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11/22/63: a novel by Stephen King
available today King's heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is
about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK
assassination. Jake Epping is a 35-year-old high-school
English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money
teaching adults in the GED program. Jake's friend Al, who runs
the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal
to 1958.
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman
Alexie (also of interest to Teens) Budding cartoonist Junior leaves
his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to
attend an all-white farm town school where the only other
Indian is the school mascot. Learn why this book was banned or
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American Gods: a novel by Neil Gaiman
available today Shadow is a man with a past. But now he
wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and
stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in
a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent
storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him
introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and
he knows more about Shadow than is possible. He warns Shadow
that a far bigger storm is coming. And from that moment on,
nothing will ever he the same... A delight for horror and
fantasy lovers.
Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Novel.
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner Susan and her engineer husband live rough lives in mining camps during the late 19th century, and their marriage cannot survive...
The book covers four generations of Americans living in the West and tells the story of America's own rise from unexplored wilderness to modern nation.
A Pulitzer Prize winner. Read more about this book on LitLovers
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Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
by Lorna Landvik The women of Freesia Court are convinced
that there is nothing good coffee, delectable desserts, and a
strong shoulder can't fix. Laughter is the glue that holds
them together--the foundation of a book group they call AHEB
(Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons), an unofficial "club" that
becomes much more. It becomes a lifeline.
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara
Kingsolver - (non-fiction)
available today Author Barbara Kingsolver and
her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a
rural life--vowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food
raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or
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The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
newly added title available today An expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and
its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about
commitment--to oneself and to others in a baseball story that
goes beyond the sport and into hearts and minds.
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At Home: a Short Story of Private Life by Bill Bryson
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available today
With his signature wit, charm, and seemingly limitless
knowledge, Bill Bryson takes us on a room-by-room tour through
his own house, using each room as a jumping off point into the
vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for granted. As
he takes us through the history of our modern comforts, Bryson
demonstrates that whatever happens in the world eventually
ends up in our home.
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Atonement: a novel by Ian McEwan Three children lose their innocence--as the sweltering summer heat bears down on the hottest day in 1935--and their lives are changed forever. MOVIE ADAPTATION: A major motion picture
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Bel Canto: a novel by Ann Patchett available today
When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people is thrown together, including American opera star Roxanne
Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan. Read more about this book on LitLovers
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Birds in Fall: a novel by Brad Kessler available today
When a plane crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia, Kevin Gearns witnesses the bonding among the survivors who stay in his inn, while Ana Gathreaux, who has lost her husband in the crash, remembers how they worked together to save birds.
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winner.
Bless me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Young Antonio Márez lives with his family at the edge of a small New Mexico town and finds his life changed when an old woman named Ultima comes to live with the family.... MOVIE ADAPTATION: A major motion picture
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The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan available today Over the course of one fog-shrouded year, mother and daughter find what they share in their bones through heredity, history, and inexpressible qualities of love. Read more about this book on LitLovers
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (also of interest to Teens) Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. Read more about this book on LitLovers To order a
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Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn (also of interest to Teens) available today Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
available today A rich, impassioned vision of the Dominican Republic and its diaspora, filtered through the destiny of a single family. A Pulitzer Prize winner. Read more about this book on LitLovers To order a
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Brooklyn: a novel by Colm Toibin Leaving her home in post-World War II
Ireland to work as a bookkeeper in Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey
discovers a new romance in America with a charming blond
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Caleb's Crossing: a novel by
Geraldine Brooks
In 1665, a young man from Martha's
Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from
Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, the
author has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic
and adventure. Read more about this book on LitLovers To order a bag use a request form.
Camel Bookmobile: a novel by Masha Hamilton Establishing a bookmobile in a destitute Kenyan village, well-intentioned Fiona Sweeney inadvertently renews a decades-old tribal feud involving a camel-powered bookmobile and prior efforts to promote local education. Read more about this book on LitLovers
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Case Histories by Kate Atkinson available today Private detective Jackson Brodie finds his own need for resolution sparked by three investigations including those of two sisters who discover a shocking clue to the disappearance of their third sister thirty years earlier, a lawyer whose life is turned upside-down when his daughter joins the firm, and a woman whose past mistakes and demanding family life culminate in a violent escape. Read more about this book on LitLovers
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Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway available today While a cellist plays at the site of a mortar attack to commemorate the deaths of twenty-two friends and neighbors, a woman sniper secretly protects the life of the cellist as her army becomes increasingly threatening.
