A Spot of Bother
The Attack
Written by Yasmina Khadra
Translated by John Cullen
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TAPAS Flap Copy: From the
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devastating human costs of
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Daniel Isn't Talking
Written by Marti Leimbach
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TAPAS Flap Copy: Melanie
Marsh is an American living in
London with her British husband,
Stephen, and their two young
children. The Marshes’ orderly
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to accept what others, including
her husband, say is inevitable,
Melanie finds an ally in the
idealistic Andy, whose
unorthodox ideas may just prove
that Daniel is far more “normal”
than anyone imagined. Daniel
Isn’t Talking is a moving story of
a family in crisis, told with
warmth, compassion, and humor.
Written by Mark Haddon
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of a dignified man trying to go
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What Is the What
Written by Dave Eggers
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seven and trek hundreds of miles
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three countries to find freedom.
When he finally is resettled in the
United States, he finds a life full
of promise, but also heartache
and myriad new challenges.
Moving, suspenseful, and
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illuminates the lives of millions
through one extraordinary man.
No Country for Old Men (MTI)
Written by Cormac McCarthy
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TAPAS Flap Copy: In No
Country for Old Men, Cormac
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Atonement (MTI)
Written by Ian McEwan
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TAPAS Flap Copy: On a
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year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a
moment’s flirtation between her
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Briony’s incomplete grasp of
adult motives and her precocious
imagination bring about a crime
that will change all their lives, a
crime whose repercussions
Atonement follows through the
chaos and carnage of World War
II and into the close of the
twentieth century.
The Road
Written by Cormac McCarthy
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The searing, postapocalyptic
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A father and his son walk alone
through burned America. Nothing
moves in the ravaged landscape
save the ash on the wind. It is
cold enough to crack stones, and
when the snow falls it is gray.
The sky is dark. Their destination
is the coast, although they don't
know what, if anything, awaits
them there. They have nothing;
just a pistol to defend themselves
against the lawless bands that
stalk the road, the clothes they are
wearing, a cart of scavenged
food-—and each other.
The Road is the profoundly
moving story of a journey. It
boldly imagines a future in which
no hope remains, but in which the
father and his son, "each the
other's world entire," are
sustained by love. Awesome in
the totality of its vision, it is an
unflinching meditation on the
worst and the best that we are
capable of: ultimate
destructiveness, desperate
tenacity, and the tenderness that
keeps two people alive in the face
of total devastation.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (MTI)
Written by Jean-Dominique Bauby
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TAPAS Flap Copy: In December 1995, Jean-
Dominique Bauby, the 43-year-old editor of
French Elle, suffered a massive stroke that left
him permanently paralyzed, a victim of “locked
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himself imprisoned in an inert body, able to
communicate only by blinking his left eye. The
miracle is that in doing so he was able to
compose this stunningly eloquent memoir.
In a voice that is by turns wistful and
mischievous, angry and sardonic, Bauby gives
us a celebration of the liberating power of
consciousness: what it is like to spend a day
with his children, to imagine lying in bed beside
his wife, to conjure up the flavor of delectable
meals even as he is fed through at tube. Most of
all, this triumphant book lets us witness an
indomitable spirit and share in the pure joy of its
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one.
“Totally engrossing . . .
[presents] the metamorphosis of
a most remarkable young man
and the almost spiritual influence
he has on others . . . Peekay has
both humor and a refreshingly
earthy touch, and his adventures,
at times, are hair-raising in their
suspense.”
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The Power of One of the sun-baked plains of Africa
Written by Bryce Courtenay who tug at the heartstrings in this
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humiliation and abandonment,
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conceives heroic dreams–which denied her existence--Pope Joan,
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He embarks on an epic journey Christianity for two years. Now
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transform lives, and the power of soul cannot accept.

When her older brother dies in a
Viking attack, the brilliant young
Joan assumes his identity and
enters a Benedictine monastery
where, as Brother John
Anglicus, she distinguishes
herself as a scholar and healer.
Eventually drawn to Rome, she
soon becomes enmeshed in a
dangerous mix of powerful
passion and explosive politics
that threatens her life even as it
elevates her to the highest throne
in the Western world.
"Brings the savage ninth century
vividly to life in all its alien
richness. An enthralling,
scholarly historical novel."
--Rebecca Fraser, Author of The
Brontës
The Eight
Written by Katherine Neville
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TAPAS Flap Copy: New York
City, 1972—A dabbler in
mathematics and chess, Catherine
Velis is also a computer expert for
a Big Eight accounting firm.
Before heading off to a new
assignment in Algeria, Cat has
her palm read by a fortune-teller.
The woman warns Cat of danger.
Then an antiques dealer
approaches Cat with a mysterious
offer: He has an anonymous
client who is trying to collect the
pieces of an ancient chess service,
purported to be in Algeria. If Cat
can bring the pieces back, there
will be a generous reward.
