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The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
by Reif Larsen
Staff Pick
Twelve-year-old T.S. Spivet draws maps of train routes and water tables, maps of loneliness, the resilience of memory, even a map of his sister shucking corn. Author Reif Larsen notes, "I think I'm gently expanding the definition of the word map." And... (read more)

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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
by Matthew B. Crawford
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One of the most engaging, thought-provoking books I've read in a long time. Matthew Crawford has delivered an accessible, carefully reasoned examination of work and America's evolving ideas about it, addressing a host of important subjects — for... (read more)

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Rustic Fruit Desserts: Crumbles, Buckles, Cobblers, Pandowdies, and More
Rustic Fruit Desserts: Crumbles, Buckles, Cobblers, Pandowdies, and More
by Cory Schreiber and Julie Richardson
Staff Pick
You may have heard of a buckle or a betty, but how about a pandowdy or slump? Filled with homey recipes and old-fashioned pleasures, you needn't be adventurous or a professional baker to make these irresistible and delicious desserts. These classic... (read more)

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Portland Noir (Akashic Noir)
Portland Noir (Akashic Noir)
by Kevin Sampsell
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There are a million stories in the naked city. Portland Noir collects 16 of them. The contributor list is amazing: Karen Karbo, Monica Drake, Floyd Skloot, and more. Editor Kevin Sampsell does a great job of setting the stage for the wealth of narrative... (read more)

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The Likeness
The Likeness
by Tana French
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The Likeness is another masterpiece of suspense by Tana French. Reminiscent of The Secret History, this psychological thriller is wonderfully written and impeccably paced — a perfect summer read.... (read more)

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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Perfect for book groups, a charming series of letters make up this short novel set in post-WWII Europe. The correspondents, drawn together by their love of books and affection for each other, collectively tell a moving tale of endurance and friendship in... (read more)

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The Lazarus Project
The Lazarus Project
by Aleksandar Hemon
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The Lazarus Project, Hemon's latest novel, is about storytelling, the nature of memory and reality, and America's relationship to the rest of the world, both past and present. It's blackly funny, crackling with intelligence, and populated by realistic... (read more)

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The Angel's Game
The Angel's Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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If you've read The Shadow of the Wind, you won't need to read another word — you were likely so enthralled with Carlos Ruiz Zafón's breathtaking literary thriller that you've already ordered your copy of Angel's Game. For those who don't know, Zaf... (read more)

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Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
by Michael Perry
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Coop is perfect for anyone dreaming of a "simple" life in the country — and for those already living it. Perry is a brilliant storyteller, and this is a funny and poignant account of his unorthodox childhood and his current quest for some cred as a... (read more)

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Unaccustomed Earth (Vintage Contemporaries)
Unaccustomed Earth (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Jhumpa Lahiri
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These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers,... (read more)

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Percy Jackson & the Olympians #05: The Last Olympian
Percy Jackson & the Olympians #05: The Last Olympian
by Rick Riordan
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In the conclusion to the "New York Times"-bestselling series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy's 16th birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy suspects he may be fighting against his... (read more)

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Vegan Brunch: Homestyle Recipes Worth Waking Up For -- from Asparagus Omelets to Pumpkin Pancakes
Vegan Brunch: Homestyle Recipes Worth Waking Up For -- from Asparagus Omelets to Pumpkin Pancakes
by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
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Vegan Brunch is the latest compendium of vegan delights from Isa Moskowitz, the friendliest cookbook writer in town! This innovative and inviting book has all the recipes, tips, and mouth-watering photos you need to serve up brunch with flavor and style.... (read more)

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Border Songs
Border Songs
by Jim Lynch
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If Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Border Songs. Northwest... (read more)

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Who Is Mark Twain? (With Free eBook)
Who Is Mark Twain? (With Free eBook)
by Mark Twain
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Purchase the hardcover edition of Who Is Mark Twain? and you'll immediately receive a link to the PDF eBook version of the book. Download the file (which can be read in any PDF reader, including Adobe Acrobat) and you'll be enjoying the book in... (read more)

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The Plague of Doves (P.S.)
The Plague of Doves (P.S.)
by Louise Erdrich
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Darker than many of Louise Erdrich's other works, A Plague of Doves is the story of the unsolved murder of a North Dakota family that will haunt the reader long after the pages have ceased turning.... (read more)

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Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels)
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels)
by Lee Child
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Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child’s electrifying new novel,... (read more)

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The City and the City
The City and the City
by China Mieville
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Mieville is back with a police procedural set in a pair of Eastern European cities that share a unique border. The City and the City explores personal and cultural identity, and schisms within both. Less fantasy than his previous books, but a fascinating... (read more)