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Chocolat: a novel by Joanne Harris
available today When the beautiful and
mysterious Vianne moves to Lansquenet and opens a chocolate
shop across from the church, the inhabitants of the tiny
village are torn between the solemn law of religion and the
rewards of Vianne's confections. MOVIE ADAPTATION: A major motion picture
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Clara and Mr. Tiffany: a novel by
Susan Vreeland
A dynamic portrait of Clara
Driscoll: lead designer for Louis Comfort Tiffany (famous for
Tiffany lamps) and a woman conflicted between her desires for
artistic recognition and romantic love.
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Cleopatra: a Life by Stacy Schiff
- (biography) The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer
brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the
world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Though her life
spanned fewer than 40 years, it reshaped the contours of the
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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchellnewly added title In this audacious and
dazzling novel, Mitchell weaves history, science, humor, and
suspense through six separate but related narratives, each set
in a different time and place, each written in a different
prose style, and each broken mid-action only to be concluded
in the second half of the book. The book erases the boundaries
of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on
humanity’s dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us. MOVIE ADAPTATION: A major motion picture
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Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann
Burns This novel of warm humor and honesty is
told by Willy Tweedy, a 14-year-old boy living in a small,
turn-of-the-century Georgia town. The lessons of life and
death, of piousness and irreverence, form the basis of these
memorable characters and their stories.
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky available today Raskolnikoff murders an old moneylender and her sister, and after a lengthy investigation a saintly prostitute Sonya convinces him to confess.
Newly translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: a novel by Mark Haddon (also of interest to Teens)
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother. Learn why this book was banned or
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Cutting
for Stone: a novel by Abraham Verghese
Twin brothers born from a secret love affair between an Indian nun and a British surgeon in Addis Ababa, Marion and Shiva Stone come of age in an Ethiopia on the brink of revolution, where their love for the same woman drives them apart. Read more about this book on LitLovers
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Dancing at the Rascal Fair by
Ivan Doig
Ivan Doig's supple tale of
land seekers unfolds into a fateful contest of the heart
between Anna Ramsay and Angus McCaskill, walled apart by their
obligations as they and their stormy kith and kin vie to tame
the brutal, beautiful Two Medicine country. This is the
central volume in Doig's acclaimed Montana series.
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Daphne by Justine Picardie
Folding biographical details of its real-life heroine, Daphne
de Maurier, into a page-turning plot, this book is a deftly
crafted literary mystery: a tale of obsession and possession,
of stolen manuscripts and forged signatures, of love lost and
love found.
Daughter of Fortune: a novel by Isabel Allende/ Hija de la Fortuna:
novela escrita por Isabel Allende Bilingual
English/Spanish
available today (6 books in English and 5 books in Spanish)
The story of a young woman's quest for love and fortune during the California Gold Rush in San Francisco. Be
aware of drastic scenes.
La historia de una joven mujer en busca del amor y la fortuna durante los tiempos de la Quimera del Oro en San Francisco. Read more about this book on LitLovers
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The Devil in the
White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed
America by Erik Larson - (non-fiction)
available today The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, one its architect, the other a murderer.
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Digging to America: a novel by Anne Tyler
Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport (…). A penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in. Read more about this book on LitLovers
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Dolci Di Love by Sarah-Kate Lynch available today
After New York executive Lily Turner discovers a photo of a
beautiful woman and two children, clearly taken in Italy, she
realizes that her husband, Daniel, has a secret second family.
The blow is doubly painful since Lily and Daniel are
childless. In a drunken impulse, Lily tracks Daniel via
Internet to the Tuscan village of Montevedova and books a
ticket.
