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Ender in Exile

Sun, 19 May 2013 1:51:29 PST

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In "Enders Game", the world's most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to an elite training school. At "Battle School", they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. But they also learned some important and less definable lessons about life. After the life-changing events of those years, these children - now t ...

State of Wonder

Sun, 12 May 2013 1:03:43 PST

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A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh must step out of her comfort zone when she is sent into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces ...

The Year of Magical Thinking

Sun, 12 May 2013 1:01:00 PST

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From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fal ...

Sing You Home

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:15:01 PST

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Earth Unaware

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 8:29:17 PST

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A hundred years before "Ender's Game," humans thought they were alone in the galaxy. Humanity was slowly making their way out from Earth to the planets and asteroids of the Solar System, exploring and mining and founding colonies. The mining ship "El Cavador" is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and ...

Fieldwork

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 1:49:52 PST

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When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, planning to enjoy himself and work as little as possible. But one evening a fellow expatriate tips him off to a story: a charismatic American anthropologist, Martiya van der Leun, has been found dead--a suicide--in the Thai prison where she was serving a life sentence for murder. Curious at first, Mischa is soo ...

A Walk in the Woods

Tue, 2 Apr 2013 2:21:13 PST

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Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silline ...

Peril at End House

Tue, 2 Apr 2013 2:17:38 PST

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Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Nick Buckley was an unusual name for a pretty young woman. But then she had led an unusual life. First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path, a falling boulder missed her by inches. L ...

If You Follow Me

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 7:06:46 PST

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And so begins "If You Follow Me" and Marina's lessons in 'gomi' (garbage) law, Japanese culture, and the workings of Shika, the small, rural Japanese town in which she is teaching English for one year. For recent college grad Marina, Shika becomes more than just her home as a 'temporary person'. It's also an attempt to escape the bleak reality that has followed her every day since her father comm ...

Prodigal Summer

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:30:12 PST

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現代文学について語る限り、バーバラ・キングソルヴァーと比べる作家が見つからない。会話にはスパイスの効いたウイットと気取らない詩心がちりばめられている。その描写は日々の暮らしに根ざしながら、普遍的で奥深い概念にもつながっている。『Prodigal Summer』では、前作『The Poisonwood Bible』の舞台コンゴから、「農場と荒野の間にある地図上の皺のような場所」――すなわちアパラチア山脈南部のへんぴな土地にステージを移し、ひとつならず 3つもの複雑な物語を紡いでみせる。華麗で、豪華で、騒々しい。この小説に描かれた夏は「贅沢な繁殖の季節」だ。ウシガエルは不注意にも草むらにジェリー状のかたまりのような卵を産みつけておいて、「卵はオタマジャクシとなって小さな精子のように草むらを泳いでいくもの」と信じきっている。女たちが自分の肌に年齢を感じ、コヨーテ一家がセブロン谷から山に移 ...

The Things We Do for Love

Wed, 6 Mar 2013 11:31:46 PST

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Her last novel, Between Sisters, was chosen by CBS's The Early Show as one of the best books of the summer. Now she returns with The Things We Do for Love—a poignant, evocative story that celebrates the magic of motherhood, the joys of coming home, and the price we so willingly pay for love. The youngest of three daughters, Angela DeSaria Malone was always "the princess" of the family, a girl wh ...

Travels with Epicurus

Sun, 3 Mar 2013 11:04:28 PST

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Second Glance

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 7:22:13 PST

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Do we love across time? Or in spite of it?A developer has slated an ancient Abenaki Indian burial ground for a strip mall, and now strange happenings have the inhabitants of tiny Comtosook, Vermont, talking of supernatural forces at work. Ross Wakeman is a ghost hunter who's never seen a ghost -- all he's searching for is something to end the pain of losing his fiancée, Aimee, in a car accident. ...

