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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. Kingsolver has created an unforgettable portrait of the artist pulled between two nations—and of art itself. A rich and daring work of literature, The Lacuna establishes its author as one of the most provocative and important of her time.

John Irving's novel, Last Night in Twisted River begins in 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging settlement in northern New Hampshire, when an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as Irving’s breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp.

The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics, and readers will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. Mixing smart thinking and great storytelling, the authors show how people respond to incentives and in so doing reveal the world for what it really is – good, bad, ugly, and, super freaky.