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Fiction 2010
July - Dececmber
Titles are listed by approximate date of publication, then alphabetically by author. Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine - unless otherwise noted.
July - December
July...
- News from Home: Stories
Author: Atta, Sefi
$ 15 ISBN: 9781566568036 Date: 2010
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Winner of the 2009 NOMA Award for Publishing in Africa
Updated 6.8.10 - I Love this Bar
Author: Brown, Carolyn
$ 6.99 ISBN: 9781402239267 Date: 2010
Booklist
Find out what happens when one sassy barmaid, a damn fine cowboy, and the hottest beer joint in two counties are mixed together.
Updated 7.12.10 - A Dog's Purpose
Author: Cameron, W. Bruce
$ 22.99 ISBN: 9780765326263 Date: 2010
LJ
Surprised to find himself reborn as a golden-haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey wonders if he will ever find his purpose, in this beautifully crafted work that teaches that love never dies and that every creature on Earth is born with a purpose.
Updated 6.8.10 - 32 Candles
Author: Brown, Ernessa
$ 24.99 ISBN: 9780061957840 Date: 2010
Booklist
Suggested Reading: African American Stars
Updated 7.12.10 - Kings of the Earth
Author: Clinch, Jon
$ 26 ISBN: 9781400069019 Date: 2010
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Told in a chorus of voices that spans a generation, Kings of the Earth examines the bonds of family and blood, faith and suspicion, that link not just three brothers but their entire community.
Updated 6.10.10 - Bliss, Remembered
Author: Deford, Frank
$ 25.95 ISBN:9781590203590 Date: 2010
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At the 1936 Berlin Olympics the beautiful Sydney Stringfellow begins an intense love affair with a German but the affair abruptly ends when political forces tear them apart.
Updated 6.8.10 - Memory Wall: Stories
Author: Doerr, Anthony
$ 24 ISBN: 9781439182802 Date: 2010
LJ
From an award-winning author comes a new collection of stories that is even more compelling and accomplished than his previous work.
Updated 6.8.10 - Work Song
Author: Doig, Ivan
$ 25.95 ISBN: 9781594487620 Date: 2010
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An award-winning and beloved novelist of the American West spins the further adventures of a favorite character, in one of his richest historical settings yet.
Updated 6.8.10 - The Surf Guru
Author: Dorst, Doug
$ 25.95 ISBN: 9781594487613 Date: 2010
Kirkus
A book of brilliant, adventurous stories from the award-winning author of Alive in Necropolis.
Updated 7.12.10 - Barely a Lady (Rakes book 1)
Author: Dreyer, Eileen
$6.99 ISBN: 9780446542081 Date: 2010
LJ
After discovering her former husband on the battlefield of Waterloo--and in enemy uniform--Olivia Grace must pretend to still be married to Jack to keep him from being hanged as a traitor
Updated 7.12.10 - The Cookbook Collector
Author: Goodman, Allegra
$ 25 ISBN: 9780385340854 Date: 2010
LJ PW Kirkus Booklist
Goodman weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley and rare-book collecting in a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and fulfillment. Bi-coastal, surprising, rich in ideas and characters, this work is about getting and spending, and about the substitutions one must make.
Updated 7.12.10 - Lucy
Author: Gonzales, Laurence
$ 24.95 ISBN: 9780307272607 Date: 2010
Kirkus
An explosive, daring novel that suggests what might happen when a young girl is discovered to be the result of the experimental breeding of human and ape.
Updated 6.8.10 - The Island
Author: Hilderbrand, Elin
$ 24.95 ISBN: 9780316043878 Date: 2010
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A woman, her two daughters, and her sister spend the month of July on rustic, charming Tuckernuck Island off the coast of Nantucket. Secrets and intrigue soon make their way to the surface, as Hilderbrand (Nantucket Nights) once again weaves a masterful story of summer suspense.
Updated 6.8.10 - Elegies for the Brokenhearted
Author: Hodgen, Christie
$ 23.95 ISBN: 9780393061406 Date: 2010
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In this savvy, spirited, moving, and surprisingly humorous novel, Mary Murphy tells her own story as she paints lively portraits of the people with whom she's crossed paths.
