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Fly Away Home
by Jennifer Weiner
(Atria Books)

Fly Away Home follows Sylvie Serfer, the ideal politician’s wife. When Sylvie finds out that her husband is having an affair (and the affair makes headlines), she and her grown daughters retreat to a beach house to reexamine their lives and the women they have become.

$14.95
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
(Vintage)

“Cases rarely come much colder than the decades-old disappearance of teen heiress Harriet Vanger from her family’s remote island retreat north of Stockholm, nor do fiction debuts hotter than this European bestseller....  At once a strikingly original thriller and a vivisection of Sweden’s dirty not-so-little secrets, this first of a trilogy introduces a provocatively odd couple.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)

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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
by David. Mitchell
(Random House Inc)

"This is probably Mitchell’s most accessible book. It runs to almost 500 pages, yet almost every sentence shimmers with precise, opaque and brilliantly realised writing.... An historical saga on a deliberately grand scale, it never loses its quiet intimacy and is a brilliantly realised account of two worlds, conjoined by trade and desperate to shut each other out, linked by one tiny wooden bridge that in turn is spanned by the moral stubbornness of a clerk with a hidden Psaltery." —The Irish Times

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The Girl Who Played With Fire
by Stieg Larsson
(Vintage Books)

"The Girl Who Played with Fire confirms the impression left by [The Girl with the] Dragon Tattoo. Here is a writer with two skills useful in entertaining readers royally: creating characters who are complex, believable, and appealing even when they act against their own best interest; and parceling out information in a consistently enthralling way.... It’s a shame that Larsson was taken from us so soon, but it’s a gift that before his time ran out he managed to produce at least two first-rate thrillers." —The Washington Post

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Hamlets Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age
by William Powers
(Harpercollins)

At a time when we′re all trying to make sense of our relentlessly connected lives, this book presents a bold new approach to the digital age. Part intellectual journey, part memoir, Hamlet′s BlackBerry sets out to solve what William Powers calls the conundrum of connectedness. Our computers and mobile devices do wonderful things for us. But they also impose an enormous burden, making it harder for us to focus, do our best work, build strong relationships, and find the depth and fulfillment we crave.

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Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
(Random House Trade Paperbacks)

“The third novel from the genre-busting David Mitchell, author of Ghostwritten and the Booker-shortlisted Number9Dream... knits together science fiction, political thriller and historical pastiche with musical virtuosity and linguistic exuberance: there won't be a bigger, bolder novel [this] year.”—The Guardian

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet\'s Nest
by Stieg Larsson
(Alfred A. Knopf Inc)

"[The trilogy] is intricately plotted, lavishly detailed but written with a  breakneck pace and verve.... [Hornet’s Nest] is a tantalizing double finale—first idyllic, then frenetic.... Larsson has made the literary moods of saga and soap opera converge—with suspense as the adhesive. And, behind the quickfire action, those great chords of moral and political witness continue to resonate." —The Independent (UK)

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Tinkers
by Paul Harding
(Bellevue Literary Press)

An old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth.

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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101 Things I Learned in Business School
by Michael Preis
(Grand Central Pub)

101 Things I Learned in Business School covers a wide range of lessons that are basic enough for the novice business student as well as inspiring to the experienced practitioner. Judging by the growing number of people taking the GMATs (the entrance exam for business school) each year, clearly more people than ever are thinking about heading in this direction. Subjects include accounting, finance, marketing, management, leadership, human relations, and much more - in short, everything one would expect to encounter in business school.

$14.00
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Little Bee
by Chris Cleave
(Simon & Schuster)

"Little Bee will blow you away…[Cleave] has carved two indelible characters whose choices in even the most straitened circumstances permit them dignity—if they are willing to sacrifice for it. Little Bee is the best kind of political novel: You’re almost entirely unaware of its politics because the book doesn’t deal in abstractions but in human beings." —The Washington Post

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101 Things I Learned in Culinary School
by Louis Eguaras
(Grand Central )

101 Things I Learned in Culinary School is presented in the distinctive style of 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School, and offers bite-sized bits of wisdom for culinary students, chefs and chefs-in-training, and anyone interested in the culinary world. Topics range from nutrition, cooking supplies, and safety precautions to restaurant management and finance.

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The Gardner Heist
by Ulrich Boser
(HarperCollins)

Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews, and a $5-million reward, not a single painting has been recovered. Worth a total of $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become the Holy Grail of the art world and one of the nation’s most extraordinary unsolved mysteries.

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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
by Nicholas Carr
(W W Norton & Co Inc)

“Ultimately, The Shallows is a book about the preservation of the human capacity for contemplation and wisdom, in an epoch where both appear increasingly threatened. Nick Carr provides a thought-provoking and intellectually courageous account of how the medium of the internet is changing the way we think now and how future generations will or will not think.” —Maryanne Wolf (Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain)

$15.00
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Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann
(Random House Inc)

“With Philippe Petit’s breathless 1974 tightrope walk between the uncompleted WTC towers at its axis, Colum McCann offers us a lyrical cycloramic high-low portrait of New York City in its days of burning; Park Avenue matrons, Bronx junkies, Center Street judges, downtown artists and their uptown subway-tagging brethren, street priests, weary cops, wearier hookers, grieving mothers of an Asian war freshly put to bed; a masterful chorus of voices all obliviously connected by the most ephemeral vision; a pin-dot of a man walking on air 110 stories above their heads.” —Richard Price (Lush Life)

$12.95
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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
by Matthew Frederick
(MIT Press)

These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy, making concrete what too often is left nebulous or open-ended in the architecture curriculum. "How to draw a line, the meaning of figure-ground theory, hand-lettering and the fact that windows look dark in the daytime—each item has resonance beyond architecture. Books like this are brief tutorials in the art of seeing, a skill useful in every aspect of life on the planet." —Susan Salter Reynolds, latimes.com

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100 Essential Things You Didn?t Know You Didn?t Know: Math Explains Your World
by John D. Barrow
(W W Norton & Co Inc)

"It would be hard to imagine an easier, friendlier, more entertaining introduction than John Barrow’s 100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know. In his introduction, Professor Barrow bends over backwards to understate his book’s value. Certainly, it’s a title you are supposed to dip into. Most of Barrow’s stories describe mathematical conundrums.... I suspect the craft behind this fun book will only really come to light as we attempt to tell Barrow’s stories to our friends. Suddenly, we will realise how much effort Barrow has expended in explaining difficult things simply." —The Telegraph (UK)

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101 Things I Learned in Fashion School
by Alfredo Cabrera
(Grand Central Pub)

The world of the fashionista is brought to life with 101 introductory lessons on such topics as how a designer anticipates cultural trends and "sees" the fashion consumer, the workings of the fashion calendar, the ways a designer collection is conceived, the manufacture of fabric, fashion illustration, and more.

$14.99
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Lit: A Memoir
by Mary Karr
(Perennial)

"Karr is full of regret, but she′s also as funny as ever on the subject of her own sinning.... The language often captures, precisely, the tension between the intellectual and the emotional, the artistic and the spiritual. This is a story not just of alcoholism but of coming to terms with families past and present, with a needy self, with a spiritual longing Karr didn′t even know she possessed."
—The Washington Post

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War
by Sebastian Junger
(Twelve)

"The war in Afghanistan contains brutal trauma but also transcendent purpose in this riveting combat narrative. Junger spent 14 months in 2007–2008 intermittently embedded with a platoon of the 173rd Airborne brigade in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, one of the bloodiest corners of the conflict.... Junger mixes visceral combat scenes—raptly aware of his own fear and exhaustion—with quieter reportage and insightful discussions of the physiology, social psychology, and even genetics of soldiering. The result is an unforgettable portrait of men under fire."
—Publishers Weekly

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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
by Liaquat Ahamed
(Penguin Group USA )

It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that begain in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person\'s or government\'s control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions taken by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated for decades.

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The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
by Dan Ariely
(HarperCollins)

The 2008 economic crisis taught us that irrationality is an influential player in financial markets. But it is often the case that irrationality also makes it way into our daily lives and decisionmaking—in slightly different and vastly more subtle ways. In this follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely shows how irrationality is an inherent part of the way we function and think, and how it affects our behavior in all areas of our lives, from our romantic relationships to our experiences in the workplace to our temptations to cheat.