Illumination Night

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 7:19:55 PST

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"Subtle touches...make this intelligent novel shine. Ms. Hoffman knows how to tell a story." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Set on Martha's Vineyard, here is a stunning novel that brings that beautiful island to vivid life--a novel that weaves together the lives of a little boy, an elderly woman, a blond giant, a young couple, and a teenaged girl...lives of intense erotic longing, of quiet unde ...

Tales of a Female Nomad

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:38:42 PST

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“I move throughout the world without a plan, guided by instinct, connecting through trust, and constantly watching for serendipitous opportunities.” —From the Preface Tales of a Female Nomad is the story of Rita Golden Gelman, an ordinary woman who is living an extraordinary existence. At the age of forty-eight, on the verge of a divorce, Rita left an elegant life in L.A. to follow her dream of ...

The Diamond Age

Sun, 3 Feb 2013 9:09:22 PST

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In Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in The Diamond Age, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life-and the entire future of humanity-is about to be decoded and reprogrammed.... [예스24 제공]

Red Prophet

Sun, 3 Feb 2013 9:05:48 PST

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Come here to the magical America that might have been, and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious powers, and he is waking to the mysteries of the land and its own chosen people.

Brain on Fire

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 0:56:54 PST

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Using all her considerable journalistic skills, and building from hospital records and surveillance video, interviews with family and friends, and excerpts from the deeply moving journal her father kept during her illness, Susannah pieces ...

The Mosquito Coast

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 0:46:56 PST

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In one of Theroux's most magnificent novels, the paranoid, brilliant, and self-destructive Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left.

The Inheritance of Loss

Sun, 6 Jan 2013 10:03:54 PST

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Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives an embittered old judge who wants to retire in peace when his orphaned granddaughter Sai arrives ...

On Mystic Lake

Sun, 6 Jan 2013 10:02:59 PST

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Annie Colwater’s husband has just confessed that he’s in love with a younger woman. Devastated, Annie retreats to the small town where she grew up. There, she is reunited with her first love, Nick Delacroix, a recent widower who is unable to cope with his silent, emotionally scarred young daughter. Together, the three of them begin to heal. But just when Annie believes she’s been given a second c ...

Happiness

Sun, 6 Jan 2013 10:02:14 PST

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"The Age of Nice is at hand, and there's nothing we can do about it." But the protagonist of Will Ferguson's Happiness, terminally luckless book editor Edwin de Valu, does want to do something. In fact, he feels obliged to put a stop to the Age of Nice, because it's all his fault. Desperate to save a flagging career in the world of self-help publishing, Edwin has staked everything on a dubious, t ...

The Pact

Sun, 6 Jan 2013 10:01:57 PST

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Until the phone calls came at three o'clock on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily is dead—shot with a gun her beloved and devoted Chris pilfered fr ...

Body Surfing

Sun, 6 Jan 2013 10:01:10 PST

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"Always readable-sometimes compulsively so-Shreve's novels are typically emotionally resonant, nicely paced, and populated by memorable characters." -People At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing, she has signed on to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire c ...

A Year in Provence

Sun, 6 Jan 2013 10:00:45 PST

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Home Safe

Sun, 6 Jan 2013 10:00:27 PST

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The bestselling author of "The Year of Pleasures" and "Open House" returns with a wonderful novel in which a woman and her daughter embark on new adventures.

The Namesake

Sun, 6 Jan 2013 9:58:38 PST

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Jhumpa Lahiri's debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, took the literary world by storm when it won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Fans who flocked to her stories will be captivated by her best-selling first novel, now in paperback for the first time. The Namesake is a finely wrought, deeply moving family drama that illuminates this acclaimed author's signature themes: the immigrant expe ...

Home Again: A Novel

Fri, 4 Jan 2013 8:29:39 PST

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Kristin Hannah received an undergraduate degree from the University of Washington and a degree in law from the University of Puget Sound. Her first book, A Handful of Heaven, became the first debut historical romance to win the Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA/Golden Heart Award and the Georgia Romance Writers' MAGGIE Award. Kristin Hannah lives with her family in the Pacific Northwe ...