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Set in 70 CE, detailing the siege of the
mountain stronghold Masada, where 900 Jews held out for months
against the Romans. Hoffman's novel follows four extraordinary
women. All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping
secrets--about who they are, where they come from, who
fathered them, and who they love.
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Dreamers of the Day: a novel by
Mary Doria Russell
Agnes Shanklin, a forty-year-old
schoolteacher from Ohio, has come into a modest inheritance
that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and
the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the
1921 Cairo Peace Conference convenes; she is freed for the
first time from her mother's withering influence and finds
herself being wooed by a handsome, mysterious German. At the
same time, Agnes-with her plainspoken American opinions-is
drawn into the company of Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence,
and Lady Gertrude Bell, who will, in the space of a few days,
redraw the world map to create the modern Middle East. As they
change history, Agnes too will find her own life transformed
forever.
Dreams of Joy: a novel by Lisa See
available today Devastated after discovering the
shocking truth about her mother and father, Joy (from See's
bestselling "Shanghai Girls") flees to China to find a new
life (and her real father)--and Pearl, realizing what has
happened, sets out for Mao's China, resolved to find her
daughter.
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Dying to Cross: the worst immigrant tragedy in the history of the United States by Jorge Ramos
- (non-fiction)/Morir En El
Intento: La Peor Tragedia de Immigrantes En La Historia de Los Estados Unidos escrito por Jorge Ramos
(historia verdadera) Bilingual
English/Spanish
available today (5
books in English and 5 books in Spanish) Este libro relata las muertes horrendas de diecinueve trabajadores indocumentados y los sobrevivientes de el intento de cruzar a Estados Unidos desde Mexico en Mayo de 2003. Cuando el conductor del noticiero de Univisión Jorge Ramos relata los eventos
trágicos, él desafía a los lectores que reevalúen las normas de conducta de imigración de Mexico y de Estados
Unidos.
This book recounts the horrific deaths of nineteen undocumented workers and the survivors of the May 2003 crossing into the United States from Mexico. As Univision anchorman Jorge Ramos relates the tragedy's events, he challenges readers to reevaluate U.S. and Mexican immigration policies.
Eat, Pray, Love: one woman’s search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
- (non-fiction) available today After a messy divorce, author Elizabeth Gilbert commits to a year of transformation via destination. For pleasure, she visits Italy, for spirit, India, and for balance, Indonesia. In a conversational and playful style this memoir details Gilbert's travels and, ultimately, celebrates her return to self. MOVIE ADAPTATION: A major motion picture
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.
Bestseller in France since 2006. Read more about this book on LitLovers
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer available today Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center attacks, searches the five boroughs of New York City for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind. MOVIE ADAPTATION: A major motion picture
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Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
Very unusual mystery set in Saudi Arabia.
When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing and is found drowned
in the desert outside Jeddah, Nayir--a desert guide hired by
her prominent family to search for her--feels compelled to
find out what really happened.
Flight Behavior: a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
newly added title
Drawing on both her
Appalachian roots and her background in biology, Kingsolver
delivers a passionate novel on the effects of global warming.
Dellarobia Turnbow is in a perpetual state of fight or flight.
When a fluke of nature upends the monotony of her life,
Dellarobia morphs into the church's poster child for a
miracle, an Internet phenomenon, and a woman on the verge of
unexpected opportunity as scientists, reporters, and
ecotourists converge on the Turnbow property. Read more about this book on LitLovers
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The Forgotten Garden: a novel by Kate Morton
Shifting back and forth over a span of nearly 100 years, this
is a sprawling, old-fashioned novel, as well-cushioned as a
Victorian country house, replete with family secrets,
stories-within-stories, even a maze and a Dickensian
rag-and-bone shop. A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed
for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with
nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a
single book--a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken
in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On
her twenty-first birthday, they tell her the truth... Read more about this book on LitLovers To order a
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Mrs. Threadgoode's
tale of two high-spirited women of the 1930s, Idgie and
Ruth, helps Evelyn, a 1980s woman in a sad slump of middle
age, to begin to rejuvenate her own life. MOVIE ADAPTATION: A major motion picture
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The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
available today In this European publishing sensation, a
crusading journalist joins forces with a 24-year-old pierced
and tattooed genius hacker to investigate the whereabouts of
a missing woman from one of the wealthiest families in
Sweden. MOVIE ADAPTATION: A major motion picture
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The Glass Castle: a memoir by Jeannette Walls (non-fiction) available today A freelance writer and MSNBC.com contributor, Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir chronicling her upbringing in a poor, eccentric, and nomadic family led by her frustrated-artist mother, and her brilliant, alcoholic father. Although she earned the right to complain, she does not play the victim. In spite of all the hardship she and her siblings experienced, Walls shows love and respect to her abusive parents. Learn why this book was banned or
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck/Las uvas de la ira por John
Steinbeck Bilingual
English/Spanish
available today (5
books in English and 5 books in Spanish) In the 1930s, severe drought in parts of the southern Great
Plains caused loss of crops and livelihood for thousands of farmers.