Updated 6.15.10 - The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay
Author: Jensen, Beverly
$ 25.95 ISBN: 9780670021666 Date: 2010
Kirkus
A tale of two sisters spanning over 70 years that recovers the vibrant and unforgettable voice of Beverly Jensen.
Updated 6.8.10 - Father of the Rain
Author: King, Lily
$ 24 ISBN: 9780802119490 Date: 2010
LJ
From the award-winning author of The English Teacher comes her most ambitious novel yet. King sets her sharply insightful family drama in an upper-middle-class suburb, where she traces a complex and explosive father-daughter relationship from the 1970s to the present day.
Updated 5.1.10 - Love in the Afternoon
Author: Kleypas, Lisa
$ 7.99 ISBN: 9780312605391 Date: 2010
LJ
New York Times-bestselling author Kleypas delivers her latest Hathaway story--the follow-up to Married by Morning. Free-spirited Beatrix Hathaway has resigned herself to the fate of never finding love--until she begins a correspondence with the daring yet world-weary soldier who plans to marry Beatrix's friend.
Updated 7.12.10 - On the Many Deaths of Amanda Palmer (And the Many Crimes of Tobias James
Author: Kriwaczek. Rohan
$ 24.95 ISBN: 978159203811 Date: 2010
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Updated 7.12.10 - The Thieves of Manhattan
Author: Langer, Adam
$ 24 ISBN: 9781400068913 Date: 2010
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An aspiring writer with a low-paying day job at a coffee shop becomes embroiled in an elaborate scheme to create a fake memoir of his own. Ian quickly realizes that fact and fiction can be dangerously intertwined.
Updated 4.29.10 - I Kiss an Earl
Author: Long, Julie Anne
$ 7.99 ISBN: 9780061885662 Date: 2010
LJ
Updated 8.9.10 - The Debba
Author: Mandelman, Avner
$ 14.95 ISBN: 9781590513705 Date: 2010
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In 1977, David Starkman is living in Canada, having renounced his Israeli citizenship and haunted by persistent nightmares about his catastrophic turn as a military assassin for Israel. Upon learning of his father's murder, he returns to his homeland for what he hopes will be the final time.
Updated 7.13.10 - Corduroy Mansions
Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
$ 24.95 ISBN: 9780307379085 Date: 2010
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Corduroy Mansions is the affectionate nickname given to a genteel, crumbling mansion block in London's vibrant Pimlico neighborhood, and the home turf of a new cast of captivating, quirky, and altogether McCall-Smithian characters.
Updated 6.8.10 - Keeping Time
Author: McGlynn, Stacey
$ 24 ISBN: 9780307464408 Date: 2010
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Updated 9.3.10 - Lady of the Butterflies
Author: Mountain, Fiona
$ 25.95 ISBN: 9780399156366 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.9.10 - What Is Left the Daughter
Author: Norman, Howard
$ 25 ISBN: 9780618735433 Date: 2010
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Norman, widely regarded as one of this country's finest novelists, returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books--The Bird Artist, The Museum Guard, and The Haunting of L--in this erotically charged and morally complex story.
Updated 6.15.10 - A Thousand Peaceful Cities
Author: Pilch, Jerzy
$ 14.95 ISBN: 9781934824276 Date: 2010
Kirkus
A comic gem, Jerzy Pilchs A Thousand Peaceful Cities takes place in 1963, in the latter days of the Polish post-Stalinist thaw. The narrator, Jerzyk (little Jerzy), is a teenager who is keenly interested in his father, a retired postal administrator, and his fathers closest friend, Mr. Tr?ba, a failed Lutheran clergyman, alcoholic, would-be Polish insurrectionist, and one of the wildest literary characters since Sternes Uncle Toby. - Publisher Marketing
Updated 6.8.10 - The Blood of Lorraine
Author: Pope, Barbara Corrado
$ 25 ISBN: 9781605980980 Date: 2010
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In the wake of the Dreyfus Affair, the murder of two Jews in the French town of Nancy reveals the darker side of human nature.