The South of France, 1790—
Mireille de Remy and her cousin
Valentine are young novices at
the fortresslike Montglane Abbey.
With France aflame in revolution,
the two girls burn to rebel against
constricted convent life—and
their means of escape is at hand.
Buried deep within the abbey are
pieces of the Montglane Chess
Service, once owned by
Charlemagne. Whoever
reassembles the pieces can play a
game of unlimited power. But to
keep the Game a secret from
those who would abuse it, the two
young women must scatter the
pieces throughout the world. . . .
Hanna's Daughters
Written by Marianne
Fredriksson
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TAPAS Flap Copy: Sweeping
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Scandinavian history, this
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generations of Swedish women--
a grandmother, a mother, and a
daughter--whose lives are linked
through a century of great love
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truth and revelation, this moving
novel deftly explores the often
difficult but enduring ties
between mothers and daughters,
the sacrifices, compromises, and
rewards in the relationships
between men and women, and
the patterns of emotion that
repeat themselves through
generations. If you have ever
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or rediscover family, Hanna's
Daughters will strike a chord in
your heart. . . .
Digging to America
Written by Anne Tyler
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richest, most deeply searching
novel–a story about what it is to
be an American, and about
Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan,
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terms with her “outsiderness.”
Two families, who would
otherwise never have come
together, meet by chance at the
Baltimore airport – the
Donaldsons, a very American
couple, and the Yazdans,
Maryam’s fully assimilated son
and his attractive Iranian wife.
Each couple is awaiting the
arrival of an adopted infant
daughter from Korea. After the
instant babies from distant Asia
are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson
impulsively invites the Yazdans
to celebrate: an “arrival party”
that from then on is repeated
every year as the two families
become more and more deeply
intertwined. Even Maryam is
drawn in – up to a point. When
she finds herself being courted by
Bitsy Donaldson’s recently
widowed father, all the values she
cherishes – her traditions, her
privacy, her otherness–are
suddenly threatened.
A luminous novel brimming with
subtle, funny, and tender
observations that immerse us in
the challenges of both sides of the
American story.
From the Hardcover edition.
Terrorist
Written by John Updike
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Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, an
alienated American-born teenager
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hedonistic life he witnesses in the
slumping New Jersey factory
town he calls home. Turning to
the words of the Holy Qur’an as
expounded to him by the pedantic
imam of a local mosque, Ahmad
devotes himself fervently to God.
Neither the world-weary
guidance counselor at his high
school nor Ahmad’s
mischievously seductive
classmate Joryleen succeeds in
deflecting him from his course, as
the threads of an insidious plot
gather around him.
“One compelling and surprising
ride.”–USA Today
“The startlingly contemporary
story of a high school student . . .
whose zealous Islamic faith and
disaffection with modern life
make him a pawn in the larger
conflict between Muslim and
Christian, East and West. They
also make him a powerful voice
for Updike’s ongoing critique of
American civilization.”
–Time
“A chilling tale that is perhaps the
most essential novel to emerge
from Sept. 11.”
–People (Critic’s Choice)
Innocent Traitor
Written by Alison Weir
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TAPAS Flap Copy: I am now a
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Historical expertise marries page-
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enthralling debut novel, breathing
new life into one of the most
significant and tumultuous
periods of the English monarchy.
It is the story of Lady Jane
Grey–“the Nine Days’ Queen”–a
fifteen-year-old girl who
unwittingly finds herself at the
center of the religious and civil
unrest that nearly toppled the
fabled House of Tudor during the
sixteenth century.
The child of a scheming father
and a ruthless mother, for whom
she is merely a pawn in a
dynastic game with the highest
stakes, Jane Grey was born
during the harrowingly turbulent
period between Anne Boleyn’s
beheading and the demise of
Jane’s infamous great-uncle, King
Henry VIII. With the premature
passing of Jane’s adolescent
cousin, and Henry’s successor,
King Edward VI, comes a
struggle for supremacy fueled by
political machinations and lethal
religious fervor.
Unabashedly honest and
exceptionally intelligent, Jane
possesses a sound strength of
character beyond her years that
equips her to weather the vicious
storm. And though she has no
ambitions to rule, preferring to
immerse herself in books and
religious studies, she is forced to
accept the crown, and by so doing
sets off a firestorm of intrigue,
betrayal, and tragedy.
