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Submarine
Submarine
Written by JOE DUNTHORNE
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ISBN: 9780812978391
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Submarine
A Novel
Written by JOE DUNTHORNE


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2011
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At once a self-styled social scientist, a spy in the baffling adult world, and a budding, hormone-driven emotional explorer, Oliver Tate is stealthily nosing his way forward through the murky and uniquely perilous waters of adolescence. His objectives? Uncovering the secrets behind his parents’ teetering marriage, unraveling the mystery that is...

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Submarine
Submarine
Written by JOE DUNTHORNE, Read by Bruce Mann
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ISBN: 9780307971227
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Submarine
A Novel
Written by JOE DUNTHORNE
Read by Bruce Mann


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On Sale: May 24, 2011
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The dryly precocious, soon-to-be-fifteen-year-old hero of this engagingly offbeat debut novel, Oliver Tate lives in the seaside town of Swansea, Wales. At once a self-styled social scientist, a spy in the baffling adult world surrounding him, and a budding, hormone-driven emotional explorer, Oliver is stealthily (and perhaps a bit more nervously... Read more >
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Super Sad True Love Story
Super Sad True Love Story
Written by Gary Shteyngart
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ISBN: 9780812977868
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Super Sad True Love Story
A Novel
Written by Gary Shteyngart


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $15.00

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
 
SELECTED ONE OF 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • The Seattle Times • O...
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The Social Climber's Handbook
The Social Climber's Handbook
Written by Molly Jong-Fast
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ISBN: 9780345526335
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The Social Climber's Handbook
A Novel
Written by Molly Jong-Fast


Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $11.99

HIGH SOCIETY CAN BE A KILLER.
 
Upper East Side socialite Daisy Greenbaum is accustomed to the finer things—designer clothes, summers in the Hamptons, elite private school educations for her daughters, and a staggeringly expensive Park Avenue apartment. But Daisy finds her well-heeled lifestyle on precarious footing after her husband, master... Read more >
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The Social Climber's Handbook
The Social Climber's Handbook
Written by Molly Jong-Fast
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ISBN: 9780345501899
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The Social Climber's Handbook
A Novel
Written by Molly Jong-Fast


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
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HIGH SOCIETY CAN BE A KILLER.
 
Upper East Side socialite Daisy Greenbaum is accustomed to the finer things—designer clothes, summers in the Hamptons, elite private school educations for her daughters, and a staggeringly expensive Park Avenue apartment. But Daisy finds her well-heeled lifestyle on precarious footing after her husband, master... Read more >
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Enigmatic Pilot
Enigmatic Pilot
Written by Kris Saknussemm
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ISBN: 9780812974171
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Enigmatic Pilot
A Tall Tale Too True
Written by Kris Saknussemm


Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $16.00

Enigmatic Pilot is Kris Saknussemm’s outrageously brilliant yet profoundly moving exploration and excavation of the American dream—and nightmare.
 
In 1844, in a still-young America, the first intimations of civil war are stirring throughout the land. In Zanesville, Ohio, the Sitturd family—Hephaestus, a clubfooted inventor; his wife, Rapture, a Creole from... Read more >
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Enigmatic Pilot
Enigmatic Pilot
Written by Kris Saknussemm
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ISBN: 9780345519023
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Enigmatic Pilot
A Tall Tale Too True
Written by Kris Saknussemm


Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $11.99

Enigmatic Pilot is Kris Saknussemm’s outrageously brilliant yet profoundly moving exploration and excavation of the American dream—and nightmare.
 
In 1844, in a still-young America, the first intimations of civil war are stirring throughout the land. In Zanesville, Ohio, the Sitturd family—Hephaestus, a clubfooted inventor; his wife, Rapture, a Creole from... Read more >
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Krazy Kat
Krazy Kat
Written by Jay Cantor
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307778437
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Krazy Kat

Written by Jay Cantor


Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2011
Price: $9.99

Krazy Kat adores Ignatz Mouse. She sees the bricks he hurls at her head as tokens of love, and each day Ignatz arranges a cunningly different method of delivery for his missile. But when Ignatz and Krazy witness the mega-brick explosion in the desert, Krazy becomes depressed, and refuses to perform... Read more >
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Mr. Toppit
Mr. Toppit
Written by Charles Elton
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781590513903
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Mr. Toppit

Written by Charles Elton


Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $15.95

When Arthur Hayman, an unsuccessful screenwriter turned children’s book author, is accidentally hit by a cement truck in London, his dying moments are spent with a passing American tourist, Laurie Clow, who is fated to bring posthumous fame to his obscure series,  The Hayseed Chronicles, and the enigmatic and sinister Mr... Read more >
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Mr. Toppit

Written by Charles Elton


Format: eBook
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $11.99

When Arthur Hayman, an unsuccessful screenwriter turned children’s book author, is accidentally hit by a cement truck in London, his dying moments are spent with a passing American tourist, Laurie Clow, who is fated to bring posthumous fame to his obscure series,  The Hayseed Chronicles, and the enigmatic and sinister Mr... Read more >
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The Canal

