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  • Asunder
    Asunder
    by Chloe Aridjis
    Paperback: Sep 2013
     
    Asunder is a rich, resonant novel of beguiling depths and beautiful strangeness, exploring the delicate balance between creation and destruction, control and surrender.
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  • Atmospheric Disturbances
    Atmospheric Disturbances : A Novel
    by Rivka Galchen
    Hardcover: May 2008
    Paperback: Apr 2009
     
    Atmospheric Disturbances is at once a moving love story, a dark comedy, a psychological thriller, and a deeply disturbing portrait of a fracturing mind.
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  • Atomic Anna
    Atomic Anna
    by Rachel Barenbaum
    Hardcover: Apr 2022
    Paperback: Mar 2023
     
    From the author of A Bend in the Stars, an epic adventure as three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Chernobyl disaster and right the wrongs of their past.
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  • The Atomic Weight of Love
    The Atomic Weight of Love
    by Elizabeth Church
    Hardcover: May 2016
    Paperback: Mar 2017
     
    In the spirit of The Aviator's Wife and Loving Frank, this resonant debut spans the years from World War II through the Vietnam War to tell the story of a woman whose scientific ambition is caught up in her relationships with two very different men.
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  • Atonement
    Atonement
    by Ian McEwan
    Hardcover: Mar 2002
    Paperback: Feb 2003
     
    Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class. At its center this is a profound–and profoundly moving–exploration of shame, forgiveness and the difficulty of absolution.
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  • Augustown
    Augustown
    by Kei Miller
    Hardcover: May 2017
    Paperback: May 2018
     
    In the wake of Marlon James's Man Booker Prize–winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Augustown - set in the backlands of Jamaica - is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, ...
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  • The Austere Academy
    The Austere Academy : Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5
    by Lemony Snicket
    Hardcover: Aug 2000
    Paperback: Apr 2008
     
    Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are at first optimistic--attending school is a welcome change for the book-loving trio, and the academy is allegedly safe from the dreaded Count Olaf, who is after their fortune.
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  • Austerlitz
    Austerlitz
    by W.G. Sebald
    Hardcover: Oct 2001
    Paperback: Sep 2002
     
    Embodies the universal human search for identity, the struggle to impose coherence on memory, a struggle complicated by the mind’s defenses against trauma.
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