The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.

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Working side-by-side for a record label, former punk rocker Bennie Salazar and the passionate Sasha hide illicit secrets from one another while interacting with a motley assortment of equally troubled people from 1970s San Francisco to the post-war future.

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In a novel set in the near future, when a beautiful, yet cruel, woman that Lenny Abramov met in Italy says she his coming to stay with him in New York, even the tanks and soldiers stationed in the city and the ongoing war with Venezuela can't get him down.

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Preoccupied by personal challenges while running a struggling English-language newspaper in Rome, an obituary writer confronts mortality, an eccentric publisher obsesses over his basset hound and other staff members uncover the paper's founding by an impulsive millionaire. A first novel.

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A 5-year-old narrates a riveting story about his life growing up in a single room where his mother aims to protect him from the man who has held her prisoner for seven years since she was a teenager.

 

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The lives of four strangers are thrown into chaos over an enormous, stolen desk, including an antique dealer in Jerusalem, a man in London, and an American novelist who inherited it from a poet and victim of Pinochet's secret police.

 

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Psychological Suspense. Fans of Tana French's previous novels might recognize Dublin cop Frank Mackey from his appearance in her well-received 2008 novel, The Likeness; here he commands center stage. As a teenager in 1985, he left the violence and dysfunction of his family and neighborhood behind, though the love of his life didn't show up to join him as they had planned. Twenty years later, when her suitcase is found in the abandoned house where they were supposed to meet, Mackey reluctantly returns to the suffocating environment he grew up in. When the detective in charge of the case refuses to let him get involved, Mackey must use all his skills as an undercover cop to investigate on his own. Suspenseful, beautifully written, and emotionally intense, this is another winner for French.

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"Rendered a latest test subject in a covert government experiment, abandoned six-year-old Amy is rescued by an FBI agent who hides them in the Oregon hills, from which she emerges a century later to save the human race from a terrifying virus. By the award-winning author of Mary and O'Neil.".

 

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Forced to confront the realities of life in the 21st century when he falls in love with widowed Pakistani descendant Mrs. Ali, a retired Major Pettigrew finds the relationship challenged by local prejudices that view Mrs. Ali, a Cambridge native, as a perpetual foreigner.

 

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After 14-year-old Skippy ends up dead on the floor of a local donut shop, a number of suspects emerge at Skippy's school in Dublin, including Skippy's drug-dealing rival in love; a ruthless smooth-talking headmaster; Skippy's friend, who is determined to open a portal into another dimension; and more, in a hilarious portrait of the pain, joy and occasional beauty of adolescence.

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While recovering in the hospital, Lisbeth Salander enlists the aid of journalist Mikael Blomkvist to prove her innocent of three murders and identify the corrupt politicians who have allowed her to suffer, and, on her own, Lisbeth plots revenge against the man who tried to kill her.

 

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A historical novel set in 1937 Europe tells the story of three Hungarian Jewish brothers bound by history and love, of a marriage tested by disaster, of a Jewish family's struggle against annihilation by the Nazis and of the dangerous power of art in the time of war.

 

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Thirty years after vying for the attentions of a beautiful but damaged missionary wife at a Korean orphanage, Korean orphan June Han and former GI Hector Brennan are reunited by a plot that forces them to come to terms with mysterious secrets from their past.

 

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Fleeing to Galilee in despair when her son voluntarily rejoins the Israeli army, Ora drags along estranged family friend Avram, a tortured former POW to whom she relates her experiences of motherhood against a backdrop of constant war and fear.

 

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A tale loosely inspired by the life of Alexis de Tocqueville is set in the early 19th century and follows an unlikely friendship between a French Revolution survivor and an itinerant English engraver's son.

 

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Golden Richards, a polygamist with four wives and 28 children has a midlife-crisis affair that threatens to destroy his family's future, in this tale of a dysfunctional American family from the author of Letting Loose the Hounds.

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At the height of the Edo period, Japan is effectively closed to the West--with the exception of the artificial island of Dejima, a trading port controlled by the Dutch East India Company. In 1799, red-haired Jacob de Zoet travels to Japan, hoping to earn enough to marry his fiancée. However, his plans quickly fall apart. First Jacob refuses to condone his colleagues' corruption, leading to demotion. Then he falls in love with Japanese midwife-turned-medical-student Orito Aibagawa, even though contact between Japanese women and European men is strictly prohibited. 

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