The Joad family, Okie farmers forced from their dustbowl home try to find work as migrant
fruit pickers in California.
A Pulitzer Prize winner, Waterstones Books of the Century Award. MOVIE ADAPTATION: A major motion picture
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Great House: a novel by Nicole
Krauss
For twenty-five years, a reclusive
American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited
from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of
Pinochet s secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the
poet's daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer's
life reeling. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of
London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers, among her
papers, a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. In
Jerusalem, an antiques dealer slowly reassembles his father's
study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944. Read more about this book on LitLovers To order a
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation.
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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
by Jeannette Walls
Presents a novel based on the life of the author's
grandmother, Lily Casey Smith, who learned to break horses in
childhood, journeyed five hundred miles as a teen to become a
teacher, and ran a vast ranch in Arizona with her husband
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Happiness Project: Or, Why I
Spent a Year trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets,
fight right, read Aristotle and generally have more fun by
Gretchen Rubin - (non-fiction)
This inspiring project is the result of the author's 12-month
adventure in becoming a happier person. Written with a wicked
sense of humor and sharp insight, her story will inspire
readers to embrace the pleasure in their lives and remind them
how to have fun.
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The Help: a novel by Kathryn Stockett
available today Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project. MOVIE ADAPTATION: A major motion picture
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Honolulu by Alan Brennert available today Journeying to 1914 Hawaii as a mail-order bride, Korean-born Jin finds her hopes devastated by the realities of a rushed marriage to a bitter laborer; a situation throughout which she works to overcome limited opportunities.
Hotel
in the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: a novel by Jamie Ford
When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment. Read more about this book on LitLovers To order a
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The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (also of interest to Teens)
available today In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa(also
of interest to Teens) A relationship blossoms between a
brilliant math professor suffering from short-term memory
problems following a traumatic head injury and the young
housekeeper, the mother of a ten-year-old son, hired to care
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne
Collins
(also of interest to Teens) available
today Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with
her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem,
the remains of what used to be the United States. Long ago the
districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part
of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy
and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called,
"The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience
participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be
killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up
to go in her place.
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I am the Messenger by Marcus
Zusak
(also of interest to Teens) newly added title
Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and
useless at romance. When Ed inadvertently stops a bank
robbery, that's when he becomes the messenger. Winner of the
2003 Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award in
Australia.
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Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman available today After a small town librarian survives a lightning
strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for
meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two
opposites joined by a single common thread.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta
Lacks by Rebecca Skloot - (non-fiction) The first immortal human cells,
code-named HeLa, have flourished by the trillions in labs all
around the world for more than five decades, making possible
the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, and many more crucial
discoveries. But where did the HeLa cells come from? Science
journalist Skloot spent 10 years arduously researching the
complex, tragic, and profoundly revealing story of Henrietta
Lacks, a 31-year-old African American mother of five who came
to Johns Hopkins with cervical cancer in 1951, and from whom
tumor samples were taken without her knowledge or that of her
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In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez/ En El Tiempo de Las Mariposas escrita por Julia
Alvarez Bilingual English/Spanish (5
books in English and 5 books in Spanish) Dede Mirabal nos cuenta de sus tres hermanas, Minerva, Patria y Maria Teresa, quienes se convirtieron en mártires durante la liberación de la Rebública
Dominicana, del régimen de Trujillo en 1960.