Updated 6.8.10 - The Wicked Wycherly
Author: Rice, Patricia
$ 7.99 ISBN: 9780451230713 Date: 2010
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Abigail Merriweather's farm is quiet since she lost custody of her four young half-siblings--until a roguish gentleman named Fitz stops for a rest, his rebellious daughter in tow. His etiquette is questionable, his parenting deplorable--so why does Abby delight in his flirtations?
Updated 7.12.10 - Buddha's Orphans
Author: Upadhyay, Samrat
$ 26 ISBN: 9780618517503 Date: 2010
PW
Updated 9.3.10
August...
- The Homecoming Party
Author: Abate, Carmine
$ 15 ISBN:9781933372839 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.9.10 - Mothers and Other Liars
Author: Boureet, Amy
$13.99 ISBN: 9780312586584 Date: 2010
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It's been 10 years since Ruby Leander found a baby in an Oklahoma rest stop trash can and kept the girl. Now settled in Santa Fe with her daughter Lark, Ruby reads an article about an infant kidnapped by car-jackers. Suddenly, the lie she created about Lark's origins is shattered.
Updated 6.8.10 - A Stranger Like You
Author: Brundage, Elizabeth
$ 25.95 ISBN: 9780670022007 Date: 2010
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Brundage delivers a taut thriller about the lengths to which people will go to make their dreams come true. After film exec Hedda Chase pulls the the plug on a film project initiated by one of her predecessors, the screenwriter decides to stage his script's ending and casts Hedda as the victim.
Updated 7.12.10 - Percival's Planet
Author: Byers, Michael
$ 27 ISBN: 9780805092189 Date: 2010
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Byers delivers a novel of ambition and obsession centered on the race to discover Pluto in 1930, pitting an untrained Kansas farm boy against the greatest minds of Harvard at the run-down Lowell Observatory in Arizona.
Updated 7.13.10 - Last Night's Scandal
Author: Chase, Loretta
$ 7.99 ISBN: 9780061632679 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.9.10 - Barnacle Love
Author: De Sala, Anthony
$ 13.95 ISBN: 9781565129269 Date: 2010
Booklist
Shortlisted for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize. At the heart of this collection of intimately linked stories is the relationship between a father and his son--and both the promise and the disappointment inherent in the choices made by the father and the expectations placed on the son.
Updated 7.12.10 - Water Bound: Sea Haven
Author: Feehan, Christine
$ 7.99 ISBN: 9780515148244 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.9.10 - Turbulence
Author: Foden, Giles
$ 25.95 ISBN: 9780307592774 Date: 2010
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From the highly acclaimed and prize-winning author of The Last King of Scotland comes a heart-stopping novel about British and American scientists who attempt the impossible--to get millions of Allied troops secretly across the English Channel for D-day.
Updated 4.14.10 - Three Sisters
Author: Feiyu, Bi
$ 24 ISBN: 9780151013647 Date: 2010
PW
In a small village in China, the Wang family has produced seven sisters in its quest to have a boy; three of the sisters emerge as the lead characters in this remarkable novel. From the small-town treachery of the village to the slogans of the Cultural Revolution to the harried pace of city life, Bi Feiyu follows the women as they strive to change the course of their destinies and battle against an "infinite ocean of people" in a China that does not truly belong to them. Yumi will use her dignity, Yuxiu her powers of seduction, and Yuyang her ambition--all in an effort to take control of their world, their bodies, and their lives. In one review Lisa See said: I hope this is the first of many of Bi's works to come to us. Three Sisters fulfills that wish, with its irreplaceable portrait of contemporary Chinese life and indelible story of three tragic and sometimes triumphant heroines. - Publisher Marketing
Updated 4.14.10 - The Blasphemer
Author: Farndale, Nigel
$ 25.99 ISBN: 9780307717030 Date: 2010
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On its way to the Galapagos Islands, a light aircraft crashes into the sea. Zoologist Daniel Kennedy is confronted with a stark Darwinian choice. Should he save himself, or Nancy, the woman he loves? Can one moment of betrayal ever be forgiven?
