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THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH, by Ken Follett. (New American Library, $24.95 and $20.) Murder, arson and lust surround the building of a 12th-century cathedral. |
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ATONEMENT, by Ian McEwan. (Anchor, $14.95.) A chronicle of the disintegration of an English family’s idyllic life. |
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THE KITE RUNNER, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead, $15.95 and $14.) An Afghan-American returns to Kabul to learn how a childhood friend has fared. |
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LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA, by Gabriel García Márquez. (Vintage International, $14.95.) A Colombian poet’s love for a woman is tested. |
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WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen. (Algonquin, $13.95.) A young man — and an elephant — save a Depression-era circus. |
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I AM LEGEND, by Richard Matheson. (Tor/Tom Doherty, $14.95.) In this reissued horror novel, plague survivors, turned into vampires, seek to destroy the one man who appears immune to the disease. |
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THE ROAD, by Cormac McCarthy. (Vintage, $14.95.) A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America. |
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* THE MEMORY KEEPER’S DAUGHTER, by Kim Edwards. (Penguin, $14.) A doctor’s decision to secretly send his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to an institution haunts everyone involved. |
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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, by Cormac McCarthy. (Vintage, $14.) Mayhem ensues in this reissued novel after a West Texas man stumbles upon $2 million in drug money — and decides to keep it. |
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THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. (HarperSanFrancisco, $13.95 and $13.) A Spanish shepherd boy travels to Egypt in search of treasure. |
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THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN, by Mitch Albom. (Hyperion, $12.) An old man who died trying to rescue a girl finds all is explained in the afterlife. |
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PS, I LOVE YOU, by Cecelia Ahern. (Hyperion, $13.95.) A young widow performs a series of tasks laid out in a package of letters written by her husband. |
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SUITE FRANÇAISE, by Irène Némirovsky. (Vintage, $14.95.) Two novellas, which came to light more than 50 years after the author’s death at Auschwitz. |
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HALO: CONTACT HARVEST, by Joseph Staten. (Tom Doherty Associates, $14.95.) A squad of marines and militia trainees is called to save a farming colony threatened by an aggressive alien empire. |
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* DEAR JOHN, by Nicholas Sparks. (Warner, $13.99.) An unlikely romance between a soldier and an idealistic young woman is tested in the aftermath of 9/11. |
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THE EMPEROR’S CHILDREN, by Claire Messud. (Vintage, $14.95.) Privileged 30-somethings try to make their way in literary New York just before 9/11. |
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WHAT IS THE WHAT, by Dave Eggers. (Vintage, $15.95.) The fictionalized autobiography of one of Sudan’s “Lost Boys,” refugees from its civil war. |
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MIDDLESEX, by Jeffrey Eugenides. (Picador, $15.) An epic story about three generations of Greek-Americans, told by a hermaphrodite. |
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WORLD WAR Z, by Max Brooks. (Three Rivers, $14.95.) An “oral history” of an imagined Zombie War that nearly destroys civilization. |
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PLAIN TRUTH, by Jodi Picoult. (Washington Square Press, $15.) An Amish teenager goes on trial, accused of having a baby, then smothering it to death. |
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THE GATHERING, by Anne Enright (Black Cat/Grove) |
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THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE, by Phillipa Gregory (Touchstone) |
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THOSE WHO SAVE US, by Jenna Blum (Harvest) |
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SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN, by Lisa See (Random House) |
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THE THIRTEENTH TALE, by Diane Setterfield (Washington Square) |
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CHRISTMAS JARS, by Jason F. Wright (Shadow Mountain) |
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MY SISTER'S KEEPER, by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square) |
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THE LOVELY BONES, by Alice Sebold (Back Bay) |
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CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, by Mark Haddon (Vintage) |
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THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS, by Kiran Desai (Grove) |
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DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER, by Jeff Lindsay (Vintage) |
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THE PARTING, by Beverly Lewis (Bethany House) |
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TRULY, MADLY MANHATTAN, by Nora Roberts (Silhouette) |
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BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2007, edited by Stephen King (Houghton Mifflin) |
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THE TENTH CIRCLE, by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square) |
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