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Paperback Fiction Recommendations, Summer 2014

Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III

Paperback Fiction Recommendations, Summer 2014
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Kat's Reviews
W. W. Norton & Company
Andre Dubus III writes my kind of summer reads. His latest, a collection of linked novellas, delves into the vulnerability that shadows love and desire. As always, Dubus has crafted characters who feel like people we know intimately, and in Dirty Love they wander in and out of each other's stories, lending perspective and nuance to a larger narrative. Dirty Love is an assertive, addictive read that is reminiscent of his earlier work, House of Sand and Fog.
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Dirty Love (Paperback)

By Andre Dubus, III
$14.95
ISBN: 9780393348910
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - June 10th, 2014

The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Bernie Su

Paperback Fiction Recommendations, Summer 2014
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Jax's Reviews
Simon&Schuster
This is Austen’s Pride & Prejudice as you’ve never seen it before! Lizzy’s a grad student with a full course load, a crazy family, and a future in communications to plan. To top it all off, there’s some new arrivals in town, including a handsome, pretentious jerk named Darcy. Funny, bitingly honest, and completely heartwarming, this book is wonderful even if you’ve never seen the YouTube show. (If you haven’t you should, it’s excellent!)
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The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet: A Novel (Lizzie Bennet Diaries ) (Paperback)

By Bernie Su, Kate Rorick
$16.99
ISBN: 9781476763163
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Gallery Books - June 24th, 2014

Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer

Paperback Fiction Recommendations, Summer 2014
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Melinda's Reviews
HoughtonMifflin
Inspired by the friendship of Flannery O’Connor and Robert Lowell, this novel imagines two new characters and captures the writer’s life of the late ‘50s, complete with artist colonies, East Village life, and a martini or two. Written entirely in letters, Frances and Bernard ruminates on art, religion, faith, and friendship in a way that only the correspondence between a novelist and a poet could.
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Frances And Bernard (Paperback)

By Carlene Bauer
$14.95
ISBN: 9780544105171
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Harper Perennial - January 7th, 2014

Children of the Jacaranda Tree by Sahar Delijani

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Nici's Reviews
Simon&Schuster
Brave and exceptional, this incredible novel is set in post-revolutionary Iran and details three generations of oppression, struggle, and revolution. The intimacy with which the characters’ lives are portrayed moved me completely, and although it was heartbreaking and stunning, it was also amazingly beautiful. These stories deserve our attention; this book deserves much praise.
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Children of the Jacaranda Tree: A Novel (Paperback)

By Sahar Delijani
$19.99
ISBN: 9781476709109
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Atria Books - June 17th, 2014

A Marker to Measure Drift by Alexander Maksik

Paperback Fiction Recommendations, Summer 2014
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Melinda's Reviews
RandomHouse
In writing immediate and stripped to its necessity, Maksik gives us Jacqueline, an unknown woman, homeless and bereft, struggling to survive on some Greek island. Slowly, her story of escaping devastation and fleeing Liberia is revealed as she searches for shelter, food, and safety. How does one choose to survive amidst absolute horror and grief? What does it mean to survive, when so much has already been lost? These are the questions at hand, powerfully at hand.
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A Marker to Measure Drift (Paperback)

By Alexander Maksik
$15.00
ISBN: 9780345803863
Availability: Hard to Find - Contact Store for Availability
Published: Vintage - June 3rd, 2014

Dear Life by Alice Munro

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Rico's Reviews
RandomHouse
The very deserving recipient of last year’s Nobel Prize for Literature delivers another beautiful and heartbreaking collection of stories. Filled with simple, honest moments that reveal the depths of her all-too-human characters, Munro’s writing appears effortless, but the casual asides, detours, and odd details are the precise and compassionate brushstrokes of a master painting tableaus of uncanny artistry and power. The book is simply dazzling.
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Dear Life: Stories (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Alice Munro
$16.00
ISBN: 9780307743725
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Vintage - July 30th, 2013

Fever by Mary Beth Keane

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Clytia's Reviews
Simon&Schuster
This is a bold and compassionate story about the woman known as Typhoid Mary. In this telling, Mary Mallon is a compelling, outspoken, and unforgettable heroine who suffered multiple injustices. This book is infectious, and a darn good read.
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Fever: A Novel (Paperback)

By Mary Beth Keane
$17.00
ISBN: 9781451693423
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Scribner - March 18th, 2014

The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson

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Louise's Reviews
MacMillan
I was captivated by Jackson's writing style from start to finish. He deftly weaves hard truths and murky beauties together, juxtaposing a gritty crack-riddled tale with a need for security drugs cannot provide. Set in 1990s Portland (our nation's whitest city), Jackson also exposes the injustices of dissimilar sentences for crack and cocaine across racial lines. If you love novels with realistic characters and authors who aren't afraid to be vulnerable, this is for you.
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The Residue Years (Paperback)

By Mitchell S. Jackson
$18.00
ISBN: 9781620400296
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Bloomsbury USA - May 6th, 2014

Silence for the Dead by Simone St. James

Paperback Fiction Recommendations, Summer 2014
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Kat's Reviews
Penguin
Have you ever watched an episode of Downton Abbey and found yourself wishing a ghost or two would liven the place up? Then you should be reading Simone St James. Her third novel, set just after World War I, follows protagonist Kitty Weekes, who lies her way into a nursing position at a home for shell-shocked veterans. Silence for the Dead has it all - historical detail, ghosts that are actually scary, and even a love story.
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Silence for the Dead (Paperback)

By Simone St. James
$15.00
ISBN: 9780451419484
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Berkley - April 1st, 2014

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

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Megan B.'s Reviews

This continues to be one of my favorite books. It incorporates all the best that life has to offer within the context of a bourgeois apartment in the center of modern-day Paris. Muriel Barbery writes an original and thoughtful narrative between two different yet oddly similar characters. One, a bright­-beyond­-her­-years twelve year old, and the other, a widowed yet highly cultured concierge. Thus ensues a beautiful and thought-provoking philosophical discussion.

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)

By Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson (Translator)
$17.00
ISBN: 9781933372600
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Europa Editions - September 2nd, 2008

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