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Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See

Written by Juliann Garey


Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2012
Price: $25.00

A studio executive leaves his family and travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to hide for 20 years.

"Juliann Garey writes with stark, lucid power about the tumbling journey into madness and the agonizing climb back out."--Brian Yorkey, book and lyrics for Next to Normal

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Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
Written by Juliann Garey
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781616951290
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Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See

Written by Juliann Garey


Format: Hardcover
On Sale: December 26, 2012
Price: $25.00

A studio executive leaves his family and travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to hide for 20 years.

"Juliann Garey writes with stark, lucid power about the tumbling journey into madness and the agonizing climb back out."--Brian Yorkey, book and lyrics for Next to Normal

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Jaws 2-Book Bundle: Jaws and Shark Trouble
Jaws 2-Book Bundle: Jaws and Shark Trouble
Written by Peter Benchley
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780345543592
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Jaws 2-Book Bundle: Jaws and Shark Trouble

Written by Peter Benchley


Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: December 17, 2012
Price: $14.99

This eBook bundle includes two acclaimed books by Peter Benchley: Jaws, the classic suspense novel—with bonus content—that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg movie, and Shark Trouble, a fascinating nonfiction chronicle of Benchley’s thrilling diving adventures and heart-stopping encounters as he met and studied sharks in their natural habitats for more than...

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Invisible
Invisible
Written by Carla Buckley
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780440246053
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Invisible
A Novel
Written by Carla Buckley


Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $15.00

Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Carla Buckley’s Invisible is a stunning novel of redemption, regret, and the complex ties of familial love.
 
Growing up, Dana Carlson and her older sister, Julie, are inseparable—Dana the impulsive one, Julie calmer and more nurturing. But then a devastating secret compels Dana to... Read more >
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Invisible
Invisible
Written by Carla Buckley
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780345532169
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Invisible
A Novel
Written by Carla Buckley


Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $9.99

Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Carla Buckley’s Invisible is a stunning novel of redemption, regret, and the complex ties of familial love.
 
Growing up, Dana Carlson and her older sister, Julie, are inseparable—Dana the impulsive one, Julie calmer and more nurturing. But then a devastating secret compels Dana to... Read more >
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Disclosure
Disclosure
Written by Michael Crichton
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345539007
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Disclosure
A Novel
Written by Michael Crichton


Format: Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $9.99

From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an electrifying thriller in which a shocking accusation of sexual harassment triggers a gripping psychological game of cat and mouse and threatens to derail a brilliant career.
 
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
“A fresh and provocative story.”—People
 
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The Map and the Territory
The Map and the Territory
Written by Michel Houellebecq, Translated by Gavin Bowd
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307946539
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The Map and the Territory

Written by Michel Houellebecq
Translated by Gavin Bowd


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $16.00

The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time delivers a riveting masterpiece about art and money, love and friendship, and fathers and sons.
 
Jed Martin is an artist. His first photographs feature Michelin road maps, and global success arrives with his series on professions: portraits of various personalities, including a...

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Adolphe

Written by Benjamin Constant
Translated by Carl Wildman


Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $10.00

We are such volatile creatures that we finally feel the sentiments we feign.

First published in 1816, Adolphe is the story of a young man with all the privileges and advantages of a noble birth, bt who's still haunted by the meaninglessness of life. He seeks distraction in the pursuit of... Read more >
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The Awakening

Written by Kate Chopin


Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $10.00

She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.

Condemned as "sordid" and "immoral" on its publication in 1899, this story of a woman trapped in her marriage effectively ended Chopin's career but was revived as a proto-feminist classic in the 1970s. What Newsweek calls Chopin's "prophetic psychology" insures... Read more >
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The Horla

Written by Guy De Maupassant
Translated by Charlotte Mandell


Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $10.00

Our woe is upon us.

This chilling tale of one man’s descent into madness was published shortly before the author was institutionalized for insanity, and so The Horla has inevitably been seen as informed by Guy de Maupassant’s mental illness. While such speculation is murky, it is clear that de Maupassant—hailed alongside... Read more >
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The Lesson of the Master

Written by Henry James


Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $10.00

"You know as well as you sit there that you'd put a pistol-ball into your brain if you had written my books!"

Exemplifying Henry James's famous belief that "Art makes life," The Lesson of the Master is a piercing study of the life that art makes. When the tale's protagonist—a gifted young... Read more >
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The Lifted Veil

Written by George Eliot


Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $9.00

Horror was my familiar.

