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We are beefed up this week!
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Weekly Featured Book
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The Privileges
By Jonathan Dee
The Privileges is an odyssey of Adam and Cynthia Morey touched by fortune, changed by time, and guided above all else by their epic love for each other. Lyrical, provocative, and brilliantly imagined, this is a timely meditation on wealth, family, and what it means to leave the world richer than you found it.
"...Adam begins to profit immensely from risky side ventures while working for a hedge fund. Dee establishes a trust with his readers that allows Adam's murky business ethics to escape the spotlight of outright moral scrutiny, and by showing how Adam endangers his privilege—while his children endanger their own lives—Dee reveals how risk is a kind of numbing balm. .." - Publishers Weekly |
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Newbies to Note!
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The Unnamed
By Joshua Ferris
(1/18/2010)
Tim Farnsworth loves his wife, his family, his work, his home. He loves his kitchen. And then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking. The Unnamed is a dazzling novel about a marriage and a family and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both. It is the heartbreaking story of a life taken for granted and what happens when that life is abruptly and irrevocably taken away.
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The Book of Fires
By Jane Borodale
(1/21/2010)
It is 1752 and seventeen-year-old Agnes Trussel arrives in London pregnant with an unwanted child. She finds herself at the home of Mr. J. Blacklock, a brooding fireworks maker who hires Agnes as an apprentice. Through it all, the clock is ticking, for Agnes's secret will not stay secret forever.
Deeply atmospheric and intimately told from Agnes's perspective, The Book of Fires will appeal to readers of Geraldine Brooks, Sarah Waters, Sheri Holman, and Michel Faber.
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