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The Current Indie Adult Picks with the #1 picks for each month.

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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Paperback)

By Susanna Clarke
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9781582346038
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Published: Bloomsbury USA, 8/2005
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This is the Indie Fiction Pick of the Year for 2008!

Cutting for Stone (Paperback)

By Abraham Verghese
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780375714368
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage, 1/2010
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This is the Indie Fiction Pick of the Year for 2009! It is also one of Keela's favorite books!

The Help (Paperback)

By Kathryn Stockett
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780425232200
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Published: Berkley Trade, 4/2011
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This is the Indie Debut Pick of the Year for 2009! It is a favorite of many of our store's employees.

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Paperback)

By David Grann
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9781400078455
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Published: Vintage, 1/2010
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This is the Indie Nonfiction Pick of the Year for 2009!

Left Neglected (Hardcover)

By Lisa Genova
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781439164631
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Gallery Books, 1/2011
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The #1 Indie pick for January 2011! An emotional must-read!

West of Here (Hardcover)

By Jonathan Evison
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781565129528
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2/2011
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The #1 Indie pick for February 2011! A gorgeous novel that flows and delights!

The Tiger's Wife (Hardcover)

By Tea Obreht
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780385343831
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Published: Random House, 3/2011
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The #1 Indie pick for March 2011; this is a beautiful & magical novel!

Say Her Name (Hardcover)

By Francisco Goldman
$24.00
ISBN-13: 9780802119810
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Published: Grove Press, 4/2011
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The #1 Indie pick for April 2011. This is both a beautiful novel and an honest memoir.

The Story of Beautiful Girl (Hardcover)

By Rachel Simon
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780446574464
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Published: Grand Central Publishing, 5/2011
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The #1 Indie pick for May 2011. A remarkable novel that will steal your heart!

Silver Sparrow (Hardcover)

By Tayari Jones
$19.95
ISBN-13: 9781565129900
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 5/2011
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The #1 Indie pick for June 2011! A complex and gripping coming-of-age story with memorable characters.

Turn of Mind (Hardcover)

By Alice LaPlante
$24.00
ISBN-13: 9780802119773
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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press, 7/2011
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The #1 Indie pick for July 2011! An emotionally intense story.

Iron House (Hardcover)

By John Hart
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780312380342
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Thomas Dunne Books, 7/2011
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The #1 Indie pick for August 2011! This is a thriller that Marc really enjoyed.

The Night Circus (Hardcover)

By Erin Morgenstern
$28.95
ISBN-13: 9780385534635
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Published: Doubleday, 9/2011
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The #1 Indie pick for September 2011! A nostalgic yet modern fairy tale.

When She Woke (Hardcover)

By Hillary Jordan
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781565126299
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 10/2011
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The #1 Indie pick for October 2011! This is stunning, suspenseful, and scary.

The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories (Hardcover)

By Don DeLillo
$24.00
ISBN-13: 9781451655841
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Published: Scribner, 11/2011
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The #1 Indie pick for November 2011! A collection of short stories written between 1979 and 2011.

The Sisters (Hardcover)

By Nancy Jensen
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780312542702
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Published: St. Martin's Press, 11/2011
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The #1 Indie pick for December 2011! This is a powerful story of family through three generations.

Running the Rift (Hardcover)

By Naomi Benaron
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781616200428
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1/2012
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The #1 Indie pick for January 2012! Both beautiful and heart-rending, horrific and hopeful.

A Good American (Hardcover)

By Alex George
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780399157592
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Published: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 2/2012
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The #1 Indie pick for February 2012! A beautiful reminder of the irreplaceable role immigration has played in our country.

Carry the One (Hardcover)

By Carol Anshaw
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781451636888
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 3/2012
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The #1 Indie pick for March 2012! "Carry the One "shows how one life affects another, and how those who thrive and those who self-destruct are closer to each other than we'd expect.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)

By Cheryl Strayed
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780307592736
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Published: Knopf, 3/2012
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The #1 Indie pick for April 2012! A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.

The Lola Quartet (Hardcover)

By Emily St. John Mandel
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781609530792
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Published: Unbridled Books, 5/2012
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The #1 Indie pick for May 2012! The last thing unemployed Gavin wants to do is return to his hometown in Florida, but he's in no position to refuse when he's offered a job by his sister to foreclose homes. When Gavin returns, he discovers the secret life of his ex-girlfriend and begins to track her down.

Canada (Hardcover)

By Richard Ford
$27.99
ISBN-13: 9780061692048
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Published: Ecco, 5/2012
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The #1 Indie pick for June 2012! A haunting and elemental novel about a young man forced by catastrophic circumstance to reconcile himself to a world that has been rendered unrecognizable.

Gold (Hardcover)

By Chris Cleave
$27.00
ISBN-13: 9781451672725
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 7/2012
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The #1 Indie pick for July 2012! Cleave writes with elegance, humor, and passion about friendship, marriage, parenthood, tragedy, and redemption.

The Light Between Oceans (Hardcover)

By M.L. Stedman
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781451681734
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Scribner, 8/2012
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The #1 Indie pick for August 2012! A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore.

The Vanishing Act (Hardcover)

By Mette Jakobsen
$23.95
ISBN-13: 9780393062922
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 9/2012
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The #1 Indie pick for September 2012! One morning Minou finds a dead boy washed up on the beach. Her father decides to lay him in the room that once belonged to her mother. Minou will discover the truth about loss and love, in a story that is uniquely enchanting.

The End of Your Life Book Club (Hardcover)

By Will Schwalbe
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780307594037
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Published: Knopf, 10/2012
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The #1 Indie pick for October 2012! The inspiring story of a son and his dying mother, who form a "book club" that brings them together as her life comes to a close. A profoundly moving testament to the power of love between a child and parent, and the power of reading.

The Art Forger (Hardcover)

By Barbara Shapiro, B. A. Shapiro
$23.95
ISBN-13: 9781616201326
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 10/2012
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The #1 Indie pick for November 2012! In 1990, 13 works of art worth today more than $500 million were stolen from a museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there's more to this crime than meets the eye.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Hardcover)

By Jon Meacham
$35.00
ISBN-13: 9781400067664
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Random House, 11/2012
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Y (Hardcover)

By Marjorie Celona
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9781451674385
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Published: Free Press, 1/2013
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The #1 Indie pick for January 2013! Celona's highly acclaimed and exquisitely rendered debut is about a wise-beyond-her-years foster child abandoned as a newborn on the doorstep of the local YMCA. Yet Shannon defines life on her own terms, refusing to settle down, and never stops longing ...
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