Updated 7.12.10 - City of Veils
Author: Ferraris, Zoe
$ 23.99 ISBN: 9780316074278 Date: 2010
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A riveting literary mystery,City of Veils reveals the shrouded world of women in modern-day Saudi Arabia.
Updated 7.12.10 - A Kiss at Midnight
Author: James, Eloisa
$ 7.99 ISBN: 9780061626845 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.9.10 - The Four Fingers of Death
Author: Moody, Rick
$ 25.99 ISBN: 9780316118910 Date: 2010
Kirkus
Ideal for fans of such comic masterpieces as Slaughterhouse-Five, The Crying of Lot 49, and Catch-22, The Four Fingers of Death is a stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel by the author of The Diviners.
Updated 6.8.10 - I Curse the River of Time
Author: Petterson, Per
$ 23 ISBN: 9781555975562 Date: 2010
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An enthralling novel of a mother and son's turbulent relationship from the author of Out Stealing Horses.
Updated 6.15.10 - Rich Boy
Author: Pomerantz, Sharon
$ 24.99 ISBN: 9780446563185 Date: 2010
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Hailing from a working-class Jewish neighborhood in Philadelphia, Robert Vishniak has worked his way up in the world. But a chance encounter with a beautiful girl from the old neighborhood--and the forgotten life she reawakens--threatens to unravel his carefully constructed new identity.
Updated 6.8.10 - Poison
Author: Poole, Sara
$ 14.99 ISBN: 9780312609832 Date: 2010
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Determined to avenge the killing of her father, Francesca Giordano defies all convention to claim for herself the position of poisoner serving Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, head of the most notorious and dangerous family in Italy.
Updated 7.12.10 - Murder at Mansfield Park
Author: Shepherd, Lynn
$ 14.99 ISBN: 9780312638344 Date: 2010
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Complete with romance, intrigue, and crimes of the heart, Murder at Mansfield Park is an irreverent new twist on an old classic, featuring genuine Jane Austen characters that have been entertainingly transformed.
Updated 6.15.10 - Super Sad True Love Story
Author: Shteyngart, Gary
$ 25 ISBN: 9781400066407 Date: 2010
Kirkus Booklist
The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America's dysfunctional coming years--and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.
Updated 6.15.10 - My Hollywood
Author: Simpson, Mona
$25.95 ISBN: 9780307273529 Date: 2010
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From the much-loved author of Anywhere but Here and The Lost Father, comes a long-awaited novel--her first in 10 years--about two women behind the glitter of Hollywood.
Updated 7.12.10 - His at Night
Author: Thomas, Sherry
$ 7.99 ISBN: 9780553592443 Date: 2010
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From the most powerfully original historical romance author writing today (Lisa Kleypas) comes a lush, seductive new romance about a lord and lady who seem a perfect match--until they discover each other's secrets.
Updated 7.12.10 - The Legacy
Author: Trantor, Kirsten
$ 15 ISBN: 9781439177181 Date: 2010
Kirkus PW
In the tradition of Danna Tartt's The Secret History comes a thrilling and addictive novel about three unlikely friends and the web of lies that becomes unraveled after one of them goes missing.
Updated 7.12.10 - Strangers at the Feast
Author: Vanderbes, Jennifer
$ 26 ISBN: 9781439166956 Date: 2010
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On Thanksgiving Day 2007, as the country teeters on the brink of a recession, three generations of the Olson family gather. Eleanor and Gavin worry about their daughter, a single academic, and her newly adopted Indian child, and about their son, who has been caught in the imploding real-estate bubble. While the Olsons navigate the tensions and secrets that mark their relationships, seventeen-year-old Kijo Jackson and his best friend Spider set out from the nearby housing projects on a mysterious job. A series of tragic events bring these two worlds ever closer, exposing the dangerously thin line between suburban privilege and urban poverty, and culminating in a crime that will change everyone's life. In her gripping new book, Jennifer Vanderbes masterfully lays bare the fraught lives of this complex cast of characters and the lengths to which they will go to protect their families. Strangers at the Feast is at once a heartbreaking portrait of a family struggling to find happiness and an exploration of the hidden costs of the American dream. - Publisher Marketing
Updated 4.14.10 - The Personal History of Rachel Dupree
Author: Weisgarber, Ann
$ 25.95 ISBN: 9780670022014 Date: 2010
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Reminiscent of The Color Purple, this novel tells the little-known story of African-American pioneers and gives voice to an extraordinary heroine who embodies the strength and spirit that built America.