Dede Mirabel tells about her three sisters, Minerva, Patria, and Maria Teresa, who became martyrs during the liberation of the Dominican Republic from Trujillo in 1960.
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer available today The brothers
Andras and Tibor Levi, Hungarian Jews, are models of
aspiration. As the narrative opens, Andras is bound for Paris
to study architecture, Tibor for Italy to study medicine. The
year is 1937, far enough along in the proceedings that neither
should be surprised to learn that bad things are about to
happen; yet both are so resolutely set on their paths that, it
seems, the outside world does not always figure.
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Julia and Julie: My year of Cooking Dangerously by
Julie Powell
- (biography) Powell needs something to break the monotony of her life. So,
she invents a deranged assignment: She will take her mother's
dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic, "Mastering the
Art of French Cooking," and cook all 524 recipes in the span
of just one year. MOVIE ADAPTATION: A major motion picture
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The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
newly added title available today "Gone with the Wind" is turned inside out in this
tragic, page-turning novel in which a white indentured servant
girl lives and works with black slaves.
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini available today Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son, in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day. MOVIE ADAPTATION: A major motion picture
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Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic
expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience,
and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it's been more
useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a
childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to
get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is
through flowers and their meanings.
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Last Lecture by Randy Pausch - (non-fiction)
available today
Based on the extraordinary final lecture by Carnegie Mellon
University professor Pausch, given after he discovered he had
pancreatic cancer, this moving book goes beyond the now-famous
lecture to inspire readers to live each day with purpose and
joy.
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The
Last Town on Earth: a novel by Thomas Mullen
available today Set in 1918
against the backdrop of World War I and the influenza
epidemic, this ambitious debut novel draws several vivid
parallels with current times. Read more about this book on LitLovers
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Lazarillo de Tormes by Anonymous
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Life of Pi: a novel by Yann Martel Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain. MOVIE ADAPTATION: A major motion picture
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez/ El Amor en los Tiempos del
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Loving Frank: a novel by Nancy Horan Fact and fiction blend in a historical novel that chronicles the relationship between seminal architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney, from their meeting, when they were each married to another, to the clandestine affair that shocked Chicago society. Read more about this book on LitLovers To order a
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Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
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Madame by Antoni Libera A teenage boy's
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: a novel by Helen
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Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the
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The Map of Love: a novel by Ahdaf
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Marriage Plot by Jeffrey
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards/ Hija de la Memoria escrita por Kim
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Bilingual English/Spanish available today (5
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The Memory of Running: a novel by
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides available today Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
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Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
Seven-year-old Rachel is
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My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult available today Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Anna begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro available today A reunion with two childhood friends draws Kathy and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the English countryside, and a confrontation with the truth about their childhoods.
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Nickel and Dimed: on (not) getting by in
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Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
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One Day by David Nicholls available
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Paris Wife by Paula McLain newly added title
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People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks available today Offered a coveted job to analyze and conserve a priceless Sarajevo Haggadah, Australian rare-book expert Hanna Heath discovers a series of tiny artifacts in the volume's ancient binding that reveal its historically significant origins. Read more about this book on LitLovers To order a
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Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
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Though new in London, having moved from Ghana with his family, 11-year-old Harrison Opuku knows what to do when he sees a classmate lying dead. He and friend Dean
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Platero and I/Platero y Yo by Juan Ramon Jimenez
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The Poisonwood Bible: a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
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Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vangra Bennett available today In
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The Reader: a novel by Bernhard Schlink available today Not until he becomes a law student after World War II does Michael Berg realize that the woman who found him ill and nursed him through hepatitis was illiterate and possibly a Nazi war criminal.
