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By Blood

By Ellen Ullman

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year San Francisco, the 1970s. A disgraced professor takes an office in an old downtown building to plot his return....

As Cool As I Am

By Pete Fromm

As a teenager pretty much left to raise herself, Lucy Diamond is a narrator with a radiant yet guarded heart. As she races at breakneck pace toward womanhood,...

Ladies' Night

By Mary Kay Andrews

Take a splash of betrayal, add a few drops of outrage, give a good shake to proper behavior and take a big sip of a cocktail called…Ladies' Night!   Grace...

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The Pianist By Wladyslaw Szpilman

Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody...

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Adult Fiction:

The Corrections By Jonathan Franzen

Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and...

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Coming of Age:

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You By Peter Cameron

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is the story of James Sveck, a sophisticated, vulnerable young man with a deep appreciation for the world and no idea...

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Books on Screen:

The Hours By Michael Cunningham

A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely...

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Love and Romance:

The Intimates By Ralph Sassone

The Intimates is about Maize and Robbie, who meet in high school and hold fast to each other as they stumble through amorous adventures, first jobs, and...

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Behold the Many By Lois-Ann Yamanaka

In 1913, stricken by tuberculosis, young Anah, Aki, and Leah are sent away from their family for treatment at St. Joseph's, an orphanage in Hawai'i's Kalihi...

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YA Reads:

Piper Reed, the Great Gypsy By Kimberly Willis Holt; illustrations by Christine Davenier

Piper’s dad - the Navy Chief - might be gone again, but Piper’s got plenty to keep her busy at home: new neighbors, a spaceship beach house, a trip to New...

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World Literature:

Bitter Grounds By Sandra Benítez

Winner of the 1998 American Book Award Spanning the years between 1932 and 1977, this beautifully told epic is set in the heart of El Salvador, where...

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Short Stories, Poems and Essays:

Smut By Alan Bennett

One of England’s finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in...

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Nonfiction:

That Used to Be Us By Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2011  In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze...

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Historical Fiction:

The Emperor of Lies By Steve Sem-Sandberg; Translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death

"Fiction of true moral force, brilliantly sustained and achieved...I find it difficult to think of any book that has had such an immediate and powerful impact...

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Biographies and Memoirs:

The Hare with Amber Eyes By Edmund de Waal

An Economist Book of the Year Costa Book Award Winner for Biography Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award) Edmund...

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