By Helen Humphreys - $17.99 - add to cart

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A groundbreaking, genre-bending new work from one of Canada’s most respected writers. In its long history, the River Thames has frozen solid forty times. These are the stories of that frozen riv...

By Michael Chabon - $17.95 - add to cart

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A rollicking saga set a thousand years ago along the ancient Silk Road, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Gentlemen of the Road is set in the Kin...

By Marina Endicott - $25.95 - add to cart

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Shortlisted for the 2008 Giller Prize for Fiction.In a novel reminiscent of the work of Penelope Lively, Ann Tyler, and Alice Munro, acclaimed author Marina Endicott gives us one of the most satisf...

By Emma Donaghue - $14.00 - add to cart

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A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships—the kind mil...

By D. R. Macdonald - $18.95 - add to cart

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There was a time when Lauchlin MacLean was a promising welterweight boxer, a time when his heart was strong and fit, a time when he might have had a future. But instead, he stayed in his tightly kn...

By Hillary Jordan - $16.50 - add to cart

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When I think of the farm, I think of mud...There was no defeating it. The mud coated everything. I dreamed in brown. When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Miss...

By Pascal Mercier - $19.50 - add to cart

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In Swiss novelist Mercier's U.S. debut, Raimund Gregorius is a gifted but dull 57-year-old high school classical languages teacher in Switzerland. After a chance meeting with a Portuguese woman in ...

By Peter Hoeg - $17.00 - add to cart

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Kaspar Krone is a world-renowned circus clown, and a man in some deep trouble. Drowning in gambling debt and wanted for tax evasion, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns ...

By Ann Patchett - $16.25 - add to cart

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Patchett writes another novel with an unlikely twist and a style so captivating that the listener completely suspends disbelief. A poor black woman with an 11-year-old daughter throws herself in fr...

By Sue Monk Kidd - $16.50 - add to cart

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Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of ...

By Ann Packer - $16.95 - add to cart

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Liz and Sarabeth were girlhood neighbors in the suburbs of Northern California, brought as close as sisters by the suicide of Sarabeth's mother. In the decades that followed, their relationship rem...

By Will Ferguson - $19.00 - add to cart

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Raised by his father in the dying town of Paradise Flats, Jack McGreary has learned to live by his wits. The year is 1939. Drought has turned America's heartland into a dust bowl, and the world is ...

By Stephane Audeguy - $15.95 - add to cart

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Akira Kumo, a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima, has assembled a large historical archive of artifacts, photographs, and documents related to meteorology. He recruits a young student, Virginie, ...

By Denis Johnson - $18.00 - add to cart

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Tree of Smoke is the story of William "Skip" Sands, CIA--engaged in Pschological Operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him. It is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bi...

By Alan Bennett - $10.99 - add to cart

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"The Uncommon Reader" is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ( JR Ackerley, J...