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The Red Tent by Anita Diamant available today The story of Dinah, a tragic character from the Bible whose great love, a prince, is killed by her brother, leaving her alone and pregnant. The novel traces her life from childhood to death, in the process examining sexual and religious practices of the day, and what it meant to be a woman. Read more about this book on LitLovers
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Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier When Mary Anning uncovers an unusual
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Room by Emma Donoghue
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The Sacrifice of Tamar by Naomi Ragen
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Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult available today Robbed of his teaching
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Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
available today A hurricane is building over the Gulf of
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isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she
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Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay available today On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond
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Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón/ La Sombra del Viento escrita por Carlos Ruiz Zafón Bilingual English/Spanish
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The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana
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Shutting out the Sun: How Japan Created its own Lost Generation by
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confronts an array of disturbing social trends.
The Slap: a novel by Christos Tsiolkas
available today At a festive barbecue in a Melbourne suburb a man slaps the child of another couple, triggering a court case and a variety of confrontations within the lives of the
families and friends present. Be aware of explicit language. Commonwealth Writers' Prize winner.
Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup
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Arrested for unbelievably answering all twelve questions on
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: a novel by Lisa See available today A story of friendship set in nineteenth-century China follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language. MOVIE ADAPTATION: A major motion picture
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The Source by James Michener
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modern Middle East conflict. Discussion questions
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State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
A provocative novel of morality and
miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon
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the difficult choices we make in the name of discovery and
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Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky available today A story of life in France under the Nazi occupation includes two parts--"Storm in June," set amid the chaotic 1940 exodus from Paris, and "Dolce," set in a German-occupied village rife with resentment, resistance, and collaboration. Read more about this book on LitLovers To order a
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The Thirteenth Tale: a novel by Diane Setterfield When her health begins failing, the mysterious author Vida Winter decides to let Margaret Lea, a biographer, write the truth about her life, but Margaret needs to verify the facts since Vida has a history of telling outlandish tales.
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A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley available today Larry Cook, an Iowan farmer who has worked a thousand acre plot owned by his family for generations, abruptly decides to leave his farm to his three daughters and retire. His two eldest daughters are pleased with the decision but his youngest daughter has been cut out by her father and is angry. As the daughters' activity on the land progresses, they notice a change in their father. Events begin to unfold that will threaten and destroy the family and their farm.
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
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The Tiger’s Wife: a novel by Tea
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The Time in Between by Maria
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Follows the story of Sira Quiroga, a young seamstress from
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The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle available today The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters. Learn
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Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
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the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of
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A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
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power to redeem.
Pulitzer Prize Winner
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A tale set in Vivaldi's decadent Venice in the eighteenth century finds elite Ospedale della Pieta musician Anna Maria dal Violin embarking on a quest of self-discovery in Venetian society and the Jewish Ghetto.
Water for Elephants: a novel by Sara Gruen available today Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope. MOVIE ADAPTATION: A major motion picture
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The Weight of Heaven: a novel by Thrity Umrigar
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Having lost their beloved only child to a sudden illness,
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When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold
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When Harold Kushner's three-year-old son was
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life's most difficult questions: Why, God? This book, first
published in 1981, is a straightforward, elegant contemplation
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Kushner shares his wisdom as a rabbi, a parent, a reader, and
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The White Tiger: a novel by Aravind Adiga
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life-- having nothing but his own wits to help him along.
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest
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newly added title A powerful,
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
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Women, Food and God: an
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World Below: a novel by Sue Miller
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After being diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1919, a young woman is sent to a sanitarium, where she rediscovers the pleasures of unfettered youth and falls in love with a doomed
man. Years later her granddaughter discovers the diary of her deceased grandmother and gains new insight into her family history.
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Year of Wonders: a novel of the plague by Geraldine Brooks
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into
Values by Robert Pirsig
- (biography) available today One of the most influential and provocative books of its generation continues to attract and inspire readers of all ages.
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classic with its intriguing blend of ancient and Eastern philosophy, cultural criticism, and scientific inquiry. Waterstones Books of the Century Award.
The Zookeeper's Wife, a War Story by
Diane Ackerman - (non-fiction) available today When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen 'guests' hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants--otters, a badger, hyena pups, lynxes. Read more about this book on LitLovers To order a
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