Updated 7.12.10
September...
- And Thereby Hangs a Tail
Author: Archer, Jeffrey
$ 24.99 ISBN:9780312539535 Date: 2010
Kirkus
Updated 8.9.10 - Nashville Chrome
Author: Bass, Rick
$ 24 ISBN: 9780547317267 Date: 2010
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Late in 1959, the Brown siblings--Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed--were enjoying unprecedented international success, rivaled only by their longtime friend Elvis Presley. Lyrical and nuanced, Nashville Chrome vividly evokes an era in American music, while presenting a wrenching meditation on the complexities of fame and of one family.
Updated 8.9.10 - Dogfight: A Love Story
Author: Burgess, Matt
$ 24.95 ISBN: 9780385532983 Date: 2010
PW
With a story as intricately plotted as a Shakespearean comedy--or revenge tragedy, for that matter--and an electrically colloquial prose style, Dogfight, a Love Story establishes Burgess as an exuberant new voice in contemporary literature.
Updated 7.12.10 - Quiet as They Come: Stories
Author: Chau, Angie
$15.95 ISBN: 9781935439189 Date: 2010
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A mesmerizing portrait of first generation Vietnamese immigrants struggling to create a life for themselves and their children in America.
Updated 8.5.10 - Maybe This Time
Author: Crusie, Jennifer
$ 24.99 ISBN: 9780312303785 Date: 2010
Booklist
The New York Times-bestselling author of Bet Me and Welcome to Temptation delivers her long-awaited novel, in which a woman is approached by her ex-husband to become caregiver to two orphaned children in a creepy old haunted house. What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an avenging ex-mother-in-law, and a jealous fianc.
Updated 7.12.10 - Room
Author: Donoghue, Emma
$ 24.99 ISBN: 9780316098335 Date: 2010
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Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.
Updated 8.9.10 - Mr Toppit
Author: Elton, Charles
$ 15.95 ISBN: 9781590513903 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.9.10 - Vida: Stories
Author: Engle, Patricia
$ 14 ISBN: 9780802170781 Date: 2010
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Sabina navigates her shifting identity as a daughter of the Colombian diaspora and struggles to find her place within and beyond the net of her strong, protective, but embattled family.
Updated 7.12.10 - Extraordinary Renditions
Author: Ervin, Andrew
$ 14.95 ISBN: 9781566892469 Date: 2010
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Music, war, and imperial ambition touch three lives in this intricately woven story.
Updated 8.5.10 - Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Author: Evans, Danielle
$ 2595 ISBN: 9781594487699 Date: 2010
Kirkus
This electric debut story collection focuses on African-American and mixed-race teens, women, and men struggling to find their place. Striking in their emotional immediacy, the tales are based in a world where insecurities of adolescence and young adulthood, and the tensions within family are the biggest complicating forces in one's sense of identity and the choices one makes.
Updated 7.12.10 - Fall of Giants: First in the Century Trilogy
Author: Follett, Ken
$ 35 ISBN: 9780525951650 Date: 2010
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The first novel in The Century Trilogy follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
Updated 7.12.10 - Freedom
Author: Franzen, Jonathan
$ 28 ISBN: 9780374158460 Date: 2010
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From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections comes a darkly comedic novel about family. Franzen's intensely realized characters struggle to learn how to live in an ever-confusing world--one with the temptations and burdens of liberty, the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, and the heavy weight of empire.
Updated 8.9.10 - The Lady Matador's Hotel
Author: Garcia, Cristina
$ 24 ISBN: 9781439181744 Date: 2010
Booklist
National Book Award finalist Garcia delivers a powerful and gorgeous novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a luxurious hotel in an unnamed Central American capital in the midst of political turmoil.
