The Original of Laura
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Preface by Dmitri Nabokov
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $35.00
When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel,
The Original of Laura. But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she...
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Too Much Happiness
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $25.95
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman...
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Ice
A Novel
Written by Linda Howard
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $22.00
’Tis the season for mistletoe and holly, Santa . . . and suspense. And the gift that keeps on giving is
Ice: premier thriller author Linda Howard’s breathless tale of a man, a woman, and a battle for survival against an unforgiving winter–and an unrelenting killer. Oh what fun it is...
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New York: The Novel
Written by Edward Rutherfurd
Format: Hardcover, 880 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $30.00
The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he...
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Ford County: Stories
Written by John Grisham
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $24.00
In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel,
A Time to Kill.
Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother...
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Nightlight
A Parody
Written by The Harvard Lampoon
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $13.95
About three things I was absolutely certain. First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe. Second, there was a vampire part of him–which I assumed was wildly out of his control–that wanted me dead. And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed me.
And...
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No Less Than Victory
A Novel of World War II
Written by Jeff Shaara
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $28.00
No Less Than Victory is the crowning achievement in master storyteller Jeff Shaara’s soaring World War II trilogy, revealing the European war’s unforgettable and harrowing final act.
After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a matter of...
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The Private Patient
Written by P. D. James
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $15.00
Cheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic. When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a successful operation and a peaceful week recuperating. But...
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Last Night in Twisted River
A Novel
Written by John Irving
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $28.00
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable...
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The Tomb of Hercules
A Novel
Written by Andy McDermott
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $7.99
AN ANCIENT WARRIOR.
AN INCREDIBLE TREASURE.
A LETHAL ENEMY.
It’s the opportunity of a lifetime–the chance to prove that a tomb containing the remains of the legendary hero Hercules actually exists. If American archaeologist Nina Wilde can locate it, it will be the most important historical find ever unearthed. But as Nina and her...
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