Native Speaker By Chang-rae Lee

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Title	:	Native Speaker
Author	:	Chang-rae Lee
ISBN	:	1573225312
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	349

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In Native Speaker, author Chang rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American a native speaker But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, his Korean heritage seems to drift further and further away Park s harsh Korean upbringing has taught him to hide his emotions, to remember everyt In Native Speaker, author Chang rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park Park has spent his entire life trying to become a t...

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The Solace of Leaving Early By Haven Kimmel

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Title	:	The Solace of Leaving Early
Author	:	Haven Kimmel
ISBN	:	1400033349
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	288

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Using small town life as a springboard to explore the loftiest of ideas, Haven Kimmel s irresistibly smart and generous first novel is at once a romance and a haunting meditation on grief and faith Langston Braverman returns to Haddington, Indiana pop 3,062 after walking out on an academic career that has equipped her for little but lording it over other people Amos T Using small town life as a springboard to explore the loftiest of ideas, Haven Kimmel s irresistibly smart and generous first nov...

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The Curse Of The Wise Woman By Lord Dunsany

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Title	:	The Curse Of The Wise Woman
Author	:	Lord Dunsany
ISBN	:	0002211297
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	222

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After his father s interference in Irish politics ends with a band of killers arriving on Christmas night to assassinate him, young Charles Peridore finds himself master of the estate During idyllic school holidays, Charles enjoys riding to hounds and hunting geese and snipe while his friend Tommy Marlin tells stories of Tir nan Og, the land of eternal youth that lies jus After his father s interference in Irish politics ends with a band of killers arriving on Christmas night to assassinate him,...

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La febre d'or By Narcís Oller

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Title	:	La febre d'or
Author	:	Narcís Oller
ISBN	:	842971670X
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	304

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La febre d or s la gran novel la de la Barcelona del XIX i d una burgesia que veu cr ixer la seva autoritat econ mica i social arran de l especulaci de la borsa de comen aments dels anys vuitanta Es converteix, aix , en un document d estudi per a con ixer un moment crucial de la hist ria d un determinat sector de la societat del seu temps, vist, evidentment, a trav s de La febre d or s la gran novel la de la Barcelona del XIX i d una burgesia que veu cr ixer la seva autoritat econ mica i social arran de l...

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A Special Providence By Richard Yates

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Title	:	A Special Providence
Author	:	Richard Yates
ISBN	:	0312420404
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	352

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Robert Prentice is 18 His mother, Alice Prentice,is 53 Both are damaged souls Robert, by war Alice, by thwarted dreams of prosperity In two deeply humanizing portraits, the great American writer Richard Yates crafts a novel of postwar America, at once at odds with its own sense of identity and mercilessly prohibitive to its like minded citizens....

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Vacation By Deb Olin Unferth

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Title	:	Vacation
Author	:	Deb Olin Unferth
ISBN	:	1934781096
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	240

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A man follows his wife The wife follows a stranger The stranger leaves town and the man goes after him, determined to settle the score But the man is not the only one looking for the stranger, and the stranger has troubles of his own Amid all this, the earth quakes, a boy leaps out a window, and a dolphin swims free Of course people have adventures of this kind of cou A man follows his wife The wife follows a stranger The stranger leaves town and the man goes after him, determined to settle the ...

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The Stone of Laughter By Hoda Barakat

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Title	:	The Stone of Laughter
Author	:	Hoda Barakat
ISBN	:	1566561906
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	210

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The Stone of Laughter is a virile novel which brings forth the contradictory history of a city under fire through the life and dilemmas of a gay man It is a bold and radical novel, full of black humor and cynical observations about life in war torn Beirut In 1990, when it first appeared in Arabic, it was hailed by critics throughout the Arab world as the best novel set a The Stone of Laughter is a virile novel which brings forth the contradictory history of a city under fire throu...

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The Bruise By Magdalena Zurawski

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Title	:	The Bruise
Author	:	Magdalena Zurawski
ISBN	:	1573661449
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	174

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Winner of Ronald Sukenick Prize for Innovative Fiction The Bruise is a prize winning novel of imperative voice and raw sensation In the sterile dormitories and on the quiet winter greens of an American university, a young woman named M deals with the repercussions of a strange encounter with an angel, one that has left a large bruise on her forehead Was the event real or Winner of Ronald Sukenick Prize for Innovative Fiction The Bruise is a prize winning novel of imperative voice and raw sen...

