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Let the Great World Spin: A Novel
by Colum McCann
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 (459 customer reviews)
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December 2, 2009
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009: Colum McCann has worked some exquisite magic with Let the Great World Spin, conjuring a novel of electromagnetic force that defies gravity. It's August of 1974, a summer "hot and serious and full of death and betrayal," and Watergate and the Vietnam ...
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Strength in What Remains
by Tracy Kidder
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 (166 customer reviews)
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August 25, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, September 2009: Strength in What Remains is an unlikely story about an unreasonable man. Deo was a young medical student who fled the genocidal civil war in Burundi in 1994 for the uncertainty of New York City. Against absurd odds--he arrived with little money ...
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Wolf Hall: A Novel (Man Booker Prize)
by Hilary Mantel
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 (1,062 customer reviews)
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Henry Holt and Co.
October 13, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009: No character in the canon has been writ larger than Henry VIII, but that didn't stop Hilary Mantel. She strides through centuries, past acres of novels, histories, biographies, and plays--even past Henry himself--confident in the knowledge that to recast history's most mercurial ...
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Brooklyn: A Novel
by Colm Toibin
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(256 customer reviews)
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May 5, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, May 2009: Committed to a quiet life in little Enniscorthy, Ireland, the industrious young Eilis Lacey reluctantly finds herself swept up in an unplanned adventure to America, engineered by the family priest and her glamorous, "ready for life" sister, Rose. Eilis's determination to embrace ...
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Beautiful Creatures
by Kami Garcia
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(3,257 customer reviews)
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December 1, 2009
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Ethan Wate is struggling to hide his apathy for his high school "in" crowd in small town Gatlin, South Carolina, until he meets the determinedly "out" Lena Duchannes, the girl of his dreams (literally--she has been in his nightmares for months). What follo...
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Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
by Norman Ollestad
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(188 customer reviews)
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June 2, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009: The story itself could take your breath away: an 11-year-old boy, the only survivor of a small-plane crash in the San Gabriel Mountains in 1979, makes his way to safety down an icy mountain face in a blizzard, using the skills ...
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
by Stieg Larsson
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(2,345 customer reviews)
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July 28, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, July 2009: The girl with the dragon tattoo is back. Stieg Larsson's seething heroine, Lisbeth Salander, once again finds herself paired with journalist Mikael Blomkvist on the trail of a sinister criminal enterprise. Only this time, Lisbeth must return to the darkness of her ...
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The City & The City
by China Miéville
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(223 customer reviews)
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Del Rey
May 26, 2009
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009: The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, ...
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Stitches: A Memoir
by David Small
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(121 customer reviews)
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W. W. Norton & Company
September 8, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, September 2009: Reading Stitches may feel unexpectedly familiar. Not in the details of its story--which is David Small's harrowing account of growing up under the watchless eyes of parents who gave him cancer (his radiologist father subjected him to unscrupulous x-rays for minor ailments) ...
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
by Bryan Mealer
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(278 customer reviews)
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William Morrow
September 29, 2009
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, September 2009: Discarded motor parts, PVC pipe, and an old bicycle wheel may be junk to most people, but in the inspired hands of William Kamkwamba, they are instruments of opportunity. Growing up amid famine and poverty in rural Malawi, wind was one of ...
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The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
by Thomas E. Ricks
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(78 customer reviews)
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Penguin Press HC, The
February 10, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, February 2009: Anyone who read Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks's superb, bestselling account of the Iraq War through 2005, and has followed the war since has likely noticed that many of the heroes of that devastating book, the officers and analysts who seemed to understand ...
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A Gate at the Stairs
by Lorrie Moore
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 (258 customer reviews)
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Knopf
September 1, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, September 2009: Lorrie Moore's people are jokesters, wisenheimers. They hold the world, and the language used to describe it, a little off to the side, where they can turn it around and, if not figure it out, at least find something funny to say ...
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
by Greg Grandin
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(82 customer reviews)
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Metropolitan Books
June 9, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009: Proving that truth can indeed be stranger than fiction, Fordlandia is the story of Henry Ford's ill-advised attempt to transform raw Brazilian rainforest into homespun slices of Americana. With sales of his Model-T booming, the automotive tycoon saw an opportunity to expand ...
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This Is Where I Leave You
by Jonathan Tropper
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(420 customer reviews)
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Dutton Adult
August 6, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, August 2009: Jonathan Tropper writes compulsively readable, laugh-out-loud funny novels, and his fifth book, This Is Where I Leave You is his best yet. Judd Foxman is oscillating between a sea of self-pity and a "snake pit of fury and resentment" in the aftermath ...
