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1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
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 (600 customer reviews)
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Knopf
October 25, 2011
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: The year is 1984, but not for long. Aomame, on her way to meet a client--the gravid implications of which only come clear later--sits in a taxi, stuck in traffic. On a lark, she takes the driver's advice, bolts from ...
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The Marriage Plot: A Novel
by Jeffrey Eugenides
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 (488 customer reviews)
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 11, 2011
Hardcover
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| List Price: | $28.00 | | Price: | $18.76 | | You Save: | $9.24 (33%) |
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: Even among authors, Jeffrey Eugenides possesses a rare talent for being able to inhabit his characters. In The Marriage Plot, his third novel and first in ten years (following the Pulitzer Prize-winning Middlesex), Eugenides describes a year or so in the ...
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
by David Abulafia
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 (31 customer reviews)
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Oxford University Press, USA
October 13, 2011
Hardcover
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| List Price: | $34.95 | | Price: | $21.33 | | You Save: | $13.62 (39%) |
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: In this expansive yet detailed historical gem, David Abulafia covers the full course of human history on the Mediterranean. Beginning more than 20,000 years ago with Cro-Magnon cave dwellers on Gibraltar and stretching to the present, Abulafia treats the Great Sea ...
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Lost Memory of Skin: A Novel
by Russell Banks
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(100 customer reviews)
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Ecco
September 27, 2011
Hardcover
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| List Price: | $25.99 | | Price: | $17.19 | | You Save: | $8.80 (34%) |
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: In Lost Memory of Skin, Russell Banks plays peek-a-boo with the reader lifting each corner just enough to wonder at what may lie underneath. When we meet the Kid, he is grappling with his public status as a convicted sex ...
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The Dovekeepers: A Novel
by Alice Hoffman
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(527 customer reviews)
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Scribner
October 4, 2011
Hardcover
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| List Price: | $27.99 | | Price: | $19.21 | | You Save: | $8.78 (31%) |
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: Yael was born of a dead mother and father who knows how to become invisible. Revka learned silence when her grandsons lost their voices after witnessing their mother’s brutal murder. Aziza became a boy to protect herself, and hates being ...
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The Cat's Table
by Michael Ondaatje
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(237 customer reviews)
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Knopf
October 4, 2011
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| List Price: | $26.00 | | Price: | $17.42 | | You Save: | $8.58 (33%) |
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: Michael Ondaatje's finely wrought new novel chronicles a young boy's passage from Sri Lanka to London onboard the Oronsay, both as it unfolds and in hindsight. Glancing off the author's own biography, the story follows 11-year-old Michael as he immerses himself ...
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Nightwoods: A Novel
by Charles Frazier
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(189 customer reviews)
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Random House
September 27, 2011
Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: A woman living in an abandoned rural lodge is suddenly forced to raise her dead sister's two wild young children. Neither of them has spoken a word since witnessing their mother's brutal murder, and they’ve developed a fondness for breaking things ...
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Mr. Fox
by Helen Oyeyemi
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(20 customer reviews)
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Riverhead Hardcover
September 29, 2011
Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: Helen Oyeyemi’s Mr. Fox uses a series of interconnected vignettes to capture the love triangle between wry, self-absorbed writer St. John Fox, his wife, Daphne, and his imagined muse, Mary Foxe. As his muse Mary takes form on the page, St. ...
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
by Wade Davis
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 (147 customer reviews)
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Knopf
October 18, 2011
Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: It’s tempting to call Wade Davis’s magnificent Into the Silence an Everest of a book. But that would be misleading. It is more like K2: challenging, technically complex, and hugely rewarding upon completion. The book starts off not with mountaineering, but ...
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Cain
by Jose Saramago
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(60 customer reviews)
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
October 4, 2011
Hardcover
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| List Price: | $24.00 | | Price: | $1.56 | | You Save: | $22.44 (94%) |
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: In his final slim novel, the late José Saramago gives a cheeky modernist update to a timeworn biblical tale. After killing his brother Abel in an exasperated rage, Cain makes a deal with a CEO-like God and escapes with little more ...
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