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"...the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about ...more
Paperback, 277 pages
Published January 30th 2001 by Back Bay Books (first published 1951)
original title
The Catcher in the Rye
ISBN
0316769177 (ISBN13: 9780316769174)
edition language
English

Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch—and there's always a catch—is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching a mysterious disappearanc ...more
Hardcover, 1st edition, 465 pages
Published September 16th 2008 by Knopf (first published 2005)
original title
Män som hatar kvinnor
ISBN
0307269752 (ISBN13: 9780307269751)
edition language
English

“ I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native o ...more
Hardcover, 274 pages
Published July 29th 2008 by The Dial Press (first published 2008)
original title
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
ISBN
0385340990 (ISBN13: 9780385340991)
edition language
English

Orphaned, penniless, Jacob Jankowski jumps a freight train in the dark, and in that instant, transforms his future.

By morning, he's landed a job with the Flying Squadron of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. By nightfall, he's in love.

In an America made colourless by prohibition and the Depression, the circus is a refuge of sequins and sensuality. But beh
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Paperback, 335 pages
Published May 1st 2007 by Algonquin Books (first published May 26th 2006)
original title
Water for Elephants
ISBN
1565125606 (ISBN13: 9781565125605)
edition language
English

This richly imagined novel, set in Hawai'i more than a century ago, is an extraordinary epic of a little-known time and place---and a deeply moving testament to the resiliency of the human spirit.

Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old Hawaiian girl, dreams of visiting far-off lands like her father, a merchant seaman. Then one day a rose-colored mark appears on her skin,
 
Paperback, 384 pages
Published October 4th 2004 by St. Martin's Griffin (first published October 21st 2003)
original title
Moloka'i
ISBN
0312304358 (ISBN13: 9780312304355)
edition language
English

Katie is driving to work one beautiful day when a dead man jumps into her car and tries to eat her. That same morning, Jenni opens a bedroom door to find her husband devouring their toddler son.

Fate puts Jenni and Katie—total strangers—together in a pickup, fleeing the suddenly zombie-filled streets of the Texas city in which they live. Before the sun has set, they have be
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Paperback, 335 pages
Published July 5th 2011 by Tor Books (first published August 14th 2008)
original title
The First Days
ISBN
0765331268 (ISBN13: 9780765331267)
edition language
English


Welcome to a West like you've never seen before, where electric lights shine down on the streets of Tombstone, while horseless stagecoaches carry passengers to and fro, and where death is no obstacle to The Thing That Was Once Johnny Ringo. Think you know the story of the O.K. Corral? Think again, as five-time Hugo winner Mike Resnick takes on his first steampunk western t ...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published December 1st 2010 by Prometheus Books (first published January 1st 2010)
ISBN
1616142499 (ISBN13: 9781616142490)
edition language
English
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