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What We're Reading NowNovember 2014
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Horrorstör
by Grady Hendrix
After strange things start happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, three employees volunteer to work an overnight shift to investigate, but what they discover is more horrifying than they could have imagined
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Five days left
by Julie Lawson Timmer
A terminally ill career woman, wife and mother—and a middle-school foster parent whose 8-year-old boy is about to return to his former inmate mother—traverse the last five days they have to say goodbye to their loved ones. A first novel. 100,000 first printing.
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Neverhome
by Laird Hunt
Follows the experiences of Ash Thompson, who becomes a folk hero after she abandons her farmer husband and disguises herself as a man to go fight for the South during the Civil War. 50,000 first printing.
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Station eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
The sudden death of a Hollywood actor during a production of King Lear marks the beginning of the world's dissolution, in a story told at various past and future times from the perspectives of the actor and four of his associates. By the author of The Lola Quartet. 50,000 first printing.
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The silent wife : a novel
by A. S. A. Harrison
Told in alternating voices, this gripping novel follows the events leading up to the violent dissolution of Jodi and Todd's marriage—a union steeped in lies, infidelity, jealousy and denial. Original.
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The objects of her affection : a novel
by Sonya Cobb
Art thief Sophie steals paintings from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in order to keep her house out of foreclosure, but when the FBI begin sniffing around, Sophis is close to destroying the very life she's worked so hard to build
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Dear Committee Members
by Julie Schumacher
Enduring budget cuts and the favoritism of other departments at a small liberal arts college, literature professor Jason Fitger despairs of his writing ambitions and imposed role in a star pupil's would-be opus while writing wryly comic, passive-aggressive letters to students and colleagues.
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Stone mattress : nine tales
by Margaret Atwood
The award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale presents a collection of short stories that features such protagonists as a widowed writer who is guided by her late husband's voice and a woman whose genetic abnormality causes her to be mistaken for a vampire. 60,000 first printing.
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Lisette's list : a novel
by Susan Vreeland
A tale centered on the lives of Provence-inspired master artists follows the experiences of an exiled young Parisian who cares for her husband's ailing grandfather during the Vichy regime and rediscovers love through the master works of Cezanne, Pissarro, Chagall and Picasso. By the best-selling author of The Girl in Hyacinth Blue.
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