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Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace...
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Black Cool explores the ineffable state and aesthetic of Black Cool. From the effortless reserve of Miles Davis in khakis on an early album cover, to the shock of...
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World of Mirrors
World of Mirrors is set on an island off the Baltic coast in the former DDR, and the year is 1990, the “time of the turn.” The Berlin wall has crumbled, but Germany...
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World of Mirrors is set on an island off the Baltic coast in the former DDR, and the year is 1990, the “time of the turn.” The Berlin wall has crumbled, but Germany...
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Private Investigator Karl Kane returns to the streets of Belfast investigating the discovery of a severed hand. Karl believes it's the work of an elusive serial...
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Private Investigator Karl Kane returns to the streets of Belfast investigating the discovery of a severed hand. Karl believes it's the work of an elusive serial...
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Private Investigator Karl Kane returns to the streets of Belfast investigating the discovery of a severed hand. Karl believes it's the work of an elusive serial...
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The Light Bearer is a richly embroidered tale of war, vengeance and spiritual transcendence set in ancient Rome and northern Europe in the first century AD....
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Mud Hut Man
It’s 1079 AD and fourteen-year-old Ulf, son of a dung shoveler, lives in a hut in the shadow of the walls of Litchfield Castle. Their hut is but one of hundreds...
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Through intertwined short stories, 98 Wounds dissects the inexorable dualities present in every moment that matters: pleasure and pain, contentment and longing,...
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The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest: A Silicon Valley Novel
Andy Caspar is a Silicon Valley research engineer who wants to become an “ironman”—the kind of guy who builds companies that change the world, like Apple, Netscape...
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Nudist on the Late Shift: And Other Tales of Silicon Valley
The Nudist on the Late Shift is the true story of a new generation at the proving point of their lives, written by Po Bronson. This is a defining portrait of young...
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The 5th Horseman
It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women’s Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a...
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Mister B. Gone
Mister B. Gone marks the long-awaited return of Clive Barker, the great master of the macabre, to the classic horror story. This bone-chilling novel, in which a...
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist Jane Smiley celebrates the novel—and takes us on an exhilarating tour through one hundred of them—in this seductive...
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A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres gallops into territory she first explored in her acclaimed best-selling novel Horse Heaven (“Deeply satisfying...
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Age of Grief
Here is a stunning collection of five stories and a novella that confirms Jane Smiley’s place as one of our most gifted writers. In The Age of Grief, a man...
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The Greenlanders
Jane Smiley, the Pultizer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, gives us a magnificent novel of fourteenth century Greenland. Rich with fascinating detail about...
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Back in the World: Stories
To American soldiers in Vietnam, “back in the world” meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff’s characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out...
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Never Mind the Pollacks: A Rock and Roll Novel
The most important document in the history of rock ‘n’ roll since the liner notes to Killroy Was Here. (This paperback includes a new P.S. section with author...
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