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Pacific Northwest
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Loving Frank
Loving Frank
by Nancy Horan
Publisher Comments
I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright... (read more)

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Literature
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My Sister's Keeper
My Sister's Keeper
by Jodi Picoult
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New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that... (read more)

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Science Fiction and Fantasy
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The Road (Oprah's Book Club Selection #57)
The Road (Oprah's Book Club Selection #57)
by Cormac McCarthy
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A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when... (read more)

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US History
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
Staff Pick
"I was mesmerized by this book. It was a deliciously creepy read, made more creepy for being true. Several times in the course of reading it, I had to keep reminding myself that the events really happened."... (read more)

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Sale Books
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The Poisonwood Bible (P.S.)
The Poisonwood Bible (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver
Staff Pick
In The Poisonwood Bible, a Baptist missionary takes his family to the Belgian Congo in the late '50s, endangering the lives of his wife and four daughters. Alternating between the voices of the mother and daughters, Kingsolver successfully paints the... (read more)

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General
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Modern Classics) (P.S.)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Modern Classics) (P.S.)
by Zora Neale Hurston
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Hurston's beloved classic--one of the most important American novels of the 20th century--follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman who was married three times and had been tried for the murder of one of her husbands in the black town of Eaton... (read more)

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Biography
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
Publisher Comments
Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one... (read more)

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Children's Middle Readers
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The City of Ember
The City of Ember
by Jeanne DuPrau
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The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are beginning to flicker. When Lina finds part of an ancient message, she’s sure it holds a secret that will save the city.... (read more)

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Humor
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The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.)
The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.)
by Edward Abbey
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Four irate rebels join forces to wage war on the stripminers, clear-cutters, and the highway and dam and bridge builders who are turning their natural habitat into a wasteland. A new Introduction by historian Brinkley puts this enduring cult classic in... (read more)

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Gay and Lesbian Studies
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Michael Tolliver Lives (P.S.)
Michael Tolliver Lives (P.S.)
by Armistead Maupin
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Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero Michael Tolliver — the fifty-five-year-old sweet-spirited gardener and survivor of the plague that took... (read more)

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Sale Books
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Unless (P.S.)
Unless (P.S.)
by Carol Shields
Publisher Comments
Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of light summertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out of college to become a panhandler on a Toronto street corner —... (read more)

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Used Books
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The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation (P.S.)
The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation (P.S.)
by Paulo Coelho
Publisher Comments
Coelho's parable of good versus evil relates the story of a stranger who enters a remote village and proposes a wager to the town: if someone turns up murdered within a week, he'll give the town enough gold to make everyone wealthy.... (read more)

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Bestsellers

Sunday, July 12, 2009
Loving Frank
  1. Loving Frank
    by Nancy Horan
  2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
  3. My Sister's Keeper
    by Jodi Picoult
  4. The White Tiger
    by Aravind Adiga
  5. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    by Erik Larson
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