Pictures from an Institution

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  The Groves of Academe

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  Headshot

  An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical intimacy of physical competition
  
  An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family’s unrelenting expecta…

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  The Dog of the South

  The narrator is Ray Midge, down-at-the-heels Southerner after his wife. "Norma had run off with Guy Dupree and I was waiting around for the credit card billings to come in so I could see where they ha…

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  Pnin

  One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an Ame…

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  Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

  The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characters and a setting that even Agatha Christie might recognize – a vicar, an Army major, a Dowager, a sle…

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  Caledonian Road

  A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families and their rising―and declining―fortunes.
  
  Campbell Flynn, art historian and biographer of Vermeer, alway…

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  Libertarianism: A Primer

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  The Spy Who Loved Me

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  The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

  It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town an aging Classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to r…

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  Dear Life

  Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales about departures and beginnings, accidents and dangers, and outgoings and homecomings both imagined and …

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  Stepping Westward

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  The Rachel Papers

  In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of the most noxiously believable -- and curiously touching -- adolescents ever to sniffle and lust his w…

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  Chouette

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  Ex-Wife

  An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929—the story of a divorce and its aftermath, which scandalized the Jazz Age.
  
  It's 1924, and Peter and Patricia have what looks to be a very …

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  Encounter

  A brilliant new contribution to Kundera's ongoing reflections on art and artists, written with unparalleled insight, authority, and range of reference and allusion
  
  Milan Kundera's new collection of ess…

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  The Winner

  “Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner—a book I started and then simply couldn’t stop reading. Teddy Wayne has written a timely, topical novel that still somehow feels like a classic.”—Liz …

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  The Children Act

  A fiercely intelligent, well-respected High Court judge in London faces a morally ambiguous case while her own marriage crumbles in a novel that will keep readers thoroughly enthralled until the last …

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  A Passage to India

  When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape …

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  An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

  An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on th…

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  The Hero of This Book

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