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Generosity: An Enhancement
By Powers, Richard
2009-09 - Farrar Straus Giroux
9780374161149
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From the National Book Award-winning author of "The Echo Maker" comes a playful and provocative novel about the discovery of the happiness gene. Funny, fast, and magical, "Generosity" celebrates both science and the freed imagination.
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The Children's Book
By Byatt, A. S.
2009-10 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780307272096
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A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize-winning author of "Possession," spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children's book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves.
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The Year of the Flood
By Atwood, Margaret
2009-09 - Nan A. Talese
9780385528771
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The long-awaited new novel from the author of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Blind Assassin, The Year of the Flood" is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to Atwood's visionary power.
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A Separate Country
By Hicks, Robert
2009-09 - Grand Central Publishing
9780446581646
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Set in New Orleans in the years after the Civil War, this work of historical fiction is based on the heartrending story of John Bell Hood, arguably one of the most controversial generals of the Confederate army, who struggled with his inability to admit his failures.
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Stardust
By Kanon, Joseph
2009-09 - Atria Books
9781439156148
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The author of "The Good German" returns with his most accomplished novel yet--a tale of Hollywood glamour, postwar espionage, and family secrets.
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Juliet, Naked
By Hornby, Nick
2009-09 - Riverhead Hardcover
9781594488870
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What happens when a washed-up musician looks for anther chance? And a childless woman looks for a change? "Juliet, Naked" is a powerfully engrossing, humorous novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to one's promise.
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Chronic City
By Lethem, Jonathan
2009-10 - Doubleday Books
9780385518635
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The acclaimed author of "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude" returns with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.
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Mathilda Savitch
By Lodato, Victor
2009-09 - Farrar Straus Giroux
9780374204006
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"I want to be awful. I want to do awful things and why not? Dull is dull is dull is my life. So begins "Mathilda Savitch," a compelling page-turner and the debut of an extraordinary novelistic talent.
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A Change in Altitude
By Shreve, Anita
2009-09 - Little Brown and Company
9780316020701
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From one of the greatest chroniclers of the mysteries of the heart comes a new novel about the fragility of a young marriage, and the ways in which lives can turn on the axis of a single catastrophic event.
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