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  • Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz’s first book, Drown, established him as a major new writer with “the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet” (Newsweek). His first novel, The Brief…

    This Is How You Lose Her

    By Junot Diaz rating of short cover   ( 18381customer ratings) Penguin Group US, September 2012 Fiction, Short Stories
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  • In the time before the Confessors, when the world is a dark and dangerous place, where treason and treachery are the rule of the day, comes one heroic woman, Magda Searus, who has just lost her…

    The First Confessor

    By Terry Goodkind rating of short cover   ( 2937customer ratings) FINE, July 2012 Fantasy, Epic Fantasy
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  • The debut of a stunning new voice in fiction— a novel both heartbreaking and transcendent After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the…

    The Light Between Oceans

    By ML Stedman rating of short cover   ( 37812customer ratings) Scribner, July 2012 Fiction, Historical
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  • From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the…

    Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death…

    By Katherine Boo rating of short cover   ( 18817customer ratings) Random House Publishing Group, February 2012 Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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  • Why do some children succeed while others fail?The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool…
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    How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and…

    By Paul Tough rating of short cover   ( 2913customer ratings) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 2012 Social Science, Sociology
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  • WINNER OF THE 2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZEThe sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne…
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    Bring Up the Bodies

    By Hilary Mantel rating of short cover   ( 13779customer ratings) Henry Holt and Co., May 2012 Fiction, Historical
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  • Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground…
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    Live by Night

    By Dennis Lehane rating of short cover   ( 4246customer ratings) HarperCollins, October 2012
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  • David Wong has updated the Lovecraft tradition and infused it with humor that rather than lessening the horror, increases it dramatically.  Every time I set the book down down, I was wary that…

    John Dies at the End

    By David Wong rating of short cover   ( 16651customer ratings) St. Martin's Press, September 2009 Fiction, Horror
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  • The New York Times bestselling Culture novel... The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.An ancient people, organized on military principles…

    The Hydrogen Sonata

    By Iain M. Banks rating of short cover   ( 2827customer ratings) Orbit, October 2012 Sci Fi & Fantasy, Space Opera
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  • The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped   North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as…

    Escape from Camp 14

    By Blaine Harden rating of short cover   ( 8011customer ratings) Penguin Group US, March 2012
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