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True : A Novel
Pulkkinen, RiikkaOther Press 2012Elsa is dying. Her husband, Martti, and daughter Eleonoora are struggling to accept the crushing thought that they are soon to lose her. As Elsa becomes ever more fragile, Eleonoor...
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Net Smart : How to Thrive Online
Rheingold, HowardMIT Press 2012A media guru shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded wi...
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Lamb : A Novel
Nadzam, BonnieOther Press 2011Winner of the 2011 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize Lamb traces the self-discovery of David Lamb, a narcissistic middle aged man with a tendency toward dishonesty, in the weeks fo...
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The Possession
Ernaux, AnnieSeven Stories Press 2011WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Self-regard, in the works of Annie Ernaux, is always an excruciatingly painful and exact process. Here, she revisits the peculiar kind...
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Brothers : A Novel
Hua, YuKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009A bestseller in China, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok. Here is China as we've never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rab...
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The 100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life
Grout, PamDisney Book Group 2008Travelers are showing a huge interest in the fast-growing sector known as "experiential" tourism--vacations that encompass heritage, culture, nature, ecology, and soft adventure. I...
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Sarah Canary
Fowler, Karen JoyPenguin Publishing Group 2004Two unlikely people form an unexpected bond in bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler’s captivating historical novel—a New York Times Notable Book. When black cloaked Sarah Canary wa...
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Perdido Street Station
Miéville, ChinaRandom House Worlds 2003WINNER OF THE AUGUST DERLETH AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDS • A masterpiece brimming with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and fierce characters, from the author who “has reshap...
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Longitudes and Attitudes
Friedman, ThomasMacmillan Audio 2003America's leading observer of the international scene on the minute-by-minute events of September 11th—before, during and after. As the Foreign Affairs columnist for the The New Yo...
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The Corrections : A Novel
Franzen, JonathanFarrar, Straus and Giroux 2001Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle AwardAn American Library Association Notable Book Jonathan Franzen's third novel,...