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<title><![CDATA[A Short History of Nearly Everything]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780767908184</link>
<description><![CDATA[One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[A Short History of Nearly Everything]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Bryson]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Broadway]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780767908184]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2004-09-14T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[A Reliable Wife]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781565129771</link>
<description><![CDATA[In rural Wisconsin in 1909, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[A Reliable Wife]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Goolrick]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781565129771]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[In rural Wisconsin in 1909, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2010-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780575074019</link>
<description><![CDATA[Toy Town?older, bigger, and certainly not wiser. The Old Rich, who have made their millions from the royalties on their world-famous nursery rhymes, are being murdered one by one. A psychopath is on the loose, and he must be stopped at any cost. It’s a job for Toy Town’s only detective?but he’s missing, leaving only Eddie Bear, and his bestest friend Jack, to track down the mad killer.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Rankin]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Gollancz]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780575074019]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Toy Town?older, bigger, and certainly not wiser. The Old Rich, who have made their millions from the royalties on their world-famous nursery rhymes, are being murdered one by one. A psychopath is on the loose, and he must be stopped at any cost. It’s a job for Toy Town’s only detective?but he’s missing, leaving only Eddie Bear, and his bestest friend Jack, to track down the mad killer.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2004-03-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Private Patient]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307455284</link>
<description><![CDATA[National BestsellerCheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic.  When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a successful operation and a peaceful week recuperating.  But the clinic houses an implacable enemy and within hours of the operation Rhoda is murdered.   Commander Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a case complicated by old crimes and the dark secrets of the past.  But Before Rhoda's murder is solved, a second horrific death adds to the complexities of one of Dalgliesh's most perplexing and fascinating cases.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Private Patient]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[P.D. James]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Vintage]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780307455284]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[National BestsellerCheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic.  When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a successful operation and a peaceful week recuperating.  But the clinic houses an implacable enemy and within hours of the operation Rhoda is murdered.   Commander Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a case complicated by old crimes and the dark secrets of the past.  But Before Rhoda's murder is solved, a second horrific death adds to the complexities of one of Dalgliesh's most perplexing and fascinating cases.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-11-03T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Couch]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520546</link>
<description><![CDATA[Three guys try to carry a couch across the country.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Couch]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin Parzybok]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520546]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Three guys try to carry a couch across the country.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2008-11-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Fourth Part of the World]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781416535317</link>
<description><![CDATA["Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and sizes on their maps, but occasionally they hinted at the existence of a "fourth part of the world," a mysterious, inaccessible place, separated from the rest by a vast expanse of ocean. It was a land of myth—until 1507, that is, when Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann, two obscure scholars working in the mountains of eastern France, made it real. Columbus had died the year before convinced that he had sailed to Asia, but Waldseemüller and Ringmann, after reading about the Atlantic discoveries of Columbus’s contemporary Amerigo Vespucci, came to a startling conclusion: Vespucci had reached the fourth part of the world. To celebrate his achievement, Waldseemüller and Ringmann printed a huge map, for the first time showing the New World surrounded by water and distinct from Asia, and in Vespucci’s honor they gave this New World a name: America. The Fourth Part of the World is the story behind that map, a thrilling saga of geographical and intellectual exploration, full of outsize thinkers and voyages. Taking a kaleidoscopic approach, Toby Lester traces the origins of our modern worldview. His narrative sweeps across continents and centuries, zeroing in on different portions of the map to reveal strands of ancient legend, Biblical prophecy, classical learning, medieval exploration, imperial ambitions, and more. In Lester’s telling the map comes alive: Marco Polo and the early Christian missionaries trek across Central Asia and China; Europe’s early humanists travel to monastic libraries to recover ancient texts; Portuguese merchants round up the first West African slaves; Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci make their epic voyages of discovery; and finally, vitally, Nicholas Copernicus makes an appearance, deducing from the new geography shown on the Waldseemüller map that the earth could not lie at the center of the cosmos. The map literally altered humanity’s worldview. One thousand copies of the map were printed, yet only one remains. Discovered accidentally in 1901 in the library of a German castle it was bought in 2003 for the unprecedented sum of $10 million by the Library of Congress, where it is now on permanent public display. Lavishly illustrated with rare maps and diagrams, The Fourth Part of the World is the story of that map: the dazzling story of the geographical and intellectual journeys that have helped us decipher our world.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Fourth Part of the World]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Toby Lester]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Free Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781416535317]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and sizes on their maps, but occasionally they hinted at the existence of a "fourth part of the world," a mysterious, inaccessible place, separated from the rest by a vast expanse of ocean. It was a land of myth—until 1507, that is, when Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann, two obscure scholars working in the mountains of eastern France, made it real. Columbus had died the year before convinced that he had sailed to Asia, but Waldseemüller and Ringmann, after reading about the Atlantic discoveries of Columbus’s contemporary Amerigo Vespucci, came to a startling conclusion: Vespucci had reached the fourth part of the world. To celebrate his achievement, Waldseemüller and Ringmann printed a huge map, for the first time showing the New World surrounded by water and distinct from Asia, and in Vespucci’s honor they gave this New World a name: America. The Fourth Part of the World is the story behind that map, a thrilling saga of geographical and intellectual exploration, full of outsize thinkers and voyages. Taking a kaleidoscopic approach, Toby Lester traces the origins of our modern worldview. His narrative sweeps across continents and centuries, zeroing in on different portions of the map to reveal strands of ancient legend, Biblical prophecy, classical learning, medieval exploration, imperial ambitions, and more. In Lester’s telling the map comes alive: Marco Polo and the early Christian missionaries trek across Central Asia and China; Europe’s early humanists travel to monastic libraries to recover ancient texts; Portuguese merchants round up the first West African slaves; Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci make their epic voyages of discovery; and finally, vitally, Nicholas Copernicus makes an appearance, deducing from the new geography shown on the Waldseemüller map that the earth could not lie at the center of the cosmos. The map literally altered humanity’s worldview. One thousand copies of the map were printed, yet only one remains. Discovered accidentally in 1901 in the library of a German castle it was bought in 2003 for the unprecedented sum of $10 million by the Library of Congress, where it is now on permanent public display. Lavishly illustrated with rare maps and diagrams, The Fourth Part of the World is the story of that map: the dazzling story of the geographical and intellectual journeys that have helped us decipher our world.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-11-03T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Ambassadors]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780141441320</link>
<description><![CDATA[An incomparable Henry James?s novel in a new edition  Featuring a new introduction, it is a brilliant and sophisticated satire of manners and morals in the best Jamesian tradition. The Ambassadors is a subtle exploration of American responses to Europe in which a Boston blueblood?s son becomes involved with an unsuitable woman.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Ambassadors]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Henry James; Adrian Poole]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Penguin Classics]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780141441320]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[An incomparable Henry James?s novel in a new edition  Featuring a new introduction, it is a brilliant and sophisticated satire of manners and morals in the best Jamesian tradition. The Ambassadors is a subtle exploration of American responses to Europe in which a Boston blueblood?s son becomes involved with an unsuitable woman.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2008-06-24T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Chasing the Sun]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781400068753</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the grand tradition of the scholar-adventurer, acclaimed author Richard Cohen takes us around the world to illuminate our relationship with the star that gives us life. Whether floating in a skiff on the Ganges as the Sun descends behind the funeral pyres of Varanasi, interviewing psychologists in the Norwegian Arctic about the effects of darkness, or watching tomato seedlings in southern Spain being hair-brushed (the better to catch the Sun’s rays), Cohen tirelessly pursues his quarry.  Drawing on more than seven years of research, he reports from locations in eighteen different countries, including the Novolazarevskaya science station in Antarctica (the coldest place on Earth); the Arizona desert (the sunniest); the Pope’s observatory-cum-fortress outside Rome (possible the least accessible); and the crest of Mount Fuji, where—entirely alone—he welcomes the sunrise on the longest day of the year.  As he soon discovers, the Sun is present everywhere—in mythology, language, religion, sciences, art, literature, and medicine; in the ocean depths; even atop the Statue of Liberty. Ancient worshippers believed our star was a man with three eyes and four arms, abandoned by his spouse because his brightness made her weary. The early Christians appropriated the halo from sun imagery and saw the cross as an emblem of the Sun and its rays. Galileo was the first to espy blemishes on the solar surface—sunspots—but hid his discoveries for fear of persecution. Einstein helped duplicate the source of the Sun’s power to create the atomic bomb; while the “Sun King” Louis XIV, Chairman Mao, Adolf Hitler, and the Japanese emperors all co-opted the Sun to enlarge their authority. Conan Doyle had Sherlock Holmes declare that even thinking about the solar system took up too much space in his brain, while Richard Wagner had Tristan inveigh against daylight as the enemy of romantic love.  