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
(Penguin)

Paloma and Renée hide both their true talents and their finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will not appreciate them. They discover their kindred souls when a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building where they live, an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families in the center of Paris. Only he is able to gain Paloma’s trust and to see through Renée’s timeworn disguise to the secret that haunts her. This is a moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.“The formula that made more than half a million readers in France fall in love with this book has, among other ingredients: intelligent humor, fine sentiments, an excellent literary and philosophical backdrop, good taste, sophistication and substance.” —La Repubblica

$26.00
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Relaxation Revolution: Enhancing Your Personal Health Through the Science and Genetics of Mind-body Healing
by Herbert Benson
(Scribner)

In the 1970s, Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School ushered in a new era of understanding in the field of mind body medicine. Coining the term “relaxation response,” Dr. Benson identified the body’s physiologic reaction that is the exact opposite of the stress (fight-or-flight) response. Relaxation Revolution details Dr. Benson’s recent work with colleagues in the field of genetics, which links mind body treatments to the healing of a steadily expanding number of medical conditions.

$10.00
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Walks With Men
by Ann Beattie
(Scribner)

It is 1980 in New York City, and Jane, a valedictorian fresh out of Harvard, strikes a deal with Neil, an intoxicating writer twenty years her senior. The two quickly become lovers, but Neil’s certainties, Jane discovers, mask his deceptions.

"Beattie hasn’t lost her touch. She skillfully lays bare the anomie and self-destructiveness—and also the vulnerability—of talented youth, and her evocation of early-’80s Manhattan is spot-on." —Kirkus Reviews

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Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
by Anthony Bourdain
(Ecco Press)

In the ten years since his classic Kitchen Confidential first alerted us to the idiosyncrasies and lurking perils of eating out, from Monday fish to the breadbasket conspiracy, much has changed for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business—and for Anthony Bourdain.

$15.00
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That Old Cape Magic
by Richard Russo
(Vintage Books)

"Richard Russo has written a novel for people who are terrified of becoming their parents, which is to say for everybody. The misanthropic hero of That Old Cape Magic jitters with the anxiety of influence, repelled and attracted to his mom and dad like Woody Allen playing Hamlet. After those sprawling epics of American life Empire Falls and Bridge of Sighs, Russo’s new book seems especially intimate, a dyspeptic romantic comedy from a Pulitzer Prize winner who catches the bittersweet humor of our common neuroses." —The Washington Post

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The Imperfectionists
by Tom Rachman
(Dial Press)

"Mr. Rachman’s transition from journalism to fiction writing is nothing short of spectacular. The Imperfectionists is a splendid original, filled with wit and structured so ingeniously that figuring out where the author is headed is half the reader’s fun. The other half comes from his sparkling descriptions not only of newspaper office denizens but of the tricks of their trade, presented in language that is smartly satirical yet brimming with affection." —The New York Times

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Brooklyn
by Colm Toibin
(Scribner)

"Brooklyn is a modest novel, but it has heft. The portrait Toibin paints of Brooklyn in the early ’50s is affectionate but scarcely dewy-eyed; Eilis encounters discrimination in various forms—against Italians, against blacks, against Jews, against lower-class Irish—and finds Manhattan more intimidating than alluring. Toibin’s prose is graceful but never showy, and his characters are uniformly interesting and believable. As a study of the quest for home and the difficulty of figuring out where it really is, Brooklyn has a universality that goes far beyond the specific details of Eilis’s struggle." —The Washington Post

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The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
(Putnam Pub Group)

"Southern whites' guilt for not expressing gratitude to the black maids who raised them threatens to become a familiar refrain. But don't tell Kathryn Stockett because her first novel is a nuanced variation on the theme that strikes every note with authenticity. In a page-turner that brings new resonance to the moral issues involved, she spins a story of social awakening as seen from both sides of the American racial divide." —The Washington Post

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F. U., Penguin: Telling Cute Animals What's What
by Matthew Gasteier
(Ballantine Books)

There is a cute and present danger lurking out there–in the wild, in the zoos, and sometimes even in our very own homes. Spurred on by the Cute Industrial Complex, these cuddly animals have taken over blockbuster films, inspirational posters, and computer desktops everywhere, further weakening the innocent civilians who are beguiled by these fuzzy frauds. F U, Penguin is the rallying cry for those who choose to fight these power-hungry cute-mongers.