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The Hare with Amber Eyes
A Hidden Inheritance
An Economist Book of the Year
Costa Book Award Winner for Biography
Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)
In this moving memoir, world-famous ceramicist Edmund de Waal inherits a collection of Japanese carvings called netsuke, then tracks them through his family, a nineteenth-century banking dynasty in Paris and Vienna.
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A Picador Paperback Original
Humiliation
BIG IDEAS // small books
With an unusual, disarming blend of autobiography and cultural commentary, noted poet and critic Wayne Koestembaum takes us through a spectrum of mortifying circumstances -- in history, literature, art, current events, music, film and even his own life.
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By Nightfall
A Novel
A New York Times Bestseller

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours comes a new novel about marriage, the uses and meanings of beauty, and the way we now live.
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Now in Paperback
Freedom
A Novel
#1 National Bestseller

Winner of the John Gardner Fiction Award

A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
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Now in Paperback
I Curse the River of Time
A Novel
The bestselling author of Out Stealing Horses returns with a novel possessing "a quality that I can only call charm, or something like charm. . . . It exerts a gravitational pull on the reader" (Stacey D'Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review, Notable Book of the Year).
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A Picador Paperback Original
The Summer Without Men
A Novel
From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved comes a provocative, witty, and revelatory novel about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old question of sameness and difference between the sexes.
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Winterland
A Novel
The author of LIMITLESS, now a major motion picture, returns with "the colussus of Irish crime fiction, what Mystic River did for Dennis Lehane, Winterland should do for Alan Glynn, it is a noir masterpiece, the bar against which all future works will be judged" (Ken Bruen).
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The Paperbark Shoe
A Novel
Winner of the 2008 AWP Award for the Novel
A woman named Gin trapped in a life of drudgery in WWII Australia. . . An Italian soldier far from home. . . Two exiles find solace in each other in this "radiant" debut (Chicago Tribune).
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The Hare with Amber Eyes

Humiliation

By Nightfall

Freedom

I Curse the River of Time

The Summer Without Men

Winterland

The Paperbark Shoe