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Special Topics in Calamity Physics

by Marisha Pessl

The mesmerizing bestseller that combines the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt and the suspense of Alfred Hitchcock—A New York Times Ten Best Book of the Year Special Topics in Calamity …
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Burning Bright

by Tracy Chevalier

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Desperation Moon

by Ken Douglas

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Saturday

by Ian McEwan

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish in this “dazzling [and] powerful” …
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The Sunday List of Dreams

by Kris Radish

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Travels in the Scriptorium

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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

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Returning to Earth

by Jim Harrison

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Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty

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Winterwood

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The Swallows of Kabul

by Yasmina Khadra

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You Don't Love Me Yet

by Jonathan Lethem

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Dream when You're Feeling Blue

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My French Whore

by Gene Wilder

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Silent In The Grave

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The Black Sun

by James Twining

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Mr. Thundermug

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Once in a Promised Land

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Finn

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