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Salman Rushdie (Author)
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2006-04-04
Random House Inc
<b><u>Winner of the Booker of Bookers</u></b><br>Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Gre
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Chinua Achebe (Author)
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1994-10-01
Random House Inc
One of Chinua Achebe''s many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, <I>Things Fall Apart</I>, is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian trib
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Mark Haddon (Author)
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2004-05-18
Random House Inc
Mark Haddon''s bitterly funny debut novel, <I>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</I>, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic ver
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John Steinbeck (Author)
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2006-03-28
Penguin USA
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year,
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Author)
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2005-01-25
Penguin USA
Barcelona, 1945—A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraor
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Sandra Cisneros (Author)
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1991-04-01
Random House Inc
Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, <b>The House on Mango Street</b> is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing
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Daniel Quinn (Author)
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1995-06-01
Bantam Dell Pub Group
The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only t
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Junot Diaz (Author)
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2008-09-02
<B>The most talked about—and praised—first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.<B><BR><BR>Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd w
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Wallace E. Stegner (Author)
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2002-04-09
Random House Inc
It''s deceptively simple: two bright young couples meet during the Depression and form an instant and lifelong friendship. "How do you make a book that anyone
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Sara Gruen (Author)
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2008-03-04
Workman Pub Co
Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of <i>Water for Elephants</i>, he is living out his days in a nursin
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John Kennedy Toole (Author)
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2011-12-01
Transition Vendor
<i>"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew
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Amy Tan (Author)
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2006-09-21
Penguin USA
A stunning literary achievement, The Joy Luck Club explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side
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Margaret Atwood (Author)
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1998-04-01
Random House Inc
In the world of the near future, who will control women''s bodies?<P>Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and
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Haruki Murakami (Author)
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1998-09-01
Random House Inc
Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and hi
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James Salter (Author)
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1995-02-01
Random House Inc
This exquisite, resonant novel is a brilliant portrait of marriage by a contemporary American master. Even as he lingers over the lustrous surface of Viri and N
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Rohinton Mistry (Author)
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2001-11-30
Random House Inc
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignit
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Claire Messud (Author)
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2007-06-26
Random House Inc
<i>The Emperor’s Children</i> is a richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune—about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on th
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Richard Bach (Author)
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2006-01-03
Simon & Schuster
This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules...people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for them
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Cormac McCarthy (Author)
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1993-06-01
Random House Inc
Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is si
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Toni Morrison (Author)
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2007-05-08
Random House Inc
<b>Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 2000:</b> Originally published in 1970, <I>The Bluest Eye</I> is Toni Morrison''s first novel. In an afterword written mo
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Jhumpa Lahiri (Author)
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2004-09-01
Houghton Mifflin
Any talk of <I>The Namesake</I>--Jhumpa Lahiri''s follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, <I>Interpreter of Maladies</I>--must begin with a name: Gogol
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Author)
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2006-03-14
Random House Inc
All children should believe they are special. But the students of Hailsham, an elite school in the English countryside, are so special that visitors shun them,
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Jonathan Franzen (Author)
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2002-08-27
St Martins Pr
Jonathan Franzen's exhilarating novel <I>The Corrections</I> tells a spellbinding story with sexy comic brio, and evokes a quirky family akin to Anne Tyler's, o
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John Williams (Author)
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2006-06-20
Random House Inc
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead
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