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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Movie Tie-In)

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Movie Tie-In)

by Mohsin Hamid

Now a major motion picture Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize New York Times bestseller “Extreme times call for extreme reactions, extreme writing. Hamid has done something extraordinary with this novel.” — Washington Post “One of those achingly assured novels that makes you happy to be a ...

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The Namesake

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The Namesake

A Novel

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors it received...

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Okay for Now

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Okay for Now

by Gary Schmidt

National Book Award Finalist "[A] stealthily powerful, unexpectedly affirming story of discovering and rescuing one’s best self."— Booklist , starred review In this companion novel to The Wednesday Wars , Doug struggles to be more than the "skinny thug" that some people think him to be. He finds ...

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The Things They Carried

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The Things They Carried

by Tim O'Brien

A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of ...

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Life of Pi

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Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates...

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Movie Tie-In)

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Movie Tie-In)

A Novel

by Jonathan Foer

New York Times bestseller A Best Book of the Year Los Angeles Times , Washington Post Book World , Chicago Tribune , St. Louis Post-Dispatch , Rocky Mountain News “Energetic, inventive, and ambitious . . . an uplifting myth born of the sorrows of 9/11.” — Boston Globe Jonathan Safran Foer emerged...

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Beautiful Boy

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Beautiful Boy

A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

by David Sheff

What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff became addicted to crystal meth, he was a ...

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Interpreter of Maladies

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Interpreter of Maladies

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces ...

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

by Mohsin Hamid

Now a major motion picture Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize New York Times bestseller “Extreme times call for extreme reactions, extreme writing. Hamid has done something extraordinary with this novel.” — Washington Post “One of those achingly assured novels that makes you happy to be a ...

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The Color Purple

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The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes ...

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Animal Farm and 1984

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Animal Farm and 1984

by George Orwell, Christopher Hitchens, A.M. Heath

ANIMAL FARM George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All ...

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Animals in Translation

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Animals in Translation

Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

by Catherine Johnson, Temple Grandin

I don't know if people will ever be able to talk to animals the way Doctor Doolittle could, or whether animals will be able to talk back. Maybe science will have something to say about that. But I do know people can learn to "talk" to animals, and to hear what animals have to say, better than ...

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