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The Angel's Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
(Doubleday )

"Fans of Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind and new readers alike will be delighted with this gothic semiprequel. In 1920s Barcelona, David Martin is born into poverty, but, aided by patron and friend Pedro Vidal, he rises to become a crime reporter and then a beloved pulp novelist. David's creative pace is frenetic; holed up in his dream house—a decrepit mansion with a sinister history—he produces two great novels, one for Vidal to claim as his own, and one for himself. But Vidal's book is celebrated while David's is buried, and when Vidal marries David's great love, David accepts a commission to write a story that leads him into danger.... Villain or victim, he is the hero of and the guide to this dark labyrinth that, by masterful design, remains thrilling and bewildering." —Publishers Weekly (starred)

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
(Penguin)

Paloma and Renée hide both their true talents and their finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will not appreciate them. They discover their kindred souls when a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building where they live, an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families in the center of Paris. Only he is able to gain Paloma’s trust and to see through Renée’s timeworn disguise to the secret that haunts her. This is a moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.“The formula that made more than half a million readers in France fall in love with this book has, among other ingredients: intelligent humor, fine sentiments, an excellent literary and philosophical backdrop, good taste, sophistication and substance.” —La Repubblica

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The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston's Racial Divide
by Dick Lehr
(Harper)

"Mired in the racial conflicts of a divided city, Lehr, co-author of the bestselling Black Mass, details one of the most controversial cases in the annals of the Boston Police Department, involving a brutal assault on a black plainclothes officer by his fellow cops and the resulting 1998 civil rights trial against the police force. Not only does Lehr paint the racial and political turbulence of Boston at the time, but he explores the cultural backgrounds of the black officer, Michael Cox; his attacker and fellow officer, Kenny Conley; and Robert Smut Brown, a drug dealer involved in the killing that started it all.... Jolting, nightmarish and potent, this true cop yarn bests any bogus reality show or overblown tabloid tale with its hard-boiled spin." —Publishers Weekly (starred)

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Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
by Elizabeth Strout
(Random House)

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Olive Kitteridge was previously named a Best Book of 2008 by The Atlantic,
The Washington Post Book World, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The San Francisco Chronicle, Salon.com, and The Wall Street Journal. "Thirteen linked tales from Strout...present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection." —Publishers Weekly (starred)

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Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness
by Lisa Hamilton
(Counterpoint)

A century of industrialization has left our food system riddled with problems, yet for solutions we look to nutritionists and government agencies, scientists and chefs. Lisa M. Hamilton asks why not look to the people who grow our food, and she makes this vital inquiry through the stories of three unconventional farmers. "The food revolution taking place in this country cannot be truly successful without an agricultural revolution. We must inspire our farmers and create millions more of them. The extraordinary farmers Lisa Hamilton profiles in Deeply Rooted embody the future of American agriculture." —Alice Waters (The Art of Simple Food)

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
(Dial Press)

“I can’t remember the last time I discovered a novel as smart and delightful as this one, a world so vivid that I kept forgetting this was a work of fiction populated with characters so utterly wonderful that I kept forgetting they weren’t my actual friends and neighbors. Treat yourself to this book please—I can’t recommend it highly enough.” —Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
by Katherine Howe
(Voice)

"Historian Howe’s spellbinding, vividly detailed, witty, and astutely plotted debut is deeply rooted in her family connection to accused seventeenth-century witches Elizabeth Howe and Elizabeth Proctor and propelled by an illuminating view of witchcraft. In all a keen and magical historical mystery laced with romance and sly digs at society’s persistent underestimation of women." —Booklist (starred)

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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
(Penguin)

"The Shadow of the Wind is a long novel that will remind readers of a good many other novels. This isn't meant as criticism but as an indication of the story's richness and intricacy. Before everything else, Carlos Ruiz Zafon's European bestseller is a book about a mysterious book, and its even more mysterious author. Try to imagine a blend of Grand Guignol thriller, historical fiction, occasional farce, existential mystery and passionate love story—then double it." —The Washington Post

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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
by Matthew Frederick
(MIT Press)

These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy, making concrete what too often is left nebulous or open-ended in the architecture curriculum. "How to draw a line, the meaning of figure-ground theory, hand-lettering and the fact that windows look dark in the daytime—each item has resonance beyond architecture. Books like this are brief tutorials in the art of seeing, a skill useful in every aspect of life on the planet." —Susan Salter Reynolds, latimes.com

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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon
(Harper Perennial)

"Like Haruki Murakami in Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Chabon plays with the conventions of the Chandlerian private-eye novel, but that's only one ingredient in an epic-scale alternate-history saga of Jewish life since World War II. The premise draws on an obscure historical fact: FDR once proposed that Alaska, not Israel, become the homeland for Jews after the war. In Chabon's telling, that's exactly what happened, except, inevitably, it hasn't gone as planned.... Chabon's Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ran the book-award table in 2000, and this one just may be its equal." -Booklist (starred)

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Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell
(Little, Brown)

