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Mini Shopaholic
Written by Sophie Kinsella

Hardcover | 432 pages | The Dial Press | Fiction
978-0-385-34204-9 (0-385-34204-7)

September 21, 2010 | $28.95

(Available September 21, 2010)

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Mini Shopaholic
Written by Sophie Kinsella

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385342049
Our Price: $28.95
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(Available September 21, 2010)


Sophie Kinsella has dazzled readers with her irresistible Shopaholic novels—sensational international bestsellers that have garnered millions of devoted fans and catapulted her into the first rank of contemporary storytellers. Now her beloved heroine Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) returns in a hilarious tale of married life, toddlerhood, and the perils of trying...




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The Confession
Written by John Grisham

Hardcover | 432 pages | Doubleday | Fiction - Suspense
978-0-385-52804-7 (0-385-52804-3)

October 26, 2010 | $33.00

(Available October 26, 2010)

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The Confession
Written by John Grisham

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385528047
Our Price: $33.00
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(Available October 26, 2010)


An innocent man is about to be executed.

Only a guilty man can save him.

For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. He just can’t...


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Luka and the Fire of Life
Written by Salman Rushdie

Hardcover | 240 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97756-1 (0-676-97756-1)

November 16, 2010 | $29.95

(Available November 16, 2010)

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Luka and the Fire of Life
Written by Salman Rushdie

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780676977561
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(Available November 16, 2010)


Like all children about to set off on an adventure, Luka Khalifa is a special kid. For one thing, his father is the famed storyteller Rashid Khalifa, “the Shah of Blah,” “the Ocean of Notions.” For another, Luka’s older brother, Haroun, had already had an adventure of his own, travelling to...



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Star Island
Written by Carl Hiaasen

Hardcover | 352 pages | Knopf | Fiction; Fiction - Humorous; Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-27258-4 (0-307-27258-3)

July 27, 2010 | $31.00

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Star Island
Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307272584
Our Price: $31.00
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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...


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The Very Thought of You
Written by Rosie Alison

Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-67052-4 (0-385-67052-4)

August 3, 2010 | $22.00

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The Very Thought of You
Written by Rosie Alison

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385670524
Our Price: $22.00
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England, 31st of August, 1939

The world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending Blitz. Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate opened up to evacuees...

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The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise
Written by Julia Stuart

Hardcover | 320 pages | Bond Street Books | Fiction
978-0-385-66968-9 (0-385-66968-2)

August 10, 2010 | $29.95

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The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise
Written by Julia Stuart

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385669689
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Brimming with charm, sparkling prose and undeniably unique characters, this hilarious novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amelie.

Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his pet, the oldest living...

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I Curse the River of Time
Written by Per Petterson

Hardcover | 240 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39938-0 (0-307-39938-9)

August 31, 2010 | $29.95

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I Curse the River of Time
Written by Per Petterson

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307399380
Our Price: $29.95
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“How impossible it was to grasp that in the end something as fine as this could be ground into dust” (p. 213).
 
I Curse the River of Time, the new novel from the winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Out Stealing Horses, is a mesmerizingly beautiful book about...



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C
Written by Tom McCarthy

Hardcover | 320 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39886-4 (0-307-39886-2)

September 7, 2010 | $29.95

(Available September 7, 2010)

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C
Written by Tom McCarthy

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307398864
Our Price: $29.95
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(Available September 7, 2010)


An epochal saga from the acclaimed author of Remainder, C takes place in the early years of the twentieth century and ranges from western England to Europe to North Africa.

Serge Carrefax spends his childhood at Versoie House, where his father teaches deaf children to speak when he's not experimenting with wireless...

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The Widower's Tale
Written by Julia Glass

Hardcover | 416 pages | Pantheon | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-37792-0 (0-307-37792-X)

September 7, 2010 | $29.00

(Available September 7, 2010)

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The Widower's Tale
Written by Julia Glass

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307377920
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(Available September 7, 2010)


In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge overrun...




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The Bells
Written by Richard Harvell

Hardcover | 384 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Historical
978-0-307-35823-3 (0-307-35823-2)

September 14, 2010 | $32.00

(Available September 14, 2010)

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The Bells
Written by Richard Harvell

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307358233
Our Price: $32.00
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(Available September 14, 2010)


Dazzling, enchanting and epic, The Bells is the confession of a thief, kidnapper and unlikely lover — a boy with the voice of an angel whose exquisite sense of hearing becomes both his life's tragic curse and its greatest blessing.

Moses Froben was born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps, the...

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To the End of the Land
Written by David Grossman
Translated by Jessica Cohen

Hardcover | 592 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-3634-7 (0-7710-3634-5)

September 21, 2010 | $34.99

(Available September 21, 2010)

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To the End of the Land
Written by David Grossman, Translated by Jessica Cohen

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780771036347
Our Price: $34.99
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(Available September 21, 2010)


A major, internationally bestselling novel of extraordinary power about the costs of war from one of Israel's greatest writers.

Set in Israel in recent times, this epic yet intimate novel places side by side the trials of war and the challenges of everyday life. Through a series of powerful, overlapping circles backward...

