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The Brief History of the Dead (Paperback)

By Kevin Brockmeier
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781400095957
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Published: Vintage, 1/2007
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The Lovely Bones meets Blindness. You will be transported, touched and completely entranced. Kevin Brockmeier is the best new fiction writer you aren’t reading.

A Visit from the Goon Squad (Paperback)

By Jennifer Egan
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780307477477
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Published: Anchor, 5/2011
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This Pulitzer Prize winning novel offers a surprise on every page. The story spans more than 50 years and transports you from New York to California, Italy to the African Serengeti. You’ve never read anything quite like it.

On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft (Paperback)

By Stephen King
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781439156810
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Published: Scribner, 7/2010
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Stephen King’s book on craft not only offers valuable insight, it reads like a novel. No matter what the subject, it seems, King has a talent for keeping readers turning the page. The book follows his humble beginnings as a school teacher, to the success of Carrie, to his battle with addiction and back. If you weren’t a King fan to begin with, this book will make you one.

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Paperback)

By Aimee Bender
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780385720960
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Published: Anchor, 4/2011
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This novel from one of the leading fabulist writers today introduces us to Rose Edelstein, a girl with a special ability to taste the emotions of the preparer in food. Whether the sadness of her mother’s lemon cake, or the steely cold flavor of vending machine fare, Rose must figure out how to swallow the complex difficult emotions of the adults in her world.

The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (Paperback)

By Amy Hempel, Rick Moody
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780743291637
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Published: Scribner, 9/2007
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One of the New York Times “Best 10 Books of the Year” from my favorite short story writer of all time, the stories here are at once hilarious, heartbreaking, humane. A must have.

Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books (Paperback)

By Francesca Lia Block
$9.99
ISBN-13: 9780062007407
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Published: HarperTeen, 10/2010
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One of my all time favorite stories by one of my all time favorite authors: Weetzie finds a magic lamp and wishes for a Duck for her best friend Dirk, A Secret-Agent-Lover-Man for herself and a beautiful little house for them all to live. This modern day fairy tale is set in a lush, magical, dark and glittering Los Angeles.