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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
by Hampton Sides
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Doubleday
August 5, 2014
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Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, August 2014: In the last few decades of the 19th century, the world looked very different from the way it does now. Parts of the map were unfilled--chief among those spaces was the North Pole, which many believed contained warm currents that ...
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Lucky Us: A Novel
by Amy Bloom
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 (338 customer reviews)
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Random House
July 29, 2014
Hardcover
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| List Price: | $26.00 | | Price: | $18.01 | | You Save: | $7.99 (31%) |
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Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, August 2014: From its provocative opening paragraph--"My father’s wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us."--to its sweet tableau of an ending, Amy Bloom’s Lucky Us is a ...
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We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel
by Matthew Thomas
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 (671 customer reviews)
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Simon & Schuster
August 19, 2014
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Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, August 2014: Ten years in the making, Matthew Thomas’s heartfelt debut launches with the gritty poetry of a Pete Hamill novel: brash Irishmen on barstools, Irish women both wise and strong, and the streets of New York splayed out like a song. ...
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Bad Feminist: Essays
by Roxane Gay
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(136 customer reviews)
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Harper Perennial
August 5, 2014
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| List Price: | $15.99 | | Price: | $9.99 | | You Save: | $6.00 (38%) |
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, August 2014: "These essays are political and they are personal," Roxanne Gay announces in the introduction of Bad Feminist. "They are, like feminism, flawed, but they come from a genuine place." This place, as displayed throughout the course of her excellent essay ...
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The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture
by Euny Hong
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(63 customer reviews)
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Picador
August 5, 2014
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| List Price: | $16.00 | | Price: | $11.92 | | You Save: | $4.08 (26%) |
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, August 2014: I always love a good immigrant story: a tale of a young person, transplanted from the “old country” and learning the ropes (and usually teaching them to her parents) in the new. But journalist Euny Hong’s ...
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The Magician's Land: A Novel (Magicians Trilogy)
by Lev Grossman
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(487 customer reviews)
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Viking
August 5, 2014
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| List Price: | $27.95 | | Price: | $17.49 | | You Save: | $10.46 (37%) |
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, August 2014: In The Magician's Land, the third book in Lev Grossman's Magicians series, Quentin Coldwater returns as a jaded, slightly humbled, white-haired 30-year-old whose life hasn't turned out exactly as he thought he would--exiled from both the magical land of Fillory ...
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Flings: Stories
by Justin Taylor
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(37 customer reviews)
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Harper
August 19, 2014
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| List Price: | $23.99 | | Price: | $17.66 | | You Save: | $6.33 (26%) |
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, August 2014: Imagine the subtle domesticity of Raymond Carver's fiction crossed with the thematic ennui of Richard Linklater's film Slacker and you have something that resembles Justin Taylor's newest story collection, Flings. Readers familiar with Taylor's terrific debut, Everything Here Is the ...
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Worn Stories
by Emily Spivack
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(21 customer reviews)
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Princeton Architectural Press
August 26, 2014
Hardcover
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| List Price: | $24.95 | | Price: | $18.81 | | You Save: | $6.14 (25%) |
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Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, August 2014: If a picture is worth a thousand words, what's the worth of photos of old clothing? In the gorgeously packaged Worn Stories, Emily Spivack has paired short essays with beautifully sparse photos of their subject: old sweaters, shoes, jackets, and ...
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Blue-Eyed Boy: A Memoir
by Robert Timberg
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(69 customer reviews)
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Penguin Press
July 24, 2014
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The Washington Post:“In a crisp, unsentimental style, Timberg … traces his long postwar journey from the hospital ward to the newsroom—or, as he puts it, ‘Remember[ing] how I decided not to die….’ Wisdom resonates throughout Blue-Eyed Boy, a fierce and enthralling memoir….‘I suspect there’s something essentially human about what ...
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The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Gamache)
by Louise Penny
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(1,609 customer reviews)
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Minotaur Books
August 26, 2014
Hardcover
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| List Price: | $27.99 | | Price: | $13.99 | | You Save: | $14.00 (50%) |
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, August 2014: In her previous novel, the international bestseller How The Light Gets In, Louise Penny left her embattled homicide inspector, Armand Gamache, in the idyllic village of Three Pines, on the edge of a new phase of life: retirement. At the ...
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Painted Horses
by Malcolm Brooks
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(182 customer reviews)
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Grove Press
August 5, 2014
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| List Price: | $26.00 | | Price: | $19.31 | | You Save: | $6.69 (26%) |
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, August 2014: It’s tempting to dismiss Malcolm Brooks’s debut as the latest in a series of American epics treading on Cormac McCarthy territory: The Son, Fourth of July Creek, and The Kept come to mind as recent novels dealing with the darker ...
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