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Eeeee Eee Eeee By Tao Lin

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Title	:	Eeeee Eee Eeee
Author	:	Tao Lin
ISBN	:	1933633255
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	211

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Confused yet intelligent animals attempt to interact with confused yet intelligent humans, resulting in the death of Elijah Wood, Salman Rushdie, and Wong Kar Wai the destruction of a Domino s Pizza delivery car in Orlando and a vegan dinner at a sushi restaurant in Manhattan attended by a dolphin, a bear, a moose, an alien, three humans, and the President of the United Confused yet intelligent animals attempt to interact with confused yet intelligent humans, resulting in the death of Elijah Woo...

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Capital By John Lanchester

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Title	:	Capital
Author	:	John Lanchester
ISBN	:	0571234607
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	577

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From the best selling author of The Debt to Pleasure, a sweeping social novel set at the height of the financial crisis.Celebrated novelist John Lanchester an elegant and wonderfully witty writer New York Times returns with an epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time It s 2008 and things are falling apart Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are going under, a From the best selling author of The Debt to Pleasure, a sweeping social novel set at the height of the financial crisis.Celebr...

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Family Pictures By Sue Miller

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Title	:	Family Pictures
Author	:	Sue Miller
ISBN	:	0575403217
Format	:	Hardcover
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Spanning forty years, Family Pictures follows the conflict between husband and wife, over a beautiful autistic child Randall is both angel and demon His father, David, a coolly rational psychiatrist, wants him placed in an institution his mother, Lainey, insists on keeping him at home Yet it is not just David and Lainey who are struggling to come to terms with a diffic Spanning forty years, Family Pictures follows the conflict between husband and wife, over a beautiful autistic child Randall...

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Missing Mom By Joyce Carol Oates

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Title	:	Missing Mom
Author	:	Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN	:	0060816228
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	464

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Nikki Eaton, single, thirty one, sexually liberated, and economically self supporting, has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter Yet, following the unexpected loss of her mother, she undergoes a remarkable transformation during a tumultuous year that brings stunning horror, sorrow, illumination, wisdom, and even from an unexpected source a nurturing love....

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Iodine By Haven Kimmel

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Title	:	Iodine
Author	:	Haven Kimmel
ISBN	:	1416572848
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	240

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Haven Kimmel, the 1 New York Times bestselling author, has long attracted legions of fans for her insightful, humane portraits of outsiders struggling to find their place in the world In Iodine, her fourth novel, Kimmel once again draws on her exceptional powers of observation and empathy, but this time she makes an exhilarating foray into psychological gothic territory Haven Kimmel, the 1 New York Times bestselling author, has long attracted legions of fans for her insightf...

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Virginia By Ellen Glasgow

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Title	:	Virginia
Author	:	Ellen Glasgow
ISBN	:	0140390723
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	432

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Beginning in 1884, Virginia follows Virginia Pendleton through her life as she struggles to adapt to the changing role of women in the post Civil War south Ellen Glasgow is known for her chronicling of Virginia social history She later won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel In This Our Life....

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Niagara Falls All Over Again By Elizabeth McCracken

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Title	:	Niagara Falls All Over Again
Author	:	Elizabeth McCracken
ISBN	:	0965293726
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	308

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Spanning the waning years of vaudeville and the golden age of Hollywood, Niagara Falls All Over Again chronicles a flawed, passionate friendship over thirty years, weaving a powerful story of family and love, grief and loss In it, McCracken introduces her most singular and affecting hero Mose Sharp son, brother, husband, father, friend and straight man to the fat g Spanning the waning years of vaudeville and the golden age of Hollywood, Niagara Falls All Over Again chronicles a flawed, passi...

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The Butt By Will Self

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Title	:	The Butt
Author	:	Will Self
ISBN	:	074759175X
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	368

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One of contemporary fiction s most wickedly brilliant endlessly talented Publishers Weekly satirists delivers a dystopian novel skewering global politics and Big Brother style government post 9 11.

When Tom Brodzinksi tries to give up smoking, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events that threaten to upset the tenuous balance of peace in a not too distant land When

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1000 Musim Mengejar Bintang By Charon

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Title	:	1000 Musim Mengejar Bintang
Author	:	Charon
ISBN	:
Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Number of Pages	:	368

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Ketika pertama kali bertemu Niko, Laura hanyalah siswi kampung, sedangkan Niko siswa terkenal Laura sudah memendam rasa suka sejak pertemuan mereka yang pertama Tapi ternyata Niko sudah mempunyai pacar yang supercantik dan juga terkenal, Erika.Laura hanya bisa melihat Niko dari kejauhan dan memendam perasaan sukanya dalam hati Ketika akhirnya dia sekelas dengan Niko, ke Ketika pertama kali bertemu Niko, Laura hanyalah siswi kampung, sedangkan Niko siswa terkenal Laura sudah memendam rasa suka se...

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