Alison Weir uses her unmatched
skills as a historian to enliven the
many dynamic characters of this
majestic drama. Along with Lady
Jane Grey, Weir vividly renders
her devious parents; her much-
loved nanny; the benevolent
Queen Katherine Parr; Jane’s
ambitious cousins; the Catholic
“Bloody” Mary, who will stop at
nothing to seize the throne; and
the protestant and future queen
Elizabeth. Readers venture inside
royal drawing rooms and
bedchambers to witness the
power-grabbing that swirls
around Lady Jane Grey from the
day of her birth to her unbearably
poignant death. Innocent Traitor
paints a complete and compelling
portrait of this captivating young
woman, a faithful servant of God
whose short reign and brief life
would make her a legend.
“An impressive debut. Weir
shows skill at plotting and
maintaining tension, and she is
clearly going to be a major player
in the . . . historical fiction
game.”
–The Independent
“Alison Weir is one of our
greatest popular historians. In her
first work of fiction . . . Weir
manages her heroine’s voice
brilliantly, respecting the past’s
distance while conjuring a
dignified and fiercely modern
spirit.”
–London Daily Mail
From the Hardcover edition.
Property
Written by Valerie Martin
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TAPAS Flap Copy: Valerie
Martin’s Property delivers an
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1828, the setting a Louisiana
sugar plantation where Manon
Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent,
and monstrously self-absorbed,
seethes under the dominion of her
boorish husband. In particular his
relationship with her slave Sarah,
who is both his victim and his
mistress.
Exploring the permutations of
Manon’s own obsession with
Sarah against the backdrop of an
impending slave rebellion,
Property unfolds with the speed
and menace of heat lightning,
casting a startling light from the
past upon the assumptions we still
make about the powerful and
powerful.
Perfume
Written by Patrick Suskind
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TAPAS Flap Copy: An
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happens when one man's
indulgence in his greatest passion
—his sense of smell—leads to
murder.
In the slums of eighteenth-
century France, the infant Jean-
Baptiste Grenouille is born with
one sublime gift-an absolute
sense of smell. As a boy, he lives
to decipher the odors of Paris,
and apprentices himself to a
prominent perfumer who teaches
him the ancient art of mixing
precious oils and herbs. But
Grenouille's genius is such that he
is not satisfied to stop there, and
he becomes obsessed with
capturing the smells of objects
such as brass doorknobs and
frest-cut wood. Then one day he
catches a hint of a scent that will
drive him on an ever-more-
terrifying quest to create the
"ultimate perfume"—the scent of
a beautiful young virgin. Told
with dazzling narrative brillance,
Perfume is a hauntingly powerful
tale of murder and sensual
depravity.
Translated from the German by
John E. Woods.
After This
Written by Alice McDermott
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TAPAS Flap Copy: On a wild,
windy April day in Manhattan,
when Mary first meets John
Keane, she cannot know what lies
ahead of her. A marriage, a
fleeting season of romance, and
the birth of four children will
bring John and Mary to rest in the
safe embrace of a traditional
Catholic life in the suburbs. But
neither Mary nor John, distracted
by memories and longings, can
feel the wind that is buffeting their
children, leading them in
directions beyond their parents’
control. Michael and his sister
Annie are caught up in the sexual
revolution. Jacob, brooding and
frail, is drafted to Vietnam. And
the youngest, Clare, commits a
stunning transgression after a
childhood spent pleasing her
parents. As John and Mary
struggle to hold on to their family
and their faith, Alice McDermott
weaves an elegant, unforgettable
portrait of a world in flux–and of
the secrets and sorrows, anger and
love, that lie at the heart of every
family.
Literacy and Longing in L.A.
Written by Jennifer Kaufman
and Karen Mack
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TAPAS Flap Copy: Some
women shop. Some eat. Dora
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another, from Flaubert to bodice
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end. In this wickedly funny and
sexy literary debut, we meet the
beguiling, beautiful Dora, whose
unique voice combines a wry wit
and vulnerability as she
navigates the road between
reality and fiction.
Dora, named after Eudora Welty,
is an indiscriminate book junkie
whose life has fallen apart—her
 career, her marriage, and finally
her self-esteem. All she has left
is her love of literature, and the
book benders she relied on as a
child. Ever since her larger-than-
life father wandered away and
her book-loving, alcoholic
mother was left with two young
daughters, Dora and her sister,
Virginia, have clung to each
other, enduring a childhood filled
with literary pilgrimages instead
of summer vacations.
Somewhere along the way
Virginia made the leap into the
real world. But Dora isn’t quite
there yet. Now she’s coping with
a painful separation from her
husband, scraping the bottom of
a dwindling inheritance, and
attracted to a seductive book-
seller who seems to embody all
that literature has to offer—
intelligent ideas, romance, and
an escape from her problems.
Joining Dora in her odyssey is an
elderly society hair-brusher, a
heartbroken young girl, a
hilarious off-the-wall female
teamster, and Dora’s mother,
now on the wagon, trying to
make amends. Along the way
Dora faces some powerful
choices. Between two irresistible
men. Between idleness and
work. And most of all between
the joy of well-chosen words and
the untidiness of real people and
real life.
