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Dec.21.2007
“We are each the love of someone’s life.” So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. At his birth, Max’s father declares him a “nisse,” a creature of Danish myth, as his baby son has the external physical appearance of an old, dying creature....
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Dec.19.2007
From the celebrated author of The Palace Thief and Emperor of the Air, comes this stunning novel about the relationship between two very different men. Orno Tarcher travels from a small town in Missouri to New York City to attend Columbia University, where he begins a new life feeling...
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Dec.18.2007
Rotten is the true story on the rise and fall of the Sex Pistols and the Punk movement the band created in its path to self-destruction. Punk became more than a musical genre; it represented a social and artistic state of mind that still influences art and design.
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Dec.10.2007
In this remaking of the myth of Orpheus, Rushdie tells the story of Vina Apsara, a pop star, and Ormus Cama, an extraordinary songwriter and musician, who captivate and change the world through their music and their romance. Beginning in Bombay in the fifties, moving to London in the sixties, and...
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Dec.10.2007
In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986, harboring no preconceptions of what he...
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Dec.10.2007
In this brilliant novel, Salman Rushdie masterfully combines history, art, language, politics, and religion. Set in a country “not quite Pakistan,” the story centers around the families of two men—one a celebrated warrior, the other, a debauched playboy engaged in a protracted duel that is played...
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Dec.10.2007
In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful World War I memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot’s death. Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone. Alexander McCall Smith’s...
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Dec.10.2007
In Winspear’s winning fourth historical to star British psychologist and P.I. Maisie Dobbs (after 2005’s Pardonable Lies), Georgiana Bassington-Hope, a pioneering female war reporter who was a classmate of Maisie’s at Girton College (Cambridge), asks Maisie to investigate the death of her twin...
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Dec.07.2007
Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta (“for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies”) and...
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