The White Tiger

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 7:39:16 PST

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Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen.Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous c ...

The Tenth Door

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 3:00:43 PST

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In The Tenth Door, Michele Hébert recounts the stunning story of her spiritual training with legendary yoga master Walt Baptiste.

Shelter Me

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 9:15:48 PST

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Against Medical Advice

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 5:39:28 PST

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Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck. From that day forward his life became a hell of irrepressible tics and involuntary utterances, and Cory embarked on an excruciating journey from specialist to specialist to discover the cause of his disease. Soon it became unclear what tics were symptoms of his disease and what were sid ...

Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 5:38:26 PST

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What happens when a psychic tells Lucy that she'll be getting married within the year? Her roommates panic! What is going to happen to their blissful existence of eating take-out, drinking too much wine, bringing men home, and never vacuuming?Lucy reassures her friends that she's far too busy arguing with her mother and taking care of her irresponsible father to get married. And then there's the ...

Ending the Pursuit of Happiness

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 5:36:51 PST

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This new book from Zen teacher, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and critical favorite Barry Magid inspires us — in wryly gentle prose — to outgrow the impossible pursuit of happiness, and instead make peace with the perfection of the way things are. Including ourselves! Magid invites readers to consider the notion that our certainty that we are broken may be turning our “pursuit of happiness” into a ...

Near Death in the Mountains

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 5:33:47 PST

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True Stories of Disaster and Survival Cecil Kuhne. now very easy, so much so that it induced me to lighten the sack and abandon everything that was no longer necessary. Among other things I was about to get rid of were the thirty or so pitons ...

Earth Abides

Sat, 1 Dec 2012 7:09:16 PST

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A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he'd either dreaded or hoped for. From the Paperback edition.

90 Minutes In Heaven

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 4:27:29 PST

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As he is driving home from a minister's conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes, Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful music and feels true peace. Back on earth, a passing minister who had also been at the confere ...

American Wife

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 4:25:31 PST

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In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest who comes to inhabit a life of dizzying wealth and power - that is itself remarkable. Alice candi ...

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 1:34:08 PST

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Few American novels written this century have endured in th heart and mind as has this one-Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic.A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this se ...

The Little Lady Agency

Mon, 5 Nov 2012 5:06:23 PST

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Melissa Romney-Jones can bake a perfect sponge cake, type her little heart out, and plan a party blindfolded. But none of that has helped her get far in life or in love. When she gets sacked -- again -- she decides to market her impeccable social skills to single men. To avoid embarrassing her father, a Member of Parliament, Melissa dons a blonde wig and becomes "Honey," a no-nonsense bombshell w ...

All He Ever Wanted

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 9:19:27 PST

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A man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree.He approaches her and sets in motion a series of events that will change his life forever.Years later, traveling from New England to Florida by train, he reflects back on his obsession with this unknown and ultimately unknowable woman-his courtship of her, his marriage to her, and the unforgivable act that ripped their family a ...

The Halloween Tree

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 8:25:53 PST

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"A fast-moving, eerie...tale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite through time and space to search the past for their friend and the meani ...

Cloud Atlas

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:27:18 PST

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By the author of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, David Mitchell's bestselling and Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, one of Richard & Judy's 100 Books of the Decade, CLOUD ATLAS has now been adapted for film. The major motion picture, directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent and Hugh Grant. The novel feat ...

The Amateur Marriage

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:24:17 PST

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From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel, spanning three generations, about a mismatched marriage - and its consequences. Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste. From the sound ...

The Last Time I Saw You

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 3:21:45 PST

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Attending a 45th anniversary at the sides of former classmates, Dorothy reconnects withold friends with whom she reevaluates her life, choices and ...