From the Hardcover edition.
Plum Wine
Written by Angela Davis-Gardner
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TAPAS Flap Copy: Bottles of
homemade plum wine link two
worlds, two eras, and two lives
through the eyes of Barbara
Jefferson, a young American
teaching at a Tokyo university.
When her surrogate mother, Michi,
dies, Barbara inherits an
extraordinary gift: a tansu chest
filled with bottles of homemade
plum wine wrapped in sheets of
rice paper covered in elegant
calligraphy—one bottle for each of
the last twenty years of Michi’s
life.
Why did Michi leave her memoirs
to Barbara, who cannot read
Japanese? Seeking a translator,
Barbara turns to an enigmatic
pottery artist named Seiji, who
will offer her a companionship as
tender as it is forbidden. But as the
two lovers unravel the mysteries of
Michi’s life, a story that draws
them through the aftermath of
World War II and the hidden world
of the hibakusha, Hiroshima
survivors, Barbara begins to
suspect that Seiji may be hiding
the truth about Michi’s past—and
a heartbreaking secret of his own.
Nine Parts of Desire
Written by Geraldine Brooks
ISBN (13 digit): 9780385475778
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Sister of My Heart
Written by Chitra Divakaruni
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TAPAS Flap Copy: From the
award-winning author of
Mistress of Spices, the
bestselling novel about the
extraordinary bond between two
women, and the family secrets
and romantic jealousies that
threaten to tear them apart.
Anju is the daughter of an upper-
caste Calcutta family of
distinction. Her cousin Sudha is
the daughter of the black sheep of
that same family. Sudha is
startlingly beautiful; Anju is not.
Despite those differences, since
the day on which the two girls
were born, the same day their
fathers died--mysteriously and
violently--Sudha and Anju have
been sisters of the heart. Bonded
in ways even their mothers
cannot comprehend, the two girls
grow into womanhood as if their
fates as well as their hearts were
merged.
But, when Sudha learns a dark
family secret, that connection is
shattered. For the first time in
their lives, the girls know what it
is to feel suspicion and distrust.
Urged into arranged marriages,
Sudha and Anju's lives take
opposite turns. Sudha becomes
the dutiful daughter-in-law of a
rigid small-town household. Anju
goes to America with her new
husband and learns to live her
own life of secrets. When tragedy
strikes each of them, however,
they discover that despite
distance and marriage, they have
only each other to turn to.
Set in the two worlds of San
Francisco and India, this
exceptionally moving novel tells
a story at once familiar and
exotic, seducing readers from the
first page with the lush prose we
have come to expect from
Divakaruni. Sister of My Heart
is a novel destined to become as
widely beloved as it is acclaimed.
When the Emperor Was Divine
Written by Julie Otsuka
ISBN (13 digit): 9780385721813
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TAPAS Flap Copy: Julie
Otsuka’s commanding debut
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Japanese internment camps
unlike any we have ever seen.
With crystalline intensity and
precision, Otsuka uses a single
family to evoke the deracination
—both physical and emotional—
of a generation of Japanese
Americans. In five chapters, each
flawlessly executed from a
different point of view—the
mother receiving the order to
evacuate; the daughter on the
long train ride to the camp; the
son in the desert encampment;
the family’s return to their home;
and the bitter release of the father
after more than four years in
captivity—she has created a
small tour de force, a novel of
unrelenting economy and
suppressed emotion. Spare,
intimate, arrestingly understated,
When the Emperor Was Divine is
a haunting evocation of a family
in wartime and an unmistakably
resonant lesson for our times. It
heralds the arrival of a singularly
gifted new novelist.
From the Hardcover edition.
Balzac and the Little Chinese
Seamstress
Written by Dai Sijie
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TAPAS Flap Copy: Balzac and
the Little Chinese Seamstress is
an enchanting tale that captures
the magic of reading and the
wonder of romantic awakening.
An immediate international
bestseller, it tells the story of two
hapless city boys exiled to a
remote mountain village for re-
education during China’s
infamous Cultural Revolution.
There the two friends meet the
daughter of the local tailor and
discover a hidden stash of
Western classics in Chinese
translation. As they flirt with the
seamstress and secretly devour
these banned works, the two
friends find transit from their
grim surroundings to worlds they
never imagined.
Veil of Roses
Written by Laura Fitzgerald
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TAPAS Flap Copy: This
compelling debut follows one
spirited young woman from the
confines of Iran to the intoxicating
freedom of America—where she
discovers not only an enticing new
country but the roots of her own
independence. . . .
Tamila Soroush wanted it all. But
in the Islamic Republic of Iran,
dreams are a dangerous thing for a
girl. Knowing they can never
come true, Tami abandons them. .