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Sag Harbor: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
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(95 customer reviews)
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April 28, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, May 2009: Like his fellow New Yorker Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead weaves gracefully through genres with each of his books, but Sag Harbor, billed as his "autobiographical fourth novel," seems positioned to be his breakout book--which is a funny thing for a writer who ...
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Cutting for Stone: A novel
by Abraham Verghese
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(1,695 customer reviews)
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February 3, 2009
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Amazon Exclusive: John Irving Reviews Cutting for Stone John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times--winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. In 1992, Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame ...
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
by Timothy Egan
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(218 customer reviews)
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
October 19, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009: When Theodore Roosevelt vacated the Oval Office, he left a vast legacy of public lands under the stewardship of the newly created Forest Service. Immediately, political enemies of the nascent conservation movement chipped away at the foundations of the untested agency, lobbying ...
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Cheever: A Life
by Blake Bailey
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(29 customer reviews)
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Knopf
March 10, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, March 2009: In Blake Bailey's monumental, masterful, and, at nearly 800 pages, mammoth biography, Cheever: A Life, the author of A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates turns his attention to the "the Chekhov of the suburbs" and his storied, celebrated, ...
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The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
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(6,841 customer reviews)
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Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
February 10, 2009
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. What perfect timing for this optimistic, uplifting debut novel (and maiden publication of Amy Einhorn's new imprint) set during the nascent civil rights movement in Jackson, Miss., where black women were trusted to raise white children but ...
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
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(489 customer reviews)
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Delacorte Press
April 28, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, April 2009: It's the beginning of a lazy summer in 1950 at the sleepy English village of Bishop's Lacey. Up at the great house of Buckshaw, aspiring chemist Flavia de Luce passes the time tinkering in the laboratory she's inherited from her deceased ...
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When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
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(316 customer reviews)
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Wendy Lamb Books
July 14, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, July 2009: Shortly after sixth-grader Miranda and her best friend Sal part ways, for some inexplicable reason her once familiar world turns upside down. Maybe it's because she's caught up in reading A Wrinkle in Time and trying to understand time travel, or perhaps ...
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The Unit
by Ninni Holmqvist
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(137 customer reviews)
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Other Press
June 9, 2009
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Book Description One day in early spring, Dorrit Weger is checked into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material. She is promised a nicely furnished apartment inside the Unit, where she will make new friends, enjoy the state of the art recreation facilities, and live ...
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How I Became a Famous Novelist
by Steve Hely
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(107 customer reviews)
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Grove Press, Black Cat
July 8, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, July 2009: Steve Hely's satiric novel masquerades as the tell-all memoir of Pete Tarslaw, author of the runaway bestseller The Tornado Ashes Club who's become a lit-world pariah. Two years out of college, Pete still moons after the brilliant Polly Pawson, who dropped him ...
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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
by Maile Meloy
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(47 customer reviews)
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Riverhead Hardcover
July 9, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, July 2009: There is one line in Maile Meloy's newest story collection that completely slayed me. (It's on page 97.) And in fact, there are many moments before and after that line that left me awestruck as I wondered how she was able to ...
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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories
by Wells Tower
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(75 customer reviews)
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
March 17, 2009
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The stories in this outstanding debut collection explore the troubled relationships of men down on their luck, in failed marriages, estranged from family, caught in imbroglios between sons and their fathers and stepfathers, and even, in Wil...
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
by Richard Holmes
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(94 customer reviews)
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Pantheon
July 14, 2009
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Amazon Exclusive: Oliver Sacks on The Age of Wonder Oliver Sacks is the author of Musicophilia, Awakenings,The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and many other books, for which he has received numerous awards, including the Hawthornden Prize, a Polk Award, and a Guggenheim ...
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Border Songs
by Jim Lynch
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(67 customer reviews)
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Knopf
June 16, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009: Preternaturally tall and painfully innocent, Brandon Vanderkool is more bird than border patrol agent, prone to mimicking birdsong and building nests. But he's also a remarkably acute defender of a North American border that Jim Lynch describes as "multiple-choice...with incoming settlers ...
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Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater
by Frank Bruni
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(122 customer reviews)
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Penguin Press HC, The
August 20, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, August 2009: How a man with a lifelong battle of the bulge landed the job as the restaurant critic for the New York Times, the most influential job in the food world, is only half the story (more like a third, really) in Frank ...
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