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Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
by Karl Marlantes
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 (778 customer reviews)
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Atlantic Monthly Press
March 23, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2010: Matterhorn is a marvel--a living, breathing book with Lieutenant Waino Mellas and the men of Bravo Company at its raw and battered heart. Karl Marlantes doesn't introduce you to Vietnam in his brilliant war epic--he unceremoniously drops you into the jungle, ...
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Freedom: A Novel
by Jonathan Franzen
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 (1,155 customer reviews)
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
August 31, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, August 2010: "The awful thing about life is this:" says Octave to the Marquis in Renoir's Rules of the Game. "Everyone has his reasons." That could be a motto for novelists as well, few more so than Jonathan Franzen, who seems less concerned with ...
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To the End of the Land
by David Grossman
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 (119 customer reviews)
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Out of Print--Limited Availability
Knopf
September 21, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, September 2010: To the End of the Land is a book of mourning for those not dead, a mother's lament for life during a wartime that has no end in sight. At the same time, it's joyously and almost painfully alive, full to the ...
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The Imperfectionists: A Novel
by Tom Rachman
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 (465 customer reviews)
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The Dial Press
April 6, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2010 Printing presses whirr, ashtrays smolder, and the endearing complexity of humanity plays out in Tom Rachman's debut novel, The Imperfectionists. Set against the backdrop of a fictional English-language newspaper based in Rome, it begins as a celebration of the ...
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel
by Helen Simonson
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(762 customer reviews)
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Random House
March 2, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2010: In her witty and wise debut novel, newcomer Helen Simonson introduces the unforgettable character of the widower Major Ernest Pettigrew. The Major epitomizes the Englishman with the "stiff upper lip," who clings to traditional values and has tried (in vain) to ...
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The Hand That First Held Mine
by Maggie O'Farrell
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(85 customer reviews)
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Out of Print--Limited Availability
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
April 12, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2010: Maggie O'Farrell has a singular knack for sensing the magnetic fields that push and pull people in love, and in The Hand That First Held Mine, she summons those invisible forces to tell two stories. The first is the spirited journey ...
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Skippy Dies: A Novel
by Paul Murray
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(144 customer reviews)
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Out of Print--Limited Availability
Faber & Faber
August 31, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2010: Seabrook College is an all-boys Catholic prep school in contemporary Dublin, where the founding Fathers flounder under a new administration obsessed with the school's "brand" and teachers vacillate between fear and apathy when faced with rooms full of texting, hyper-tense, hormone-fueled ...
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One Day (Vintage Contemporaries Original)
by David Nicholls
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(529 customer reviews)
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Vintage
June 15, 2010
Paperback
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The Hollywood-ready latest from Nicholls (The Understudy) makes a brief pit stop in book form before its inevitable film adaptation. (It's already in development.) The episodic story takes place during a single day each year for two decades in the lives of Dex and Em. Dexter, the louche public ...
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Memory Wall: Stories
by Anthony Doerr
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(31 customer reviews)
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Scribner
July 13, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2010: Books made of linked stories, like recent award-winning favorites Olive Kitteridge and Let the Great World Spin, are usually connected by shared places and people. The tender and lyrical stories in Anthony Doerr's Memory Wall are linked no less strongly, but, ...
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The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel
by Brady Udall
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(174 customer reviews)
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W. W. Norton & Company
May 3, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2010: EmNephiHelamanNaomiJosephinePaulineNovellaParleyGale... When times get tense--and they often do--for Golden Richards, the title patriarch of Brady Udall's The Lonely Polygamist, he turns to a soothing chant of the names, in order, of his 28 children. (It's also practical, when he needs to ...
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