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I am a new owner and part-time bookseller.  Look for me in the store on Sunday afternoons.  I read primarily fiction with an occasional biography or plot driven non-fiction like Laura Hillenbrand's "Unbroken" or Shackleton's "Endurance."

Some of my favorite authors include: Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, William Boyd, Peter Carey, E.M. Forster, Earnest Hemingway, Kazuo Ishiguro, Denis Johnson, Cormac McCarthy, Ian McKewan, David Mitchell, Charles Portis, Wallace Stegner, David Foster Wallace, Evelyn Waugh, P.G. Wodehouse.

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The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)

By Adam Johnson
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780812992793
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Published: Random House, 1/2012
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The Orphan Master's Son, by Adam Johnson, is an adventure thriller, a coming of age story, and an almost surreal, Alice-in-Wonderland, meander through modern day North Korea. However, unlike the drab backdrop observable in current news footage - with the masses of citizens dressed in the same clothes, shoes, hairstyles, and eye glasses - the characters and landscape are rendered in vivid texture and details. (The author traveled to North Korea as a chaperoned US tourist and it shows.) Even the treatment of Kim Jong Il, the Dear Leader, has depth.

The novel follows the unlikely rise of Pak Jun Do, from his lowly beginnings in an orphanage, through a series of increasingly significant roles (and setbacks) in the North Korean military and political complex. Jun Do serves as a trained dark-tunnel combatant against South Korean incursion, a professional kidnapper working off the coast of Japan, and a listening-post radio operator hidden on a fishing boat. What might sound like an absurd spy-thriller or comic romp is rendered credible when set in the context of one of the most oppressive and bizarre authoritarian regimes in history, even as Jun Do emerges an eventual compatriot and romantic rival to the Dear Leader himself.

To describe OMS solely as an action adventure set in North Korea would be an extreme disservice. The moments of revelation and poignancy throughout this beautifully written literary novel are too numerous to mention and would risk ruining the impact of individual discovery. At its core, OMS serves as a treatise on love and humanity that applies to any modern society while asking the important question "What does it mean to be free?".


Skippy Dies (Paperback)

By Paul Murray
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780865478619
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Published: Faber & Faber, 8/2011
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Set in a Dublin boys' boarding school, this comedic tour-de-force ranges through typical teenage fare like video games and pop music to riffs on string theory and the Goddess Creation Myth. Daring and edgy.


Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War (Paperback)

By Karl Marlantes
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780802145314
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Published: Grove Press, 5/2011
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This semi-autobiographical Vietnam War thriller is rife in detailed battle scenes with the North Vietnamese Army and the complex politics and race relations of the late 1960s.  Written over the course of 30 years by a highly decorated veteran, this reads like an early Tom Clancy novel.

 


Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)

By Joshua Foer
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9781594202292
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Published: Penguin Press HC, The, 3/2011
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This entertaining read is part character study of the "mental athletes" of the competitive memory circuit and part primer on cognitive psychology. Learn about techniques for memorizing Homeric Poems and why teenagers today have trouble remembering their own phone numbers as you follow the author's preparations for the U.S. Memory Championships. If you work Sudoku or crossword puzzles to stay mentally sharp, you will probably benefit from some of the techniques described in this book. With the application of a few simple tricks, you will never forget an item on your grocery list again!


Mr. Peanut (Paperback)

By Adam Ross
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780307454904
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Published: Vintage, 4/2011
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Hitchcock, "The Fugitive", and MC Escher combined in a postmodern noir thriller. Darkly funny and sexy, this debut novel is great fun. 


True Grit (Paperback)

By Charles Portis, Donna Tartt
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781590204597
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Published: Overlook Press, 11/2010
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This lost classic has been revitalized by the recently released Coen brothers' movie. The dialogue and pace of author Charles Portis have been faithfully rendered in the film. Readers of all ages and backgrounds will find something compelling in 14 year-old Mattie Ross's quest to hunt down her father's killer. This is a great book for vacation travel as it can truly be read and enjoyed by everyone in the family.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Paperback)

By David Mitchell
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780812976366
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2/2011
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In 1799, Dejima is a small, artificial island in Nagasaki Harbor that serves as the sole port for a Japanese Empire sealed off from the outside world. Jacob de Zoet travels to Dejima from Holland to earn his fortune with the Dutch East India Company. Instead, he discovers a world of corruption and treachery, and is beguiled by the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor.


Nobody Move: A Novel (Paperback)

By Denis Johnson
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780312429614
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Published: Picador, 4/2010
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Stark, dark, and completely engrossing - this crime novel from the National Book Award winning author of Tree of Smoke takes off in the first couple of pages and never slows down.


Parrot and Olivier in America (Paperback)

By Peter Carey
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780307476012
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Published: Vintage, 5/2011
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An improbable friendship between a French aristocrat and an English printer blossoms during their exploration of the early American nation. This book is full of detailed textures and observations. Loosely based on the lofe of Alexis de Toqueville.

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