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Indie Next List
Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
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Thompson-Cannino, Jennifer,
Cotton, Ronald,
Torneo, Erin
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$25.95
Published: St. Martin's Press, 2009
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A black man is accused of a terrible crime by a white woman and spends years in prison before being exonerated by DNA evidence. Then, the previously incarcerated man and the victim become friends, team up, and set out on a mission to rescue others falsely accused. No novel tells a story this important or heartrending. Read it!--Deal Safrit , Literary Book Post (Salisbury, NC)
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A Fortunate Age
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Rakoff, Joanna Smith,
Smith Rakoff, Joanna
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$26.00
Published: Scribner Book Company, 2009
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Joanna Smith Rakoff's first novel chronicles the sometimes ludicrous, maddeningly funny, and, often, moving adventures of a gifted group of twenty-something friends in New York City just after college graduation. Combining cockeyed details of development that ring true with empathy and insight, Rakoff tells the story of marriages, children, and the success (or failure) of these characters' art with a light and witty touch. A portrait of a generation, A Fortunate Age is a delight--Jill Owens, Powell's Books, Inc (Portland, OR)
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The Miracles of Prato
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Lico Albanese, Laurie
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$24.99
Published: William Morrow & Company, 2009
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Based on the true story of Fra Filippo Lippi's love for a young nun (whom he immortalized as the Madonna in many of his greatest works), this novel is beautifully evocative of Renaissance Italy, and I found the descriptions of the process of Lippi's artistry to be insightful and enlightening. A wonderful book to take on a journey to Tuscany.--Jennie Turner-Collins, Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Cincinnati, OH)
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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
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Grandin, Temple,
Johnson, Catherine
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$26.00
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), 2009
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In Animals Make Us Human, Temple Grandin's special connection to animals is obvious once again, and she has written, with Catherine Johnson, a great reference for animal lovers and animal behaviorists. Like Helen Keller, the autistic author shows that having disabilities does not mean that you are an incapable human being -- rather, she proves the contrary.--Rachel Olin-Levy, Books & Books, Inc. (Coral Gables, FL)
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The Help
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Stockett, Kathryn
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$24.95
Published: Putnam Adult, 2009
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The Help recreates a time -- Mississippi in 1962 -- that is totally engrossing and pitch-perfect. This story of women in the South, black and white, in the eye of a hurricane of monumental change is thoroughly satisfying and enjoyable.--Sheila Burns, Bloomsbury Books (Ashland, OR)
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Cutting for Stone
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Verghese, Abraham
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$26.95
Published: Knopf Publishing Group, 2009
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Cutting for Stone resists easy categorization -- it is just as much the chronicle of a bond between twin brothers and family as it is a book about medicine, or a story of grace. Verghese's carefully drawn characters are compelling and unforgettable -- this is a book you will have to share with others, if you can bear parting with your copy.--Meredith Allison, Brazos Bookstore, Inc. (Houston, TX)
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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
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Grandin, Temple,
Johnson, Catherine
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$26.00
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), 2009
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In Animals Make Us Human, Temple Grandin's special connection to animals is obvious once again, and she has written, with Catherine Johnson, a great reference for animal lovers and animal behaviorists. Like Helen Keller, the autistic author shows that having disabilities does not mean that you are an incapable human being -- rather, she proves the contrary.--Rachel Olin-Levy, Books & Books, Inc. (Coral Gables, FL)
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The Help
by
Stockett, Kathryn
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$24.95
Published: Putnam Adult, 2009
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The Help recreates a time -- Mississippi in 1962 -- that is totally engrossing and pitch-perfect. This story of women in the South, black and white, in the eye of a hurricane of monumental change is thoroughly satisfying and enjoyable.--Sheila Burns, Bloomsbury Books (Ashland, OR)
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The Piano Teacher
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Lee, Janice Y. K.
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$25.95
Published: Viking Books, 2009
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Ms. Lee makes a powerful entry into the literary world with this lush, intriguing novel of Hong Kong on the edge of World War II and then its aftermath. Creating characters as exotic and mysterious as the story's locale she portrays a society that was lost, a facade that eventually brought horrific costs to most of its members.--Bill Cusumano, Nicola's Books (Ann Arbor, MI)
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2666
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Bolano, Roberto,
Wimmer, Natasha
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$30.00
Published: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2008
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2666 is the culmination of Roberto Bolano's expansive brilliance, as traces of such previous works as The Savage Detectives have been perfected and fused together seemlessly as part of a larger whole. This is a daring book that takes major risks throughout, and its overall impact is impossible to ignore or ever forget.--Nathan Halter, The Doylestown Bookshop (Doylestown, PA)
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves
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Anderson, M. T.