"In Outliers, Gladwell (The Tipping Point) once again proves masterful in a genre he essentially pioneered—the book that illuminates secret patterns behind everyday phenomena. His gift for spotting an intriguing mystery, luring the reader in, then gradually revealing his lessons in lucid prose, is on vivid display. Outliers begins with a provocative look at why certain five-year-old boys enjoy an advantage in ice hockey, and how these advantages accumulate over time. We learn what Bill Gates, the Beatles and Mozart had in common: along with talent and ambition, each enjoyed an unusual opportunity to intensively cultivate a skill that allowed them to rise above their peers." —Publishers Weekly

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
(Little, Brown Young Readers)

"Exploring Indian identity, both self and tribal, Alexie's first young adult novel is a semiautobiographical chronicle of Arnold Spirit, aka Junior, a Spokane Indian from Wellpinit, WA. The bright 14-year-old was born with water on the brain, is regularly the target of bullies, and loves to draw. He says, 'I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.' He expects disaster when he transfers from the reservation school to the rich, white school in Reardan, but soon finds himself making friends with both geeky and popular students and starting on the basketball team.... Forney's simple pencil cartoons fit perfectly within the story and reflect the burgeoning artist within Junior. Reluctant readers can even skim the pictures and construct their own story based exclusively on Forney's illustrations. The teen's determination to both improve himself and overcome poverty, despite the handicaps of birth, circumstances, and race, delivers a positive message in a low-key manner." --School Library Journal (starred)

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Commencement: A Novel
by J. Courtney Sullivan
(Knopf)

“Sullivan's debut novel, Commencement, works like a backstage pass to a world I barely knew existed–the elite contemporary women's college, the world of Smithies–with their rampant anagrams (including my favorite, S.L.U.G., Smith Lesbian Until Graduation), fluid and complex sexuality, eccentric traditions, arch politics, and, most of all, incredibly deep and enduring friendships. As a foreigner in this foreign land, I felt supremely lucky to have Sullivan as my trustworthy guide. Her portrait of these four Smithies is honest, urgent, and heartfelt.” –Bridget Asher (My Husband's Sweethearts)

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Unaccustomed Earth: Stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri
(Vintage)

“Beautifully crafted.... The remarkable poignancy Lahiri achieves in her work...is the result of tying [her] examination of exile to other, more universal moments of essential sadness in our lives: the death of a parent, the end of a love affair, the ravages of alcoholism on a family.”  —The Boston Globe

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Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir
by Christopher Buckley
(Twelve)

In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most glamorous and colorful socialites. He was their only child and their relationship was close and complicated. Writes Buckley: "They were not—with respect to every other set of loving, wonderful parents in the world—your typical mom and dad." As Buckley tells the story of their final year together, he takes readers on a surprisingly entertaining tour through hospitals, funeral homes, and memorial services, capturing the heartbreaking and disorienting feeling of becoming a 55-year-old orphan.

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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson
(Penguin)

"On a 1993 expedition to climb K2 in honor of his sister Christa, who had died of epilepsy at twenty-three, Mortenson stumbled upon a remote mountain village in Pakistan. Out of gratitude for the villagers' assistance when he was lost and near death, he vowed to build a school for the children who were scratching lessons in the dirt. Raised by his missionary parents in Tanzania, Mortenson was used to dealing with exotic cultures and developing nations. Still, he faced daunting challenges of raising funds, death threats from enraged mullahs, separation from his family, and a kidnapping to eventually build 55 schools in Taliban territory. Award-winning journalist Relin recounts the slow and arduous task Mortenson set for himself, a one-man mission aimed particularly at bringing education to young girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan." —Booklist

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Shop Class As Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
by Matthew Crawford
(Penguin Press)

"It's appropriate that [Shop Class as Soulcraft] arrives in May, the month when college seniors commence real life. Skip Dr. Seuss, or a tie from Vineyard Vines, and give them a copy for graduation.... It's not an insult to say that Shop Class is the best self-help book that I've ever read. Almost all works in the genre skip the 'self' part and jump straight to the 'help.' Crawford rightly asks whether today's cubicle dweller even has a respectable self.... It's kind of like Heidegger and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." —Slate

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance, Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
by Seth Grahame-Smith
(Quirk Books )

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. 

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A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression
by Richard Posner
(Harvard University Press)

"It comes as something of a surprise that Posner, a doyen of the market-oriented law-and-economics movement, should deliver a roundhouse punch to the proposition that markets are self-correcting. It might also seem odd that a federal appellate judge (and University of Chicago law lecturer) would be among the first out of the gate with a comprehensive book on the financial crisis—if, that is, the judge were any other judge. But Posner is the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan's successor as the country's most omnivorous and independent-minded public intellectual. By now, his dozens of books just about fill their own wing in the Library of Congress.... Compact and bracingly lucid... By the last page, not a single lazy generalization has survived Posner's merciless scrutiny, not one populist cliché remains standing. A Failure of Capitalism clears away whole forests of can't but leave readers at a loss as to where to go from here. In other words, it is only a starting point—but an indispensable one." —Jonathan Rauch, New York Times Book Review