Updated 7.12.10 - Everything Must Change
Author: Glass, Julia
$ 26.95 ISBN: 9780307377920 Date: 2010
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In a quirky farmhouse outside Boston, 70-year-old Percy Darling enjoys a vigorous but mostly solitary life until, in a complex scheme to help his oldest daughter through a crisis, he allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn. The abrupt transformation of Percy's rural refuge into a lively, youthful community compels him to reexamine the choices he's made.
Updated 9.3.10 - Ape House
Author: Gruen, Sara
$ 26 ISBN: 9780385523219 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.9.10 - Snakewoman of Little Egypt
Author: Hellenga, Robert
$ 25 ISBN: 9781608192625 Date: 2010
Kirkus Booklist LJ
From the author of The Sixteen Pleasures comes a winning new novel packed with wit, substance, and emotional depth that takes readers into the world of snakehandling.
Updated 9.3.10 - Russian Winter
Author: Kalotay, Daphne
$ 25.99 ISBN: 9780061962165 Date: 2010
Kirkus
Tender, passionate, and moving, Daphne Kalotay's debut novel about ballet, jewels, love and betrayal is also a delicious form of time travel. I loved it.--Jenna Blum, New York Times-bestselling author of Those Who Save Us.
Updated 7.12.10 - Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes
Author: Kehlmann, Daniel
$ 24 ISBN: 9780307378712 Date: 2010
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A man buys a cell phone and starts receiving calls intended for someone else--so begins this tale about fame and obscurity, truth and deception. After some initial hesitation, the man receiving someone else's phone calls begins to play with his new identity.
Updated 8.9.10 - A Call from Jersey
Author: Kluge, P.F.
$ 25.95 ISBN:9781590203613 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.9.10 - Gold Boy, Emerald Girl: Stories
Author: Li, Yiyun
$ 25 ISBN: 9781400068135 Date: 2010
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In this collection of spellbinding stories, the acclaimed author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers delivers exquisite fiction filled with suspense, depth, and beauty.
Updated 7.12.10 - The Skin Map
Author: Lawhead, Stephen
$ 24.99 ISBN: 9781595548047 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.9.10 - I Dream of Magda
Author: Laxsczuk, Stefan
$ 15.95 ISBN: 9781741755015 Date: 2010
Booklist
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."Tolstoy wasn't thinking specifically of the Harrison family when he wrote those words, but maybe he should have been. George Harrison is 28 and afraid of the dark. His father is dead and his mother lives in la-la land. Reeling from a broken heart, and still coping with the trauma of a childhood home invasion, George works in a dead-end job in a bowling alley and finds rare solace in the giant painting of an alien that sits outside his room. His brother Matthew isn't much better off. After losing the love of his life in a traumatic car accident, he's retreated into a private world of sleep where he dreams about falling in love with comedienne Magda Szubanski. Matthew and George are each stuck in their own little messed-up world, with no idea how to get out, and neither of them is sure whether their unhappy family will ever finally pull together, or simply just fall apart. - Publisher Marketing
Updated 7.12.10 - The Good Daughters
Author: Maynard, Joyce
$ 24.99 ISBN: 9780061994319 Date: 2010
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From the bestselling author of Labor Day comes a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange, unexpected twists of fate that shape our lives.
Updated 8.5.10 - The Devil Wears Plaid
Author: Medieros, Teresa
$ 7.99 ISBN: 9781439157886 Date: 2010
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Updated 9.3.10 - Skippy Dies
Author: Murray, Paul
$ 28 ISBN: 9780865479432 Date: 2010
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Why does Skippy, a 14-year-old boy at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop? Why Skippy dies and what happens next unravels a mystery that links the boys of Seabrook College to their parents and teachers in ways nobody could have imagined.
Updated 8.9.10 - The Gendarme
Author: Mustian, M.T.
$ 25.95 ISBN: 9780399156342 Date: 2010
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In this haunting work, an elderly man comes face-to-face with his past and sets out to find the love of his life--and beg her forgiveness.
