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Breaking and Entering
Joy Williams
A book about violence and redemption, Joy Williams' new fiction tells the story of two drifters who break into Florida...
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Empire of Wild
Cherie Dimaline
"Deftly written, gripping and informative. Empire of Wild is a rip-roaring read!"--Margaret Atwood, From Instagram "Empire of Wild is doing...
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After the Fireworks
Aldous Huxley, Gary Giddins
"After the Fireworks is a major work and a turning point for Huxley, leading directly to Brave New World." --Gary...
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Whatever Happened to Interracial Love
Kathleen Collins
A collection of stories from a brilliant yet little known African American artist and filmmaker--a contemporary of revered writers including...
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Tiger Stadium
Michael Betzold,, John Davids, Bill Dow
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The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi
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My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk
The Nobel Prize winner and one of today's most prominent contemporary Turkish writers delivers a novel that is a fiendishly...
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Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic...
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The Gift of Rain
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The recipient of extraordinary acclaim from critics and the bookselling community, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell...
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