Written by Lee Rourke


Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2010
Price: $14.95

An electrifying debut novel that becomes a shocking tale about... boredom
 
In a deeply compelling debut novel, Lee Rourke—a British underground sensation for his story collection Everyday—tells the tale of a man who finds his life so boring it frightens him. So he quits his job to spend some time... Read more >
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Thank You for Smoking
Thank You for Smoking
Written by Christopher Buckley
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307763495
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Thank You for Smoking
A Novel
Written by Christopher Buckley


Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2010
Price: $11.99

Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He’s a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies–in other words, a flack for cigarette companies, paid to promote their product on talk and news shows. The problem? He’s so good at his job, so effortlessly unethical, that he’s become a target for both anti-tobacco... Read more >
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Lucky You
Lucky You
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307767431
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Lucky You

Written by Carl Hiaasen


Format: eBook, 353 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2010
Price: $7.99

Grange, Florida, is, famous for its miracles-the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery. Unfortunately, JoLayne's winning ticket isn't the only one. The other belongs to Bodean Gazzer and his raunchy sidekick, Chub, who want the whole... Read more >
Native Tongue
Native Tongue
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307767424
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Native Tongue

Written by Carl Hiaasen


Format: eBook
On Sale: August 18, 2010
Price: $7.99

"Ruthlessly wicked...Wonderful...His best book yet."
ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION
When the precious clue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe Winder wants to uncover why, and find the voles. Joe is lately a PR man for the Amazing Kingdom theme park... Read more >
Strip Tease
Strip Tease
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307767400
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Strip Tease

Written by Carl Hiaasen


Format: eBook, 353 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2010
Price: $7.99

Only in America could an innocent, if drunken, guest of honor at a strip joint bachelor party become a mortal threat against Big Money and Big Government. Only in south Florida, land of roadside honky-tonks and sinister pleasure boats—not to mention blackmail and murder—would a virtuous topless dancer join forces with... Read more >
Stormy Weather
Stormy Weather
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307767417
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Stormy Weather

Written by Carl Hiaasen


Format: eBook, 335 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2010
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When a ferocious hurricane rips through southern Florida, the con artists and carpetbaggers waste no time in swarming over the disaster area.

Among the predators are Edie Marsh, an entrepreneurial young woman whose scheme to sleep with a Palm Beach Kennedy has fizzled, freezing her to concoct a colossal insurance rip-off; Lester... Read more >
Star Island
Star Island
Written by Carl Hiaasen
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ISBN: 9780307594389
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Star Island

Written by Carl Hiaasen


Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $2.99

Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.

Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed”—meaning wasted—to go out in... Read more >
Star Island
Star Island
Written by Carl Hiaasen
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ISBN: 9780739377888
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Star Island

Written by Carl Hiaasen


Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $27.00

Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.

Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed”—meaning wasted—to go out in... Read more >
Star Island
Star Island
Written by Carl Hiaasen, Read by Stephen Hoye
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ISBN: 9780739385135
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Star Island

Written by Carl Hiaasen
Read by Stephen Hoye


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $20.00

Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.

Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed”—meaning wasted—to go out in... Read more >
Corpusculo
Corpusculo
Written by Harvard Lampoon
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ISBN: 9780307741820
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Corpusculo

Written by Harvard Lampoon


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $13.95

“Estaba completamente segura de unas tres cosas. Primero, Edwart era, tal vez, mi alma gemela, quizá. Segundo, él tenía una parte de vampiro —que yo asumía estaba totalmente fuera de su control— que me quería muerta.Y tercero, yo deseaba incondicional, irrevocable, impenetrable, heterogénea, ginecológica y vergonzosamente que me besara”. Y así... Read more >
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The Canal
The Canal
Written by Lee Rourke
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781935554011
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The Canal

Written by Lee Rourke


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $14.95

An electrifying debut novel that becomes a shocking tale about... boredom

In a deeply compelling debut novel, Lee Rourke—a British underground sensation for his story collection Everyday—tells the tale of a man who finds his life so boring it frightens him. So he quits his job to spend some time sitting on... Read more >
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Sag Harbor
Sag Harbor
Written by Colson Whitehead
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ISBN: 9780307455161
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Sag Harbor

Written by Colson Whitehead


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $15.95

From the award-winning author of John Henry Days and The Intuitionist: a tender, hilarious, and supremely original novel about coming-of-age in the 80s.
 
Benji Cooper is one of the few black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a... Read more >
Tell-All
Tell-All
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385526357
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Tell-All

Written by Chuck Palahniuk


Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $24.95

The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Even Kitty Kelly will blush.

Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard–inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford... Read more >
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Tell-All
Tell-All
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
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ISBN: 9780385533171
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Tell-All

Written by Chuck Palahniuk


Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $11.99

The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Even Kitty Kelly will blush.

Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard–inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford... Read more >
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Pygmy
Pygmy
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
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ISBN: 9780307389817
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Pygmy

Written by Chuck Palahniuk


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $15.00

A gang of adolescent terrorists, a spelling bee, and a terrible plan masquerading as a science project: This is Operation Havoc.
 
Pygmy is one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the US disguised as exchange students. Living with American families to blend in, they are planning... Read more >
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