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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by Leonard Mlodinow
(Vintage)

“Please read The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow, a history, explanation, and exaltation of probability theory.... Mlodinow...thinks in equations but explains in anecdote, simile, and occasional bursts of neon.... The results are mind-bending.” —Fortune

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The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
by Reif Larsen
(Penguin Press)

When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal—if you consider mapping family dinner table conversation normal—is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T.S. from his family ranch just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum’s hallowed halls."Fans of Wes Anderson will find much to love in the offbeat characters and small (and sometimes not so small) touches of magic thrown into the mix during the cross-country, train-hopping adventure of a 12-year-old mapmaking prodigy, T.S. Spivet.... Dense notes, many dozens of illustrations and narrative elaborations connected to the main text via dotted lines are on nearly every page." —Publishers Weekly

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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama
(Three Rivers Press)

In this lyrical and unsentimental memoir written when he was thirty three, President Barack Obama, the son of a black African father and a white American mother, searched for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. “Fluidly, calmly, insightfully, Obama guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race.” —Washington Post Book World 

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Happier
by Tal Ben-Shahar
(McGraw-Hill)

Can you learn to be happy? Yes, according to the teacher of Harvard University’s most popular course. One out of every five Harvard graduates has lined up to hear Tal Ben-Shahar’s insightful lectures on that ever-elusive subject: happiness. Grounded in the new "positive psychology" movement--as well as years of researching the works of scientists, scholars, and philosophers--Ben-Shahar’s revolutionary approach helps you understand what happiness really is and how to strive for it in your daily life.

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The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
(Free Press)

Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. "Extraordinary and brilliant.... At first, this novel seems like a straightforward pulled-up-by-your-bootstraps tale, albeit given a dazzling twist by the narrator's sharp and satirical eye for the realities of life for India's poor.... But as the narrative draws the reader further in, and darkens, it becomes clear that Adiga is playing a bigger game.... Adiga is a real writer—that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision.... I was reminded of a book that is totally different in tone and style, Richard Wright's Native Son, a tale of the murderous career of a black kid from the Chicago ghetto that awakened 1940s America to the reality of the racial divide. Whether The White Tiger will do the equivalent for today's India—we shall see." —Adam Lively, The Sunday Times (London)

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The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy
by Sally Jenkins
(Doubleday)

"In The State of Jones, Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer locate the real Civil War–and the story of our greatest national trial–in all of its specificity and moral complexity. Their research is meticulous and transparent; their writing is evocative and clear; their use of source materials and authentic voices is arresting; and their intuition about why history of this kind matters is unfailing." –Steve Coll (Ghost Wars)

$16.95
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
by Douglas A. Blackmon
(Anchor)

“A powerful and eye-opening account of a crucial but unremembered chapter of American history. Blackmon’s magnificent research paints a devastating picture of the ugly and outrageous practices that kept tens of thousands of black Americans enslaved until the onset of World War II. Slavery by Another Name is a passionate, highly impressive, and hugely important book.” —David J. Garrow (Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference), winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

$24.95
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Pygmy
by Chuck Palahniuk
(Doubleday)

"Palahniuk's 10th novel (after Snuff) is a potent if cartoonish cultural satire that succeeds despite its stridently confounding prose. A gang of adolescent terrorists trained by an unspecified totalitarian state (the boys and girls are guided by quotations attributed to Marx, Hitler, Augusto Pinochet, Idi Amin, etc.) infiltrate America as foreign exchange students. Their mission: to bring the nation to its knees through Operation Havoc, an act of mass destruction disguised as a science project.... Decoding Palahniuk's characteristically scathing observations is a challenge, as Pygmy's narrative voice is unbound by rules of grammar or structure (a typical sentence: Host father mount altar so stance beside bin empty of water), but perseverance is its own perverse reward in this singular, comic accomplishment." —Publishers Weekly

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
(Riverhead Trade)

“Genius...a story of the American experience that is giddily glorious and hauntingly horrific.... That Diaz’s novel is also full of ideas, that [the narrator’s] brilliant talking rivals the monologues of Roth’s Zuckerman—in short, that what he has produced is a kick-ass (and truly, that is the just word for it) work of modern fiction—all make The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao something exceedingly rare: a book in which a new America can recognize itself, but so can everyone else.” —Oscar Villalon, San Francisco Chronicle

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Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes: 100 Classic and Contemporary Recipes
by adam ried
(W W Norton)

Milkshake. Frappe. Cabinet. Velvet. Whatever you call it, the quintessentially American combination of milk, ice cream, and syrup has delighted generations, invoking memories of soda fountains and high-school sweethearts. In this collection of recipes, Adam Ried infuses the classic shake with unexpected flavor twists that bring the milkshake into the twenty-first century. Recipes such as the Mexican Chocolate Shake with Chipotle and Almond or the Maple-Bacon Shake reveal the flavorful punch of unlikely food combinations. And Ried doesn’t forget to include old-time favorites such as the little-known Rhode Island Cabinet (coffee shake) and the Black and White.

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The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
(Harvest Books)

Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.