House Rules

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 1:00:25 PST

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Seventh Son

Wed, 3 Oct 2012 16:18:05 PST

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From the author of Ender’s Game, an unforgettable story about young Alvin Maker: the seventh son of a seventh son. Born into an alternative frontier America where life is hard and folk magic is real, Alvin is gifted with the power. He must learn to use his gift wisely. But dark forces are arrayed against Alvin, and only a young girl with second sight can protect him.

Magic Hour

Wed, 3 Oct 2012 16:13:50 PST

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Reluctantly giving up her California practice working with troubled children, Julia Cates is forced to draw on all her skills to deal with a young mute girl ...

The Man of My Dreams

Wed, 3 Oct 2012 16:11:37 PST

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The Golden Spruce

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 5:10:14 PST

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As vividly as Jon Krakauer put readers on Everest, John Vaillant takes us into the heart of North America's last great forest, where trees grow to eighteen feet in diameter, sunlight never touches the ground, and the chainsaws are always at work. When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months e ...

Last Chance Saloon

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 5:09:26 PST

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Best friends since the days when legwarmers were cool, Tara, Katherine, and Fintan have survived small-town ennui, big-city heartbreak, and endless giddy nights out on the town. But now that they've graduated to their slightly more serious thirties, only Fintan has what can honestly be called a "love life." With Tara struggling daily with her eternal diet -- and her dreadful, penny-pinching boyfr ...

The Devils of Loudun

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 9:30:32 PST

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Feast of Love, the

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 9:27:21 PST

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From "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), here is a superb new novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people. The Feast of Love is just that -- a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined Midsummer Night's Dream, men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates; pare ...

Beyond Happiness

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 8:56:19 PST

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But Zen teacher Ezra Bayda shows us that it is only by dropping our pursuit of happiness and learning to surrender to what actually is--surrendering to the truth of our lived experience--that we can find the deepest and most lasting form of ...

Unless

Mon, 6 Aug 2012 9:30:23 PST

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Forty-four-year-old Reta Winters, wife, mother, writer, and translator, is living a happy life until one of her three daughters drops out of university to sit on a downtown street corner silent and cross-legged with a begging bowl in her lap and a placard round her neck that says "Goodness." The final book from Pulitzer Prize-winner Carol Shields, Unless is a candid and deeply moving novel fro ...

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Mon, 6 Aug 2012 9:25:01 PST

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Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound and widely regarded impact on many fields—including economics, medicine, and politics—but until now, he has never brought together his many years of research an ...

Cannery Row

Mon, 6 Aug 2012 9:20:04 PST

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The Dallas Morning News John Steinbeck knew and understood America and Americans better than any other writer of the twentieth century. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Review John Steinbeck knew and understood America and Americans better than any other writer of the twentieth century. (The Dallas Morning News) A man whose work was equal to the vast social themes that drove him. ...

The Tenth Circle

Mon, 6 Aug 2012 9:19:42 PST

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Jodi Picoult, the New York Times bestselling author of Vanishing Acts, offers her most powerful chronicle yet of an American family with a story that probes the unbreakable bond between parent and child -- and the dangerous repercussions of trying to play the hero. Trixie Stone is fourteen years old and in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father's life -- a straight-A student; ...

Summer Morning, Summer Night

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:55:37 PST

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In Summer Morning, Summer Night, Bradbury returns to this signature locale with a generous new collection of twenty-seven stories and vignettes, seventeen of which have never been published before.

The Body in the Library

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:53:29 PST

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Dolly Bantry's reaction on seeing the body of a beautiful, but dead, blonde in her library is to immediately call for her friend Jane Marple. The police identify the girl as Ruby Keene. She was reported missing by elderly invalid Conway Jefferson who, fond of Ruby, planned to adopt her-much against his family's wishes. When the body of another dead girl turns up, Miss Marple determines to find th ...

