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One Thousand White Women

The Journals of May Dodd

Jim Fergus St. Martin's Griffin

One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the...

Mountain & Plains Booksellers Association - Winner - Fiction

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The Milagro Beanfield War

A Novel

John Nichols Holt Paperbacks

Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of...

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The White Bone

A Novel

Barbara Gowdy Picador

A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive. If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals...

Giller Prize - Nominee - Fiction

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Headlong

A Novel

Michael Frayn Picador

An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master. Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an...

Man Booker Award - Nominee - Novel

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This Is Graceanne's Book

A Novel

P. L. Whitney St. Martin's Griffin

The story is told by a nine-year old boy, Charlie, who observes with an encompassing awe a pivotal year in the life of his older sister Graceanne. She's loud,...

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Mr. Mee

A Novel

Andrew Crumey Picador

"Fans of Tom Stoppard and Michael Frayn will relish this novel's puzzles and paradoxes, its unfolding and ingenious designs."—Hilary Mantel, The New York Times Book Review

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The Usual Rules

A Novel

Joyce Maynard St. Martin's Griffin

A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults

"Joyce Maynard has created unforgettable characters in this moving story of love and loss. It will make you laugh and cry. Be prepared—once you pick up this book you won't be able to put it down."—Judy Blume

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Cheri and The Last of Cheri

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette; Translated by Roger Senhouse; With a New Introduction by Judith Thurman Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman. Chéri, together with The Last of Chéri, is a classic...

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Feeling Sorry for Celia

A Novel

Jaclyn Moriarty St. Martin's Griffin

"Elizabeth is feisty and charming, and she and the novel are a delight."—Kliatt

"In this funny, engaging novel . . . Elizabeth's intelligence and wry sense of humor come through strongly in her letters to her mother and her friends."—School Library Journal

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Fear and Trembling

A Novel

Amélie Nothomb; Translated by Adriana Hunter St. Martin's Griffin

According to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor did so only with fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement conveyed...

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The Wooden Sea

A Novel

Jonathan Carroll Tor Books

From the moment a three-legged dog limps into the life of Police Chief Frannie McCabe and drops dead at his feet, McCabe finds himself in a new world of...

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Bombay Time

A Novel

Thrity Umrigar Picador

At the wedding of a young man from a middle-class apartment building in Bombay, the men and women of this unique community gather together and look back on...

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The Odyssey

The Fitzgerald Translation

Homer; Translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Introduction by D. S. Carne-Ross Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in a Noonday paperback. Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern...

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Annie John

A Novel

Jamaica Kincaid Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age story in the tradition of The...

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The Inferno of Dante

Bilingual Edition

Dante; A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Splendid . . . Pinsky's verse translation is fast-paced, idiomatic, and accurate. It moves with the concentrated gait of a lyric poem . . . It maintains the original's episodic and narrative velocity while mirroring its formal shape and character . . . Pinsky succeeds in creating a supple American equivalent for Dante's vernacular music where many others have failed."—Edward Hirsch, The New Yorker

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Mississippi Solo

A River Quest

Eddy Harris Holt Paperbacks

Since the publication of his first book, Mississippi Solo, Eddy L. Harris has been praised for his travel writing. In this exciting reissue of his classic...

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Human Croquet

A Novel

Kate Atkinson Picador

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Part fairy tale, part mystery, part coming-of-age novel, this novel tells the story of Isobel Fairfax,...

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Behind the Scenes at the Museum

A Novel

Kate Atkinson Picador

National Bestseller Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Kate Atkinson’s dazzling debut novel is a deeply moving story of family heartbreak and...

Whitbread Book Award - Winner - Book of the Year This book was a winner in both the Book of the Year and First Novel categories. This award was renamed the Costa Book Award in 2006

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Brighten the Corner Where You Are

A Novel

Fred Chappell St. Martin's Griffin

This story of a day in the life of Joe Robert Kirkman, a North Carolina mountain schoolteacher, sly prankster, country philosopher, and family man, won the...

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The Prestige

Christopher Priest Tor Books

"A dizzying show of a novel . . . Imagine Possession rewritten by Barbara Vine, or Robertson Davies at his most smoothly diabolical. A brilliantly constructed entertainment!"—The Washington Post

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The Character of Rain

A Novel

Amelie Nothomb St. Martin's Griffin

The Japanese believe that until the age of three children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or “lord child.” On their third...

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Leaving

A Novel

Richard Dry St. Martin's Griffin

Winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson Award Pushcart Editors' Prize Nominee In 1959, newly-widowed and pregnant Ruby Washington and her thirteen-year-old half...

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The Parrot's Theorem

A Novel

Denis Guedj; Translated by Frank Wynne St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

"The Parrot's Theorem is a unique book, in that it is both a wonderful novel and the best short history of mathematics I have ever read. The author draws his characters with care, develops an intriguing plot, and on the way teaches the reader about mathematics and its history. This is one of the most satisfying books I have read in a long time."—Amir Aczel, author of Fermat's Last Theorem

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The Good German

Joseph Kanon Picador

Now a Major Motion Picture The bestselling author of Los Alamos returns to 1945. Hitler has been defeated, and Berlin is divided into zones of...

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