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Pub Date: Dec 9, 2010
In Froderberg's highly stylized, uniquely voiced first novel, a young bride's growing disillusionment about her marriage coincides with the drought plaguing her Arizona community.
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Pub Date: Oct 1, 2010
In Grossman's debut novel, a Jewish cop in 1932 Berlin hunts the perpetrators of a grotesque crime, against a backdrop of political turmoil.
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Pub Date: Sep 1, 2010
In this debut novel from Japanese writer Kawakami, a Tokyo woman coping with the mysterious loss of her husband finds herself suddenly drawn to a small fishing village.
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Pub Date: Aug 10, 2010
Australian author Tranter makes her splendid debut with this novel about friendship, love, abuse and deceit.
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Pub Date: Jul 1, 2010
Character is key in this deliciously edgy thriller, screenwriter Pyne's (The Manchurian Candidate) first novel.
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Pub Date: Jun 1, 2010
Boggs's sure-footed debut collection, winner of the Bakeless Prize for Fiction, is set on and around the Mattaponi Indian reservation in Virginia.
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