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Dec.10.2007
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical, and humane, this book renews Rushdie’s stature as a storyteller who can enthrall and instruct us with...
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Dec.10.2007
The Moor evokes his family's often grotesque but compulsively moving fortunes and the lost world of possibilities embodied by India in this century. His is a tale of premature deaths and family rifts, of thwarted loves and mad passions, of secrecy and greed, of power and money, and of the even more...
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Dec.06.2007
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 . . . a smart, warmhearted, winning book” –New York Times Book Review) with this irresistible account of her lifelong love affair...
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Nov.26.2007
One of the sinuous and subtly crafted stories in Tobias Wolff’s collection, begins with a man biting a dog. The fact that Wolff is reversing familiar expectations is only half the point. The other half is that Wolff makes the reversal seem inevitable: The dog has attacked his protagonist’s young...
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Nov.19.2007
A biography of Mary Ellen Peacock Nicolls Meredith based on Meredith's own writing and historical context.
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Nov.19.2007
This novel about horses and their breeders, owners, trainers, grooms, jockeys, traders, bettors, and other turf-obsessed humans is a winner. Smiley knows a prodigious amount about Thoroughbreds, and she is as good at describing the stages of their lives, their temperaments, and personalities as she...
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Nov.19.2007
They were six friends from the Midwest who moved to New York City with high hopes of making it big in the music industry. Although the dream had faded, they had all remained friends—or so it seemed. One brilliant day, two of the group were shot in an apartment for which they all had duplicate keys...
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Nov.19.2007
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 and immensely rewarding literary tribute.
In her inimitable style—exuberant, candid, opinionated—Smiley explores the power of the novel...
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Oct.21.2007
Two novellas:
Ordinary Love
At a reunion with her grown children, a woman recalls the long-ago affair that ended her relationship with their father—and changed all their lives irrevocably.
Good Will
Despite the carefully self-sufficient life he has designed for his small family, a man discovers...
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Oct.21.2007
The introduction, discussion questions, suggested reading list, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group’s reading of Jane Smiley’s Good Faith. In this new novel she brings her extraordinary gifts to the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport...
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