Best Books of the Month: June 2012See this month's editors' picks and other featured new releases in our Best Books of the Month store, or browse this month's editors' picks in Kindle Books.
When we select our monthly Best Books, the goal is to provide a diverse mix of great new reads, from fun thrillers to important nonfiction to exciting new voices. And when the mix feels right (as it does this month) our hope is that, together, these ten books tell us something about the world in which we live--and about ourselves. June's list touches on all of life's madness: death, destruction, love, war, magic, hope, and fear.
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The Age of Miracles: A Novel
by Karen Thompson Walker
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 (658 customer reviews)
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Random House
June 26, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2012: In The Age of Miracles, the world is ending not with a bang so much as a long, drawn-out whimper. And it turns out the whimper can be a lot harder to cope with. The Earth's rotation slows, gradually stretching out ...
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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
by Chris Hedges
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(97 customer reviews)
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Nation Books
June 12, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2012: From the dusty plains of North Dakota to the coal-veined hills of West Virginia to the desolate and ravaged streets of Camden N.J., Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist/journalist Joe Sacco introduce us to the nation's "sacrifice zones"--those regions ...
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Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind
by Alex Stone
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(145 customer reviews)
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Harper
June 19, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2012: Before reading this book, I thought magic was a little inane. The magicians of my memory wore capes and makeup. They pulled doves from their hats and deployed a lot of smoke. But in Fooling Houdini, Alex Stone reveals a world ...
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Shadow and Bone (Grisha Trilogy)
by Leigh Bardugo
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 (324 customer reviews)
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Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
June 5, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2012: Alina Starkov has never been anything more than yet another orphan of her country’s on-going wars...until she channels magic not seen in centuries to protect her best friend, Mal. Her new-found powers attract the attention of the Darkling, the most ...
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The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual-The Biggest Bank Failure in American History
by Kirsten Grind
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(40 customer reviews)
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Simon & Schuster
June 12, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2012: The collapse of Washington Mutual in September 2008 was the largest bank failure in U.S. history and a symbolic casualty of America’s unfolding financial crisis. Wall Street Journal reporter Kristen Grind provides a fascinating fly-on-the-boardroom-wall account of the bank’s final hours, ...
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Gone Girl: A Novel
by Gillian Flynn
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(10,871 customer reviews)
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Crown
June 5, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2012: On the day of their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick's wife Amy disappears. There are signs of struggle in the house and Nick quickly becomes the prime suspect. It doesn't help that Nick hasn't been completely honest with the police and, as ...
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The Watch: A Novel
by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
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(85 customer reviews)
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Hogarth
June 5, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2012: A legless woman approaches a military outpost in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province, ostensibly to retrieve the body of her brother, who has been killed in a firefight. Having survived that firefight, the soldiers inside the compound are wary and edgy. That's the ...
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Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel
by Carol Rifka Brunt
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(475 customer reviews)
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The Dial Press
June 19, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2012: In Tell the Wolves I’m Home, Carol Rifka Brunt has made a singular portrait of the late-‘80s AIDS epidemic’s transformation of a girl and her family. But beyond that, she tells a universal story of how love chooses us, and ...
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Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
by Steve Friedman
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(378 customer reviews)
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
June 5, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2012: While many of us sit behind a desk for eight or nine hours a day, Scott Jurek is running. A legend among hard-core runners, Jurek has fashioned a lucrative career as an ultramarathoner. He runs, and wins, grueling races in excess ...
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Into the Darkest Corner: A Novel
by Elizabeth Haynes
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(685 customer reviews)
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Harper
June 5, 2012
Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2012: Many times as I was reading Into the Darkest Corner, the refrain from that old R&B song kept replaying in my head: "It's a thin line between love and hate..." Apologies, as it'll now be stuck in yours for the next ...
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