Winter Bloom

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:48:28 PST

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onday morning and a nine o'clock lecture. Not a good combination. As Eva watched her students strolling casually into the lecture theater at ten past the hour, yawning and scratching, she had to stifle the urge to yell. Still. What else could you ...

The Nature Principle

Tue, 3 Jul 2012 8:02:29 PST

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Supported by groundbreaking research, anecdotal evidence, and compelling personal stories, Louv shows how tapping into the restorative powers of the natural world can boost mental acuity and creativity; promote health and wellness; build ...

April Witch

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 3:53:51 PST

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Desirée lies in a hospital bed thinking, dreaming. Born severely disabled, she cannot walk or talk, but she has other capabilities. Desirée is an April witch, clairvoyant and omniscient, traveling through time and space into the world denied her. The woman who gave Desirée up at birth subsequently took in three foster daughters, who know nothing of the existence of their fourth “sister.” Sensin ...

Change of Heart

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 3:15:30 PST

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Strange Fits of Passion

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 3:14:04 PST

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The reader is left to uncover the truth in this labryinth of a tale, a riveting story told within the framework of one reporter's notes and a woman's letters from prison. Everyone believes that Maureen and Harrold English, two successful New York City journalists, have a happy, stable marriage. It's the early '70s and no one discusses or even suspects domestic abuse. But after Maureen suffers an ...

Antic hay

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 3:12:22 PST

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1923. Antic Hay is one of Aldous Huxley's earlier novels, and like them is primarily a novel of ideas involving conversations that disclose viewpoints rather than establish characters; its polemical theme unfolds against the backdrop of London's post-war nihilistic Bohemia. This is Huxley at his biting, brilliant best, a novel, loud with derisive laughter, which satirically scoffs at all conventi ...

IDisorder

Sat, 2 Jun 2012 11:02:35 PST

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iDisorder: changes to your brain's ability to process information and your ability to relate to the world due to your daily use of media and technology resulting in signs and symptoms of psychological disorders - such as stress, sleeplessness, and a compulsive need to check in with all of your technology. Based on decades of research and expertise in the "psychology of technology," Dr. Larry Ros ...

Family History

Sat, 2 Jun 2012 10:59:17 PST

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From the prodigiously gifted author of the acclaimed memoir Slow Motion, a stunning and brutally honest novel about one family’s harrowing recovery from devastation. Rachel Jensen is perfectly happy: in love with her husband, devoted to their daughter Kate, gratified by her work restoring art. And finally, she’s pregnant again. But as Rachel discovers, perfection can unravel in an instant. The ...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Sun, 27 May 2012 9:26:41 PST

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Wed, 16 May 2012 3:53:42 PST

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It is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. we may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him ona strange course through uncharted territory. The world o ...

The Shipping News

Mon, 7 May 2012 11:49:06 PST

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When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As Quoyle confronts his private demons -- and the unpredictable forces of nature and society -- he begins to see the possibilit ...

Prep

Mon, 7 May 2012 11:46:44 PST

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Curtis Sittenfeld's poignant and occassionally angst-ridden debut novel Prep is the story of Lee Fiora, a South Bend, Indiana, teenager who wins a scholarship to the prestigious Ault school, an East Coast institution where "money was everywhere on campus, but it was usually invisible." As we follow Lee through boarding school, we witness firsthand the triumphs and tragedies that shape our heroine ...

I Am Legend

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 9:57:11 PST

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Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn. How long can one man survive in a world of vampires ...

Half broke horses

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:21:59 PST

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From the author of The Glass Castle, a spellbinding true-life novel about Walls'grandmother--horse trainer, teacher, flapper, rancher, and pilot.

The Ice Princess

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:18:58 PST

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The psychological thriller debut of No.1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg. Returning to her hometown after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex, is just the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her body frozen in an ice cold bath, it seems that she has taken her own life. Erica conceives a m ...

Watermelon

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:17:05 PST

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"February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated.Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is le ...