. . Until her twenty-fifth birthday,
when her parents give her a one-
way ticket to America, hoping she
will “go and wake up her luck.” If
they have their way, Tami will
never return to Iran . . . which
means she has three months to
find a husband in America. Three
months before she’s sent back for
good.
From her first Victoria’s Secret
bra to her first ride on a motor
scooter to her first country line-
dance, Tami drinks in the freedom
of an American girl. Inspired to
pursue her passion for
photography, she even captures
her adventures on film. But
looming over her is the fact that
she must find an Iranian-born
husband before her visa expires.
To complicate matters, her
friendship with Ike, a young
American man, has grown
stronger. And it is becoming
harder for Tami to ignore the
forbidden feelings she has for
him.
It’s in her English as a second
language classes that Tami finds a
support system. With the
encouragement of headstrong Eva,
loyal Nadia, and Agata and Josef,
who are carving out a love story
of their own, perhaps Tami can
keep dreaming—and find a way to
stay in America.
Fugitive Pieces
Written by Anne Michaels
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TAPAS Flap Copy: A New York
Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Lannan Literary
Fiction Award
Winner of the Guardian Fiction
Award
In 1940, Jakob Beer, a seven-
year-old boy, bursts from the mud
of a war-torn Polish city, where
he has buried himself to hide
from Nazi soldiers who have
killed his family. Though he
should have died with his family,
he has not only survived but been
rescued by a Greek geologist.
With this electrifying backdrop,
Anne Michaels propels us into
her rapturously acclaimed novel
of loss, memory, history, and
redemption. Michaels lets us
witness Jakob's transformation
from a half-wild casualty of the
Holocaust to an artis who extracts
meaning from the abyss. Filled
with mysterious symmetries and
rendered in heart-stopping prose,
Fugitive Pieces is a triumphant
work.
The Friend Who Got Away
Written by Edited by Jenny
Offill and Elissa Schappell
ISBN (13 digit): 9780767917193
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TAPAS Flap Copy:
Losing a friend can be as painful
and as agonizing as a divorce or
the end of a love affair, yet it is
rarely written about or even
discussed. THE FRIEND WHO
GOT AWAY is the first book to
address this near-universal
experience, bringing together the
brave, eloquent voices of writers
like Francine Prose, Katie
Roiphe, Dorothy Allison,
Elizabeth Strout, Ann Hood,
Diana Abu Jabar, Vivian Gornick,
Helen Schulman, and many
others. Some write of friends
who have drifted away, others of
sudden breakups that took them
by surprise. Some even celebrate
their liberation from unhealthy or
destructive relationships. Yet at
the heart of each story is the
recognition of a loss that will
never be forgotten.
From stories about friendships
that dissolved when one person
revealed a hidden self or moved
into a different world, to tales of
relationships sabotaged by
competition, personal ambition,
or careless indifference, THE
FRIEND WHO GOT AWAY
casts new light on the meaning
and nature of women’s
friendships. Katie Roiphe writes
with regret about the period in
her life when even close friends
seemed expendable compared to
men and sex. Mary Morris
reveals how a loan led to the
unraveling of a lifelong
friendship. Vivian Gornick
explores how intellectual
differences eroded the bond
between once inseparable
companions. And two
contributors, once best friends,
tell both sides of the story that led
to their painful breakup.
Written especially for this
anthology and touched with
humor, sadness, and sometimes
anger, these extraordinary pieces
simultaneously evoke the
uniqueness of each situation and
illuminate the universal emotions
evoked by the loss of a friend.
Pasadena
Written by David Ebershoff
ISBN (13 digit): 9780812968484
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TAPAS Flap Copy: From the
award-winning author of The
Danish Girl and The Rose City,
Pasadena tells the story of Linda
Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903
on a coastal onion farm, and the
three men who change her life:
her jealous brother, Edmund;
Bruder, the orphan Linda’s father
brings home from World War I;
and a Pasadena orange rancher
named Willis Poore. The novel
spans Linda’s adventurous and
romantic life, weaving the tales of
her Mexican mother and her
German-born father with those of
the rural Pacific Coast of her
youth and of the small, affluent
city, Pasadena, that becomes her
home. Pasadena is a novel of
passion and history, about a
woman and a place in perpetual
transformation.
The Laments
Written by George Hagen
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TAPAS Flap Copy: Meet the
Laments—the affably
dysfunctional globetrotting
family at the center of George
Hagen’s exuberant debut novel.
Howard is an engineer who
dreams of irrigating the Sahara
and lives by the motto “Laments
move!” His wife Julia is a fiery
spirit who must balance her
husband’s oddly peripatetic
nature with unexpected
aspirations of her own. And Will
is the “waif with a paper-thin
heart” who is given to Howard
and Julia in return for their own
child who has been lost in a
bizarre maternity ward mishap.
