The Convalescent By Jessica Anthony

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Title	:	The Convalescent
Author	:	Jessica Anthony
ISBN	:	193478110X
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	240

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The Convalescent is the story of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus parked next to a stream in suburban Virginiaand also, somehow, the story of ten thousand years of Hungarian history Jessica Anthony, the inaugural winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, makes an unforgettable debut with an unforgettable hero Rovar kos Pfliegmand unlikely band The Convalescent is the story of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a More...

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Rock Island Line By David Rhodes

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Title	:	Rock Island Line
Author	:	David Rhodes
ISBN	:	1571310606
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	384

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Raised in an idyllic Iowa town, young July Montgomery is rocked by the tragic death of his parents Fleeing to Philadelphia, he fashions a ghostly existence in an underground train station When a young woman appears to free him from his malaise, they return together to the Iowa heartland, where the novel soars to its heartrending climax First published to enormous acclai Raised in an idyllic Iowa town, young July Mont More...

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Beautiful Children By Charles Bock

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Title	:	Beautiful Children
Author	:	Charles Bock
ISBN	:	1400066506
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	407

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One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve year old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn t come home In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son s room and tortures herself with memories Equally distraught, the boy s father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve year old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend an More...

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The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit By Michael Zadoorian

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Title	:	The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit
Author	:	Michael Zadoorian
ISBN	:	0814334172
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	200

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In The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit Michael Zadoorian follows characters coming to terms with the past and the present in a broken city Rusty, ornery, and down at the heels, Zadoorian s characters have made the wrong choices, been worn down by bad news, or survived traumatic events, but like the city they live in, they are determined not to let tragedy and rotten luck def In The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit Michael Zadoorian follows characters coming to te More...

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No Game, No Life Vol. 1 (No Game No Life, #1) By Yuu Kamiya

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Title	:	No Game, No Life Vol. 1 (No Game No Life, #1)
Author	:	Yuu Kamiya
ISBN	:	1626920796
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	192

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There was an urban legend that there was a legendary, undefeated gamer called , but in reality he was just a NEET brother and sister called Sora and Shiro These hikikomori siblings who both refer to the real world as a worthless Kuso Game are one day summoned to a different world by a boy calling himself God In this world, war is prohibited by God and ever There was an urban legend that there was a legendary, undefeated gamer called , but in reality he was More...

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The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya By Nagaru Tanigawa

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Title	:	The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya
Author	:	Nagaru Tanigawa
ISBN	:	0316038989
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	368

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Where Haruhi goes, trouble follows The two storylines from The Disassociation of Haruhi Suzumiya continue, introducing a new inductee into the S.O.S brigade who may be than just the eager freshman she appears to be As the two realities converge, the SOS Brigade learns that the new member may have the ability to bring the two story timelines together and save th Where Haruhi goes, trouble follows The two storylines from The Disasso More...

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Winterkill By Craig Lesley

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Title	:	Winterkill
Author	:	Craig Lesley
ISBN	:	0312152442
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	336

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Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award From the two time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award a deeply moving and evocative novel of fathers and sons Danny Kachiah is a Native American fighting not to become a casualty His father, Red Shirt, is dead his wife, Loxie, has left him, and his career as a rodeo cowboy is f Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award From the two time win More...

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The Feast of the Goat By Mario Vargas Llosa

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Title	:	The Feast of the Goat
Author	:	Mario Vargas Llosa
ISBN	:	0571207766
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	475

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Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty nine year old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic and finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his i Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and More...

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The Unfortunates By B.S. Johnson

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Title	:	The Unfortunates
Author	:	B.S. Johnson
ISBN	:	0330353292
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	124

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BS Johson s infamous book in a box is, if remembered at all, notorious for its presentation rather than its content The book consists of a first and last section plus 25 other chapters, each one coming as a self contained pamphlet , that can be read in any order the reader likes The subject matter concerns a journalist s day covering a football match in Nottingham, re BS Johson s infamous book in a box is, if remembered at all, notorious for its presentati More...

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Vineland By Thomas Pynchon

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Title	:	Vineland
Author	:	Thomas Pynchon
ISBN	:	0316724440
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	385

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It has been seventeen years since Thomas Pynchon shocked and dazzled readers with his novel Gravity s Rainbow Here, with Vineland, Pynchon is back, introducing a cast of individuals so quirky, so vulnerable, and so terribly ill equipped to deal with each other that they could only hail from this world.It is 1984 in Northern California, where a group of Americans are strug It has been seventeen years sin More...

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The Sportswriter By Richard Ford

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Title	:	The Sportswriter
Author	:	Richard Ford
ISBN	:	0394743253
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	375

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As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people men, mostly who live entirely within themselves This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to But at thirty eight, he suffers from incurable dreaminess, occasional pounding of the heart, and the not too distant losses of a career, a son, and a marriage In the course of the Easter week in which Ford As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people men, mostly who live e More...

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Slowness By Milan Kundera

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Title	:	Slowness
Author	:	Milan Kundera
ISBN	:	0060928417
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	156

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Milan Kundera s lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author s fictional works to have been written in French.Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer s night in which two tales of seduction, separated by than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime Milan Kundera s lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author s fictional works to ha More...

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Pigs in Heaven By Barbara Kingsolver

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Title	:	Pigs in Heaven
Author	:	Barbara Kingsolver
ISBN	:	0571171788
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	343

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Continuing the story begun in The Bean Trees, this novel features the characters Taylor and Turtle as they witness an event whose repercussions will change their lives forever By the author of Animal Dreams and Homeland. More...

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Gilead (Gilead, #1) By Marilynne Robinson

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Title	:	Gilead (Gilead, #1)
Author	:	Marilynne Robinson
ISBN	:	031242440X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	247

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Twenty four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America s heart Writing in the tradition of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, Marilynne Robinson s beautiful, spare, and spiritu Twenty four years after her first novel More...

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The Lazarus Project By Aleksandar Hemon

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Title	:	The Lazarus Project
Author	:	Aleksandar Hemon
ISBN	:	1594489882
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	294

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On March 2, 1908, nineteen year old Lazarus Averbuch, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant, was shot to death on the doorstep of the Chicago chief of police and cast as a would be anarchist assassin.A century later, a young Eastern European writer in Chicago named Brik becomes obsessed with Lazarus s story Brik enlists his friend Rora a war photographer from Sarajevo On March 2, 1908, nineteen year old Lazarus Averbu More...

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The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao By Junot Díaz

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Title	:	The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
Author	:	Junot Díaz
ISBN	:	1594483590
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	350

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Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J R R Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku the curse that has haunted Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but More...

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Survivor By Chuck Palahniuk

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Title	:	Survivor
Author	:	Chuck Palahniuk
ISBN	:	009928264X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	289

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Tender Branson last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult is dictating his life story into Flight 2039 s recorder He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback But before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child to an ultra buffed, steroid and collagen packed media messiah Unpredi Tender Branson last surviving member of the Cree More...

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