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The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel
by Adam Johnson
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 (364 customer reviews)
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Random House
January 10, 2012
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, January 2012: It is only January, but Adam Johnson’s astonishing novel is destined to cast a long shadow over the year in books. Jun Do is The Orphan Master’s Son, a North Korean citizen with a rough past who is working as ...
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The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
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 (3,289 customer reviews)
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Dutton Juvenile
January 10, 2012
Hardcover
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| List Price: | $17.99 | | Price: | $10.24 | | You Save: | $7.75 (43%) |
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2012: In The Fault in Our Stars, John Green has created a soulful novel that tackles big subjects--life, death, love--with the perfect blend of levity and heart-swelling emotion. Hazel is sixteen, with terminal cancer, when she meets Augustus at her ...
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain
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(1,128 customer reviews)
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Crown
January 24, 2012
Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2012: How many introverts do you know? The real answer will probably surprise you. In our culture, which emphasizes group work from elementary school through the business world, everything seems geared toward extroverts. Luckily, introverts everywhere have a new spokesperson: Susan ...
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Agent 6 (The Child 44 Trilogy)
by Tom Rob Smith
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(113 customer reviews)
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Grand Central Publishing
January 5, 2012
Hardcover
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| List Price: | $25.99 | | Price: | $17.32 | | You Save: | $8.67 (33%) |
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2012: To solve the murder that splintered his family, ex-KGB officer Leo Demidov escapes the ruins of Stalinist Russia through opium-soaked 1980s Afghanistan to New York's underbelly. Smith secures his place in the pantheon of crime writers with this taut, enthralling conclusion ...
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The Flame Alphabet
by Ben Marcus
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 (80 customer reviews)
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Knopf
January 17, 2012
Hardcover
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| List Price: | $25.95 | | Price: | $17.89 | | You Save: | $8.06 (31%) |
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2012: From the dark, curious imagination of Ben Marcus comes another brain melter of a novel. The Flame Alphabet has a pandemic premise--children are slowly killing their parents by speaking--and only gets stranger and smarter from there. When Sam leaves his decaying ...
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Why We Broke Up
by Maira Kalman
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(116 customer reviews)
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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
December 27, 2011
Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2012: Min, precocious and equally obsessed with classic cinema and good coffee, broke up with Ed, a popular math-loving jock who secretly carries a protractor. Daniel Handler weaves this heartrending story of first love and other powerful firsts as Min reveals, item ...
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Running the Rift
by Naomi Benaron
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(51 customer reviews)
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Algonquin Books
January 3, 2012
Hardcover
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| List Price: | $24.95 | | Price: | $16.93 | | You Save: | $8.02 (32%) |
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2012: No wonder Barbara Kingsolver awarded her 2010 Bellwether Prize, given biennially to an unpublished novel that confronts social issues, to Naomi Benaron's Running the Rift. In her coming-of-age story of young Tutsi Jean Patrick Nkuba, whose extraordinary gift for distance running ...
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Fraternity: In 1968, a visionary priest recruited 20 black men to the College of the Holy Cross and changed their lives and the course of history.
by Diane Brady
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(59 customer reviews)
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Spiegel & Grau
January 3, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2012: Shortly after MLK Jr.’s assassination Reverend John Brooks, the future president of Holy Cross College, personally recruited and mentored 20 African-American students—five of whom (including Justice Clarence Thomas and author Edward P. Jones among others) are closely followed in Diane Brady’s ...
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The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen: A Novel
by Thomas Caplan
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 (34 customer reviews)
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Viking Adult
January 10, 2012
Hardcover
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| List Price: | $26.95 | | Price: | $17.75 | | You Save: | $9.20 (34%) |
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2012: Soldier turned actor Ty Hunter craves nothing more than some R&R after his latest Hollywood blockbuster…until he’s tasked with thwarting a potential nuclear arms deal. Using his celebrity sway and former training, Hunter goes undercover within a wealthy, powerful inner circle ...
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The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration
by Alec Wilkinson
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(26 customer reviews)
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Knopf
January 24, 2012
Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2012: Before the twentieth century, more than a thousand people tried to reach the (north) pole,” Alec Wilkinson writes in his entertaining new book. Most of those attempts were by ship, sled, and foot. The odds of reaching the pole alive were ...
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