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New Fiction
Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
In his first novel since the acclaimed bestseller, The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen gives readers everything they could've been waiting for, in this epic of contemporary love and marriage. FREEDOM comically...
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New Fiction
Everything Matters! by Ron Currie
Junior Thibodeau grows up in rural Maine in a time of Atari, baseball cards, pop Catholicism and cocaine. He also knows something no one else knows - neither his exalted parents, nor his baseall-savant...
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New Fiction
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, gives readers a hilarious and heartfelt new novel, in which he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America's...
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New Fiction
The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody
In the year 2025, Montese Crandall has very little going for him in life and even fewer prospects, so he is thrilled when he gets the chance to write the novelization of the remake of the 1963 horror classic,...
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New Young Adult
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by...
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New Rock Biography
Mustaine by David Mustaine; Joe Layden
Dave Mustaine, widely regarded as the 'founding father' of Thrash Metal, almost single-handedly created the enduring multi-platinum style that launched both Megadeath and Metallica into the public's consciousness....
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New Military History
Korean War: A History by Bruce Cumings
(A Modern Library Chronicles Book). With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and aborad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Bruce cummings reveals the war...
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New Fiction
What is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman
Howard Norman returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books - The Bird Artist, The Museum Guard, and The Haunting of L - in this erotically charged and morally complex story. Seventeen-year-old...
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New Non-Fiction Literature
Collected Prose by Paul Auster
(Expanded Edition). A highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings (including the seminal work The Invention of Solitude), and collaborations with artists, as...
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New Fiction
One Day by David Nicholls
It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. They both know that the next day, after college graduation, they must go their separate ways. But after only one day together, they find...
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Tote your towels, sunscreen and books in this summery Strand beach bag! Click below for more ideas on what to bring to the beach.
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Upcoming Event
September 13
7:00PM - 8:00PMFrederic Tuten, reading and signing.
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Upcoming Event
September 14
7:00PM - 8:00PMJames Ellroy, reading and signing.
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Who's this hot Strand employee?
Robert Pattinson plays Strand employee Tyler Hawkins in the new movie, Remember Me. The Strand is featured in the film during a pivotal scene between Tyler and his friend, another Strand employee.
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