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1. Push: A Novel
Push: A Novel
Sapphire
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4.3
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Vintage
April 29, 1997
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Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect. That is the device deployed ... Read more

2. Bed of Roses (The Bride Quartet)
Bed of Roses (The Bride Quartet)
Nora Roberts
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4.0
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Berkley Trade
October 27, 2009
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From Publishers Weekly
In her second bridal-themed romance about four friends who run Vows, a Greenwich, Conn., wedding planning business, Roberts focuses on Emma Grant while her partners, MacKensie, Parker and Laurel, play supporting roles. In the first installment of this plan... Read more

3. Say You're One of Them (Oprah's Book Club)
Say You're One of Them (Oprah's Book Club)
Uwem Akpan
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3.9
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Little, Brown and Company
September 18, 2009
Hardcover

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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Nigerian-born Jesuit priest Akpan transports the reader into gritty scenes of chaos and fear in his rich debut collection of five long stories set in war-torn Africa. An Ex-mas Feast tells the heartbreaking story of eight-year-old Jigana, a... Read more

4. The Shack
The Shack
William P. Young
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4.0
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Windblown Media
July 1, 2007
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Review
"The Shack" is a one of a kind invitation to journey to the very heart of God. Through my tears and cheers, I have been indeed transformed by the tender mercy with which William Paul Young opened the veil that too often separated me from God and from mys... Read more

5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage)
Stieg Larsson
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4.1
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Vintage
June 23, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008: Once you start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there's no turning back. This debut thriller--the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg Larsson--is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of Charlie Huston and Michael Connelly. Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected ... Read more

6. Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
Elizabeth Strout
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4.0
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Random House
March 25, 2008
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Thirteen linked tales from Strout (... Read more

7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer
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4.5
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The Dial Press
July 29, 2008
Hardcover

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From Publishers Weekly
The letters comprising this small charming novel begin in 1946, when single, 30-something author Juliet Ashton (nom de plume Izzy Bickerstaff) writes to her publisher to say she is tired of covering the sunny side of war and its aftermath. When Guernsey fa... Read more

8. The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel
The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel
Garth Stein
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4.7
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Harper Paperbacks
June 9, 2009
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From Publishers Weekly
If you've ever wondered what your dog is thinking, Stein's third novel offers an answer. Enzo is a lab terrier mix plucked from a farm outside Seattle to ride shotgun with race car driver Denny Swift as he pursues success on the track and off. Denny meets ... Read more

9. The Time Traveler's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
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4.1
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Mariner Books
May 27, 2004
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From Publishers Weekly
This clever and inventive tale works on three levels: as an intriguing science fiction concept, a realistic character study and a touching love story. Henry De Tamble is a Chicago librarian with "Chrono Displacement" disorder; at random times, he suddenly ... Read more

10. Run for Your Life (Michael Bennett)
Run for Your Life (Michael Bennett)
James Patterson
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3.7
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Grand Central Publishing
October 20, 2009
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A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on ... Read more

11. Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key
Tatiana de Rosnay
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4.2
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St. Martin's Griffin
September 30, 2008
Paperback

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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. De Rosnay's U.S. debut fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz. Forty-five-year-old Julia Jarmond, American by birth, moved to Paris when she was 20 and is married ... Read more

12. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
Avg. Customer Review:
3.9
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Europa Editions
September 2, 2008
Paperback

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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. This audio version of the surprise French bestseller hits the mark as both performance and story. The leisurely pace of the novel, which explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building, lends itself well to ... Read more

13. The Private Patient (Vintage)
The Private Patient (Vintage)
P. D. James
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4.0
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Vintage
November 3, 2009
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. In James's stellar 14th Adam Dalgliesh mystery (after 2006's ... Read more

14. The Alchemist
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
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4.0
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HarperCollins
April 25, 2006
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Amazon.com Review
Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers ... Read more

15. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (P.S.)
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (P.S.)
David Wroblewski
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3.1
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Ecco
September 8, 2009
Paperback

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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, June 2008: It's gutsy for a debut novelist to offer a modern take on Hamlet set in rural Wisconsin--particularly one in which the young hero, born mute, communicates with people, dogs, and the occasional ghost through his own mix of sign and body language. ... Read more

16. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford
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4.2
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Ballantine Books
October 6, 2009
Paperback

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From Publishers Weekly
Ford's strained debut concerns Henry Lee, a Chinese-American in Seattle who, in 1986, has just lost his wife to cancer. After Henry hears that the belongings of Japanese immigrants interned during WWII have been found in the basement of the Panama Hotel, t... Read more

17. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
Seth Grahame-Smith
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3.3
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Quirk Books
April 4, 2009
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From Bookmarks Magazine
It’s difficult to tell if critics’ reactions to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies should be characterized as praise or astonishment. Some reviewers treated the book as a delightful gimmick. Others found that, beneath the surface, the book actually constituted an interesting way of looking at Austen’s novel. Zombies answer ... Read more

18. The Given Day: A Novel
The Given Day: A Novel
Dennis Lehane
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4.2
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Harper Perennial
September 15, 2009
Paperback

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Amazon.com Review
Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane’s long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly ... Read more

19. Handle with Care: A Novel
Handle with Care: A Novel
Jodi Picoult
Avg. Customer Review:
3.4
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Atria
March 3, 2009
Hardcover

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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Perennial bestseller Picoult (Change of Heart) delivers another engrossing family drama, spiced with her trademark blend of medicine, law and love. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe's daughter, Willow, was born with brittle bone disease, a condition that requires Charlotte to act as full-time caregiver and has strained their ... Read more

20. Knit Two
Knit Two
Kate Jacobs
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3.7
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Berkley Trade
November 3, 2009
Paperback

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From Publishers Weekly
Continuing the warm-and-fuzzy saga begun in her popular The Friday Night Knitting Club, Jacobs stitches together another winning tale of the New York City knitting circle, more a sisterhood than a hobby group (the irascible Darwin Chiu can't even really kn... Read more




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