Published the same year as her first novel, Adam Bede, this overlooked work displays the gifts for which George Eliot would become famous—gritty realism, psychological insight, and idealistic moralizing. It is unique from all her other writing, however, in that it represents the only time she ever... Read more >
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A Sleep and a Forgeting

Written by William Dean Howells


Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $10.00

Unless she was out of her mind there was no way of accounting for her behavior...

Nowhere in the prodigious output of William Dean Howells is there an example more poignant of his heart-felt dedication to the realist movement than this achingly suspensfull novella.
The story centers on a young "alienist"—a psychologist—who meets...

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The True Deceiver

Written by Tove Jansson
Translated by Thomas Teal
Introduction by Ali Smith


Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2012
Price: $14.95

Deception—the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others—is the subject of this, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work, from her sensitive tale of island life, The Summer Book, to her famous Moomin... Read more >
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Living Dead Girl
Living Dead Girl
Written by Tod Goldberg
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781616951672
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Living Dead Girl

Written by Tod Goldberg


Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $14.95

After his estranged wife disappears, a husband returns to the remote lake house where their young daughter died, and he soon loses his grip on reality.
 
Paul Luden has been haunted by a memory he can't recall. Whatever happened to his marriage, to his two-year-old daughter, is too traumatic to... Read more >
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Living Dead Girl

Written by Tod Goldberg


Format: eBook
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $14.95

After his estranged wife disappears, a husband returns to the remote lake house where their young daughter died, and he soon loses his grip on reality.
 
Paul Luden has been haunted by a memory he can't recall. Whatever happened to his marriage, to his two-year-old daughter, is too traumatic to... Read more >
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Ancient Light
Ancient Light
Written by John Banville
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307957054
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Ancient Light

Written by John Banville


Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $25.95

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.

Is there any difference between memory... Read more >
Ancient Light
Ancient Light
Written by John Banville
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307960832
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Ancient Light

Written by John Banville


Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $13.99

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.

Is there any difference between memory... Read more >
Ancient Light
Ancient Light
Written by John Banville, Read by Robin Sachs
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780449013427
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Ancient Light

Written by John Banville
Read by Robin Sachs


Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $35.00

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.

Is there any difference between memory... Read more >
Ancient Light
Ancient Light
Written by John Banville, Read by Robin Sachs
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780449013434
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Ancient Light

Written by John Banville
Read by Robin Sachs


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $20.00

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.

Is there any difference between memory... Read more >
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Stay Awake
Stay Awake
Written by Dan Chaon
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780345530387
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Stay Awake
Stories
Written by Dan Chaon


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $15.00

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle
 
Before the critically acclaimed novels Await Your Reply and You Remind Me of Me, Dan Chaon made a name for himself as a renowned writer of dazzling short stories. Now, in Stay Awake,... Read more >
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The Paperboy (Movie Tie-in Edition)
The Paperboy (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Written by Pete Dexter
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780345542212
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The Paperboy (Movie Tie-in Edition)
A Novel
Written by Pete Dexter


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $15.00

Now a major motion picture directed by Lee Daniels starring Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, and Macy Gray, with John Cusack and Nicole Kidman
 
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
“An eerie and beautiful novel . . . Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book has been... Read more >
Marry Me
Marry Me
Written by John Updike
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780679645931
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Marry Me
A Romance
Written by John Updike


Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $11.99

Marry Me is subtitled “A Romance” because, in the author’s words, “people don’t act like that anymore.” The time is 1962, and the place is a fiefdom of Camelot called Greenwood, Connecticut. Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias are in love and want to get married, though they already are married to... Read more >
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Pigeon Feathers
Pigeon Feathers
Written by John Updike
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ISBN: 9780679645764
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Pigeon Feathers
And Other Stories
Written by John Updike


Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $11.99

When this classic collection of stories first appeared—in 1962, on the author’s thirtieth birthday—Arthur Mizener wrote in The New York Times Book Review: “Updike is a romantic [and] like all American romantics, that is, he has an irresistible impulse to go in memory home again in order to find himself. ... Read more >
Too Far to Go
Too Far to Go
Written by John Updike
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780679645955
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Too Far to Go
The Maples Stories
Written by John Updike


Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $7.99

“The Maples stories trace the decline and fall of a marriage,” writes the author in his Foreword, a marriage that is threatened early on by the temptations of infidelity (“Snowing in Greenwich Village”) and that ends in a midlife divorce (“Here Come the Maples”). “They also illumine a history in many... Read more >
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