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Feb 2 |  The Bridge of San Luis Rey Harper Perennial $12.99 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins "The Bridge of San Luis Rey, " one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world. By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death -- and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition. This new edition of Wilder's 1928 Pulitzer Prize winning novel contains a new foreword by Russell Banks. | Thornton Wilder | Maureen Casterline? |
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Mar 2 |  Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West ReganBooks $16.00 | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? | Gregory Maguire | Pat Lehman |
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Apr 6 |  A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, no. 1) Square Fish $6.99 | A Wrinkle in Time It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
"Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."
| Madeleine L'Engle | Margaret Vandenbark |
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May 4 |  The Help Putnam Adult $24.95 | The Help In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another. | Kathryn Stockett | Liz Smith |
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June 1 |  The Hearts of Horses Mariner Books $13.95 | The Hearts of Horses With an elegant sweetness and a pitch-perfect sense of western life reminiscent of Annie Dillard, Gloss's breakout novel is a remarkable story about the connections between people and animals and how they touch one another in the most unexpected and profound ways. | Molly Gloss | Karen Black |
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July 6 |  Audition Vintage Books USA $15.95 | Audition In her bestselling autobiography, Walters, arguably the most important woman in the history of television, describes her extraordinary public and private journey. | Barbara Walters | Marge McNary |
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Aug 3 |  The Elegance of the Hedgehog Europa Editions $15.00 | The Elegance of the Hedgehog In this enthralling international bestseller, two girls live inconspicuous lives in the center of an elegant Paris apartment building. It is only when a stranger moves into their building--and sees through the girls' disguises--that Paloma and Rene discover their kindred spirits. | Muriel Barbery | Judy Carder |
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Sept 7 |  Olive Kitteridge Random House Trade $14.00 | Olive Kitteridge "Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition--its conflicts, tragedies, and joys. Strout constructs her stories with rich irony and moments of genuine surprise and intense emotion." --USA Today | Elizabeth Strout | Jean Gill ? |
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Oct 5 |  Run Harper Perennial $14.95 | Run Set over a period of 24 hours, Run shows how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include the most unlikely of people, in this novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths people will go to protect their children. | Ann Patchett | Carol Brenneman |
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Nov 2 |  Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Ballantine Books $15.00 | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope. In Henry and Keiko, Jamie Ford has created an unforgettable duo whose story teaches us of the power of forgiveness and the human heart. | Jamie Ford | Patty Went |
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