Updated 6.8.10 - Sourland: Stories
Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
$ 24.99 ISBN: 9780061996528 Date: 2010
Booklist
From a New York Times-bestselling author comes a gripping and moving new collection which reimagines the meaning of loss--often through violent means.
Updated 6.8.10 - Love's First Bloom
Author: Parr, Delia
$ 14.99 ISBN: 9780764206719 Date: 2010
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Suggested Reading: Christian Fiction Stars
Updated 9.3.10 - Vestments
Author: Reimringer, John
$ 25 ISBN: 9781571310804 Date: 2010
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Let me begin today, illumined by Thy light, to destroy this part of the natural man which lives in me in its entirety, the obstacle that constantly keeps me from Thy Love. Taught this prayer as a boy by his grandfather, James Dressler recites it each time he's tempted by earthly desires. Originally drawn to the priesthood by the mystery, purity, and sensual fabric of the Church, as well as by its promise of a safe harbor from his tempestuous home, James finds himself -- just a few years after his ordination -- attracted again to his first love, Betty Garcia. Torn between these opposing desires, and haunted by his familial heritage, James finds himself at a crossroads. Exploring age-old and yet urgently contemporary issues in the Catholic Church, and infused throughout by a rich sense of the history and vibrant texture of St. Paul, and infused throughout by a rich sense of the history and vibrant texture of St. Paul, this is an utterly honest and subtly lyrical novel. - Publisher Marketing
Updated 7.12.10 - The Elephant's Journey
Author: Saramago, Jose
$ 24 ISBN: 9780547352589 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.9.10 - Empire: A Novel of the Roman Empire
Author: Saylor, Steven
$ 25.99 ISBN: 9780312381011 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.9.10 - Some Sing, Some Cry
Author: Shange, Ntosake & Ifa Bayeza
$ 26.99 ISBN: 9780312198992 Date: 2010
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Shange, the award-winning author of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, and her sister Bayeza, the award-winning playwright of The Ballad of Emmett Till," take readers on an astonishing tour through the watershed events of American history as experienced by one strong and musically gifted family.
Updated 7.12.10 - Man in the Woods
Author: Spencer, Scott
$ 24.99 ISBN: 9780061466557 Date: 2010
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The author of Endless Love and A Ship Made of Paper delivers a gripping and provocative psychological thriller of morality and manhood, choice and fate.
Updated 8.9.10 - The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise
Author: Stuart, Julia
$ 25 ISBN: 9780385533287 Date: 2010
LJ
Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London is a magical, wholly original novel whose irresistible characters will stay with readers long after they turn the stunning last page. It has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amelie.
Updated 7.12.10 - A Memory Between Us
Author: Sundin, Sarah
$ 14.99 ISBN: 9780800734220 Date: 2010
Booklist
Suggested Reading: Christian Fiction
Updated 8.9.10 - Bitter in the Mouth
Author: Troung, Monique
$ 25 ISBN: 9781400069088 Date: 2010
Booklist
The bestselling and award-winning author of The Book of Salt pens a brilliant, mesmerizing, beautifully written novel about a young woman's search for identity and family, as she uncovers the secrets of her past and of history.
Updated 7.12.10 - The Sacred White Turkey
Author: Washburn, Frances A.
