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Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book
by HarperCollins (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-09-30)

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family. . . . Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his New York Times bestselling modern classic coraline. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the graveyard book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.

Cormac McCarthy
The Road (Readers Circle (Center Point))
by Center Point Large Print (Hardcover)

Yann Martel
Life of Pi
by Canongate Books Ltd (Hardcover)

Toni Morrison
Beloved
by Vintage (Paperback) (Release Date: 2004-06-08)

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.

Neil Gaiman
Coraline
by HarperTeen (Paperback) (Release Date: 2004-05-04)

Jim Butcher
Backup
by Subterranean (Hardcover)

Let's get something clear right up front.I'm not Harry Dresden.Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. He'll spit in the eye of gods and demons alike if he thinks it needs to be done, and to hell with the consequences--and yet somehow my little brother manages to remain a decent human being. I'll be damned if I know how. But then, I'll be damned regardless.My name is Thomas Raith, and I'm a monster.So begins "Backup," a twelve thousand word novelette set in Jim Butcher s ultra-popular Dresden Files series. This time Harry's in trouble he knows nothing about, and it's up to his big brother Thomas to track him down and solve those little life-threatening difficulties without his little brother even noticing.

Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
by Vintage (Paperback) (Release Date: 1992-05-05)

Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men
by Knopf (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2005-07-19)

Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy.Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim’s burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes how desperately Moss and his young wife need protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex–Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accustomed to spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches up and down and across the border, each participant seemingly determined to answer what one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?A harrowing story of ...

Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) (Oxford Mark Twain)
by Oxford University Press, USA (Hardcover)

Ian McEwan
Atonement
by Anchor (Mass Market Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-11-27)

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