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Where'd You Go, Bernadette 30% Off: |
Maria Semple | An ingenious and unabashedly entertaining novel about a family coming to terms with who they are, and the power of a daughter's love for her mother. | " I tore through this book with heedless pleasure." - Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom |
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The Great Gatsby 30% Off: |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | The timeless story of Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan is widely acknowledged to be the closest thing to the Great American Novel ever written. | "It expresses one phase of the great grotesque spectacle of our American scene. It is humor, irony, ribaldry, pathos and loveliness..." -New York Times |
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Beautiful Ruins 30% Off: |
Jess Walter | Gloriously inventive, constantly surprising, this is the story of flawed yet fascinating people, navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams. | “A literary miracle.” -NPR's Fresh Air |
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The Orphan Master's Son 30% Off: |
Adam Johnson | Winner of the Pulitzer! In this epic, critically acclaimed tour de force, Adam Johnson provides a riveting portrait of a world rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love. | "An epic feat of story-telling ... thrillingly written.” -Zadie Smith |
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The Mermaid of Brooklyn 30% Off: |
Amy Shearn | Formerly an up-and-coming magazine editor, Jenny Lipkin is now your average, stretched-too-thin Brooklyn mom, tackling the challenges of raising two children in a cramped Park Slope walk-up. All she really wants is to survive the sweltering New York summer with a shred of sanity intact. But when her husband, Harry, vanishes one evening, Jenny reaches her breaking point. And in a moment of despair, a split-second decision changes her life forever. | "Funny, fearless, and unexpectedly moving..." -Boston Globe |