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A very intense novel about two brothers who are born very close together bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn by revolution - the Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author gives us a powerful new novel set in both India and America. An exploration of the price of idealism and a love that can last long past death. Print run 12,000.
2) Nubby
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Alfred A. Knopf
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English
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An overworked stuffed bunny strikes out on a quest for fame and appreciation, only to realize that home is where he belongs.
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From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers, a new novel, at once beautiful and blistering, about war today told through the lives of five people who come together by chance–and tragically revealed circumstance– in post—9/11 Afghanistan.
Five disparate lives intersect through decades of invasion, occupation, and violence. There’s Marcus, an English expat who was married to an outspoken Afghani doctor–she was murdered...
Five disparate lives intersect through decades of invasion, occupation, and violence. There’s Marcus, an English expat who was married to an outspoken Afghani doctor–she was murdered...
4) Every Day
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Every day volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Booklist • Kirkus Reviews
Celebrate all the ways love makes us who we are with the romance that Entertainment Weekly calls "wise, wildly unique"—from the bestselling co-author of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist—about a teen who wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life. Now a major motion picture!
Every...
Celebrate all the ways love makes us who we are with the romance that Entertainment Weekly calls "wise, wildly unique"—from the bestselling co-author of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist—about a teen who wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life. Now a major motion picture!
Every...
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Nobody's fool volume 2
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"A best-selling and beloved author, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters who made Nobody's Fool, his third novel, his first great success. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years hascome by some unexpected good fortune, is now staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he only has a year or two left, and he's busy as hell keeping the news from the most important people in...
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Alfred A. Knopf
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English
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"In this collection of stories, Maggie Shipstead dives into eclectic and vivid settings, from an Olympic village to a deathbed in Paris to a Pacific atoll, and illuminating a cast of indelible characters, Shipstead traverses ordinary and unusual realities with cunning, compassion, and wit. In "Acknowledgments," a male novelist reminisces bitterly on the woman who inspired his first novel, attempting to make peace with his humiliations before the book...
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Alfred A. Knopf
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IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Each time he does something a little bit bad, Edwardo is told that he is very bad and soon his behavior is awful, but when he accidentally does good things and is complimented, he becomes much, much nicer.
8) Picture day
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Brinkley yearbooks volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Viv never looks forward to picture day. Her mom always makes her wear a boring braid, and no one at school notices her--aside from her two best friends, Milo and Al, of course. But enough is enough. This year, Viv is taking matters into her own hands. Literally. Enter: a pair of scissors. And, well, a new hairstyle. Just in time for photos! Suddenly Viv is an overnight trendsetter at Brinkley Middle School. Everyone wants her help planning their...
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"A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The Blind Man's Garden: set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance When shotsring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud--a fellow architect--is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret...
10) Love enough
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Alfred A. Knopf
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English
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A gem of a novel that sizzles about love - between lovers, between friends, and for the places we live in - and pays homage to each moment of experience. In "Love Enough," the sharp beauty of Brand's writing draws us effortlessly into the intersecting stories of her characters caught in the middle of choices. Each story radiates other stories. In these pages, the urban landscape cannot be untangled from the emotional one; they mingle, shift and cleave...
11) Mrs. Osmond
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Alfred A. Knopf
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English
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"From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and The Blue Guitar--a dazzling new novel that extends the story of Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, into unexpected (and completely stand-alone) territory. Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naive girl's experience of the world. When Isabel comes into a...
12) Girl crushed
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Alfred A. Knopf
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English
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"Before Quinn Ryan was in love with Jamie Rudawski, she loved Jamie Rudawski, who was her best friend. But when Jamie dumps Quinn a month before their senior year, Quinn is suddenly girlfriend-less and best friend-less. Enter a new crush: Ruby Ocampo, thegorgeous and rich lead singer of the popular band Sweets, who's just broken up with her on-again, off-again boyfriend. Quinn's always only wanted to be with Jamie, but if Jamie no longer wants to...
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Alfred A. Knopf
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English
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"A stunning debut novel, a modern-day King Lear set in contemporary India: the tale of a battle for power within a turbulent family, for status within a nation in a constant state of transformation, and for the love and respect of a father disappearing into dementia Jivan Singh, the bastard scion of the Devraj family returns to his New Delhi childhood home at the age of twenty-three after fifteen years in the United States. His arrival coincides with...
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