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The Solitude of Prime Numbers (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780670021482Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Viking Adult, 03/01/2010
A bestselling international literary sensation about whether a "prime number" can ever truly connect with someone else.
A prime number can only be divided by itself or by one-it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia, both "primes," are misfits who seem destined to be alone. Haunted by childhood tragedies that mark their lives, they cannot reach out to anyone else. When Alice and Mattia meet as teenagers, they recognize in each other a kindred, damaged spirit.
But the mathematically gifted Mattia accepts a research position that takes him thousands of miles away, and the two are forced to separate. Then a chance occurrence reunites them and forces a lifetime of concealed emotion to the surface.
Like Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time, this is a stunning meditation on loneliness, love, and the weight of childhood experience that is set to become a universal classic.
Recommended by: Jet, Edith
The Madonnas of Echo Park (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9781439170809Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Free Press, 06/01/2010
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780385501125Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Doubleday, 06/01/2010
My Life as a Russian Novel: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780805087550Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Metropolitan Books, 08/01/2010
An unsparingly truthful account of love, betrayal, and the traps we set for ourselves, by France's master of psychological suspense
In work after work, the critically acclaimed author Emmanuel Carrère has trained his unblinking gaze on the lives of others as they fight a losing battle with that most fearsome of adversaries—the self. Now, determined to escape the bleak visions of his narratives, he takes on a film project in the heart of Russia while also embarking on a new love affair back home in Paris. But soon enough, the diversion he seeks eludes him, intimacy proves too arduous, and Carrv®re is left peering into the dark mirror of his own life.
Set in Paris and Kotelnich, a small post-Soviet town, My Life as a Russian Novel traces Carrère's pursuit of two obsessions—the disappearance of his Russian grandfather and his erotic fascination with a woman he loves but cannot keep from destroying. In prose that is elegant and passionate, Carrère weaves the strands of his story into a travelogue of a journey inward. Road trip, confession, erotic tour de force—this fearless reckoning illuminates the schemes we devise to evade ourselves and the inevitable payment they exact.
In work after work, the critically acclaimed author Emmanuel Carrère has trained his unblinking gaze on the lives of others as they fight a losing battle with that most fearsome of adversaries—the self. Now, determined to escape the bleak visions of his narratives, he takes on a film project in the heart of Russia while also embarking on a new love affair back home in Paris. But soon enough, the diversion he seeks eludes him, intimacy proves too arduous, and Carrv®re is left peering into the dark mirror of his own life.
Set in Paris and Kotelnich, a small post-Soviet town, My Life as a Russian Novel traces Carrère's pursuit of two obsessions—the disappearance of his Russian grandfather and his erotic fascination with a woman he loves but cannot keep from destroying. In prose that is elegant and passionate, Carrère weaves the strands of his story into a travelogue of a journey inward. Road trip, confession, erotic tour de force—this fearless reckoning illuminates the schemes we devise to evade ourselves and the inevitable payment they exact.
The Lonely Polygamist (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780393062625Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 05/01/2010
From a luminous storyteller, a highly anticipated new novel about the American family writ large.
The House of Tomorrow (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780399156090Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 03/01/2010
Solar (Hardcover)
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Published: Nan A. Talese, 03/01/2010
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780307269997Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Knopf, 05/01/2010
Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—is under close supervision in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: when she’s well enough, she’ll stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will have to prove her innocence, and to identify the corrupt politicians who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse. And, on her own, she will plot her revenge—against the man who tried to kill her and the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.
Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Lisbeth Salander is ready to fight back.
Recommended by: Jet (reading the Dutch translation...)
Recommended by: Jet (reading the Dutch translation...)
The Lake Shore Limited (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780307264213Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Knopf, 04/01/2010
A beautifully and bravely written novel about an accident beyond anyone's control and how four people atone and come to peace with it. At the core of the story is a play previewing in Boston that becomes central to the lives of the playwright, the play's lead actor, and two attendees with a family tie to the 9/11 tragedy. Vivid characters and their personal narratives flow in and out of this moving novel about the consequences of loss.
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