As Will makes his way from
infancy to manhood in a family
that careens from continent to
continent, one wonders where the
Laments will ever belong.
In Bahrain, Howard takes a job
with an oil company and young
Will makes his first friend. But in
short order he is wrenched off to
another land, his mother’s
complicated friendship with the
American siren Trixie Howitzer
causing the family to bolt. In
Northern Rhodesia, during its last
days as a white colony, the twin
enfants terribles Marcus and
Julius are born, and Will falls for
the gardener’s daughter, a girl so
vain that she admires her image
in the lid of a biscuit tin. But soon
the family’s life is upturned
again, thie time by their neighbor
Major Buck Quinn, with his
suburban tirades against black
self-rule. Envisioning a more
civilized life on “the sceptered
isle,” the Laments board an ocean
liner bound for England. Alas,
poor Will is greeted by the tribal
ferocity of his schoolmates and a
society fixated on the Blitz. No
sooner has he succumbed to
British pop culture in the guise of
mop-top Sally Byrd and her
stacks of 45s, than the Laments
uproot themselves once again,
and it’s off to New Jersey, where
life deals crisis and opportunity in
equal measure.
Undeniably eccentric, the
Laments are also universal. Every
family moves on in life. Children
grow up, things are left behind;
there is always something to
lament. Through the Lament’s
restlessness, responses to
adversity, and especially their
unwieldy love for one another,
George Hagen gives us a portrait
of every family that is funny,
tragic, and improbably true.
From the Hardcover edition.
The Last Town on Earth
Written by Thomas Mullen
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TAPAS Flap Copy: Set against
the backdrop of one of the most
virulent epidemics that America
ever experienced–the 1918 flu
epidemic–Thomas Mullen’s
powerful, sweeping first novel is
a tale of morality in a time of
upheaval.
Deep in the mist-shrouded forests
of the Pacific Northwest is a
small mill town called
Commonwealth, conceived as a
haven for workers weary of
exploitation. For Philip Worthy,
the adopted son of the town’s
founder, it is a haven in another
sense–as the first place in his life
he’s had a loving family to call
his own.
And yet, the ideals that define
this outpost are being threatened
from all sides. A world war is
raging, and with the fear of spies
rampant, the loyalty of all
Americans is coming under
scrutiny. Meanwhile, another
shadow has fallen across the
region in the form of a deadly
illness striking down vast swaths
of surrounding communities.
When Commonwealth votes to
quarantine itself against
contagion, guards are posted at
the single road leading in and out
of town, and Philip Worthy is
among them. He will be unlucky
enough to be on duty when a
cold, hungry, tired–and
apparently ill–soldier presents
himself at the town’s doorstep
begging for sanctuary. The
encounter that ensues, and the
shots that are fired, will have
deafening reverberations
throughout Commonwealth,
escalating until every human
value–love, patriotism,
community, family, friendship–
not to mention the town’s very
survival, is imperiled.
Inspired by a little-known
historical footnote regarding
towns that quarantined
themselves during the 1918
epidemic, The Last Town on
Earth is a remarkably moving
and accomplished debut.
From the Hardcover edition.
Kabul Beauty School
Written by Deborah Rodriguez
with Kristin Ohlson
ISBN (13 digit): 9780812976731
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TAPAS Flap Copy: Soon after
the fall of the Taliban, in 2001,
Deborah Rodriguez went to
Afghanistan as part of a group
offering humanitarian aid to this
war-torn nation. Surrounded by
men and women whose skills–as
doctors, nurses, and therapists–
seemed eminently more practical
than her own, Rodriguez, a
hairdresser and mother of two
from Michigan, despaired of
being of any real use. Yet she
soon found she had a gift for
befriending Afghans, and once
her profession became known she
was eagerly sought out by
Westerners desperate for a good
haircut and by Afghan women,
who have a long and proud
tradition of running their own
beauty salons. Thus an idea was
born.
With the help of corporate and
international sponsors, the Kabul
Beauty School welcomed its first
class in 2003. Well meaning but
sometimes brazen, Rodriguez
stumbled through language
barriers, overstepped cultural
customs, and constantly juggled
the challenges of a postwar nation
even as she learned how to
empower her students to become
their families’ breadwinners by
learning the fundamentals of
coloring techniques, haircutting,
and makeup.
Yet within the small haven of the
beauty school, the line between
teacher and student quickly
blurred as these vibrant women
shared with Rodriguez their
stories and their hearts: the
newlywed who faked her
virginity on her wedding night,
the twelve-year-old bride sold
into marriage to pay her family’s
debts, the Taliban member’s wife
who pursued her training despite
her husband’s constant beatings.
Through these and other stories,
Rodriguez found the strength to
leave her own unhealthy marriage
and allow herself to love again,
Afghan style.
