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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai Sijie

BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening. An immediate international bestseller, it tells the story of...

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz

This is the long-awaited first novel from one of the most original and memorable writers working today. Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican...

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The Chase
The Chase
Isaac Bell Series, Book 1
Clive Cussler

For decades, Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels filled with suspense, action, and sheer audacity. Now he does it again, in one of the wildest, most entertaining historical...

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A Christmas Beginning
A Christmas Beginning
A Novel
Anne Perry

Superintendent Runcorn—who Anne Perry fans will remember as William Monk's ex-boss—is feeling rather lonely during his holiday on the remote, snowy island of Anglesey, off the north coast of Wales....

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A Fine Balance
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry

In the India of the mid-1970s, Indira Gandhi's government has just come to power. It institutionalizes corruption and arbitrary force, most oppressive to the poorest and weakest people under its...

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The Ginseng Hunter
The Ginseng Hunter
A Novel
Jeff Talarigo

Set at the turn of the twenty-first century in China along the Tumen River, which separates northeast China and North Korea, The Ginseng Hunter follows the daily life of a Chinese ginseng hunter,...

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The Known World
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the...
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Master and Commander
Master and Commander
Aubrey / Maturin Series, Book 1
Patrick O'Brian

Here is the maiden voyage of O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, which follows the unique friendship between Captain Aubrey, R. N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent,...

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Number the Stars
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi...

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The Other Queen
The Other Queen
Philippa Gregory
Two women competing for a man's heart

Two queens fighting to the death for dominance

The untold story of Mary Queen of Scots

New York Times bestselling author...

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