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$22.99
Published: Candlewick Press (MA), 2008
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Sequel to the National Book Award winner, this historical novel transports the reader to the early days of America's revolution. The future is open, everything is up in the air, and the hardest choice is one of loyalty: should Octavian fight for the rebels who want to keep him a slave, or should he follow hope and side with the royalists who promise him personal freedom? Anderson's provocative story continues to enlarge the young-adult novel in thoughtful, glorious ways.--Mark David Bradshaw, Watermark Books (Wichita, KS)
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The Wordy Shipmates
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Vowell, Sarah
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$25.95
Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 2008
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As always, Vowell is darkly hilarious and freshly informative. She pokes fun at the buckle-shoed Puritans who first settled here, but she also tells a story of how their quirks, foibles, and love of words formed our country's personality. Her distinct and sharply witty voice makes this book an edifying delight.--Laura Delaney, The Rediscovered Bookshop (Boise, ID)
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Downtown Owl
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Klosterman, Chuck
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$24.00
Published: Scribner Book Company, 2008
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Chuck Klosterman has hit the nail on the head in this depiction of small town life in the Midwest. It all rings true: the new teacher in town, single and every single man after her; the high school football coach; the town with more bars than churches. A very enjoyable read with great characters and an unexpected ending.--Carl Wichman, Varsity Mart North Dakota State University (Fargo, ND)
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The Flying Troutmans
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Toews, Miriam
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$24.00
Published: Counterpoint LLC, 2008
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Is it OK to laugh out loud at the misadventures of an earnest but clueless aunt steaming ahead on a road trip with her niece and nephew in a quest to rescue them from their mentally unstable mother and to track down their long-absent father? These are characters with a great sense of humor, and, so, I decided the answer was 'yes.' Miriam Toews mines the darkly comic while exposing the poignant truths in family relationships.--Cheryl McKeon, Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park, WA)
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Serena
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Rash, Ron
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$24.99
Published: Ecco, 2008
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Buckle your seatbelts, folks, you are in for an amazing ride. Set in the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina during the Depression, this incredible novel is about love, greed, revenge, and survival -- a story told in epic proportions, complete with a Greek chorus of lumberjacks.--Kathryn Fabiani, R.J. Julia Booksellers (Madison, CT)
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Goldengrove
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Prose, Francine
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$24.95
Published: Harper, 2008
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At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity, falling into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister's enigmatic boyfriend.
Over one haunted summer, Nico must face that life-changing moment when children realize their parents can no longer help them. She learns about the power of art, of time and place, the mystery of loss and recovery. But for all the darkness at the novel's heart, the narrative itself is radiant with the lightness of summer and charged by the restless sexual tension of teenage life.
"Goldengrove" takes its place among the great novels of adolescence, beside Henry James's "The Awkward Age" and L. P. Hartley's "The Go-Between,"
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Ghostgirl Bk1
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Hurley, Tonya
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$17.99
Published: Little, Brown Young Readers, 2008
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"Charlotte Usher has a problem: she's invisible. She's also dead -- but she was invisible long before she was dead. In fact, she died at the very moment her dream date was about to notice her. How unfair is that? Now, she's a ghost, apparently with unfinished business with someone at Hawthorne High. Hurley has written an insightful novel about giving everything you've got to get noticed." --Keri Holmes, The Kaleidoscope: Our Focus Is You, Hampton, IA
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Anathem
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Stephenson, Neal
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$29.95
Published: William Morrow & Company, 2008
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Welcome to a world that only Neal Stephenson could create: math as religion! Amidst a tumult of squabbling, consumerist societies stand a handful of monastic enclaves where logic and science are sacred. When the entire planet is threatened, order and chaos make very strange bedfellows. Anathem is a cerebral romp!--Hap Houlihan, The Morris Book Shop (Lexington, KY)
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American Wife
by
Sittenfeld, Curtis
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$26.00
Published: Random House, 2008
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The reader will recognize the main characters, Alice and Charlie, as they experience their tempestuous courtship and marriage, and their rise to political fame and fortune. Although the setting is Wisconsin, the protagonists bear a curious resemblance to a couple from Texas who achieved the highest office of the land. This story, told from the perspective of a fictional First Lady, is hard to put down!--Marilyn Sieb, Books & Company (Oconomowoc, WI)
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The Good Thief
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Tinti, Hannah
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$25.00
Published: Dial Press, 2008
Inventory Status: Out of Print
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Ren, one of many orphans at Saint Anthony's Orphanage for boys, is approaching the age when he will be conscripted into the army. A swaggering Benjamin Nab appears and claims Ren as his long-lost brother. But, as soon as they are on the way, it is clear that Benjamin Nab is not anything he seems to be. Tinti has written a wonderful, compelling novel.--Lyn Roberts, Square Books (Oxford, MS)
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