With warmth and humor,
Rodriguez details the lushness of
a seemingly desolate region and
reveals the magnificence behind
the burqa. Kabul Beauty School is
a remarkable tale of an
extraordinary community of
women who come together and
learn the arts of perms,
friendship, and freedom.
From the Hardcover edition.
Heyday
Written by Kurt Andersen
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TAPAS Flap Copy: Heyday is a
brilliantly imagined, wildly
entertaining tale of America’s
boisterous coming of age–a
sweeping panorama of madcap
rebellion and overnight fortunes,
palaces and brothels, murder and
revenge–as well as the story of a
handful of unforgettable
characters discovering the nature
of freedom, loyalty, friendship,
and true love.
In the middle of the nineteenth
century, modern life is being
born: the mind-boggling marvels
of photography, the telegraph,
and railroads; a flood of show
business spectacles and
newspapers; rampant sex and
drugs and drink (and moral
crusades against all three); Wall
Street awash with money; and
giddy utopian visions
everywhere. Then, during a single
amazing month at the beginning
of 1848, history lurches: America
wins its war of manifest destiny
against Mexico, gold is
discovered in northern California,
and revolutions sweep across
Europe–sending one eager
English gentleman off on an epic
transatlantic adventure. . . .
Amid the tumult, aristocratic
Benjamin Knowles impulsively
abandons the Old World to
reinvent himself in New York,
where he finds himself embraced
by three restless young
Americans: Timothy Skaggs,
muckraking journalist,
daguerreotypist, pleasure-seeker,
stargazer; the fireman Duff
Lucking, a sweet but dangerously
damaged veteran of the Mexican
War; and Duff’s dazzling sister
Polly Lucking, a strong-minded,
free thinking actress (and discreet
part-time prostitute) with whom
Ben falls hopelessly in love.
Beckoned by the frontier, new
beginnings, and the prospects of
the California Gold Rush, all four
set out on a transcontinental race
west–relentlessly tracked,
unbeknownst to them, by a cold-
blooded killer bent on revenge.
A fresh, impeccable portrait of an
era startlingly reminiscent of our
own times, Heyday is by turns
tragic and funny and sublime,
filled with bona fide heroes and
lost souls, visionaries (Walt
Whitman, Charles Darwin, Alexis
de Tocqueville) and monsters,
expanding horizons and narrow
escapes. It is also an affecting
story of four people passionately
chasing their American dreams at
a time when America herself was
still being dreamed up–an
enthralling, old-fashioned yarn
interwoven with a bracingly
modern novel of ideas.
"In this utterly engaging novel,
the author of Turn of the Century
brings 19th-century America
vividly to life . . . While this is a
long book, it moves quickly, with
historical detail that's involving
but never a drag on the action; the
characters are beautifully drawn.
A terrific book; highly
recommended." –Library
Journal
"Heyday is fuled by manic
energy, fanatical research, and a
wicked sense of humor.... It's a
joyful, wild gallop through a
joyful, wild time to be an
American." -Vanity Fair
From the Hardcover edition.
Any Human Heart
Written by William Boyd
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TAPAS Flap Copy: William
Boyd’s masterful new novel tells,
in a series of intimate journals,
the story of Logan Mountstuart—
writer, lover, art dealer, spy—as
he makes his often precarious
way through the twentieth
century.
Strange Pilgrims
Written by Gabriel Garcia
Marquez Translated by Edith
Grossman
ISBN (13 digit): 9781400034697
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TAPAS Flap Copy: In
Barcelona, an aging Brazilian
prostitute trains her dog to weep
at the grave she has chosen for
herself. In Vienna, a woman
parlays her gift for seeing the
future into a fortunetelling
position with a wealthy family. In
Geneva, an ambulance driver and
his wife take in the lonely,
apparently dying ex-President of
a Caribbean country, only to
discover that his political
ambition is very much intact.
In these twelve masterly stories
about the lives of Latin
Americans in Europe, García
Márquez conveys the peculiar
amalgam of melancholy, tenacity,
sorrow, and aspiration that is the
émigré experience.
Sky Burial
Written by Xinran
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TAPAS Flap Copy: It was 1994
when Xinran, a journalist and the
internationally acclaimed author
of The Good Women of China,
received a telephone call asking
her to travel four hours to meet a
woman who had just crossed the
border from Tibet into China.
Xinran made the trip and met the
woman, called Shu Wen, who
recounted the story of her thirty-
year odyssey in the vast
landscape of Tibet. In Sky Burial,
Xinran has re-created Shu Wen’s
journey, painting an extraordinary
portrait of a woman and a land,
each at the mercy of fate and
politics. It is an unforgettable,
ultimately uplifting tale of love,
loss, loyalty, and survival.
