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A Patent Lie
Paul Goldstein
Doubleday
Doubleday
Forced out of his high-powered Manhattan law firm and stuck in a dead-end solo practice, Michael Seeley, the tough-but-wounded hero of Errors and Omissions , cannot say no when his estranged brother, Leonard, head of research at upstart biotech...
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Telex from Cuba: A Novel
Rachel Kushner
Scribner
Scribner
Rachel Kushner's first novel, Telex from Cuba , doesn't read like your usual debut. Using family stories, extensive archival research, and all the tools of the novelist's imagination, she creates a portrait in many voices of a small society at a...
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1984 (Signet Classics)
George Orwell
New American Library
New American Library
"Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in...
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The Whole Truth
David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing
Grand Central Publishing
"Dick, I need a war." Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. Dick Pender is the man Creel retains to "perception manage" his company to even more riches by...
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.)
Michael Chabon
Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial
For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the...
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Say You're One of Them
Uwem Akpan
Little, Brown and Company
Little, Brown and Company
Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy...
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Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
William Golding
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather...
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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan
Miramax
Miramax
Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he cant seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worsePercy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill...
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America America: A Novel
Ethan Canin
Random House
Random House
From Ethan Canin, bestselling author of The Palace Thief , comes a stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man’s life. In the early...
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How Fiction Works
James Wood
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008 : The first thing you'll notice about How Fiction Works is its size. At 252 pages, it's a marvel of economy for a book that asks such a huge question and right away you'll want to know (as you might at the...
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