Packed with interesting figures (the Sun is responsible for 44 percent of the world’s tidal energy, and when aligned with the Moon, as at high tide, makes us all minutely taller); extraordinary myths (in India, just a few years ago, pregnant women were still being kept indoors during an eclipse, for fear their babies would be born blind or with cleft palates); and surprising anecdotes (during the Vietnam War, a large number of mines dropped into Haiphong harbor blew up simultaneously in response to a large solar flare), this splendidly illustrated volume is erudite, informative, and supremely entertaining. It not only explains the star that so inspires us, but shows how complex our relations with it have been—and continue to be.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Chasing the Sun]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Cohen]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Random House]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781400068753]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[In the grand tradition of the scholar-adventurer, acclaimed author Richard Cohen takes us around the world to illuminate our relationship with the star that gives us life. Whether floating in a skiff on the Ganges as the Sun descends behind the funeral pyres of Varanasi, interviewing psychologists in the Norwegian Arctic about the effects of darkness, or watching tomato seedlings in southern Spain being hair-brushed (the better to catch the Sun’s rays), Cohen tirelessly pursues his quarry.  Drawing on more than seven years of research, he reports from locations in eighteen different countries, including the Novolazarevskaya science station in Antarctica (the coldest place on Earth); the Arizona desert (the sunniest); the Pope’s observatory-cum-fortress outside Rome (possible the least accessible); and the crest of Mount Fuji, where—entirely alone—he welcomes the sunrise on the longest day of the year.  As he soon discovers, the Sun is present everywhere—in mythology, language, religion, sciences, art, literature, and medicine; in the ocean depths; even atop the Statue of Liberty. Ancient worshippers believed our star was a man with three eyes and four arms, abandoned by his spouse because his brightness made her weary. The early Christians appropriated the halo from sun imagery and saw the cross as an emblem of the Sun and its rays. Galileo was the first to espy blemishes on the solar surface—sunspots—but hid his discoveries for fear of persecution. Einstein helped duplicate the source of the Sun’s power to create the atomic bomb; while the “Sun King” Louis XIV, Chairman Mao, Adolf Hitler, and the Japanese emperors all co-opted the Sun to enlarge their authority. Conan Doyle had Sherlock Holmes declare that even thinking about the solar system took up too much space in his brain, while Richard Wagner had Tristan inveigh against daylight as the enemy of romantic love.  Packed with interesting figures (the Sun is responsible for 44 percent of the world’s tidal energy, and when aligned with the Moon, as at high tide, makes us all minutely taller); extraordinary myths (in India, just a few years ago, pregnant women were still being kept indoors during an eclipse, for fear their babies would be born blind or with cleft palates); and surprising anecdotes (during the Vietnam War, a large number of mines dropped into Haiphong harbor blew up simultaneously in response to a large solar flare), this splendidly illustrated volume is erudite, informative, and supremely entertaining. It not only explains the star that so inspires us, but shows how complex our relations with it have been—and continue to be.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2010-11-09T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Thirteen Moons]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375509322</link>
<description><![CDATA[Charles Frazier’s Thirteen Moons is the story of one man’s remarkable life, spanning a century of relentless change. At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey through the wilderness to the edge of the Cherokee Nation, the uncharted white space on the map. Will is a bound boy, obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. As he fulfills his lonesome duty, Will finds a father in Bear, a Cherokee chief, and is adopted by him and his people, developing relationships that ultimately forge Will’s character. All the while, his love of Claire, the enigmatic and captivating charge of volatile and powerful Featherstone, will forever rule Will’s heart.In a distinct voice filled with both humor and yearning, Will tells of a lifelong search for home, the hunger for fortune and adventure, the rebuilding of a trampled culture, and above all an enduring pursuit of passion. As he comes to realize, “When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. One of the few welcome lessons age teaches is that only desire trumps time."Will Cooper, in the hands of Charles Frazier, becomes a classic American soul: a man devoted to a place and its people, a woman, and a way of life, all of which are forever just beyond his reach. Thirteen Moons takes us from the uncharted wilderness of an unspoiled continent, across the South, up and down the Mississippi, and to the urban clamor of a raw Washington City. Throughout, Will is swept along as the wild beauty of the nineteenth century gives way to the telephones, automobiles, and encroaching railways of the twentieth. Steeped in history, rich in insight, and filled with moments of sudden beauty, Thirteen Moons is an unforgettable work of fiction by an American master.PRAISE FOR THIRTEEN MOONS“Genius.”–Time “Gorgeous…Thirteen Moons calls Cold Mountain to mind in its wonder at the natural world; its pacificist undercurrents; its dismay at the dismantling of what matters, and its convication that one love, no matter how tortured and inexplicable, can be life-defining…fascinating…vivid and alive.”–Newsweek “Thirteen Moons is rare in many ways and occupies a literary plane of such height that reviewing it is not really salient….Thirteen Moons has the power to inspire great performances from succeeding generations of writers….For those who simply value the literary experience, Thirteen Moons will provide the immense satisfaction of taking a literary journey of magnitude. Whether on a plane, in an office or curled in a window seat, readers who absorb Will's story will find their own lives enriched….Thirteen Moons belongs to the ages.”–Los Angeles Times “Thirteen Moons brings this vanished world thrillingly to life…One of the great Native American, and American stories, and a great gift to all of us, from one of our very best writers.”« –Kirkus Reviews, starred review «“There are things so masterful words can’t do them justice. Frazier’s writing falls in that category…With Thirteen Moons, he’s doing important work fillnig in the gaps, helping restore the roots, of our knowledge of our own history.”–Asheville Citizen-Times “Fascinating…Reading Thirteen Moons is an intoxicating experience…This is 21st-century literary fiction at its very best.”–BookPage “Thirteen Moons is rare in many ways and occupies a literary plane of such height that reviewing it is not really salient….Thirteen Moons has the power to inspire great performances from succeeding generations of writers….For those who simply value the literary experience, Thirteen Moons will provide the immense satisfaction of taking a literary journey of magnitude. Whether on a plane, in an office or curled in a window seat, readers who absorb Will's story will find their own lives enriched….Thirteen Moons belongs to the ages.”–Los Angeles Times “Once again, we are in the hands of an assured writer who knows how to bring history to life…Gorgeous.”–New Orleans Times Picayune  “Magical…the history lesson in Thirteen Moons is fascinating and moving…You will find much to admire and savor in Thirteen Moons.”–USA Today“Incredibly powerful.”–Melissa Block on NPR All Things Considered“Verdict: A powerhouse second act….a brilliant success…Frazier's second act should convince everyone that he's here to stay. It is a powerful, dramatic, often surprising and memorable novel.”–Atlanta Journal Constitution“Thirteen Moons is a boisterous, confident novel that draws from the epic tradition... Frazier is a natural storyteller, and throughout his picaresque tale are grand themes and eulogies”–Boston Globe“Warm hearted…Frazier is a remarkably meticulous and tasteful writer… Thirteen Moons is a worthy successor to the first novel and a highly readable book.”–Seattle Times“Fiction of the highest order…Another indelible character. Charles Frazier has a knack for them.”–Charlotte Observer“Splendidly written.”–New York Daily News“What a story!... Frazier's creation, Will Cooper, is utterly charismatic….Frazier's genius lies in his ability to convey emotions that feel pure and genuine…It was worth the wait.”–Dayton Daily News“To Charles Frazier, words are playthings. Like very few other contemporary American novelists, he puts them together in such a way that they can transform an otherwise mundane moment, scene or conversation into one that is transcendent….No sophomore jinx here. Reading a Frazier novel is like listening to a fine symphony. He's a maestro whose pen is his baton, beckoning the best that each sentence has to offer. And just as you wouldn't rush a conductor, you should take the time to savor Frazier’s work, to take in each thought, to relish the turn of phrase or the imagery of a craftsman.”–Denver Post“Two for two…Here is a book brimming with vivid, adventurous incident…Charles Frazier set himself a daunting challenge with this book. He set out to write a historical novel that was retrospective and meditative, yet still vibrant and immediate with life. Thirteen Moons succeeds in classy fashion.”–Raleigh News & Observer“If current fiction is anything to go by, it’s hard for a novelist to make Santayana's puzzle pieces - lyricism, comedy, tragedy - fit together, as they do in real life and real history. Frazier has done it…Thirteen Moons makes you feel that change that happened so long before our own time, and makes you mourn it.”–Newsday“[Thirteen Moons] is superbly entertaining, and it packs enough emotional heft to measure up to most readers’ high expectations.”–Richmond Times-Dispatch “Thirteen Moons is a fitting successor to Cold Mountain…fans of Frazier's debut will be cheered to discover that the new book is another compulsively readable work of historical fiction.”–St. Louis Post-Dispatch “If there is any doubt that Frazier is an incredibly gifted storyteller - and not just a lucky name or a one-hit wonder - it will be put to rest with the publication of Thirteen Moons. Within 10 pages, this long-awaited new novel bears the reader swiftly out of the waking world into its own imagined universe like nothing else published this year.”–Minneapolis Star Tribune“Achingly beautiful descriptions of nature…It’s rich, it’s beautiful.”–Columbia State“Forget the sophomore jinx. Frazier demonstrates that Cold Mountain was no one-hit wonder with this fully realized historical novel again set in the South….Again, Frazier shows himself a master of landscape and language, both often fresh and surprising in his telling.–Seattle Post-Intelligencer“Thirteen Moons contains achingly beautiful passages of snowfalls, fog-wrapped rivers and moonlit forests. There are ribald and hilarious events, too, including a description of the Cherokee Booger Dance that is a masterpiece of satire. The love affair between Cooper and Claire threads its way through this pseudo-historic epic like a brilliant, scarlet ribbon. There is also a melancholy refrain that celebrates a wondrous time and place that is gone and will never return.”–Smoky Mountain News“Once again, we are in the hands of an assured writer who knows how to bring history to life…Gorgeous.”–New Orleans Times Picayune  “Magical…the history lesson in Thirteen Moons is fascinating and moving…You will find much to admire and savor in Thirteen Moons.”–USA Today“Verdict: A powerhouse second act….a brilliant success…Frazier's second act should convince everyone that he's here to stay. It is a powerful, dramatic, often surprising and memorable novel.”–Atlanta Journal Constitution“Thirteen Moons is a boisterous, confident novel that draws from the epic tradition... Frazier is a natural storyteller, and throughout his picaresque tale are grand themes and eulogies”–Boston Globe“Fiction of the highest order…Another indelible character. Charles Frazier has a knack for them.”–Charlotte Observer“What a story!... Frazier's creation, Will Cooper, is utterly charismatic….Frazier's genius lies in his ability to convey emotions that feel pure and genuine…It was worth the wait.”–Dayton Daily News“To Charles Frazier, words are playthings. Like very few other contemporary American novelists, he puts them together in such a way that they can transform an otherwise mundane moment, scene or conversation into one that is transcendent….No sophomore jinx here. Reading a Frazier novel is like listening to a fine symphony. He's a maestro whose pen is his baton, beckoning the best that each sentence has to offer. And just as you wouldn't rush a conductor, you should take the time to savor Frazier’s work, to take in each thought, to relish the turn of phrase or the imagery of a craftsman.”–Denver Post“Two for two…Here is a book brimming with vivid, adventurous incident…Charles Frazier set himself a daunting challenge with this book. He set out to write a historical novel that was retrospective and meditative, yet still vibrant and immediate with life. Thirteen Moons succeeds in classy fashion.”–Raleigh News & Observer“[Thirteen Moons] is superbly entertaining, and it packs enough emotional heft to measure up to most readers’ high expectations.”–Richmond Times-Dispatch “Thirteen Moons is a fitting successor to Cold Mountain…fans of Frazier's debut will be cheered to discover that the new book is another compulsively readable work of historical fiction.”–St. Louis Post-Dispatch “If there is any doubt that Frazier is an incredibly gifted storyteller - and not just a lucky name or a one-hit wonder - it will be put to rest with the publication of Thirteen Moons. Within 10 pages, this long-awaited new novel bears the reader swiftly out of the waking world into its own imagined universe like nothing else published this year.”–Minneapolis Star Tribune“Forget the sophomore jinx. Frazier demonstrates that Cold Mountain was no one-hit wonder with this fully realized historical novel again set in the South….Again, Frazier shows himself a master of landscape and language, both often fresh and surprising in his telling.–Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Thirteen Moons]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Frazier]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Random House]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780375509322]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Charles Frazier’s Thirteen Moons is the story of one man’s remarkable life, spanning a century of relentless change. At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey through the wilderness to the edge of the Cherokee Nation, the uncharted white space on the map. Will is a bound boy, obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. As he fulfills his lonesome duty, Will finds a father in Bear, a Cherokee chief, and is adopted by him and his people, developing relationships that ultimately forge Will’s character. All the while, his love of Claire, the enigmatic and captivating charge of volatile and powerful Featherstone, will forever rule Will’s heart.In a distinct voice filled with both humor and yearning, Will tells of a lifelong search for home, the hunger for fortune and adventure, the rebuilding of a trampled culture, and above all an enduring pursuit of passion. As he comes to realize, “When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. One of the few welcome lessons age teaches is that only desire trumps time."Will Cooper, in the hands of Charles Frazier, becomes a classic American soul: a man devoted to a place and its people, a woman, and a way of life, all of which are forever just beyond his reach. Thirteen Moons takes us from the uncharted wilderness of an unspoiled continent, across the South, up and down the Mississippi, and to the urban clamor of a raw Washington City. Throughout, Will is swept along as the wild beauty of the nineteenth century gives way to the telephones, automobiles, and encroaching railways of the twentieth. Steeped in history, rich in insight, and filled with moments of sudden beauty, Thirteen Moons is an unforgettable work of fiction by an American master.PRAISE FOR THIRTEEN MOONS“Genius.”–Time “Gorgeous…Thirteen Moons calls Cold Mountain to mind in its wonder at the natural world; its pacificist undercurrents; its dismay at the dismantling of what matters, and its convication that one love, no matter how tortured and inexplicable, can be life-defining…fascinating…vivid and alive.”–Newsweek “Thirteen Moons is rare in many ways and occupies a literary plane of such height that reviewing it is not really salient….Thirteen Moons has the power to inspire great performances from succeeding generations of writers….For those who simply value the literary experience, Thirteen Moons will provide the immense satisfaction of taking a literary journey of magnitude. Whether on a plane, in an office or curled in a window seat, readers who absorb Will's story will find their own lives enriched….Thirteen Moons belongs to the ages.”–Los Angeles Times “Thirteen Moons brings this vanished world thrillingly to life…One of the great Native American, and American stories, and a great gift to all of us, from one of our very best writers.”« –Kirkus Reviews, starred review «“There are things so masterful words can’t do them justice. Frazier’s writing falls in that category…With Thirteen Moons, he’s doing important work fillnig in the gaps, helping restore the roots, of our knowledge of our own history.”–Asheville Citizen-Times “Fascinating…Reading Thirteen Moons is an intoxicating experience…This is 21st-century literary fiction at its very best.”–BookPage “Thirteen Moons is rare in many ways and occupies a literary plane of such height that reviewing it is not really salient….Thirteen Moons has the power to inspire great performances from succeeding generations of writers….For those who simply value the literary experience, Thirteen Moons will provide the immense satisfaction of taking a literary journey of magnitude. Whether on a plane, in an office or curled in a window seat, readers who absorb Will's story will find their own lives enriched….Thirteen Moons belongs to the ages.”–Los Angeles Times “Once again, we are in the hands of an assured writer who knows how to bring history to life…Gorgeous.”–New Orleans Times Picayune  “Magical…the history lesson in Thirteen Moons is fascinating and moving…You will find much to admire and savor in Thirteen Moons.”–USA Today“Incredibly powerful.”–Melissa Block on NPR All Things Considered“Verdict: A powerhouse second act….a brilliant success…Frazier's second act should convince everyone that he's here to stay. It is a powerful, dramatic, often surprising and memorable novel.”–Atlanta Journal Constitution“Thirteen Moons is a boisterous, confident novel that draws from the epic tradition... Frazier is a natural storyteller, and throughout his picaresque tale are grand themes and eulogies”–Boston Globe“Warm hearted…Frazier is a remarkably meticulous and tasteful writer… Thirteen Moons is a worthy successor to the first novel and a highly readable book.”–Seattle Times“Fiction of the highest order…Another indelible character. Charles Frazier has a knack for them.”–Charlotte Observer“Splendidly written.”–New York Daily News“What a story!... Frazier's creation, Will Cooper, is utterly charismatic….Frazier's genius lies in his ability to convey emotions that feel pure and genuine…It was worth the wait.”–Dayton Daily News“To Charles Frazier, words are playthings. Like very few other contemporary American novelists, he puts them together in such a way that they can transform an otherwise mundane moment, scene or conversation into one that is transcendent….No sophomore jinx here. Reading a Frazier novel is like listening to a fine symphony. He's a maestro whose pen is his baton, beckoning the best that each sentence has to offer. And just as you wouldn't rush a conductor, you should take the time to savor Frazier’s work, to take in each thought, to relish the turn of phrase or the imagery of a craftsman.”–Denver Post“Two for two…Here is a book brimming with vivid, adventurous incident…Charles Frazier set himself a daunting challenge with this book. He set out to write a historical novel that was retrospective and meditative, yet still vibrant and immediate with life. Thirteen Moons succeeds in classy fashion.”–Raleigh News & Observer“If current fiction is anything to go by, it’s hard for a novelist to make Santayana's puzzle pieces - lyricism, comedy, tragedy - fit together, as they do in real life and real history. Frazier has done it…Thirteen Moons makes you feel that change that happened so long before our own time, and makes you mourn it.”–Newsday“[Thirteen Moons] is superbly entertaining, and it packs enough emotional heft to measure up to most readers’ high expectations.”–Richmond Times-Dispatch “Thirteen Moons is a fitting successor to Cold Mountain…fans of Frazier's debut will be cheered to discover that the new book is another compulsively readable work of historical fiction.”–St. Louis Post-Dispatch “If there is any doubt that Frazier is an incredibly gifted storyteller - and not just a lucky name or a one-hit wonder - it will be put to rest with the publication of Thirteen Moons. Within 10 pages, this long-awaited new novel bears the reader swiftly out of the waking world into its own imagined universe like nothing else published this year.”–Minneapolis Star Tribune“Achingly beautiful descriptions of nature…It’s rich, it’s beautiful.”–Columbia State“Forget the sophomore jinx. Frazier demonstrates that Cold Mountain was no one-hit wonder with this fully realized historical novel again set in the South….Again, Frazier shows himself a master of landscape and language, both often fresh and surprising in his telling.–Seattle Post-Intelligencer“Thirteen Moons contains achingly beautiful passages of snowfalls, fog-wrapped rivers and moonlit forests. There are ribald and hilarious events, too, including a description of the Cherokee Booger Dance that is a masterpiece of satire. The love affair between Cooper and Claire threads its way through this pseudo-historic epic like a brilliant, scarlet ribbon. There is also a melancholy refrain that celebrates a wondrous time and place that is gone and will never return.”–Smoky Mountain News“Once again, we are in the hands of an assured writer who knows how to bring history to life…Gorgeous.”–New Orleans Times Picayune  “Magical…the history lesson in Thirteen Moons is fascinating and moving…You will find much to admire and savor in Thirteen Moons.”–USA Today“Verdict: A powerhouse second act….a brilliant success…Frazier's second act should convince everyone that he's here to stay. It is a powerful, dramatic, often surprising and memorable novel.”–Atlanta Journal Constitution“Thirteen Moons is a boisterous, confident novel that draws from the epic tradition... Frazier is a natural storyteller, and throughout his picaresque tale are grand themes and eulogies”–Boston Globe“Fiction of the highest order…Another indelible character. Charles Frazier has a knack for them.”–Charlotte Observer“What a story!... Frazier's creation, Will Cooper, is utterly charismatic….Frazier's genius lies in his ability to convey emotions that feel pure and genuine…It was worth the wait.”–Dayton Daily News“To Charles Frazier, words are playthings. Like very few other contemporary American novelists, he puts them together in such a way that they can transform an otherwise mundane moment, scene or conversation into one that is transcendent….No sophomore jinx here. Reading a Frazier novel is like listening to a fine symphony. He's a maestro whose pen is his baton, beckoning the best that each sentence has to offer. And just as you wouldn't rush a conductor, you should take the time to savor Frazier’s work, to take in each thought, to relish the turn of phrase or the imagery of a craftsman.”–Denver Post“Two for two…Here is a book brimming with vivid, adventurous incident…Charles Frazier set himself a daunting challenge with this book. He set out to write a historical novel that was retrospective and meditative, yet still vibrant and immediate with life. Thirteen Moons succeeds in classy fashion.”–Raleigh News & Observer“[Thirteen Moons] is superbly entertaining, and it packs enough emotional heft to measure up to most readers’ high expectations.”–Richmond Times-Dispatch “Thirteen Moons is a fitting successor to Cold Mountain…fans of Frazier's debut will be cheered to discover that the new book is another compulsively readable work of historical fiction.”–St. Louis Post-Dispatch “If there is any doubt that Frazier is an incredibly gifted storyteller - and not just a lucky name or a one-hit wonder - it will be put to rest with the publication of Thirteen Moons. Within 10 pages, this long-awaited new novel bears the reader swiftly out of the waking world into its own imagined universe like nothing else published this year.”–Minneapolis Star Tribune“Forget the sophomore jinx. Frazier demonstrates that Cold Mountain was no one-hit wonder with this fully realized historical novel again set in the South….Again, Frazier shows himself a master of landscape and language, both often fresh and surprising in his telling.–Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2006-10-03T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Bears]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780300122992</link>
<description><![CDATA[This engaging book examines the shared history of people and bears. Hopscotching through history, literature, and science, Bernd Brunner presents a rich compendium of the interactions between the two species and explores how bears have become central figures in our inventory of myths and dreams. He reveals the remarkable extent to which human feelings about bears have been?and still are?mixed. People have venerated, killed, caressed, tortured, nurtured, eaten, worshipped, and despised bears. Interestingly, the varied dealings of humans with bears raise the same question over and again: do our images of bears have much in common with the animal as it really is? The book uncovers new and little-known stories and facts about bears in European, North American, Japanese, Russian, and South and Southeast Asian cultures. Taken together, these perspectives show us new things about the animals we thought we knew so well. Quirky and bizarre anecdotes, scientific information on bears threatened with extinction in some areas, a discussion of the phenomenon of ?bearanoia,” and more than one hundred historical illustrations contribute to this unique account of the shared history between bears and humans and the continuing presence of bears in our personal and collective dreams.  ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Bears]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bernd Brunner; Lori Lantz]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Yale University Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780300122992]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[This engaging book examines the shared history of people and bears. Hopscotching through history, literature, and science, Bernd Brunner presents a rich compendium of the interactions between the two species and explores how bears have become central figures in our inventory of myths and dreams. He reveals the remarkable extent to which human feelings about bears have been?and still are?mixed. People have venerated, killed, caressed, tortured, nurtured, eaten, worshipped, and despised bears. Interestingly, the varied dealings of humans with bears raise the same question over and again: do our images of bears have much in common with the animal as it really is? The book uncovers new and little-known stories and facts about bears in European, North American, Japanese, Russian, and South and Southeast Asian cultures. Taken together, these perspectives show us new things about the animals we thought we knew so well. Quirky and bizarre anecdotes, scientific information on bears threatened with extinction in some areas, a discussion of the phenomenon of ?bearanoia,” and more than one hundred historical illustrations contribute to this unique account of the shared history between bears and humans and the continuing presence of bears in our personal and collective dreams.  ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2007-10-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Death Instinct]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781594487828</link>
<description><![CDATA[A spellbinding literary thriller about terror, war, greed, and the darkest secrets of the human soul, by the author   of the million-copy bestseller The Interpretation of Murder.  Under a clear blue   September sky, America's financial center in lower Manhattan became the site of the largest, deadliest terrorist   attack in the nation's history. It was September 16, 1920. Four hundred people were killed or injured. The country   was appalled by the magnitude and savagery of the incomprehensible attack, which remains unsolved to this day.   The bomb that devastated Wall Street in 1920 explodes in the opening pages of The Death   Instinct, Jed Rubenfeld's provocative and mesmerizing new novel. War veteran Dr. Stratham Younger and his   friend Captain James Littlemore of the New York Police Department are caught on Wall Street on the fateful day of   the blast. With them is the beautiful Colette Rousseau, a French radiochemist whom Younger meets while fighting in   the world war. A series of inexplicable attacks on Rousseau, a secret buried in her past, and a mysterious trail of   evidence lead Young, Littlemore, and Rousseau on a thrilling international and psychological journey-from Paris to   Prague, from the Vienna home of Dr. Sigmund Freud to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C., and ultimately to   the hidden depths of our most savage instincts. As the seemingly disjointed pieces of what Younger and Littlemore   learn come together, the two uncover the shocking truth behind the bombing. Blending fact and fiction   in a brilliantly convincing narrative, Jed Rubenfeld has forged a gripping historical mystery about a tragedy that   holds eerie parallels to our own time.                           ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Death Instinct]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jed Rubenfeld]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Riverhead Hardcover]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781594487828]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A spellbinding literary thriller about terror, war, greed, and the darkest secrets of the human soul, by the author   of the million-copy bestseller The Interpretation of Murder.  Under a clear blue   September sky, America's financial center in lower Manhattan became the site of the largest, deadliest terrorist   attack in the nation's history. It was September 16, 1920. Four hundred people were killed or injured. The country   was appalled by the magnitude and savagery of the incomprehensible attack, which remains unsolved to this day.   The bomb that devastated Wall Street in 1920 explodes in the opening pages of The Death   Instinct, Jed Rubenfeld's provocative and mesmerizing new novel. War veteran Dr. Stratham Younger and his   friend Captain James Littlemore of the New York Police Department are caught on Wall Street on the fateful day of   the blast. With them is the beautiful Colette Rousseau, a French radiochemist whom Younger meets while fighting in   the world war. A series of inexplicable attacks on Rousseau, a secret buried in her past, and a mysterious trail of   evidence lead Young, Littlemore, and Rousseau on a thrilling international and psychological journey-from Paris to   Prague, from the Vienna home of Dr. Sigmund Freud to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C., and ultimately to   the hidden depths of our most savage instincts. As the seemingly disjointed pieces of what Younger and Littlemore   learn come together, the two uncover the shocking truth behind the bombing. Blending fact and fiction   in a brilliantly convincing narrative, Jed Rubenfeld has forged a gripping historical mystery about a tragedy that   holds eerie parallels to our own time.                           ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-01-20T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Ocean at Home]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781568985022</link>
<description><![CDATA[The mysterious world beneath the ocean's surface has captivated man for centuriesthe Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and ancient Chinese all kept fish in their homes for purposes other than the culinary. But it was not until the nineteenth-century invention of the aquarium that the deep was trulydomesticated, offering the curiously inclined a chance to invent their very own exotic sea world within their own walls. In this fascinating history of the aquarium, Bernd Brunner traces the development of this most wonderful invention, giving insight into the cultural and social circumstances that accompanied its swift rise in popularity. Brunner tells a compelling story of obsession, beauty, discovery, and delight, from the aquarium's humble origins as a tool for scientific observation to the Victorian era's elaborately decorated containers of oceanic curiosity, to the great public aquaria of the twentieth century.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Ocean at Home]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bernd Brunner]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Princeton Architectural Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781568985022]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The mysterious world beneath the ocean's surface has captivated man for centuriesthe Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and ancient Chinese all kept fish in their homes for purposes other than the culinary. But it was not until the nineteenth-century invention of the aquarium that the deep was trulydomesticated, offering the curiously inclined a chance to invent their very own exotic sea world within their own walls. In this fascinating history of the aquarium, Bernd Brunner traces the development of this most wonderful invention, giving insight into the cultural and social circumstances that accompanied its swift rise in popularity. Brunner tells a compelling story of obsession, beauty, discovery, and delight, from the aquarium's humble origins as a tool for scientific observation to the Victorian era's elaborately decorated containers of oceanic curiosity, to the great public aquaria of the twentieth century.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2005-05-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[All Other Nights]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780393064926</link>
<description><![CDATA[How is tonight different from all other nights? For Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army, it is a question his commanders have answered for him: on Passover in 1862 he is ordered to murder his own uncle, who is plotting to assassinate President Lincoln.After that night, will Jacob ever speak for himself? The answer comes when his commanders send him on another mission this time not to murder a spy but to marry one.A page-turner rich with romance and the history of America (North and South), this is a book only Dara Horn could have written. Full of insight and surprise, layered with meaning, it is a brilliant parable of the moral divide that still haunts us: between those who value family first and those dedicated, at any cost, to social and racial justice for all.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[All Other Nights]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dara Horn]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[W. W. Norton & Company]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780393064926]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[How is tonight different from all other nights? For Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army, it is a question his commanders have answered for him: on Passover in 1862 he is ordered to murder his own uncle, who is plotting to assassinate President Lincoln.After that night, will Jacob ever speak for himself? The answer comes when his commanders send him on another mission this time not to murder a spy but to marry one.A page-turner rich with romance and the history of America (North and South), this is a book only Dara Horn could have written. Full of insight and surprise, layered with meaning, it is a brilliant parable of the moral divide that still haunts us: between those who value family first and those dedicated, at any cost, to social and racial justice for all.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-04-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[A Visit from the Goon Squad]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307477477</link>
<description><![CDATA[NATIONAL BESTSELLERNational Book Critics Circle Award WinnerPEN/Faulkner Award FinalistA New York Times Book Review Best BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, NPR's On Point, O, the Oprah Magazine, People, Publishers Weekly, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Slate, Time, The Washington Post, and Village VoiceBennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[A Visit from the Goon Squad]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Egan]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Anchor]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780307477477]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[NATIONAL BESTSELLERNational Book Critics Circle Award WinnerPEN/Faulkner Award FinalistA New York Times Book Review Best BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, NPR's On Point, O, the Oprah Magazine, People, Publishers Weekly, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Slate, Time, The Washington Post, and Village VoiceBennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-03-22T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Songdogs]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780312147419</link>
<description><![CDATA[With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American West, and finally back to Ireland, where the marriage and the story reach their heartrending climax.  As the narratives of Conor's quest and his parents' lives twine and untwine, Collum McCann creates a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Songdogs]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colum McCann]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Picador]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780312147419]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American West, and finally back to Ireland, where the marriage and the story reach their heartrending climax.  As the narratives of Conor's quest and his parents' lives twine and untwine, Collum McCann creates a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1996-10-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[A Covert Affair]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781439163528</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bestselling author Jennet Conant brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Child’s experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Far East during World War II and the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the 1950s and behaved with bravery and honor. It is the fascinating portrait of a group of idealistic men and women who were recruited by the citizen spy service, slapped into uniform, and dispatched to wage political warfare in remote outposts in Ceylon, India, and China. The eager, inexperienced 6 foot 2 inch Julia springs to life in these pages, a gangly golf-playing California girl who had never been farther abroad than Tijuana. Single and thirty years old when she joined the staff of Colonel William Donovan, Julia volunteered to be part of the OSS’s ambitious mission to develop a secret intelligence network across Southeast Asia. Her first post took her to the mountaintop idyll of Kandy, the headquarters of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, the supreme commander of combined operations. Julia reveled in the glamour and intrigue of her overseas assignment and lifealtering romance with the much older and more sophisticated Paul Child, who took her on trips into the jungle, introduced her to the joys of curry, and insisted on educating both her mind and palate. A painter drafted to build war rooms, Paul was a colorful, complex personality. Conant uses extracts from his letters in which his sharp eye and droll wit capture the day-to-day confusion, excitement, and improbability of being part of a cloak- and-dagger operation. When Julia and Paul were transferred to Kunming, a rugged outpost at the foot of the Burma Road, they witnessed the chaotic end of the war in China and the beginnings of the Communist revolution that would shake the world. A Covert Affair chronicles their friendship with a brilliant and eccentric array of OSS agents, including Jane Foster, a wealthy, free-spirited artist, and Elizabeth MacDonald, an adventurous young reporter. In Paris after the war, Julia and Paul remained close to their intelligence colleagues as they struggled to start new lives, only to find themselves drawn into a far more terrifying spy drama. Relying on recently unclassified OSS and FBI documents, as well as previously unpublished letters and diaries, Conant vividly depicts a dangerous time in American history, when those who served their country suddenly found themselves called to account for their unpopular opinions and personal relationships.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[A Covert Affair]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennet Conant]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Simon & Schuster]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781439163528]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Bestselling author Jennet Conant brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Child’s experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Far East during World War II and the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the 1950s and behaved with bravery and honor. It is the fascinating portrait of a group of idealistic men and women who were recruited by the citizen spy service, slapped into uniform, and dispatched to wage political warfare in remote outposts in Ceylon, India, and China. The eager, inexperienced 6 foot 2 inch Julia springs to life in these pages, a gangly golf-playing California girl who had never been farther abroad than Tijuana. Single and thirty years old when she joined the staff of Colonel William Donovan, Julia volunteered to be part of the OSS’s ambitious mission to develop a secret intelligence network across Southeast Asia. Her first post took her to the mountaintop idyll of Kandy, the headquarters of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, the supreme commander of combined operations. Julia reveled in the glamour and intrigue of her overseas assignment and lifealtering romance with the much older and more sophisticated Paul Child, who took her on trips into the jungle, introduced her to the joys of curry, and insisted on educating both her mind and palate. A painter drafted to build war rooms, Paul was a colorful, complex personality. Conant uses extracts from his letters in which his sharp eye and droll wit capture the day-to-day confusion, excitement, and improbability of being part of a cloak- and-dagger operation. When Julia and Paul were transferred to Kunming, a rugged outpost at the foot of the Burma Road, they witnessed the chaotic end of the war in China and the beginnings of the Communist revolution that would shake the world. A Covert Affair chronicles their friendship with a brilliant and eccentric array of OSS agents, including Jane Foster, a wealthy, free-spirited artist, and Elizabeth MacDonald, an adventurous young reporter. In Paris after the war, Julia and Paul remained close to their intelligence colleagues as they struggled to start new lives, only to find themselves drawn into a far more terrifying spy drama. Relying on recently unclassified OSS and FBI documents, as well as previously unpublished letters and diaries, Conant vividly depicts a dangerous time in American history, when those who served their country suddenly found themselves called to account for their unpopular opinions and personal relationships.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-04-05T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Scorch Atlas]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780977199280</link>
<description><![CDATA[In this striking novel-in-stories, a series of strange apocalypses have hit America. Entire neighborhoods drown in mud, glass rains from the sky, birds speak gibberish, and parents of young children disappear. Millions starve while others grow coats of mold. But a few are able to survive and find a light in the aftermath, illuminating what we've become. In "The Disappeared," a father is arrested for missing free throws, leaving his son to search alone for his lost mother. A boy swells to fill his parents' ransacked attic in "The Ruined Child." Rendered in a variety of narrative forms, from a psychedelic fable to a skewed insurance claim questionnaire, Blake Butler's full-length fiction debut paints a gorgeously grotesque version of America, bringing to mind both Kelly Link and William H. Gass, yet imbued with Butler's own vision of the apocalyptic and bizarre.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Scorch Atlas]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Blake Butler]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Featherproof Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780977199280]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[In this striking novel-in-stories, a series of strange apocalypses have hit America. Entire neighborhoods drown in mud, glass rains from the sky, birds speak gibberish, and parents of young children disappear. Millions starve while others grow coats of mold. But a few are able to survive and find a light in the aftermath, illuminating what we've become. In "The Disappeared," a father is arrested for missing free throws, leaving his son to search alone for his lost mother. A boy swells to fill his parents' ransacked attic in "The Ruined Child." Rendered in a variety of narrative forms, from a psychedelic fable to a skewed insurance claim questionnaire, Blake Butler's full-length fiction debut paints a gorgeously grotesque version of America, bringing to mind both Kelly Link and William H. Gass, yet imbued with Butler's own vision of the apocalyptic and bizarre.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Light Boxes]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143117780</link>
<description><![CDATA[A poignant and fantastical first novel by a timeless new literary voice.  With all the elements of a classic fable, vivid descriptions, and a wholly unique style, this idiosyncratic debut introduces a new and exciting voice to readers of such authors as George Saunders, Kurt Vonnegut, and Yann Martel. In Light Boxes, the inhabitants of one closely-knit town are experiencing perpetual February. It turns out that a god-like spirit who lives in the sky, named February, is punishing the town for flying, and bans flight of all kind, including hot air balloons and even children's kites. It's February who makes the sun nothing but a faint memory, who blankets the ground with snow, who freezes the rivers and the lakes. As endless February continues, children go missing and more and more adults become nearly catatonic with depression. But others find the strength to fight back, waging war on February.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Light Boxes]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shane Jones]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Penguin Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780143117780]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A poignant and fantastical first novel by a timeless new literary voice.  With all the elements of a classic fable, vivid descriptions, and a wholly unique style, this idiosyncratic debut introduces a new and exciting voice to readers of such authors as George Saunders, Kurt Vonnegut, and Yann Martel. In Light Boxes, the inhabitants of one closely-knit town are experiencing perpetual February. It turns out that a god-like spirit who lives in the sky, named February, is punishing the town for flying, and bans flight of all kind, including hot air balloons and even children's kites. It's February who makes the sun nothing but a faint memory, who blankets the ground with snow, who freezes the rivers and the lakes. As endless February continues, children go missing and more and more adults become nearly catatonic with depression. But others find the strength to fight back, waging war on February.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2010-05-25T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Seeds]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780061861680</link>
<description><![CDATA[ From the wooded road made of golden hemlock running past L. Frank Baum's childhood home to the lonely stump of Scout's oak in Harper Lee's Alabama, author Richard Horan gathers tree seeds?and stories?from the homes of America's most treasured authors. At once a heartfelt paean to literature and a wise, funny, and uplifting account of one man's reconnection with nature, Seeds celebrates Horan's triumphs and calamities on his quest to link trees with great writers?a delightfully original meditation on the nature of inspiration and a one-of-a-kind adventure into literature. ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Seeds]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Horan]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Harper Perennial]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780061861680]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ From the wooded road made of golden hemlock running past L. Frank Baum's childhood home to the lonely stump of Scout's oak in Harper Lee's Alabama, author Richard Horan gathers tree seeds?and stories?from the homes of America's most treasured authors. At once a heartfelt paean to literature and a wise, funny, and uplifting account of one man's reconnection with nature, Seeds celebrates Horan's triumphs and calamities on his quest to link trees with great writers?a delightfully original meditation on the nature of inspiration and a one-of-a-kind adventure into literature. ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-05-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Borrower]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780670022816</link>
<description><![CDATA[In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road.  Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes with celebrity Pastor Bob. Lucy stumbles into a moral dilemma when she finds Ian camped out in the library after hours with a knapsack of provisions and an escape plan. Desperate to save him from Pastor Bob and the Drakes, Lucy allows herself to be hijacked by Ian. The odd pair embarks on a crazy road trip from Missouri to Vermont, with ferrets, an inconvenient boyfriend, and upsetting family history thrown in their path. But is it just Ian who is running away? Who is the man who seems to be on their tail? And should Lucy be trying to save a boy from his own parents?]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Borrower]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Makkai]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Viking Adult]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780670022816]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road.  Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes with celebrity Pastor Bob. Lucy stumbles into a moral dilemma when she finds Ian camped out in the library after hours with a knapsack of provisions and an escape plan. Desperate to save him from Pastor Bob and the Drakes, Lucy allows herself to be hijacked by Ian. The odd pair embarks on a crazy road trip from Missouri to Vermont, with ferrets, an inconvenient boyfriend, and upsetting family history thrown in their path. But is it just Ian who is running away? Who is the man who seems to be on their tail? And should Lucy be trying to save a boy from his own parents?]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-06-09T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Uncoupling]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781594487880</link>
<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Ten-Year Nap, a funny, provocative, revealing novel about female desire.  When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata-the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex with men in order to end a war-a strange spell seems to be cast over the school. Or, at least, over the women. One by one throughout the high school community, perfectly healthy, normal women and teenage girls turn away from their husbands and boyfriends in the bedroom, for reasons they don't really understand. As the women worry over their loss of passion, and the men become by turns unhappy, offended, and above all, confused, both sides are forced to look at their shared history, and at their sexual selves in a new light. As she did to such acclaim with the New York Times bestseller The Ten-Year Nap, Wolitzer tackles an issue that has deep ramifications for women's lives, in a way that makes it funny, riveting, and totally fresh-allowing us to see our own lives through her insightful lens. Read an essay about writing The Uncoupling from the author, Meg Wolitzer.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Uncoupling]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Wolitzer]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Riverhead Hardcover]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781594487880]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Ten-Year Nap, a funny, provocative, revealing novel about female desire.  When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata-the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex with men in order to end a war-a strange spell seems to be cast over the school. Or, at least, over the women. One by one throughout the high school community, perfectly healthy, normal women and teenage girls turn away from their husbands and boyfriends in the bedroom, for reasons they don't really understand. As the women worry over their loss of passion, and the men become by turns unhappy, offended, and above all, confused, both sides are forced to look at their shared history, and at their sexual selves in a new light. As she did to such acclaim with the New York Times bestseller The Ten-Year Nap, Wolitzer tackles an issue that has deep ramifications for women's lives, in a way that makes it funny, riveting, and totally fresh-allowing us to see our own lives through her insightful lens. Read an essay about writing The Uncoupling from the author, Meg Wolitzer.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-04-05T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780312649616</link>
<description><![CDATA[Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket), who invites her on an adventure, implying that her help is needed in Fairyland. The new Marquess is unpredictable and fickle, and also not much older than September. Only September can retrieve a talisman the Marquess wants from the enchanted woods, and if she doesn’t . . . then the Marquess will make life impossible for the inhabitants of Fairyland. September is already making new friends, including a book-loving Wyvern and a mysterious boy named Saturday.  With exquisite illustrations by acclaimed artist Ana Juan, Fairyland lives up to the sensation it created when the author first posted it online. For readers of all ages who love the charm of Alice in Wonderland and the soul of The Golden Compass, here is a reading experience unto itself: unforgettable, and so very beautiful. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making is a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Fiction title for 2011.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherynne M. Valente; Ana Juan]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Square Fish]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780312649616]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket), who invites her on an adventure, implying that her help is needed in Fairyland. The new Marquess is unpredictable and fickle, and also not much older than September. Only September can retrieve a talisman the Marquess wants from the enchanted woods, and if she doesn’t . . . then the Marquess will make life impossible for the inhabitants of Fairyland. September is already making new friends, including a book-loving Wyvern and a mysterious boy named Saturday.  With exquisite illustrations by acclaimed artist Ana Juan, Fairyland lives up to the sensation it created when the author first posted it online. For readers of all ages who love the charm of Alice in Wonderland and the soul of The Golden Compass, here is a reading experience unto itself: unforgettable, and so very beautiful. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making is a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Fiction title for 2011.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-05-08T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Thirteenth Tale]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780743298032</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.   Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal the truth about her extraordinary existence and the violent and tragic past she has kept secret for so long. Calling on Margaret Lea, a young biographer troubled by her own painful history, Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good. Margaret is mesmerized by the author's tale of gothic strangeness -- featuring the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess,a topiary garden and a devastating fire. Together, Margaret and Vida confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Thirteenth Tale]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Diane Setterfield]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Washington Square Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780743298032]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.   Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal the truth about her extraordinary existence and the violent and tragic past she has kept secret for so long. Calling on Margaret Lea, a young biographer troubled by her own painful history, Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good. Margaret is mesmerized by the author's tale of gothic strangeness -- featuring the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess,a topiary garden and a devastating fire. Together, Margaret and Vida confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2007-10-09T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Icelander]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780802143204</link>
<description><![CDATA["Icelander"is the debut novel from a brilliant new mind, an intricate, giddy romp steeped equally in Nordic lore and pulpy intrigue. When Shirley MacGuffin is found murdered one day prior to the annual town celebration in remembrance of Our Heroine's mother -- the legendary crime-stopper and evil-thwarter Emily Bean -- everyone expects Our Heroine to follow in her mother's footsteps and solve the case. She, however, has no interest in inheriting the family business, or being chased through steam-tunnels, or listening to skaldic karaoke, or fleeing the inhuman Refurserkir. But evil has no interest in her lack of interest. A Nabokovian goof on Agatha Christie, a madcap mystery that is part"The Third Policeman"and part"The Da Vinci Code, The Icelander"is one thing above all else: a true original.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Icelander]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dustin Long]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Grove Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780802143204]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Icelander"is the debut novel from a brilliant new mind, an intricate, giddy romp steeped equally in Nordic lore and pulpy intrigue. When Shirley MacGuffin is found murdered one day prior to the annual town celebration in remembrance of Our Heroine's mother -- the legendary crime-stopper and evil-thwarter Emily Bean -- everyone expects Our Heroine to follow in her mother's footsteps and solve the case. She, however, has no interest in inheriting the family business, or being chased through steam-tunnels, or listening to skaldic karaoke, or fleeing the inhuman Refurserkir. But evil has no interest in her lack of interest. A Nabokovian goof on Agatha Christie, a madcap mystery that is part"The Third Policeman"and part"The Da Vinci Code, The Icelander"is one thing above all else: a true original.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2007-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060825409</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future King of France. Coming of age in the most public of arenas—eager to be a good wife and strong queen—she warmly embraces her adopted nation and its citizens. She shows her new husband nothing but love and encouragement, though he repeatedly fails to consummate their marriage and in so doing is unable to give what she and the people of France desire most: a child and an heir to the throne. Deeply disappointed and isolated in her own intimate circle, and apart from the social life of the court, she allows herself to remain ignorant of the country's growing economic and political crises, even as poor harvests, bitter winters, war debts, and poverty precipitate rebellion and revenge. The young queen, once beloved by the common folk, becomes a target of scorn, cruelty, and hatred as she, the court's nobles, and the rest of the royal family are caught up in the nightmarish violence of a murderous time called "the Terror."   With penetrating insight and with wondrous narrative skill, Sena Jeter Naslund offers an intimate, fresh, heartbreaking, and dramatic reimagining of this truly compelling woman that goes far beyond popular myth—and she makes a bygone time of tumultuous change as real to us as the one we are living in now. ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sena Jeter Naslund]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[William Morrow Paperbacks]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780060825409]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future King of France. Coming of age in the most public of arenas—eager to be a good wife and strong queen—she warmly embraces her adopted nation and its citizens. She shows her new husband nothing but love and encouragement, though he repeatedly fails to consummate their marriage and in so doing is unable to give what she and the people of France desire most: a child and an heir to the throne. Deeply disappointed and isolated in her own intimate circle, and apart from the social life of the court, she allows herself to remain ignorant of the country's growing economic and political crises, even as poor harvests, bitter winters, war debts, and poverty precipitate rebellion and revenge. The young queen, once beloved by the common folk, becomes a target of scorn, cruelty, and hatred as she, the court's nobles, and the rest of the royal family are caught up in the nightmarish violence of a murderous time called "the Terror."   With penetrating insight and with wondrous narrative skill, Sena Jeter Naslund offers an intimate, fresh, heartbreaking, and dramatic reimagining of this truly compelling woman that goes far beyond popular myth—and she makes a bygone time of tumultuous change as real to us as the one we are living in now. ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2007-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Yellow House]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781599952024</link>
<description><![CDATA[THE YELLOW HOUSE delves into the passion and politics of Northern Ireland at the beginning of the 20th Century. Eileen O'Neill's family is torn apart by religious intolerance and secrets from the past. Determined to reclaim her ancestral home and reunite her family, Eileen begins working at the local mill, saving her money and holding fast to her dream. As war is declared on a local and global scale, Eileen cannot separate the politics from the very personal impact the conflict has had on her own life.She is soon torn between two men, each drawing her to one extreme. One is a charismatic and passionate political activist determined to win Irish independence from Great Britain at any cost, who appeals to her warrior's soul. The other is the wealthy and handsome black sheep of the pacifist family who owns the mill where she works, and whose persistent attention becomes impossible for her to ignore.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Yellow House]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Falvey]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Center Street]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781599952024]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[THE YELLOW HOUSE delves into the passion and politics of Northern Ireland at the beginning of the 20th Century. Eileen O'Neill's family is torn apart by religious intolerance and secrets from the past. Determined to reclaim her ancestral home and reunite her family, Eileen begins working at the local mill, saving her money and holding fast to her dream. As war is declared on a local and global scale, Eileen cannot separate the politics from the very personal impact the conflict has had on her own life.She is soon torn between two men, each drawing her to one extreme. One is a charismatic and passionate political activist determined to win Irish independence from Great Britain at any cost, who appeals to her warrior's soul. The other is the wealthy and handsome black sheep of the pacifist family who owns the mill where she works, and whose persistent attention becomes impossible for her to ignore.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-02-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[A Thousand Lives]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781416596394</link>
<description><![CDATA[“I love socialism, and I’m willing to die to bring it about, but if I did, I’d take a thousand with me.”  —Jim Jones, September 6, 1975 In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic beliefs, and he quickly filled his pews with an audience eager to hear his sermons on social justice. After Jones moved his church to Northern California in 1965, he became a major player in Northern California politics; he provided vital support in electing friendly political candidates to office, and they in turn offered him a protective shield that kept stories of abuse and fraud out of the papers. Even as Jones’s behavior became erratic and his message more ominous, his followers found it increasingly difficult to pull away from the church. By the time Jones relocated the Peoples Temple a final time to a remote jungle in Guyana and the U.S. Government decided to investigate allegations of abuse and false imprisonment in Jonestown, it was too late.A Thousand Lives follows the experiences of five Peoples Temple members who went to Jonestown: a middle-class English teacher from Colorado, an elderly African American woman raised in Jim Crow Alabama, a troubled young black man from Oakland, and a working-class father and his teenage son. These people joined Jones’s church for vastly different reasons. Some, such as eighteen-year-old Stanley Clayton, appreciated Jones’s message of racial equality and empowering the dispossessed. Others, like Hyacinth Thrash and her sister Zipporah, were dazzled by his claims of being a faith healer—Hyacinth believed Jones had healed a cancerous tumor in her breast. Edith Roller, a well-educated white progressive, joined Peoples Temple because she wanted to help the less fortunate. Tommy Bogue, a teen, hated Jones’s church, but was forced to attend services—and move to Jonestown—because his parents were members. A Thousand Lives is the story of Jonestown as it has never been told before. New York Times bestselling author Julia Scheeres drew from thousands of recently declassified FBI documents and audiotapes, as well as rare videos and interviews, to piece together an unprecedented and compelling history of the doomed camp, focusing on the people who lived there. Her own experiences at an oppressive reform school in the Dominican Republic, detailed in her unforgettable debut memoir Jesus Land, gave her unusual insight into this story. The people who built Jonestown wanted to forge a better life for themselves and their children. They sought to create a truly egalitarian society. In South America, however, they found themselves trapped in Jonestown and cut off from the outside world as their leader goaded them toward committing “revolutionary suicide” and deprived them of food, sleep, and hope. Yet even as Jones resorted to lies and psychological warfare, Jonestown residents fought for their community, struggling to maintain their gardens, their school, their families, and their grip on reality.  Vividly written and impossible to forget, A Thousand Lives is a story of blind loyalty and daring escapes, of corrupted ideals and senseless, haunting loss.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[A Thousand Lives]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Scheeres]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Free Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781416596394]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[“I love socialism, and I’m willing to die to bring it about, but if I did, I’d take a thousand with me.”  —Jim Jones, September 6, 1975 In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic beliefs, and he quickly filled his pews with an audience eager to hear his sermons on social justice. After Jones moved his church to Northern California in 1965, he became a major player in Northern California politics; he provided vital support in electing friendly political candidates to office, and they in turn offered him a protective shield that kept stories of abuse and fraud out of the papers. Even as Jones’s behavior became erratic and his message more ominous, his followers found it increasingly difficult to pull away from the church. By the time Jones relocated the Peoples Temple a final time to a remote jungle in Guyana and the U.S. Government decided to investigate allegations of abuse and false imprisonment in Jonestown, it was too late.A Thousand Lives follows the experiences of five Peoples Temple members who went to Jonestown: a middle-class English teacher from Colorado, an elderly African American woman raised in Jim Crow Alabama, a troubled young black man from Oakland, and a working-class father and his teenage son. These people joined Jones’s church for vastly different reasons. Some, such as eighteen-year-old Stanley Clayton, appreciated Jones’s message of racial equality and empowering the dispossessed. Others, like Hyacinth Thrash and her sister Zipporah, were dazzled by his claims of being a faith healer—Hyacinth believed Jones had healed a cancerous tumor in her breast. Edith Roller, a well-educated white progressive, joined Peoples Temple because she wanted to help the less fortunate. Tommy Bogue, a teen, hated Jones’s church, but was forced to attend services—and move to Jonestown—because his parents were members. A Thousand Lives is the story of Jonestown as it has never been told before. New York Times bestselling author Julia Scheeres drew from thousands of recently declassified FBI documents and audiotapes, as well as rare videos and interviews, to piece together an unprecedented and compelling history of the doomed camp, focusing on the people who lived there. Her own experiences at an oppressive reform school in the Dominican Republic, detailed in her unforgettable debut memoir Jesus Land, gave her unusual insight into this story. The people who built Jonestown wanted to forge a better life for themselves and their children. They sought to create a truly egalitarian society. In South America, however, they found themselves trapped in Jonestown and cut off from the outside world as their leader goaded them toward committing “revolutionary suicide” and deprived them of food, sleep, and hope. Yet even as Jones resorted to lies and psychological warfare, Jonestown residents fought for their community, struggling to maintain their gardens, their school, their families, and their grip on reality.  Vividly written and impossible to forget, A Thousand Lives is a story of blind loyalty and daring escapes, of corrupted ideals and senseless, haunting loss.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-10-11T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Reamde]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780061977961</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Neal Stephenson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Anathem, returns to the terrain of his groundbreaking novels Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon to deliver a high-intensity, high-stakes, action-packed adventure thriller in which a tech entrepreneur gets caught in the very real crossfire of his own online war game.   In 1972, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa farming clan, fled to the mountains of British Columbia to avoid the draft. A skilled hunting guide, he eventually amassed a fortune by smuggling marijuana across the border between Canada and Idaho. As the years passed, Richard went straight and returned to the States after the U.S. government granted amnesty to draft dodgers. He parlayed his wealth into an empire and developed a remote resort in which he lives. He also created T?Rain, a multibillion-dollar, massively multiplayer online role-playing game with millions of fans around the world.   But T?Rain?s success has also made it a target. Hackers have struck gold by unleashing REAMDE, a virus that encrypts all of a player?s electronic files and holds them for ransom. They have also unwittingly triggered a deadly war beyond the boundaries of the game?s virtual universe?and Richard is at ground zero.   Racing around the globe from the Pacific Northwest to China to the wilds of northern Idaho and points in between, Reamde is a swift-paced thriller that traverses worlds virtual and real. Filled with unexpected twists and turns in which unforgettable villains and unlikely heroes face off in a battle for survival, it is a brilliant refraction of the twenty-first century, from the global war on terror to social media, computer hackers to mobsters, entrepreneurs to religious fundamentalists. Above all, Reamde is an enthralling human story?an entertaining and epic page-turner from the extraordinary Neal Stephenson. ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Reamde]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Neal Stephenson]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[William Morrow]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780061977961]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ Neal Stephenson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Anathem, returns to the terrain of his groundbreaking novels Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon to deliver a high-intensity, high-stakes, action-packed adventure thriller in which a tech entrepreneur gets caught in the very real crossfire of his own online war game.   In 1972, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa farming clan, fled to the mountains of British Columbia to avoid the draft. A skilled hunting guide, he eventually amassed a fortune by smuggling marijuana across the border between Canada and Idaho. As the years passed, Richard went straight and returned to the States after the U.S. government granted amnesty to draft dodgers. He parlayed his wealth into an empire and developed a remote resort in which he lives. He also created T?Rain, a multibillion-dollar, massively multiplayer online role-playing game with millions of fans around the world.   But T?Rain?s success has also made it a target. Hackers have struck gold by unleashing REAMDE, a virus that encrypts all of a player?s electronic files and holds them for ransom. They have also unwittingly triggered a deadly war beyond the boundaries of the game?s virtual universe?and Richard is at ground zero.   Racing around the globe from the Pacific Northwest to China to the wilds of northern Idaho and points in between, Reamde is a swift-paced thriller that traverses worlds virtual and real. Filled with unexpected twists and turns in which unforgettable villains and unlikely heroes face off in a battle for survival, it is a brilliant refraction of the twenty-first century, from the global war on terror to social media, computer hackers to mobsters, entrepreneurs to religious fundamentalists. Above all, Reamde is an enthralling human story?an entertaining and epic page-turner from the extraordinary Neal Stephenson. ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-09-20T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[If Jack's in Love]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780399157523</link>
<description><![CDATA[A Crime in the Neighborhood, told with the deadpan humor  of Nick Hornby-a wonderful novel about a boy genius whose brother may,  or may not, be a murderer. It's 1967. Jack Witcher is a twelve-year-old boy genius living in a  Virginia suburb at an address the entire neighborhood avoids. Jack's  father has lost his job-again-and he's starting fights with other  fathers. Jack's mother, sweet but painfully ugly, works as a cashier at  a local market. Jack's older brother is a long-haired, pot-smoking  hippie.If all of that isn't bad enough, Jack's brother suddenly becomes the  main suspect in the disappearance of the town's golden boy. And to make  matters even worse, Jack is in love with the missing boy's sister,  Myra. Mr. Gladstein, the town jeweler and solitary Jew, is Jack's only  friend; together, they scheme to win Jack Myra's love. But to do that,  Jack must overcome the prejudices, both the town's and his own, about  himself and his family.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[If Jack's in Love]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Wetta]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Berkley Trade]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780399157523]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A Crime in the Neighborhood, told with the deadpan humor  of Nick Hornby-a wonderful novel about a boy genius whose brother may,  or may not, be a murderer. It's 1967. Jack Witcher is a twelve-year-old boy genius living in a  Virginia suburb at an address the entire neighborhood avoids. Jack's  father has lost his job-again-and he's starting fights with other  fathers. Jack's mother, sweet but painfully ugly, works as a cashier at  a local market. Jack's older brother is a long-haired, pot-smoking  hippie.If all of that isn't bad enough, Jack's brother suddenly becomes the  main suspect in the disappearance of the town's golden boy. And to make  matters even worse, Jack is in love with the missing boy's sister,  Myra. Mr. Gladstein, the town jeweler and solitary Jew, is Jack's only  friend; together, they scheme to win Jack Myra's love. But to do that,  Jack must overcome the prejudices, both the town's and his own, about  himself and his family.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-08-07T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Angel Makers]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781569479797</link>
<description><![CDATA["Like Tracy Chevalier in Girl with the Pearl Earring, Gregson excels at developing strong, complex female voices; a swift plot; and a story that will hold readers from beginning to end."—BooklistWhen the men of a remote Hungarian village go off to war in 1916, the women left behind realize their lives are much better without them. Suddenly, they are not being beaten; they have time for friendships; they even find romance with the injured Italian soldiers staying just outside of town. For Sari, an intelligent girl who's always been an outcast (her fellow villagers suspect her of being a witch because of her medical knowledge), it's the first time in her life she's had friends. When the men return at war's end, the freedom Sari and the others have enjoyed is suddenly snatched from them, and they realize they need to do whatever it takes to hold onto it. Sari puts her medical knowledge to use to off her husband. Then she helps one of her friends. And another. When the word spreads, she realizes her problems are only beginning. This creeping and hugely readable first novel is based on a true story.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Angel Makers]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Gregson]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Soho Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781569479797]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Like Tracy Chevalier in Girl with the Pearl Earring, Gregson excels at developing strong, complex female voices; a swift plot; and a story that will hold readers from beginning to end."—BooklistWhen the men of a remote Hungarian village go off to war in 1916, the women left behind realize their lives are much better without them. Suddenly, they are not being beaten; they have time for friendships; they even find romance with the injured Italian soldiers staying just outside of town. For Sari, an intelligent girl who's always been an outcast (her fellow villagers suspect her of being a witch because of her medical knowledge), it's the first time in her life she's had friends. When the men return at war's end, the freedom Sari and the others have enjoyed is suddenly snatched from them, and they realize they need to do whatever it takes to hold onto it. Sari puts her medical knowledge to use to off her husband. Then she helps one of her friends. And another. When the word spreads, she realizes her problems are only beginning. This creeping and hugely readable first novel is based on a true story.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-12-06T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[A Good American]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780399157592</link>
<description><![CDATA[An uplifting novel about the families we create and the places we  call home.It is 1904. When Frederick and Jette must flee her disapproving  mother, where better to go than America, the land of the new?  Originally set to board a boat to New York, at the last minute, they  take one destined for New Orleans instead ("What's the difference?  They're both new"), and later find themselves, more by chance than  by design, in the small town of Beatrice, Missouri. Not speaking a word  of English, they embark on their new life together.Beatrice is populated with unforgettable characters: a jazz  trumpeter from the Big Easy who cooks a mean gumbo, a teenage boy  trapped in the body of a giant, a pretty schoolteacher who helps the  young men in town learn about a lot more than just music, a minister  who believes he has witnessed the Second Coming of Christ, and a  malevolent, bicycle-riding dwarf.A Good American is narrated by Frederick and Jette's  grandson, James, who, in telling his ancestors' story, comes to realize  he doesn't know his own story at all. From bare-knuckle prizefighting  and Prohibition to sweet barbershop harmonies, the Kennedy  assassination, and beyond, James's family is caught up in the sweep of  history. Each new generation discovers afresh what it means to be an  American. And, in the process, Frederick and Jette's progeny sometimes  discover more about themselves than they had bargained for.Poignant, funny, and heartbreaking, A Good American is a  novel about being an outsider-in your country, in your hometown, and  sometimes even in your own family. It is a universal story about our  search for home.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[A Good American]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex George]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Berkley Trade]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780399157592]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[An uplifting novel about the families we create and the places we  call home.It is 1904. When Frederick and Jette must flee her disapproving  mother, where better to go than America, the land of the new?  Originally set to board a boat to New York, at the last minute, they  take one destined for New Orleans instead ("What's the difference?  They're both new"), and later find themselves, more by chance than  by design, in the small town of Beatrice, Missouri. Not speaking a word  of English, they embark on their new life together.Beatrice is populated with unforgettable characters: a jazz  trumpeter from the Big Easy who cooks a mean gumbo, a teenage boy  trapped in the body of a giant, a pretty schoolteacher who helps the  young men in town learn about a lot more than just music, a minister  who believes he has witnessed the Second Coming of Christ, and a  malevolent, bicycle-riding dwarf.A Good American is narrated by Frederick and Jette's  grandson, James, who, in telling his ancestors' story, comes to realize  he doesn't know his own story at all. From bare-knuckle prizefighting  and Prohibition to sweet barbershop harmonies, the Kennedy  assassination, and beyond, James's family is caught up in the sweep of  history. Each new generation discovers afresh what it means to be an  American. And, in the process, Frederick and Jette's progeny sometimes  discover more about themselves than they had bargained for.Poignant, funny, and heartbreaking, A Good American is a  novel about being an outsider-in your country, in your hometown, and  sometimes even in your own family. It is a universal story about our  search for home.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2013-02-05T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Great Leader]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780802119704</link>
<description><![CDATA[Harrison delivers an enthralling, witty and expertly crafted novel following one man's hunt for an elusive cult leader. On the verge of retirement, Detective Sunderson investigates a hedonistic cult near his home. At first, the self-declared Great Leader seems merely a harmless oddball, but Sunderson and his 16-year-old sidekick find him more intelligent and sinister than they realized. 288 pp.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Great Leader]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Harrison]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Grove Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780802119704]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Harrison delivers an enthralling, witty and expertly crafted novel following one man's hunt for an elusive cult leader. On the verge of retirement, Detective Sunderson investigates a hedonistic cult near his home. At first, the self-declared Great Leader seems merely a harmless oddball, but Sunderson and his 16-year-old sidekick find him more intelligent and sinister than they realized. 288 pp.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-10-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[In Red]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781935744085</link>
<description><![CDATA["The originality of Tulli's writing is not lessened by representing a family tree that includes Michaux, Kafka, Calvino, and Saramago."?W.S. MerwinIn this inventive novel, Magdalena Tulli creates a world that is unreal, yet strangely familiar and utterly convincing. Set in a mythical fourth partition of Poland, In Red is full of haunting descriptions of the town and its inhabitants; its power lies in Tulli's evocative, almost hallucinatory use of language.Magdalena Tulli's novels include Dreams and Stones, winner of Poland's Koscielski Foundation Award; Moving Parts, nominated for the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and Flaw, shortlisted for the 2007 NIKE Literary Award. Tulli is also the translator of Marcel Proust and Italo Calvino into Polish.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[In Red]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Magdalena Tulli; Bill Johnston]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Archipelago Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781935744085]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["The originality of Tulli's writing is not lessened by representing a family tree that includes Michaux, Kafka, Calvino, and Saramago."?W.S. MerwinIn this inventive novel, Magdalena Tulli creates a world that is unreal, yet strangely familiar and utterly convincing. Set in a mythical fourth partition of Poland, In Red is full of haunting descriptions of the town and its inhabitants; its power lies in Tulli's evocative, almost hallucinatory use of language.Magdalena Tulli's novels include Dreams and Stones, winner of Poland's Koscielski Foundation Award; Moving Parts, nominated for the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and Flaw, shortlisted for the 2007 NIKE Literary Award. Tulli is also the translator of Marcel Proust and Italo Calvino into Polish.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-07-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Jamrach's Menagerie]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307743176</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nineteenth-century London comes vividly alive in this story a street urchin named Jaffy Brown. After a close call with an escaped tiger, Jaffy goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals. As the years pass, Mr. Jamrach recruits Jaffy and another boy named Tim to capture a fabled dragon during the course of an epic three-year whaling expedition in the East Indies. But when a violent storm sinks the ship, Jaffy and Tim are forced to confront their relationship to the natural world and the wildness it contains. Jamrach’s Menagerie is a truly gripping novel about friendship, sacrifice, and survival.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Jamrach's Menagerie]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Birch]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Vintage]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780307743176]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Nineteenth-century London comes vividly alive in this story a street urchin named Jaffy Brown. After a close call with an escaped tiger, Jaffy goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals. As the years pass, Mr. Jamrach recruits Jaffy and another boy named Tim to capture a fabled dragon during the course of an epic three-year whaling expedition in the East Indies. But when a violent storm sinks the ship, Jaffy and Tim are forced to confront their relationship to the natural world and the wildness it contains. Jamrach’s Menagerie is a truly gripping novel about friendship, sacrifice, and survival.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-06-12T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Uninvited Guests]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062116505</link>
<description><![CDATA[Set in an old manor house deep in the English countryside in the early years of the 20th century, this breakout novel tells the story of an unexpectedly dramatic day in the life of an eccentric, rather dysfunctional, and unforgettable family.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Uninvited Guests]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sadie Jones]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Harper]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780062116505]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Set in an old manor house deep in the English countryside in the early years of the 20th century, this breakout novel tells the story of an unexpectedly dramatic day in the life of an eccentric, rather dysfunctional, and unforgettable family.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-05-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Canada]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780061692048</link>
<description><![CDATA[The distinguished modern American master and Pulitzer Prize-winning author returns with this haunting and elemental novel about a young man forced by catastrophic circumstance to reconcile himself to a world that has been rendered unrecognizable.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Canada]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Ford]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Ecco Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780061692048]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The distinguished modern American master and Pulitzer Prize-winning author returns with this haunting and elemental novel about a young man forced by catastrophic circumstance to reconcile himself to a world that has been rendered unrecognizable.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-05-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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