Between Sisters

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:16:16 PST

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No one knows you like your sister. She can make you laugh or break your heart with a single word. And no one writes novels like Kristin Hannah, an author who vividly explores the intricate bonds of family and, as Tami Hoag said "touches the deepest, most tender corners of our heart." Now, in her rich, captivating new book, she creates an indelible portrait of two women, once lost to each other, a ...

This Side of Paradise

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:13:52 PST

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The Castaways

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 3:42:00 PST

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Labyrinth

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 9:13:15 PST

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A Summer Affair

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 9:10:32 PST

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Sheila Crispin Cook, mother of four young children and nationally renowned glassblower, bites off more than she can chew when she agrees to co-chair the Nantucket's Children Summer Gala. Sheila is asked to chair the benefit, in part, because she is the former high school sweetheart of rock star Max West. Max agrees to play the gala and it looks like smooth sailing for Sheila-until she promises ...

The Marriage Plot

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 10:06:30 PST

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Empire Falls

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 7:30:43 PST

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Like most of Richard Russo's earlier novels, Empire Falls is a tale of blue-collar life, which increasingly resembles a kind of high-wire act performed without the benefit of any middle-class safety nets. This time, though, the author has widened his scope, producing a comic and compelling ensemble piece. There is, to be sure, a protagonist: fortysomething Miles Robey, proprietor of the local gre ...

The Post-Birthday World

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 10:04:50 PST

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The Body Artist

Sat, 7 Jan 2012 13:55:50 PST

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For thirty years, since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is defiantly, radiantly American. Now, to a new century, he has brought The Body Artist. In this spare, seductive novel, he inhabits th ...

Dune Road

Sun, 1 Jan 2012 7:53:53 PST

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The Ice Queen

Sun, 1 Jan 2012 7:51:21 PST

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Alice Hoffman's most spellbinding novel yet--the story of a small-town librarian who, after being struck by lightning, is afforded the opportunity to begin her life anew--is now in trade paperback. A magical story of passion, loss, and renewal, THE ICE QUEEN is Alice Hoffman at her electrifying best.

The Temple of My Familiar

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 6:21:57 PST

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Sushi for Beginners

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 3:56:12 PST

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Number one internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes works her magic once again in this charming tale of three modern women and their search for happiness. Prada-wearing magazine editor Lisa Edwards thinks her life is over when her "fabulous" new job turns out to be a deportation to Dublin, launching Colleen magazine. No more jet-setting to the fall collections. No more fabulous parties ...

Testimony

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 3:54:31 PST

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At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment. ...

Certain Girls

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:15:07 PST

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1Q84

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 5:15:17 PST

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Winter Garden

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 7:47:14 PST

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Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn't know her mother? From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes a ...

Three Junes

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 7:41:37 PST

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The 2002 National Book Award winner for fiction, Three Junes, is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. In June of 1989, Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young American artist while traveling through Greece and is compelled to relive the secret sorrows of his marria ...

The Beach House

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 6:14:03 PST

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The New York Times bestseller and ultimate beach read from the author of Second Chance Nan Powell is a free-spirited, sixty-five-year-old widow who's not ...

The Illustrated Man

Sun, 2 Oct 2011 2:41:08 PST

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He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could bear the voiced murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body. The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades--from The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 to Dandelion Wine and Something ...

The Help

Sun, 2 Oct 2011 2:31:00 PST

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Tortilla Flat

Sun, 2 Oct 2011 2:28:33 PST

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Life Is a Verb

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Cocaine Train

Sat, 3 Sep 2011 10:11:03 PST

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One of the most violent countries on earth, where the cause of death is regularly 'massacre', drink drivers play chicken and kidnap stories pass for dinner party conversation; nine times more dangerous than the United States, Columbia is no place for the nervous traveller. So it is much against his better judgement that, in the summer of 1998, coinciding with a World Cup and a general election, j ...