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“The beach can cure anything,” or so Peck (short for Pecksland) tells half-sister Stella. They have never been close,...

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Brooks, the author of the determinedly straight-faced parody The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), returns in all...

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This trite debut follows a psychiatrist named Hector as he attempts to understand "what made people happy." At a...

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Starred Review. Hornby returns to his roots: music, manic fandom and messy romance in his funny and touching latest,...

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Tinkers (2009) is the first novel by American author Paul Harding. The novel tells the tale of George Washington Crosby,...

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Smithy Ide is a really nice guy. But he's also an overweight, friendless, womanless, hard-drinking, 43-year-old...

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Foer's unlikely journey from chronically forgetful science journalist to U.S. Memory Champion frames a revelatory...

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MATTHEW JACOB’s opinion columns have been published by the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, and other print...

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A revisionist view of Noah's Ark, told by the stowaway woodworm. A chilling account of terrorists hijacking a cruise...

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Surprisingly, only a couple of critics mentioned that The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is a derivative of Like Water...

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Gladwell's fourth book comprises various contributions to the New Yorker and makes for an intriguing and often hilarious...

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Lauren graciously agreed to answer the questions we like to ask every author. Q: What book has had the most significant...

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A NOTE FROM JEN LANCASTER: "To whom the fat rolls…I'm tired of books where a self-loathing heroine is teased to the...

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Jen Lancaster was living the sweet life-until real life kicked her to the curb. She had the perfect man, the perfect...

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Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be....

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The belly laughs start on page 7 and occur regularly throughout Rakoff's frequently impertinent, occasionally irascible,...

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Starred Review. Bryson (A Short History of Everything) takes readers on a tour of his house, a rural English parsonage,...

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According to this classic of revisionist American history, narratives of national unity and progress are a smoke screen...

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"Freeman's sentences have been honed to rhythmic perfection in a way reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy —yes, a high...

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"Bookman gave me attention. We would go for long walks and talk about all sorts of things. Like how awful the nuns were...

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Wolke, longtime professor of chemistry and author of the Washington Post column Food 101, turns his hand to a Cecil...

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Following the story collection The Guy Not Taken, Weiner turns in a hilarious sequel to her 2001 bestselling first...

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Kate, a doctor, wife and mother, is in the midst of a difficult decision: whether to leave or stay with her bitter,...

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Giffin has made a name for herself with unconventional, extremely popular chick-lit novels that place her heroines in...

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Brought to print to take advantage of America's presumed fascination with the '94 World Cup (the first ever held here),...

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Adult/High School–Four different people find themselves on the same roof on New Year's Eve, but they have one thing in...

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I’m often asked what novels by other authors I 'm reading when I’m writing one of my own. The better question is: What...

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*Starred Review* If one looked at only Robison's impish sense of humor (he once ordered a blow-up sex doll to be...

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Miranda July's impressive accomplishments include two exhibits at the Whitney Biennial, an award-winning film (Me and...

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Starred Review. When DeLillo's novel Players was published in 1977, one of the main characters, Pammy, worked in the...

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