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Paul Newman: A Life
Paul Newman: A Life
by Shawn Levy
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Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor with the legendary blue eyes, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades, broken heroes, and winsome antiheroes in such revered films as The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,... (read more)

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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
by Michael Pollan
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The companion volume to The New York Times bestseller The Omnivoreas Dilemma Michael Pollanas lastbook, The Omnivoreas Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal... (read more)

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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Tolkien fans don't need to be told that a new, previously unpublished work by The Master is a major event. The surprise here is that Tolkien narrates Norse mythology with the same energy, wit, and excitement with which he brings hobbits to life.... (read more)

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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
by Jane Mayer
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One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National Bestseller With a New Afterword National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A Best Book of the Year: Salon, Slate, The Economist, The Washington Post, Cleveland Plain-Dealer The Dark Side is a... (read more)

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The Evolution of God
The Evolution of God
by Robert Wright
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Robert Wright's The Evolution of God is a fascinating history of religion in all its forms, from the beginning stirrings of theology to the conflicting faiths we live with today. This intelligent, accessible, and thorough book gives us new insight into... (read more)

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Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels
Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels
by Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan
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The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name... We do it in the dark. Under the sheets. With a penlight. We wear sunglasses and a baseball hat at the bookstore. We have a "special place" where we store them. Let's face it: Not many folks are willing to publicly... (read more)

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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
by Christopher McDougall
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Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher... (read more)

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From Dead to Worse: Sookie Stackhouse Novel #8 (Southern Vampire Series)
From Dead to Worse: Sookie Stackhouse Novel #8 (Southern Vampire Series)
by Charlaine Harris
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After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and the manmade horror of the explosion at the vampire summit, Sookie Stackhouse is safe but dazed, yearning for things to get back to normal. But her boyfriend Quinn is among the missing. And things are... (read more)

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Dead and Gone: Sookie Stackhouse Novel #9 (Southern Vampire Series)
Dead and Gone: Sookie Stackhouse Novel #9 (Southern Vampire Series)
by Charlaine Harris
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I never tire of Sookie Stackhouse and her adventures. Dead and Gone, Charlaine Harris's ninth in this series, is great fun! Sookie faces angry fairies who are out to kidnap her in order to force her grandfather, a royal fairy, to bend to their will. But... (read more)

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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
by Tamim Ansary
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We in the west share a common narrative of world historythat runs from the Nile Valley and Mesopotomia, through Greece and Rome and the French Revolution, to the rise of the secular state and the triumph of democracy. But our story largely omits a whole... (read more)

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Careless in Red
Careless in Red
by Elizabeth George
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He found the body on the forty-third day of his walk . . . Devastated by the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak and rugged coastline. But no... (read more)

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Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe
Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe
by Gillian Tett
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From award-winning Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, who enraged Wall Street leaders with her newsbreaking warnings of a crisis more than a year ahead of the curve, Fool's Gold tells the astonishing unknown story at the heart of the 2008 meltdown.... (read more)

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Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
by Michael Lewis
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Fatherhood for dummies — a perfectly frank and mercilessly funny account. When he became a father, Michael Lewis found himself expected to feel things that he didn"t feel, and to do things that he couldn"t see the point of doing. At first this... (read more)

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Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness
Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness
by Lisa M. Hamilton
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A century of industrialization has left our food system riddled with problems, yet for solutions we look to nutritionists and government agencies, scientists and chefs. Lisa M. Hamilton asks: Why not look to the people who grow our food? Hamilton makes... (read more)

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Road Dogs: A Novel
Road Dogs: A Novel
by Elmore Leonard
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Legendary New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard returns with three of his favorite characters: Jack Foley from Out of Sight, Cundo Rey from LaBrava, and Dawn Navarro from Riding the Rap. Jack Foley, the charming bank robber from Out of... (read more)

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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
by Diane Ackerman
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'When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw'"and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis'... (read more)

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Netherland (Vintage Contemporaries)
Netherland (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Joseph O'neill
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The author of "Blood-Dark Track" delivers a mesmerizing novel about a man trying to make his way in an America of shattered hopes and values, and the unlikely occurrences that pull him back into an authentic, passionately engaged life.... (read more)

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Pygmy
Pygmy
by Chuck Palahniuk
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"Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc." Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a... (read more)

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Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska
Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska
by Miranda Weiss
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Alaska is a place where know-how is currency and a novice's mistakes can kill you. An extreme landscape in both its beauty and challenges, the state is nicknamed "The Last Frontier" with good reason: Here is a paradoxical landscape where boundaries... (read more)