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The Exile
Written by Diana Gabaldon

Hardcover | 224 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction - Fantasy - Historical
978-0-385-66588-9 (0-385-66588-1)

September 21, 2010 | $29.95

(Available September 21, 2010)

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The Exile
Written by Diana Gabaldon

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385665889
Our Price: $29.95
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(Available September 21, 2010)


A luscious full-colour graphic novel — written by #1 New York Times bestseller Diana Gabaldon — that offers a completely new look at the original Outlander story!

The Exile retells the original Outlander novel from Jamie Fraser's point of view, revealing events never seen in the original story and giving readers a whole new insight into...


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Legacy
Written by Danielle Steel

Hardcover | 336 pages | Delacorte Press | Fiction
978-0-385-34313-8 (0-385-34313-2)

September 28, 2010 | $33.00

(Available September 28, 2010)

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Legacy
Written by Danielle Steel

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385343138
Our Price: $33.00
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(Available September 28, 2010)


 
This compelling, centuries-spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two women—a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown.

At the age of thirty-eight...

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The Convent
Written by Panos Karnezis

Hardcover | 224 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97889-6 (0-676-97889-4)

October 5, 2010 | $29.95

(Available October 5, 2010)

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The Convent
Written by Panos Karnezis

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780676978896
Our Price: $29.95
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(Available October 5, 2010)


A spellbinding, major new novel from one of Britain's finest young writers. A taut, suspenseful tale of an unexpected arrival at a Spanish convent and the intrigue that ensues among the order.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad...

The crumbling convent of Our Lady of Mercy stands alone in...

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The False Friend
Written by Myla Goldberg

Hardcover | 272 pages | Doubleday | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Contemporary Women; Fiction - Family Life
978-0-385-52721-7 (0-385-52721-7)

October 5, 2010 | $29.00

(Available October 5, 2010)

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The False Friend
Written by Myla Goldberg

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385527217
Our Price: $29.00
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(Available October 5, 2010)


From the bestselling author of Bee Season comes an astonishingly complex psychological drama with a simple setup: two  eleven-year-old girls, best friends and fierce rivals, go into the woods. Only one comes out . . .

Leaders of a mercurial clique of girls, Celia and Djuna reigned mercilessly over their...


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The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe
Written by Andrew O'Hagan

Hardcover | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-6839-3 (0-7710-6839-5)

October 12, 2010 | $29.99

(Available October 12, 2010)

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The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe
Written by Andrew O'Hagan

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780771068393
Our Price: $29.99
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(Available October 12, 2010)


In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Maf. He had an instinct for the twentieth century. For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature. For interior decoration. This is his story.

Maf (short for Mafia) the dog was with Marilyn Monroe for the last two years of her...

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Tome of the Undergates
Written by Samuel Sykes

Trade Paperback | 704 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Fantasy
978-0-385-66916-0 (0-385-66916-X)

October 19, 2010 | $24.95

(Available October 19, 2010)

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Tome of the Undergates
Written by Samuel Sykes

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385669160
Our Price: $24.95
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(Available October 19, 2010)





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A Christmas Odyssey
Written by Anne Perry

Hardcover | 208 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction
978-0-345-51858-3 (0-345-51858-6)

October 26, 2010 | $20.00

(Available October 26, 2010)

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A Christmas Odyssey
Written by Anne Perry

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345518583
Our Price: $20.00
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(Available October 26, 2010)


In her beloved Christmas novels, Anne Perry brings readers both the authentic Victorian charm and the nail-biting suspense that have made her Thomas Pitt and William Monk tales bestsellers for a generation. Though rife with intrigue, these special seasonal stories beam with the blessed light of the holiday.

Ten days...

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The Woodcutter
Written by Reginald Hill

Hardcover | 528 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66935-1 (0-385-66935-6)

November 2, 2010 | $32.95

(Available November 2, 2010)

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The Woodcutter
Written by Reginald Hill

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385669351
Our Price: $32.95
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(Available November 2, 2010)


A fast-moving, stunning new stand-alone psychological thriller from the award-winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe series.

Wolf Hadda's life has been a fairytale. From humble origins as a woodcutter's son, he has risen to become a hugely successful entrepreneur, happily married to the girl of his dreams. But knock on the...

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I Still Dream About You
Written by Fannie Flagg

Hardcover | 336 pages | Random House | Fiction
978-1-4000-6593-6 (1-4000-6593-3)

November 9, 2010 | $30.00

(Available November 9, 2010)

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I Still Dream About You
Written by Fannie Flagg

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400065936
Our Price: $30.00
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(Available November 9, 2010)


The beloved Fannie Flagg is back and at her irresistible and hilarious best in I Still Dream About You, a comic mystery romp through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, past, present, and future.

Meet Maggie Fortenberry, a still beautiful former Miss Alabama. To others, Maggie’s life seems practically perfect—she’s lovely, charming, and...


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Of Love and Evil
Written by Anne Rice

Hardcover | 192 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97809-4 (0-676-97809-6)

November 30, 2010 | $29.95

(Available November 30, 2010)

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Of Love and Evil
Written by Anne Rice

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780676978094
Our Price: $29.95
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(Available November 30, 2010)


Anne Rice's magnificent Songs of the Seraphim series continues with a lyrical and haunting new novel of angels and assassins set in dark and dangerous worlds — in our time and in centuries past.

Toby O'Dare, former government assassin, is summoned by the angel Malchiah to fifteenth-century Rome — the city of Michelangelo and...


                         
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