Great New Fiction for Birthdays in 2009!
Discover the best fiction books for birthdays in 2009! Explore our curated list of top new releases and timeless reads perfect for gifting or celebrating.
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New Sudden Fiction
by Robert Shapard
An all-new volume—students and lovers of literature take note: this is serious writing that's fun to read. Responding to America’s love affair with the short-short, …
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon
For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of …
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What Is the What
by Dave Eggers
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children —the so-called …
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Duma Key
by Stephen King
Don’t miss the thrilling novel from undisputed King of Horror and #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King about what happens when the barrier …
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The Gravedigger's Daughter
by Joyce Carol Oates
Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father—a former high school teacher—is demeaned by …
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that …
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
"In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated …