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<title><![CDATA[Bethany's Wish List]]></title>

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<title><![CDATA[The Angel Esmeralda]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781451655841</link>
<description><![CDATA[From one of the greatest writers of our time, his first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011, chronicling—and foretelling—three decades of American life Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo’s iconic voice, from the rich, startling, jazz-infused rhythms of his early work to the spare, distilled, monastic language of the later stories. In “Creation,” a couple at the end of a cruise somewhere in the West Indies can’t get off the island—flights canceled, unconfirmed reservations, a dysfunctional economy. In “Human Moments in World War III,” two men orbiting the earth, charged with gathering intelligence and reporting to Colorado Command, hear the voices of American radio, from a half century earlier. In the title story, Sisters Edgar and Grace, nuns working the violent streets of the South Bronx, confirm the neighborhood’s miracle, the apparition of a dead child, Esmeralda. Nuns, astronauts, athletes, terrorists and travelers, the characters in The Angel Esmeralda propel themselves into the world and define it. DeLillo’s sentences are instantly recognizable, as original as the splatter of Jackson Pollock or the luminous rectangles of Mark Rothko. These nine stories describe an extraordinary journey of one great writer whose prescience about world events and ear for American language changed the literary landscape.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Angel Esmeralda]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Don DeLillo]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Scribner]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781451655841]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[From one of the greatest writers of our time, his first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011, chronicling—and foretelling—three decades of American life Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo’s iconic voice, from the rich, startling, jazz-infused rhythms of his early work to the spare, distilled, monastic language of the later stories. In “Creation,” a couple at the end of a cruise somewhere in the West Indies can’t get off the island—flights canceled, unconfirmed reservations, a dysfunctional economy. In “Human Moments in World War III,” two men orbiting the earth, charged with gathering intelligence and reporting to Colorado Command, hear the voices of American radio, from a half century earlier. In the title story, Sisters Edgar and Grace, nuns working the violent streets of the South Bronx, confirm the neighborhood’s miracle, the apparition of a dead child, Esmeralda. Nuns, astronauts, athletes, terrorists and travelers, the characters in The Angel Esmeralda propel themselves into the world and define it. DeLillo’s sentences are instantly recognizable, as original as the splatter of Jackson Pollock or the luminous rectangles of Mark Rothko. These nine stories describe an extraordinary journey of one great writer whose prescience about world events and ear for American language changed the literary landscape.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-11-15T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Zone One]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385528078</link>
<description><![CDATA[In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuild­ing civilization under orders from the provisional govern­ment based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One—but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety—the “malfunctioning” stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams work­ing in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz’s desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative, the novel unfolds over three surreal days, as it depicts the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and the impossible job of coming to grips with the fallen world. And then things start to go wrong. Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One bril­liantly subverts the genre’s conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Zone One]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colson Whitehead]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Doubleday]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780385528078]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuild­ing civilization under orders from the provisional govern­ment based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One—but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety—the “malfunctioning” stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams work­ing in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz’s desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative, the novel unfolds over three surreal days, as it depicts the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and the impossible job of coming to grips with the fallen world. And then things start to go wrong. Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One bril­liantly subverts the genre’s conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-10-18T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Boy in the Suitcase]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781569479810</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.  Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy's are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Boy in the Suitcase]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lene Kaaberbol; Agnete Friis]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Soho Crime]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781569479810]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.  Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy's are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-11-08T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[White Truffles in Winter]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780393079999</link>
<description><![CDATA[A breathtaking novel, rare and moving, about the world's greatest chef and his unruly heart. 352 pp. 15,000 print.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[White Truffles in Winter]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[N. M. Kelby]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[W. W. Norton & Company]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780393079999]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A breathtaking novel, rare and moving, about the world's greatest chef and his unruly heart. 352 pp. 15,000 print.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-11-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Damned]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385533027</link>
<description><![CDATA[“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk’s subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a mari­juana overdose—and the next thing she knows, she’s in Hell. Madison shares her cell with a motley crew of young sinners that is almost too good to be true: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, united by fate to form the six-feet-under version of everyone’s favorite detention movie. Madison and her pals trek across the Dandruff Desert and climb the treacherous Mountain of Toenail Clippings to confront Satan in his citadel. All the popcorn balls and wax lips that serve as the currency of Hell won’t buy them off. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno where The English Patient plays on end­less repeat, roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb, and the damned interrupt your dinner from their sweltering call center to hard-sell you Hell. He makes eternal torment, well, simply divine.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Damned]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chuck Palahniuk]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Doubleday]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780385533027]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk’s subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a mari­juana overdose—and the next thing she knows, she’s in Hell. Madison shares her cell with a motley crew of young sinners that is almost too good to be true: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, united by fate to form the six-feet-under version of everyone’s favorite detention movie. Madison and her pals trek across the Dandruff Desert and climb the treacherous Mountain of Toenail Clippings to confront Satan in his citadel. All the popcorn balls and wax lips that serve as the currency of Hell won’t buy them off. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno where The English Patient plays on end­less repeat, roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb, and the damned interrupt your dinner from their sweltering call center to hard-sell you Hell. He makes eternal torment, well, simply divine.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-10-18T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Read Moby-Dick?]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780670022991</link>
<description><![CDATA[The New York Times bestselling author of seagoing epics  now celebrates an American classic. Moby-Dick is perhaps the greatest of the Great American  Novels, yet its length and esoteric subject matter create an aura  of difficulty that too often keeps readers at bay. Fortunately, one  unabashed fan wants passionately to give Melville's masterpiece the  broad contemporary audience it deserves. In his National Book Award- winning bestseller, In the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick  captivatingly unpacked the story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex,  the real-life incident that inspired Melville to write Moby- Dick. Now, he sets his sights on the fiction itself, offering a  cabin master's tour of a spellbinding novel rich with adventure and  history.Philbrick skillfully navigates Melville's world and illuminates the  book's humor and unforgettable characters-finding the thread that binds  Ishmael and Ahab to our own time and, indeed, to all times. A perfect  match between author and subject, Why Read  Moby-Dick? gives us  a renewed appreciation of both Melville and  the proud seaman's town of  Nantucket that Philbrick himself calls home. Like Alain de Botton's  How Proust Can Change Your Life, this remarkable little book  will start conversations, inspire arguments, and, best of all, bring a  new wave of readers to a classic tale waiting to be discovered  anew.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Why Read Moby-Dick?]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathaniel Philbrick]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Viking Adult]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780670022991]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The New York Times bestselling author of seagoing epics  now celebrates an American classic. Moby-Dick is perhaps the greatest of the Great American  Novels, yet its length and esoteric subject matter create an aura  of difficulty that too often keeps readers at bay. Fortunately, one  unabashed fan wants passionately to give Melville's masterpiece the  broad contemporary audience it deserves. In his National Book Award- winning bestseller, In the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick  captivatingly unpacked the story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex,  the real-life incident that inspired Melville to write Moby- Dick. Now, he sets his sights on the fiction itself, offering a  cabin master's tour of a spellbinding novel rich with adventure and  history.Philbrick skillfully navigates Melville's world and illuminates the  book's humor and unforgettable characters-finding the thread that binds  Ishmael and Ahab to our own time and, indeed, to all times. A perfect  match between author and subject, Why Read  Moby-Dick? gives us  a renewed appreciation of both Melville and  the proud seaman's town of  Nantucket that Philbrick himself calls home. Like Alain de Botton's  How Proust Can Change Your Life, this remarkable little book  will start conversations, inspire arguments, and, best of all, bring a  new wave of readers to a classic tale waiting to be discovered  anew.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-10-20T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Prague Cemetery]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780547577531</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. Conspiracies rule history. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies, both real and imagined, lay one lone man? What if that evil genius created the world’s most infamous document?   Umberto Eco takes his readers on a remarkable journey through the underbelly of world-shattering events. Here is Eco at his most exciting, a book immediately hailed as a masterpiece.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Prague Cemetery]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Umberto Eco; Richard Dixon]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780547577531]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. Conspiracies rule history. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies, both real and imagined, lay one lone man? What if that evil genius created the world’s most infamous document?   Umberto Eco takes his readers on a remarkable journey through the underbelly of world-shattering events. Here is Eco at his most exciting, a book immediately hailed as a masterpiece.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-11-08T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Started Early, Took My Dog]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316066747</link>
<description><![CDATA[Tracy Waterhouse leads a quiet, ordered life as a retired police detective-a life that takes a surprising turn when she encounters Kelly Cross, a habitual offender, dragging a young child through town. Both appear miserable and better off without each other-or so decides Tracy, in a snap decision that surprises herself as much as Kelly. Suddenly burdened with a small child, Tracy soon learns her parental inexperience is actually the least of her problems, as much larger ones loom for her and her young charge.Meanwhile, Jackson Brodie, the beloved detective of novels such as Case Histories, is embarking on a different sort of rescue-that of an abused dog. Dog in tow, Jackson is about to learn, along with Tracy, that no good deed goes unpunished.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Started Early, Took My Dog]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Atkinson]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780316066747]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Tracy Waterhouse leads a quiet, ordered life as a retired police detective-a life that takes a surprising turn when she encounters Kelly Cross, a habitual offender, dragging a young child through town. Both appear miserable and better off without each other-or so decides Tracy, in a snap decision that surprises herself as much as Kelly. Suddenly burdened with a small child, Tracy soon learns her parental inexperience is actually the least of her problems, as much larger ones loom for her and her young charge.Meanwhile, Jackson Brodie, the beloved detective of novels such as Case Histories, is embarking on a different sort of rescue-that of an abused dog. Dog in tow, Jackson is about to learn, along with Tracy, that no good deed goes unpunished.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-10-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Lost Girls]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780061689062</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Jen, Holly, and Amanda are at a crossroads. They're feeling the pressure to hit certain milestones?scoring a big promotion, finding a soul mate, having 2.2 kids?before they reach their early thirties. When personal challenges force them to reevaluate their lives, they decide it's now or never to do something daring. Unable to gain perspective in fast-paced Manhattan, the three twentysomethings quit their coveted media jobs and leave behind their friends, boyfriends, and everything familiar to travel the globe. Dubbing themselves the Lost Girls, they embark on an epic yearlong search for inspiration and direction.   As they journey 60,000 miles across four continents and more than a dozen countries, Jen, Holly, and Amanda step far outside of their comfort zones, embracing every adventure and experience the world has to offer?shooting blowguns with Yagua elders in the Amazon, learning capoeira on the beaches of Brazil, volunteering with preteen girls at a school in rural Kenya, hiking with Hmong villagers in Vietnam, and driving through Australia in a psychedelic camper van. Along the way, the Lost Girls find not only themselves but also a lifelong friendship. Ultimately, theirs is a story of true sisterhood?a bond forged by sharing beds and backpacks, enduring exotic illnesses, fending off aggressive street vendors, trekking across rivers and over mountains, and standing by one another through heartaches, whirlwind romances, and everything in the world in between.   This candid and compelling memoir will speak to anyone who has ever felt the desire to spread her wings and discover the world with her best friends by her side. ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Lost Girls]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Baggett; Holly C. Corbett; Amanda Pressner]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Harper]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780061689062]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ Jen, Holly, and Amanda are at a crossroads. They're feeling the pressure to hit certain milestones?scoring a big promotion, finding a soul mate, having 2.2 kids?before they reach their early thirties. When personal challenges force them to reevaluate their lives, they decide it's now or never to do something daring. Unable to gain perspective in fast-paced Manhattan, the three twentysomethings quit their coveted media jobs and leave behind their friends, boyfriends, and everything familiar to travel the globe. Dubbing themselves the Lost Girls, they embark on an epic yearlong search for inspiration and direction.   As they journey 60,000 miles across four continents and more than a dozen countries, Jen, Holly, and Amanda step far outside of their comfort zones, embracing every adventure and experience the world has to offer?shooting blowguns with Yagua elders in the Amazon, learning capoeira on the beaches of Brazil, volunteering with preteen girls at a school in rural Kenya, hiking with Hmong villagers in Vietnam, and driving through Australia in a psychedelic camper van. Along the way, the Lost Girls find not only themselves but also a lifelong friendship. Ultimately, theirs is a story of true sisterhood?a bond forged by sharing beds and backpacks, enduring exotic illnesses, fending off aggressive street vendors, trekking across rivers and over mountains, and standing by one another through heartaches, whirlwind romances, and everything in the world in between.   This candid and compelling memoir will speak to anyone who has ever felt the desire to spread her wings and discover the world with her best friends by her side. ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2010-05-01T00:00:00-04:00</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[Lost Memory of Skin]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780061857638</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone returns with a provocative new novel that illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable results   Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, the young man at the center of Russell Banks?s uncompromising and morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence under a south Florida causeway, in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders.   Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid, despite his crime, is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and foolish choices he himself struggles to comprehend. Enter the Professor, a man who has built his own life on secrets and lies. A university sociologist of enormous size and intellect, he finds in the Kid the perfect subject for his research on homelessness and recidivism among convicted sex offenders. The two men forge a tentative partnership, the Kid remaining wary of the Professor?s motives even as he accepts the counsel and financial assistance of the older man.   When the camp beneath the causeway is raided by the police, and later, when a hurricane all but destroys the settlement, the Professor tries to help the Kid in practical matters while trying to teach his young charge new ways of looking at, and understanding, what he has done. But when the Professor?s past resurfaces and threatens to destroy his carefully constructed world, the balance in the two men?s relationship shifts.   Suddenly, the Kid must reconsider everything he has come to believe, and choose what course of action to take when faced with a new kind of moral decision.   Long one of our most acute and insightful novelists, Russell Banks often examines the indistinct boundaries between our intentions and actions. A mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from one of our most accomplished storytellers, Lost Memory of Skin unfolds in language both powerful and beautifully lyrical, show-casing Banks at his most compelling, his reckless sense of humor and intense empathy at full bore.   The perfect convergence of writer and subject, Lost Memory of Skin probes the zeitgeist of a troubled society where zero tolerance has erased any hope of subtlety and compassion?a society where isolating the offender has perhaps created a new kind of victim. ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Lost Memory of Skin]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Russell Banks]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Ecco]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780061857638]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ The acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone returns with a provocative new novel that illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable results   Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, the young man at the center of Russell Banks?s uncompromising and morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence under a south Florida causeway, in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders.   Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid, despite his crime, is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and foolish choices he himself struggles to comprehend. Enter the Professor, a man who has built his own life on secrets and lies. A university sociologist of enormous size and intellect, he finds in the Kid the perfect subject for his research on homelessness and recidivism among convicted sex offenders. The two men forge a tentative partnership, the Kid remaining wary of the Professor?s motives even as he accepts the counsel and financial assistance of the older man.   When the camp beneath the causeway is raided by the police, and later, when a hurricane all but destroys the settlement, the Professor tries to help the Kid in practical matters while trying to teach his young charge new ways of looking at, and understanding, what he has done. But when the Professor?s past resurfaces and threatens to destroy his carefully constructed world, the balance in the two men?s relationship shifts.   Suddenly, the Kid must reconsider everything he has come to believe, and choose what course of action to take when faced with a new kind of moral decision.   Long one of our most acute and insightful novelists, Russell Banks often examines the indistinct boundaries between our intentions and actions. A mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from one of our most accomplished storytellers, Lost Memory of Skin unfolds in language both powerful and beautifully lyrical, show-casing Banks at his most compelling, his reckless sense of humor and intense empathy at full bore.   The perfect convergence of writer and subject, Lost Memory of Skin probes the zeitgeist of a troubled society where zero tolerance has erased any hope of subtlety and compassion?a society where isolating the offender has perhaps created a new kind of victim. ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Wandering Falcon]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781594488276</link>
<description><![CDATA[A haunting literary debut set in the forbidding remote tribal  areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Traditions that have lasted for centuries, both brutal and beautiful,  create  a rigid structure for life in the wild, astonishing place where Iran,  Pakistan,  and Afghanistan meet-the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). It  is a  formidable world, and the people who live there are constantly subjected  to  extremes-of place and of culture.The Wandering Falcon begins with a young couple, refugees from  their  tribe, who have traveled to the middle of nowhere to escape the cruel  punishments meted out upon those who transgress the boundaries of  marriage and  family. Their son, Tor Baz, descended from both chiefs and outlaws,  becomes "The  Wandering Falcon," a character who travels among the tribes, over the  mountains  and the plains, into the towns and the tents that constitute the homes of  the  tribal people. The media today speak about this unimaginably remote  region, a  geopolitical hotbed of conspiracies, drone attacks, and conflict, but in  the  rich, dramatic tones of a master storyteller, this stunning, honor-bound  culture  is revealed from the inside.Jamil Ahmad has written an unforgettable portrait of a world of custom  and  compassion, of love and cruelty, of hardship and survival, a place  fragile,  unknown, and unforgiving.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Wandering Falcon]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamil Ahmad]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Riverhead Hardcover]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781594488276]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A haunting literary debut set in the forbidding remote tribal  areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Traditions that have lasted for centuries, both brutal and beautiful,  create  a rigid structure for life in the wild, astonishing place where Iran,  Pakistan,  and Afghanistan meet-the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). It  is a  formidable world, and the people who live there are constantly subjected  to  extremes-of place and of culture.The Wandering Falcon begins with a young couple, refugees from  their  tribe, who have traveled to the middle of nowhere to escape the cruel  punishments meted out upon those who transgress the boundaries of  marriage and  family. Their son, Tor Baz, descended from both chiefs and outlaws,  becomes "The  Wandering Falcon," a character who travels among the tribes, over the  mountains  and the plains, into the towns and the tents that constitute the homes of  the  tribal people. The media today speak about this unimaginably remote  region, a  geopolitical hotbed of conspiracies, drone attacks, and conflict, but in  the  rich, dramatic tones of a master storyteller, this stunning, honor-bound  culture  is revealed from the inside.Jamil Ahmad has written an unforgettable portrait of a world of custom  and  compassion, of love and cruelty, of hardship and survival, a place  fragile,  unknown, and unforgiving.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-10-13T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Sisters]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780312542702</link>
<description><![CDATA[ In the tradition of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge, a dazzling debut novel about the family bonds that remain even when they seem irretrievably torn apartGrowing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat, Bertie Fischer and her older sister Mabel have no one but each other—with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But on the day that Bertie receives her eighth-grade diploma, good intentions go terribly wrong. A choice made in desperate haste sets off a chain of misunderstandings that will divide the sisters and reverberate through three generations of women.What happens when nothing turns out as you planned? From the Depression through World War II and Vietnam, and smaller events both tragic and joyful, Bertie and Mabel forge unexpected identities that are shaped by unspeakable secrets. As the sisters have daughters and granddaughters of their own, they discover that both love and betrayal are even more complicated than they seem.  Gorgeously written, with extraordinary insight and emotional truth, Nancy Jensen’s powerful debut novel illuminates the far-reaching power of family and family secrets. ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Sisters]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Jensen]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[St. Martin's Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780312542702]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ In the tradition of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge, a dazzling debut novel about the family bonds that remain even when they seem irretrievably torn apartGrowing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat, Bertie Fischer and her older sister Mabel have no one but each other—with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But on the day that Bertie receives her eighth-grade diploma, good intentions go terribly wrong. A choice made in desperate haste sets off a chain of misunderstandings that will divide the sisters and reverberate through three generations of women.What happens when nothing turns out as you planned? From the Depression through World War II and Vietnam, and smaller events both tragic and joyful, Bertie and Mabel forge unexpected identities that are shaped by unspeakable secrets. As the sisters have daughters and granddaughters of their own, they discover that both love and betrayal are even more complicated than they seem.  Gorgeously written, with extraordinary insight and emotional truth, Nancy Jensen’s powerful debut novel illuminates the far-reaching power of family and family secrets. ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-11-08T00:00:00-05:00</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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<title><![CDATA[The Watchers]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780399158742</link>
<description><![CDATA[Beneath Lausanne Cathedral, in Switzerland, there is a secret buried before time began, something unknown to angels and men, until now... Marc Rochat watches over the city at night from the belfry of the cathedral. He lives in a world of shadows and "beforetimes" and imaginary beings. Katherine Taylor, call girl and daydreamer, is about to discover that her real-life fairy tale is too good to be true. Jay Harper, private detective, wakes up in a crummy hotel room with no memory. When the telephone rings and he's offered a job, he knows he has no choice but to accept. Three lives, one purpose: save what's left of paradise before all hell breaks loose.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Watchers]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Steele]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Blue Rider Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780399158742]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Beneath Lausanne Cathedral, in Switzerland, there is a secret buried before time began, something unknown to angels and men, until now... Marc Rochat watches over the city at night from the belfry of the cathedral. He lives in a world of shadows and "beforetimes" and imaginary beings. Katherine Taylor, call girl and daydreamer, is about to discover that her real-life fairy tale is too good to be true. Jay Harper, private detective, wakes up in a crummy hotel room with no memory. When the telephone rings and he's offered a job, he knows he has no choice but to accept. Three lives, one purpose: save what's left of paradise before all hell breaks loose.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-05-29T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Seating Arrangements]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307599469</link>
<description><![CDATA[Maggie Shipstead’s irresistible social satire, set on an exclusive New England island over a wedding weekend in June, provides a deliciously biting glimpse into the lives of the well-bred and ill-behaved.  Winn Van Meter is heading for his family’s retreat on the pristine New England island of Waskeke. Normally a haven of calm, for the next three days this sanctuary will be overrun by tipsy revelers as Winn prepares for the marriage of his daughter Daphne to the affable young scion Greyson Duff.  Winn’s wife, Biddy, has planned the wedding with military precision, but arrangements are sideswept by a storm of salacious misbehavior and intractable lust: Daphne’s sister, Livia, who has recently had her heart broken by Teddy Fenn, the son of her father’s oldest rival, is an eager target for the seductive wiles of Greyson’s best man; Winn, instead of reveling in his patriarchal duties, is tormented by his long-standing crush on Daphne’s beguiling bridesmaid Agatha; and the bride and groom find themselves presiding over a spectacle of misplaced desire, marital infidelity, and monumental loss of faith in the rituals of American life.   Hilarious, keenly intelligent, and commandingly well written, Shipstead’s deceptively frothy first novel is a piercing rumination on desire, on love and its obligations, and on the dangers of leading an inauthentic life, heralding the debut of an exciting new literary voice. ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Seating Arrangements]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maggie Shipstead]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Knopf]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780307599469]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Maggie Shipstead’s irresistible social satire, set on an exclusive New England island over a wedding weekend in June, provides a deliciously biting glimpse into the lives of the well-bred and ill-behaved.  Winn Van Meter is heading for his family’s retreat on the pristine New England island of Waskeke. Normally a haven of calm, for the next three days this sanctuary will be overrun by tipsy revelers as Winn prepares for the marriage of his daughter Daphne to the affable young scion Greyson Duff.  Winn’s wife, Biddy, has planned the wedding with military precision, but arrangements are sideswept by a storm of salacious misbehavior and intractable lust: Daphne’s sister, Livia, who has recently had her heart broken by Teddy Fenn, the son of her father’s oldest rival, is an eager target for the seductive wiles of Greyson’s best man; Winn, instead of reveling in his patriarchal duties, is tormented by his long-standing crush on Daphne’s beguiling bridesmaid Agatha; and the bride and groom find themselves presiding over a spectacle of misplaced desire, marital infidelity, and monumental loss of faith in the rituals of American life.   Hilarious, keenly intelligent, and commandingly well written, Shipstead’s deceptively frothy first novel is a piercing rumination on desire, on love and its obligations, and on the dangers of leading an inauthentic life, heralding the debut of an exciting new literary voice. ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-06-12T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Lola Quartet]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781609530792</link>
<description><![CDATA[Gavin Sasaki is a promising young journalist in New York City, until he’s fired in disgrace following a series of unforgivable lapses in his work. It’s early 2009, and the world has gone dark very quickly; the economic collapse has turned an era that magazine headlines once heralded as the second gilded age into something that more closely resembles the Great Depression. The last thing Gavin wants to do is return to his hometown of Sebastian, Florida, but he’s drifting toward bankruptcy and is in no position to refuse when he’s offered a job by his sister, Eilo, a real estate broker who deals in foreclosed homes.Eilo recently paid a visit to a home that had a ten-year-old child in it, a child who looks very much like Gavin and who has the same last name as Gavin’s high school girlfriend Anna, whom Gavin last saw a decade ago. Gavin?a former jazz musician, a reluctant broker of foreclosed properties, obsessed with film noir and private detectives?begins his own private investigation in an effort to track down Anna and their apparent daughter who have been on the run all these years from a drug dealer from whom Anna stole $121,000.In her most ambitious novel yet, Emily Mandel combines her most fully realized characters with perhaps her most fully developed story that examines the difficulty of being the person you'd like to be, loss, the way a small and innocent action (e.g., taking a picture of a girl in a foreclosed house) can have disastrous consequences. The Lola Quartet is a work that pays homage to literary noir, is concerned with jazz, Django Reinhardt, economic collapse, love, Florida’s exotic wildlife problem, crushing tropical heat, the leavening of the contemporary world, compulsive gambling, and the unreliability of memory.This is literary fiction with a strong detective story element.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Lola Quartet]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily  St. John Mandel]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Unbridled Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781609530792]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Gavin Sasaki is a promising young journalist in New York City, until he’s fired in disgrace following a series of unforgivable lapses in his work. It’s early 2009, and the world has gone dark very quickly; the economic collapse has turned an era that magazine headlines once heralded as the second gilded age into something that more closely resembles the Great Depression. The last thing Gavin wants to do is return to his hometown of Sebastian, Florida, but he’s drifting toward bankruptcy and is in no position to refuse when he’s offered a job by his sister, Eilo, a real estate broker who deals in foreclosed homes.Eilo recently paid a visit to a home that had a ten-year-old child in it, a child who looks very much like Gavin and who has the same last name as Gavin’s high school girlfriend Anna, whom Gavin last saw a decade ago. Gavin?a former jazz musician, a reluctant broker of foreclosed properties, obsessed with film noir and private detectives?begins his own private investigation in an effort to track down Anna and their apparent daughter who have been on the run all these years from a drug dealer from whom Anna stole $121,000.In her most ambitious novel yet, Emily Mandel combines her most fully realized characters with perhaps her most fully developed story that examines the difficulty of being the person you'd like to be, loss, the way a small and innocent action (e.g., taking a picture of a girl in a foreclosed house) can have disastrous consequences. The Lola Quartet is a work that pays homage to literary noir, is concerned with jazz, Django Reinhardt, economic collapse, love, Florida’s exotic wildlife problem, crushing tropical heat, the leavening of the contemporary world, compulsive gambling, and the unreliability of memory.This is literary fiction with a strong detective story element.]]></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[Waiting for Sunrise]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780061876769</link>
<description><![CDATA[Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. When she goes to the police accusing him of rape, Lysander is mystified. But a carefully plotted getaway steadily dismantles Lysander's life.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Waiting for Sunrise]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Boyd]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Harper]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780061876769]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. When she goes to the police accusing him of rape, Lysander is mystified. But a carefully plotted getaway steadily dismantles Lysander's life.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-04-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Let's Pretend This Never Happened]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780399159015</link>
<description><![CDATA[For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris—Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut.   Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives—the ones we’d like to pretend never happened—are in fact the ones that define us. In the #1 New York Times bestseller, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey recalling her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Victor. Chapters include: “Stanley the Magical, Talking Squirrel”; “A Series of Angry Post-It Notes to My Husband”; “My Vagina Is Fine. Thanks for Asking”; “And Then I Snuck a Dead Cuban Alligator on an Airplane.” Pictures with captions (no one would believe these things without proof) accompany the text.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Let's Pretend This Never Happened]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jenny Lawson]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780399159015]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris—Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut.   Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives—the ones we’d like to pretend never happened—are in fact the ones that define us. In the #1 New York Times bestseller, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey recalling her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Victor. Chapters include: “Stanley the Magical, Talking Squirrel”; “A Series of Angry Post-It Notes to My Husband”; “My Vagina Is Fine. Thanks for Asking”; “And Then I Snuck a Dead Cuban Alligator on an Airplane.” Pictures with captions (no one would believe these things without proof) accompany the text.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-04-17T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Cove]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780061804199</link>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Cove]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Rash]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Ecco]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780061804199]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-04-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Sacre Bleu]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780061779749</link>
<description><![CDATA[A new masterpiece from a repeat "New York Times" bestselling author--a study in contrasts that is at once a thriller, a mystery, and a comedy, set in fin de sicle France and featuring a colorful cast of characters.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Sacre Bleu]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Moore]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[William Morrow & Company]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780061779749]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A new masterpiece from a repeat "New York Times" bestselling author--a study in contrasts that is at once a thriller, a mystery, and a comedy, set in fin de sicle France and featuring a colorful cast of characters.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-04-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Lifeboat]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316185905</link>
<description><![CDATA[Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life.In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying her and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize is over capacity. For any to live, some must die.As the castaways battle the elements, and each other, Grace recollects the unorthodox way she and Henry met, and the new life of privilege she thought she'd found. Will she pay any price to keep it?The Lifeboat is a page-turning novel of hard choices and survival, narrated by a woman as unforgettable and complex as the events she describes.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Lifeboat]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlotte Rogan]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Reagan Arthur Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780316185905]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life.In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying her and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize is over capacity. For any to live, some must die.As the castaways battle the elements, and each other, Grace recollects the unorthodox way she and Henry met, and the new life of privilege she thought she'd found. Will she pay any price to keep it?The Lifeboat is a page-turning novel of hard choices and survival, narrated by a woman as unforgettable and complex as the events she describes.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-04-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Good Father]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385535533</link>
<description><![CDATA[An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.   As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin sons—hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel. In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting novel, Dr. Allen is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot at a rally, and Daniel is caught on video as the assassin.        Daniel Allen has always been a good kid—a decent student, popular—but, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. Which may be why, at the age of nineteen, he quietly drops out of Vassar and begins an aimless journey across the United States, during which he sheds his former skin and eventually even changes his name to Carter Allen Cash.      Told alternately from the point of view of the guilt-ridden, determined father and his meandering, ruminative son, The Good Father is a powerfully emotional page-turner that keeps one guessing until the very end. This is an absorbing and honest novel about the responsibilities—and limitations—of being a parent and our capacity to provide our children with unconditional love in the face of an unthinkable situation.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Good Father]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Noah Hawley]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Doubleday]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780385535533]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.   As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin sons—hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel. In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting novel, Dr. Allen is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot at a rally, and Daniel is caught on video as the assassin.        Daniel Allen has always been a good kid—a decent student, popular—but, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. Which may be why, at the age of nineteen, he quietly drops out of Vassar and begins an aimless journey across the United States, during which he sheds his former skin and eventually even changes his name to Carter Allen Cash.      Told alternately from the point of view of the guilt-ridden, determined father and his meandering, ruminative son, The Good Father is a powerfully emotional page-turner that keeps one guessing until the very end. This is an absorbing and honest novel about the responsibilities—and limitations—of being a parent and our capacity to provide our children with unconditional love in the face of an unthinkable situation.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-03-20T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Beastly Things]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780802120236</link>
<description><![CDATA[When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Brunetti has little to work with. The autopsy shows a way forward: it turns out the man was suffering from a rare, disfiguring disease.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Beastly Things]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donna Leon]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Atlantic Monthly Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780802120236]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Brunetti has little to work with. The autopsy shows a way forward: it turns out the man was suffering from a rare, disfiguring disease.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-04-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Red Book]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781401340827</link>
<description><![CDATA[Before Facebook, there was the Red Book: a report with astonishingly personal updates from Harvard alumni. Kogan's wry and irresistible novel takes entries of five alumni to explore a relationships-altering, score-settling, life-changing weekend that is their 20th reunion.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Red Book]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Copaken Kogan]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Hyperion Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781401340827]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Before Facebook, there was the Red Book: a report with astonishingly personal updates from Harvard alumni. Kogan's wry and irresistible novel takes entries of five alumni to explore a relationships-altering, score-settling, life-changing weekend that is their 20th reunion.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-04-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Starboard Sea]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780312642808</link>
<description><![CDATA[“A rich, quietly artful novel that is bound for deep water, with questions of beauty, power and spiritual navigation as its main concerns. The title refers not to the right side of a boat but to the right course through life, and the immense difficulty of finding and following it.”--Janet Maslin, The New York TimesA powerful first novel about life and death, friendship and love, as one young man must navigate the depths of his emotions.JASON PROSPER grew up in the elite world of Manhattan penthouses, Maine summer estates, old-boy prep schools, and exclusive sailing clubs. A smart, athletic teenager, Jason maintains a healthy, humorous disdain for the trappings of affluence, preferring to spend afternoons sailing with Cal, his best friend and boarding-school roommate. When Cal commits suicide during their junior year at Kensington Prep, Jason is devastated by the loss and transfers to Bellingham Academy. There, he meets Aidan, a fellow student with her own troubled past. They embark on a tender, awkward, deeply emotional relationship. When a major hurricane hits the New England coast, the destruction it causes brings with it another upheaval in Jason’s life, forcing him to make sense of a terrible secret that has been buried by the boys he considers his friends.Set against the backdrop of the 1987 stock market collapse, The Starboard Sea is an examination of the abuses of class privilege, the mutability of sexual desire, the thrill and risk of competitive sailing, and the adult cost of teenage recklessness. It is a powerful and provocative novel about a young man finding his moral center, trying to forgive himself, and accepting the gift of love.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Starboard Sea]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amber Dermont]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[St. Martin's Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780312642808]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[“A rich, quietly artful novel that is bound for deep water, with questions of beauty, power and spiritual navigation as its main concerns. The title refers not to the right side of a boat but to the right course through life, and the immense difficulty of finding and following it.”--Janet Maslin, The New York TimesA powerful first novel about life and death, friendship and love, as one young man must navigate the depths of his emotions.JASON PROSPER grew up in the elite world of Manhattan penthouses, Maine summer estates, old-boy prep schools, and exclusive sailing clubs. A smart, athletic teenager, Jason maintains a healthy, humorous disdain for the trappings of affluence, preferring to spend afternoons sailing with Cal, his best friend and boarding-school roommate. When Cal commits suicide during their junior year at Kensington Prep, Jason is devastated by the loss and transfers to Bellingham Academy. There, he meets Aidan, a fellow student with her own troubled past. They embark on a tender, awkward, deeply emotional relationship. When a major hurricane hits the New England coast, the destruction it causes brings with it another upheaval in Jason’s life, forcing him to make sense of a terrible secret that has been buried by the boys he considers his friends.Set against the backdrop of the 1987 stock market collapse, The Starboard Sea is an examination of the abuses of class privilege, the mutability of sexual desire, the thrill and risk of competitive sailing, and the adult cost of teenage recklessness. It is a powerful and provocative novel about a young man finding his moral center, trying to forgive himself, and accepting the gift of love.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-02-28T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780802120106</link>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeanette Winterson]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Grove Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780802120106]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-03-06T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Flatscreen]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062090331</link>
<description><![CDATA[From a rising indie-lit star comes the gleefully absurd, heartwarming story of a young man's struggle to become a new person in a world where nothing is new.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Flatscreen]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Wilson]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Harper Perennial]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780062090331]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[From a rising indie-lit star comes the gleefully absurd, heartwarming story of a young man's struggle to become a new person in a world where nothing is new.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-02-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Bring Up the Bodies]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780805090031</link>
<description><![CDATA[The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over three terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies, the papist aristocracy. What price will he pay for Anne's head?]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Bring Up the Bodies]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hilary Mantel]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Henry Holt and Co.]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780805090031]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over three terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies, the papist aristocracy. What price will he pay for Anne's head?]]></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 Buddha in the Attic]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307744425</link>
<description><![CDATA[Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award For FictionNational Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistA New York Times Notable BookA gorgeous novel by the celebrated author of When the Emperor Was Divine that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago. In eight unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language, to the deracinating arrival of war. Once again, Julie Otsuka has written a spellbinding novel about identity and loyalty, and what it means to be an American in uncertain times.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Buddha in the Attic]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Otsuka]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Anchor]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780307744425]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award For FictionNational Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistA New York Times Notable BookA gorgeous novel by the celebrated author of When the Emperor Was Divine that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago. In eight unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language, to the deracinating arrival of war. Once again, Julie Otsuka has written a spellbinding novel about identity and loyalty, and what it means to be an American in uncertain times.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-03-20T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Weird Sisters]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780425244142</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is the "delightful" (People) New York Times  bestseller that's earned raves from Sarah Blake, Helen Simonson, and  reviewers everywhere-the story of three sisters who love each other,  but just don't happen to like each other very much... Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting the  eccentric Andreas family. Here, books are a passion (there is no  problem a library card can't solve) and TV is something other  people watch. Their father-a professor of Shakespeare who speaks almost  exclusively in verse-named them after the Bard's heroines. It's a lot  to live up to.The sisters have a hard time communicating with their parents and  their lovers, but especially with one another. What can the shy  homebody eldest sister, the fast-living middle child, and the bohemian  youngest sibling have in common? Only that none has found life to be  what was expected; and now, faced with their parents' frailty and their  own personal disappointments, not even a book can solve what ails them...]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Weird Sisters]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eleanor Brown]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Berkley Trade]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780425244142]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[This is the "delightful" (People) New York Times  bestseller that's earned raves from Sarah Blake, Helen Simonson, and  reviewers everywhere-the story of three sisters who love each other,  but just don't happen to like each other very much... Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting the  eccentric Andreas family. Here, books are a passion (there is no  problem a library card can't solve) and TV is something other  people watch. Their father-a professor of Shakespeare who speaks almost  exclusively in verse-named them after the Bard's heroines. It's a lot  to live up to.The sisters have a hard time communicating with their parents and  their lovers, but especially with one another. What can the shy  homebody eldest sister, the fast-living middle child, and the bohemian  youngest sibling have in common? Only that none has found life to be  what was expected; and now, faced with their parents' frailty and their  own personal disappointments, not even a book can solve what ails them...]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-02-07T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Sandcastle Girls]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385534796</link>
<description><![CDATA[Over the course of his career, New York Times bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys. Midwives brought us to an isolated Vermont farmhouse on an icy winter’s night and a home birth gone tragically wrong. The Double Bind perfectly conjured the Roaring Twenties on Long Island—and a young social worker’s descent into madness. And Skeletons at the Feast chronicled the last six months of World War Two in Poland and Germany with nail-biting authenticity. As The Washington Post Book World has noted, Bohjalian writes “the sorts of books people stay awake all night to finish.”In his fifteenth book, The Sandcastle Girls, he brings us on a very different kind of journey. This spellbinding tale travels between Aleppo, Syria, in 1915 and Bronxville, New York, in 2012—a sweeping historical love story steeped in the author’s Armenian heritage, making it his most personal novel to date.When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke College, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. The First World War is spreading across Europe, and she has volunteered on behalf of the Boston-based Friends of Armenia to deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian genocide.  There, Elizabeth becomes friendly with Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant daughter. When Armen leaves Aleppo to join the British Army in Egypt, he begins to write Elizabeth letters, and comes to realize that he has fallen in love with the wealthy, young American woman who is so different from the wife he lost.Flash forward to the present, where we meet Laura Petrosian, a novelist living in suburban New York. Although her grandparents’ ornate Pelham home was affectionately nicknamed the “Ottoman Annex,” Laura has never really given her Armenian heritage much thought. But when an old friend calls, claiming to have seen a newspaper photo of Laura’s grandmother promoting an exhibit at a Boston museum, Laura embarks on a journey back through her family’s history that reveals love, loss—and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Sandcastle Girls]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Bohjalian]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Doubleday]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780385534796]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Over the course of his career, New York Times bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys. Midwives brought us to an isolated Vermont farmhouse on an icy winter’s night and a home birth gone tragically wrong. The Double Bind perfectly conjured the Roaring Twenties on Long Island—and a young social worker’s descent into madness. And Skeletons at the Feast chronicled the last six months of World War Two in Poland and Germany with nail-biting authenticity. As The Washington Post Book World has noted, Bohjalian writes “the sorts of books people stay awake all night to finish.”In his fifteenth book, The Sandcastle Girls, he brings us on a very different kind of journey. This spellbinding tale travels between Aleppo, Syria, in 1915 and Bronxville, New York, in 2012—a sweeping historical love story steeped in the author’s Armenian heritage, making it his most personal novel to date.When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke College, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. The First World War is spreading across Europe, and she has volunteered on behalf of the Boston-based Friends of Armenia to deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian genocide.  There, Elizabeth becomes friendly with Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant daughter. When Armen leaves Aleppo to join the British Army in Egypt, he begins to write Elizabeth letters, and comes to realize that he has fallen in love with the wealthy, young American woman who is so different from the wife he lost.Flash forward to the present, where we meet Laura Petrosian, a novelist living in suburban New York. Although her grandparents’ ornate Pelham home was affectionately nicknamed the “Ottoman Annex,” Laura has never really given her Armenian heritage much thought. But when an old friend calls, claiming to have seen a newspaper photo of Laura’s grandmother promoting an exhibit at a Boston museum, Laura embarks on a journey back through her family’s history that reveals love, loss—and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-07-17T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Yellow Birds]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316219365</link>
<description><![CDATA[A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive."The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for.In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes actions he could never have imagined. With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a classic.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Yellow Birds]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Powers]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Little, Brown and Company]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780316219365]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive."The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for.In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes actions he could never have imagined. With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a classic.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-09-11T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Vanishing Act]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780393062922</link>
<description><![CDATA[On a small snow-covered island so tiny that it can t be found on any map lives twelve-year-old Minou, her philosopher Papa (a descendent of Descartes), Boxman the magician, and a clever dog called No-Name. A year earlier Minou 's mother left the house wearing her best shoes and carrying a large black umbrella. She never returned. One morning Minou finds a dead boy washed up on the beach. Her father decides to lay him in the room that once belonged to her mother. Can her mother 's disappearance be explained by the boy? Will Boxman be able to help find her? Minou, unwilling to accept her mother 's death, attempts to find the truth through Descartes philosophy. Over the course of her investigation Minou will discover the truth about loss and love, a truth that The Vanishing Act conveys in a voice that is uniquely enchanting.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Vanishing Act]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mette Jakobsen]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[W. W. Norton & Company]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780393062922]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[On a small snow-covered island so tiny that it can t be found on any map lives twelve-year-old Minou, her philosopher Papa (a descendent of Descartes), Boxman the magician, and a clever dog called No-Name. A year earlier Minou 's mother left the house wearing her best shoes and carrying a large black umbrella. She never returned. One morning Minou finds a dead boy washed up on the beach. Her father decides to lay him in the room that once belonged to her mother. Can her mother 's disappearance be explained by the boy? Will Boxman be able to help find her? Minou, unwilling to accept her mother 's death, attempts to find the truth through Descartes philosophy. Over the course of her investigation Minou will discover the truth about loss and love, a truth that The Vanishing Act conveys in a voice that is uniquely enchanting.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Roots of the Olive Tree]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062130518</link>
<description><![CDATA[A beautiful and touching debut novel that goes best with a pitcher of iced tea and a seriously comfy chair, about five generations of women in California.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Roots of the Olive Tree]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtney Miller Santo]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[William Morrow & Company]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780062130518]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A beautiful and touching debut novel that goes best with a pitcher of iced tea and a seriously comfy chair, about five generations of women in California.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-08-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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