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Cost (Paperback)

By Roxana Robinson
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780312428464
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Published: Picador, 5/2009
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"Roxana Robinson's latest novel looks at the cost of being involved in one family member's crisis: the emotional and psychological cost, the cost in time and energy, and the financial cost. Crossing generational lines and effortlessly changing point-of-view from one fully-realized character to another, Cost is a gripping story and an excellent reading group choice." --Molly Young, Orinda Books, Orinda, CA

Lush Life (Paperback)

By Richard Price
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780312428228
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Published: Picador, 3/2009
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"Like a modern, urban Crime and Punishment, this brilliant book is an intimate study of the interior lives of everyone touched by a too-quick trigger finger. You will be haunted by Price's riveting portraits of the self-pitying initial suspect, the lonely young perp, the disillusioned detective, and the victim's family, as well as the New York City neighborhood they share." --Carla Jimenez, Inkwood Books, Tampa, FL

Serena (Paperback)

By Ron Rash
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780061470844
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Published: Ecco, 10/2009
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"Macbeth moves to the Depression-era Great Smoky Mountains in the finest novel yet by Ron Rash. Ambitious newlywed timber moguls George and Serena Pemberton ravage the mountain landscape while savaging their competitors and fiercely resisting allies of the budding conservation movement. Filled with Shakespearean levels of deception, cruelty, and retribution (mountain-style), Serena speaks to current times with its portrait of modern business greed colliding with a very old land and its inhabitants." --John Grooms, Park Road Books, Charlotte, NC

Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Paperback)

By Jhumpa Lahiri
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780307278258
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Published: Vintage, 4/2009
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"This new collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning Jhumpa Lahiri presents eight short stories centered on Bengali families who have immigrated to the U.S. These quiet but powerful stories, detailing the lives of families perhaps very different from our own, teach universal truths." --Sarah Goddin, Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC