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Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini
Twelve year old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father Baba, one of the richest and most respected merchants in Kabul. He has failed to do so through academia or brawn, but the one area where they connect is the annual kite fighting tournament. Amir is determined not just to win the competition but to run the last kite and bring it ...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini
With heart-wrenching power and suspense, the bestselling author of "The Kite Runner" shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.
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Oryx and Crake
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Margaret Atwood
In Margaret Atwood's 11th novel, she returns to the sci-fi concerns and social criticism that propelled THE HANDMAID'S TALE. ORYX AND CRAKE follows the fortunes of a man once named Jimmy, now called Snowman: his present-day life as a scavenger in a blasted world alternates with his memories of his past. The eponymous Oryx is an Asian girl he ...
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Rule of Four
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I Caldwell
Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. He's intelligent and popular, but haunted by the violent death several years earlier of his father, an academic who devoted his life to studying one of the rarest, most complex and most valuable books in the world. Since its publication in 1499, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili has baffled scholars ...
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That Was Then This Is Now
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S E Hinton
Another Hinton classic available in a great new package. Companion to "The Outsiders," "That Was Then," "This is Now" is S. E. Hintonas moving portrait of the bond between best friends Bryon and Mark and the tensions that develop between them as they begin to grow up and grow apart. Now, it too is available in this great new package featuring the ...
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My Friend Leonard
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James Frey
In this sequel to A MILLION LITTLE PIECES, in which he chronicled his addictions, James Frey writes about a friend he met in rehab, a former gangster named Leonard. An exploration of trust and friendship and what they can mean, especially to someone in crisis, MY FRIEND LEONARD is also a tender and compelling portrait of an extraordinary person.
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Turning Angel
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Greg Iles
Bestselling author Greg Iles brings back the protagonist of THE QUIET GAME in this legal thriller. Penn Cage, a lawyer turned writer, resumes his former profession at the behest of Dr. Andrew "Drew" Elliott, a close friend who saved his life when they were kids. When fishermen discover the half-naked body of popular prep-school senior Kate ...
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Silent Witness
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Richard North Patterson
1967, Lake City, Ohio. Tony Lord and Sam Robb, both in their teens, are best friends and athletic rivals. Twenty-eight years later, Tony is a successful San francisco attorney; sam is an assistant principal at Lake City High School. Sam has never left home, and Tony has never returned since the trauma that changed his life: the brutal murder of ...
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End of the Affair
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Graham Greene
The novelist Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. One day, inexplicably and without warning, Sarah had broken off the relationship. It seemed impossible that there could be a rival for her heart. Yet two years later, driven by obsessive jealousy and grief, Bendrix sends Pakris, a ...
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The Voice of the Night
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Dean R Koontz
Originally published in 1981, a psychological thriller which concerns the relationship between two adolescent boys, one of whom is concealing a dreadful secret. From the author of MIDNIGHT and PHANTOMS.
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You Shall Know Our Velocity
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Dave Eggers
In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss.It reminds us once again what an important, necessary talent Dave Eggers is.
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The Other
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David Guterson
From the author of the bestselling "Snow Falling on Cedars" comes a compelling new novel about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Introduction by)
Newly repackaged and featuring a new Introduction, Twain's classic tales of life on the Mississippi capture both the complexities of American life while regaling the boyhood adventures of two of the most popular characters in American literature. Reissue.
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Smoke Jumper
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Evans
Set against the backdrop of the American West and the wilds of Africa, this novel reveals a story of friendship, passion and honour that charts three people's quest for happiness and self-discovery.
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The Summer That Never Was
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Peter Robinson
"The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are, simply put, the best series now on the market. In fact, this may be the best series of British novels since the novels of Patrick O'Brian. Try one and tell me I'm wrong." -Stephen King “If you haven’t encountered Chief Inspector Alan Banks before, prepare for a crash course in ...
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Finn
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Jon Clinch
In this masterful debut by a major new voice in fiction, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literatures most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finns father. The story begins and ends with a lifeless body flayed and stripped of all identifying marks drifting down the Mississippi. The ...
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A Home at the End of the World
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Michael Cunningham
From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours," comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. ...
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Bang the Drum Slowly
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Mark Harris
Henry Wiggen, hero of "The Southpaw", became the best-known fictional baseball player in America. Now he is back again in "Bang the Drum Slowly", throwing a baseball "with his arm and his brain and his memory and his bluff for the sake of his pocket and his family." ""Bang the Drum Slowly" is more than just another novel about baseball. It is ...
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At swim two boys
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Jamie O'Neill
Set during the year preceding the Easter Uprising of 1916 -- Ireland's brave but fractured revolt against British rule -- "At Swim, Two Boys" is a tender, tragic love story and a brilliant depiction of people caught in the tide of history. Powerful and artful, and ten years in the writing, it is a masterwork from Jamie O'Neill. Jim Mack is a naive ...
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The Pursuit
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Lori Wick
This tender story of the steadfast friendship and the mystery of love will delight the hearts of new readers as well as Wick's loyal audience.
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Fortunate Son
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Walter Mosley
In this riveting story of modern-day resilience and redemption, the "New York Times" bestselling author crafts a work about two boys, one ensconced in a life of privilege and the other in a life of hardship.
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Spies
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Michael Frayn
In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live there is very little evidence of the Second World War. But the two friends suspect that the inhabitants of the Close are not what they seem. As Keith authoritatively informs the trusting Stephen, the whole district is riddled with secret passages and underground laboratories - hideaways for any ...
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Everything Changes
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Jonathan Tropper
Tropper's novel "The Book of Joe" dazzled critics and readers alike with its heartfelt blend of humor and pathos. In "Everything Changes," the author delivers a touching, wickedly funny new tale about love, loss, and the perils of a well-planned life.
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Married Men
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Mr. Carl Weber
In this uncensored and wildly entertaining work, Weber offers a "Waiting to Exhale" on testosterone--a male take on modern love, marriage, and everything in between, as four lifelong friends discover there is more to marriage than meets the eye.
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The Distant Echo
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Val McDermid
After a night of drinking, four college friends happen upon a woman all four know who has been raped and left for dead. When the woman does in fact die, the four friends are all questioned as suspects, but released for lack of evidence. A quarter of a century later, the police reopen the investigation in the hopes that the dramatic improvements in ...
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