$ 15.95 ISBN: 9780803228467 Date: 2010
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There is nothing particularly noteworthy about an Easter turkey. But when the turkey is stark white and appears on Easter Sunday on the doorstep of a Lakota medicine woman and her teenage granddaughter, it is clearly out of the ordinary. Taking turns, Stella and her grandmother, Hazel Latour, tell the story of what follows as the mysterious turkey stirs up discord on the reservation, where some greet it as "wakan," holy and sacred because of its coloring and timing, and others dismiss it as inexplicable but unimportant, while a less reputable local healer views it as a clear challenge to his standing. A tour de force of storytelling, The Sacred White Turkey is at once remarkably entertaining, rich with suspense and humor, and deeply philosophical, exploring questions of spirituality and power, abuse and trickery, all within a framework that embraces both Native and Catholic traditions. As the Latours find themselves the target of escalating violence, embroiled in a BIA leasing scandal, and witnesses to a turkey crucifixion, readers will find themselves thoroughly engaged in the unfolding mystery and meaning of the sacred white turkey. - Publisher Marketing
Updated 7.12.10 - How to Live Safely in a Science Ficitonal Universe
Author: Yu, Charles
$ 24 ISBN:9780307379207 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.9.10 - A Congregation of Jackels
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$ 6.99 ISBN: 9780800734220 Date: 2010
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$ 6.99 ISBN: 9781420106800 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.9.10 - One Touch of Scandal
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$ 7.99 ISBN: 9780061965753 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.5.10 - All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost
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$ 23.95 ISBN: 9780393063066 Date: 2010
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$ 24.95 ISBN: 9781565126084 Date: 2010
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Updated 7.12.10 - By Nightfall
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$ 25 ISBN: 9780374299088 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.9.10 - Gentleman Captain
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$ 25 ISBN:9780547382616 Date: 2010
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Updated 7.12.10 - Immanuel's Veins
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$ 25.99 ISBN: 9781595540096 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.9.10 - Mink River
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$ 18.95 ISBN: 97808070715853 Date: 2010
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Updated 9.3.10 - The Blindness of the Heart
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$ 24.95 ISBN: 9780802119674 Date: 2010
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Updated 9.3.10 - Palo Alto: Stories
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$ 24 ISBN: 9781439163146 Date: 2010
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$ 24.99 ISBN: 9780060594664 Date: 2010
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Updated 9.3.10 - The False Friend
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$ 25.95 ISBN: 9780385527217 Date: 2010
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Updated 9.3.10 - Lester Higata's 20th Century
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$ 16 ISBN: 9781587299186 Date: 2010
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Updated 9.3.10 - Up from the Blue
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$ 13.99 ISBN: 9780061984037 Date: 2010
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Updated 9.3.10 - World and Town
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$ 26.95 ISBN: 9780307272195 Date: 2010
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Updated 9.3.10 - Great House
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$ 24.95 ISBN: 978039079982 Date: 2010
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Updated 9.3.10 - Take Me Home
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$ 24.99 ISBN: 9780061769078 Date: 2010
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Updated 9.3.10 - Driving on the Rim
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$ 26.95 ISBN: 9781400041558 Date: 2010
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$ 25.95 ISBN: 9781594487705 Date: 2010
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$ 25 ISBN: 9781596915756 Date: 2010
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Updated 9.3.10 - Adam & Eve
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$ 26.99 ISBN: 9780061579271 Date: 2010
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$ 23 ISBN: 978155975692 Date: 2010
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$ 26 ISBN: 9780457318356 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.9.10 - The Weekend
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$ 24.95 ISBN: 9780307378156 Date: 2010
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Updated 7.12.10 - A Curable Romantic
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$ 24.95 ISBN: 9781565129290 Date: 2010
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$ 24.95 ISBN: 9780393179562 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.9.10 - The Marriage Artist
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$ 26 ISBN: 9780805091786 Date: 2010
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Updated 9.3.10 - Years of Red Dust
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$ 24.99 ISBN: 9780312628093 Date: 2010
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Updated 9.3.10 - The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai
Author: Xu, Ruiyan
$ 24.99 ISBN: 9780312586546 Date: 2010
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$ 25 ISBN: 9780805092868 Date: 2010
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$ 16 ISBN: 9781571310798 Date: 2010
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Updated 8.5.10 - God on the Rocks
Author: Gardam, Jane
$ 15 ISBN: 9781933372761 Date: 2010
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Updated 9.3.10 - Wolves of Andover
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$ 24.99 ISBN: 9780316068628 Date: 2010
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Updated 9.3.10 - Foreign Bodies
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$ 26 ISBN: 9780547435572 Date: 2010
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Updated 7.12.10 - Luka and the Fire of Life
Author: Rushdie, Salman
$ 25 ISBN: 9780679463368 Date: 2010
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$ 24.99 ISBN: 9780312622794 Date: 2010
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