[Holmqvist] turns the screw, presenting a set of events so miraculous and ...
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A Place Within: Rediscovering India
by M.G. Vassanji
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(1 customer review)
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Anchor Canada
Sep 15 2009
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“Strikingly written …beautifully observed, filled with myths, stories, legends, history, journal entries, and family narratives. It is an expertly stitched collage and, as much as it reveals about India, it is a great portrait of Vassanji himself…. Wonderful.”— The Globe and Mail“Vassanji brings a gifted storyteller’s eye to A ...
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When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
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(5 customer reviews)
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Wendy Lamb Books
July 14 2009
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Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, June 1, 2009:"[W]hen all the sidewalk characters from Miranda's Manhattan world converge amid mind-blowing revelations and cunning details, teen readers will circle back to the beginning and say,'Wow ... cool.'" Starred Review, Booklist, June 1, 2009:"[T]he mental gymnastics required of readers are invigorating; and the ...
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