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  Middlemarch

  by George Eliot

  Vast and crowded, rich in irony and suspense, Middlemarch is richer still in character, with two of the era's most enduring characters, Dorothea Brooke, trapped in a loveless marriage, and Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor.
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  Final Exam

  by Julio Cortazar

  Long undiscovered, Final Exam, Julio Cortzar's first novel (published 1986 in Spanish) is a major work by this important Argentinian author, now available in English translation for the first time. In its characters, themes, and preoccupations it prefigures Cortzar's later fictions, including Blow-Up and his masterpiece Hopscotch. Written in 1950 (just before the fall of Pern's government), Final Exam is Cortzar's... (more)
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  The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet

  by Reif Larsen

  Book Description A brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel tracing twelve-year-old genius map maker T.S. Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of the world When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal—if you consider mapping family dinner table conversation normal—is interrupted... (more)