Arthur and George
Written by Julian Barnes
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TAPAS Flap Copy: As boys,
George, the son of a Midlands
vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby
genteel Edinburgh, find
themselves in a vast and complex
world at the heart of the British
Empire. Years later—one
struggling with his identity in a
world hostile to his ancestry, the
other creating the world’s most
famous detective while in love
with a woman who is not his
wife–their fates become
inextricably connected.
In Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
explores the grand tapestry of late-
Victorian Britain to create his
most intriguing and engrossing
novel yet.
Miracle in the Andes
Written by Nando Parrado with Vince Rause
ISBN (13 digit): 9781400097692
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TAPAS Flap Copy: In the first hours there was
nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and
perfect silence.
Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days
before he woke to discover that the plane
carrying his rugby team, as well as their family
members and supporters, to an exhibition game
in Chile had crashed somewhere deep in the
Andes. He soon learned that many were dead or
dying—among them his own mother and sister.
Those who remained were stranded on a lifeless
glacier at nearly 12,000 feet above sea level,
with no supplies and no means of summoning
help. They struggled to endure freezing
temperatures, deadly avalanches, and then the
devastating news that the search for them had
been called off.
As time passed and Nando’s thoughts turned
increasingly to his father, who he knew must be
consumed with grief, Nando resolved that he
must get home or die trying. He would
challenge the Andes, even though he was certain
the effort would kill him, telling himself that
even if he failed he would die that much closer
to his father. It was a desperate decision, but it
was also his only chance. So Nando, an ordinary
young man with no disposition for leadership or
heroism, led an expedition up the treacherous
slopes of a snow-capped mountain and across
forty-five miles of frozen wilderness in an
attempt to find help.
Thirty years after the disaster Nando tells his
story with remarkable candor and depth of
feeling. Miracle in the Andes—a first person
account of the crash and its aftermath—is more
than a riveting tale of true-life adventure: it is a
revealing look at life at the edge of death and a
meditation on the limitless redemptive power of
love.
From the Hardcover edition.
The Myth of You and Me
Written by Leah Stewart
ISBN (13 digit): 9781400098071
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TAPAS Flap Copy: When
Cameron was fifteen, she and
Sonia were best friends—so close
it seemed nothing would ever
come between them. Now
Cameron is a twenty-nine-year-
old research assistant with no
meaningful ties to anyone except
her aging boss, noted historian
Oliver Doucet.
Nearly a decade after the incident
that ended their friendship,
Cameron receives an unexpected
letter from her old friend. Despite
Oliver’s urging, she doesn’t reply.
But when he passes away,
Cameron discovers that he has
left her with one final task: to
track down Sonia and hand-
deliver a mysterious package to
her.
The Myth of You and Me captures
the intensity of a friendship as
well as the real sense of loss that
lingers after the end of one.
Searingly honest and beautiful, it
is a celebration and portrait of a
friendship that will appeal to
anyone who still feels the absence
of that first true friend.
A People Magazine “10 Great
Reads,” 2005
A BookSense Pick
The Enchanted April
Written by Elizabeth von Arnim
ISBN (13 digit): 9781590172254
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TAPAS Flap Copy: A recipe for
happiness: four women, one
medieval Italian castle, plenty of
wisteria, and solitude as needed.
The women at the center of The
Enchanted April are alike only in
their dissatisfaction with their
everyday lives. They find each
other—and the castle of their
dreams—through a classified ad
in a London newspaper one rainy
February afternoon. The ladies
expect a pleasant holiday, but they
don’t anticipate that the month
they spend in Portofino will
reintroduce them to their true
natures and reacquaint them with
joy. Now, if the same
transformation can be worked on
their husbands and lovers, the
enchantment will be complete.
The Enchanted April was a best-
seller in both England and the
United States, where it was a
Book-of-the-Month Club
selection, and set off a craze for
tourism to Portofino. More
recently, the novel has been the
inspiration for a major film and a
Broadway play.

The Dud Avocado

Written by Elaine Dundy

ISBN (13 digit): 9781590172322

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TAPAS Flap Copy: The Dud
Avocado follows the romantic and
comedic adventures of a young
American who heads overseas to
conquer Paris in the late 1950s.
Edith Wharton and Henry James
wrote about the American girl
abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy’s
Sally Jay Gorce who told us what
she was really thinking. Charming,
sexy, and hilarious, The Dud
Avocado gained instant cult status
when it was first published and it
remains a timeless portrait of a
woman hell-bent on living.

“I had to tell someone how much I

enjoyed The Dud Avocado. It
made me laugh, scream, and
guffaw (which, incidentally, is a
great name for a law firm).” –
Groucho Marx

"[The Dud Avocado] is one of the

best novels about growing up
fast..." -The Guardian