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The Girl of His Dreams
The Girl of His Dreams
by Donna Leon
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Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries have won legions of fans for their evocative portraits of Venetian life. In her novels, food, family, art, history, and local politics play as central a role as an unsolved crime. "The Girl of His Dreams... (read more)

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Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-Of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-Of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
by Glenn Beck
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If you believe it's time to put principles above parties, character above campaign promises, and Common Sense above all -- then I ask you to read this book.... In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction... (read more)

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The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Beforechain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When
The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Beforechain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When
by Mark Kurlansky
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A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the New York Timesabestselling author of Cod and Salt. Award-winning New York Timesabestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger... (read more)

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by Stieg Larsson
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An International Bestselling Sensation A murder mystery, family saga, love story, and a tale of financial intrigue wrapped into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. Harriet Vanger, scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families... (read more)

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Dare to Repair, Replace and Renovate: Do-It-Herself Projects to Make Your Home More Comfortable, More Beautiful, and More Valuable!
Dare to Repair, Replace and Renovate: Do-It-Herself Projects to Make Your Home More Comfortable, More Beautiful, and More Valuable!
by Julie Sussman and Stephanie Glakas-Tenet
Staff Pick
This follow-up to Dare to Repair ups the ante. Instead of teaching you how to fix a leaky faucet, this book shows you how to rip it out and replace it. Empowering, practical, and timely — say goodbye to plumbers and contractors, and dive into the... (read more)

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Babycakes: Vegan, Gluten-Free, and (Mostly) Sugar-Free Recipes from New York's Most Talked-About Bakery
Babycakes: Vegan, Gluten-Free, and (Mostly) Sugar-Free Recipes from New York's Most Talked-About Bakery
by Erin Mckenna
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Forget everything you've heard about health-conscious baking. Simply, BabyCakes is your key to an enlightened, indulgent, sweets-filled future. This is important news not only for parents whose children have allergies, for vegans, and for others who... (read more)

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The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman's Search for the Meaning of Wife
The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman's Search for the Meaning of Wife
by Janna C Esarey
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Choosing a mate is like picking house paint from one of those tiny color squares: You never know how it will look across a large expanse, or how it will change in different light. Meet Janna and Graeme. After a decade-long tango (together, apart... (read more)

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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.d.
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The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientistas own stroke led to enlightenment On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left... (read more)

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The Strain: Book One of the Strain Trilogy
The Strain: Book One of the Strain Trilogy
by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Staff Pick
This first volume of a new trilogy achieves the impact of early Stephen King: it grabs you with sheer storytelling bravado, pulling you into one riveting sequence after the next. Don't wait for the movie — the real thrills are on the page!... (read more)

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Gone Tomorrow: A Jack Reacher Novel
Gone Tomorrow: A Jack Reacher Novel
by Lee Child
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New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isn't. In the next few tense seconds Reacher will make a choice — and trigger an electrifying chain of events in... (read more)

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
by Daniel James Brown
Staff Pick
History at its finest! Brown uses great skill, detail, and atmosphere to dust off the story of the Donner party in this enthralling read. High adventure, suspense, and drama combine with tragedy to make this outstanding work as readable as a novel.... (read more)

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Cemetery Dance
Cemetery Dance
by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
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Pendergast — the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent — returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are... (read more)

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Shanghai Girls
Shanghai Girls
by Lisa See
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In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided... (read more)

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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - And Why
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - And Why
by Amanda Ripley
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Discover how human beings react to danger-and what makes the difference between life and death Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us... (read more)

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The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
by Emmanuel Guibert
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In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union.  This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporters arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders.  Didier Lefevres... (read more)

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The Language of Bees
The Language of Bees
by Laurie R King
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In a case that will push their relationship to the breaking point, Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husband's storied past--a painful and personal defeat that still has the power to sting...this time fatally. For Mary... (read more)

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Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
by Novella Carpenter
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If you've ever dabbled in community gardening or thought to yourself, "I could raise chickens!" then Farm City is a must read. Novella Carpenter brings heart and humor to her story of inner-city gardening.... (read more)

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Dear American Airlines
Dear American Airlines
by Jonathan Miles
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Creatively constructed, this novel-in-a-letter has more to do with the main character's complaints about his own life than his missed flight. Dear American Airlines, the first novel by the New York Times cocktail columnist Jonathan Miles was surely... (read more)

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Whole New Mind (05 Edition)
Whole New Mind (05 Edition)
by Daniel Pink
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The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic right-brain thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research... (read more)

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Sarah's Key (08 Edition)
Sarah's Key (08 Edition)
by Tatiana Derosnay
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A New York Times bestseller. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel dHiv roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment... (read more)

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The Outlander (P.S.)
The Outlander (P.S.)
by Gil Adamson
Staff Pick
The Outlander is a rare novel. Its beautifully breathless language seduces your attention to the smallest detail. From the first sentence you find yourself running, running with a woman you've just met, for reasons unclear, from pursuers unknown. Yet you... (read more)

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Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street
Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street
by Kate Kelly
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The shocking fall of Bear Stearns in March 2008 set off a wave of global financial turmoil that continues to ripple. How could one of the oldest, most resilient firms on Wall Street go so far astray that it had to be sold at a fire sale price? How could... (read more)

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Soloist : a Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music (Movie-tie-in) (08 Edition)
Soloist : a Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music (Movie-tie-in) (08 Edition)
by Steve Lopez
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Now a major motion pictureaaAn intimate portrait of mental illness, of atrocious social neglect, and the struggle to resurrect a fallen prodigy.a (Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down) This is the true story of journalist Steve Lopezas discovery of... (read more)

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The Scarecrow
The Scarecrow
by Michael Connelly
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Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paper to write the definitive murder story of his career. He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old... (read more)

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Renegade: The Making of a President
Renegade: The Making of a President
by Richard Wolffe
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Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency, feeling torn about leaving behind a young family, and figuring... (read more)

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The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right
The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right
by David Neiwert
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The Eliminationists describes the malignant influence of right-wing hate talk on the American conservative movement. Tracing much of this vitriol to the dank corners of the para-fascist right, award-winning reporter David Neiwert documents persistent... (read more)

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Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir
Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir
by Christopher Buckley
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In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most glamorous and colorful... (read more)

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50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants
50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants
by Tracy DiSabato-Aust
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Tracy DiSabato-Aust has taught thousands of readers how to design and maintain their gardens. Her first book'"The Well-Tended Perennial Garden'"is Timber's best-selling title and widely considered the bible of perennial maintenance. 50 High-Impact, Low... (read more)

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Blood Noir (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)
Blood Noir (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)
by Laurell K Hamilton
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Readers canat get enough of the #1 New York Times bestselling author. A favor for Jason, vampire hunter Anita Blakeas werewolf lover, puts her in the center of a fullblown scandal that threatens master-vampire Jean- Claudeas reignaand makes her a pawn in... (read more)

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Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
by Doug Stanton
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From bestselling author Doug Stanton, a harrowing, true-life tale of a band of American soldiers and their struggles and triumphs in... (read more)

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A Mercy: A Novel
A Mercy: A Novel
by Toni Morrison
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I disappeared into A Mercy like no novel in ages. Morrison's 17th-century panorama builds upon vivid scenes and characters until what emerges is nothing less than the forecast of America — both its ills and dreams.... (read more)

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One Ring Circus Signed Edition
One Ring Circus Signed Edition
by Katherine Dunn
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Published together for the first time, this anthology of essays on boxing covers the sport in all its forms and at its many levels. Written in bestselling author Katherine Dunns characteristic vernacular, these pieces range from portraits... (read more)

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Natural Healing Wisdom and Know How: Useful Practices, Recipes, and Formulas for a Lifetime of Health
Natural Healing Wisdom and Know How: Useful Practices, Recipes, and Formulas for a Lifetime of Health
by Amy Rost
Staff Pick
This guide is so comprehensive, you'll never have to Google again. Covering everything from naturopathy and homeopathy to mind-body healing and cures for specific ailments, Natural Healing Wisdom and Know-How is a great reference for natural-healing... (read more)

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A Short History of Women
A Short History of Women
by Kate Walbert
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National Book Award finalist Kate Walbert's A Short History of Women is a profoundly moving portrayal of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters, chronicling five generations of women from the close of the nineteenth century through the early... (read more)

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Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
by Winifred Gallagher
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Winifred Gallagher revolutionizes our understanding of attention and the creation of the interested life In Rapt, acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher makes the radical argument that the quality of your life largely depends on what you... (read more)

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter #07)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter #07)
by J. K. Rowling
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The seventh and final installment of the Harry Potter epic — now in paperback!... (read more)

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Absinthe & Flamethrowers: Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously
Absinthe & Flamethrowers: Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously
by William Gurstelle
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A Selection of the Scientific American Book Club Want to add more excitement to your life? This daring combination of science, history, and DIY projects will show you how. Written for smart risk takers, it explores why danger is good for you and details... (read more)

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The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do about It
The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do about It
by Joshua Cooper Ramo
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Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor.... (read more)

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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by Mary Roach
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The best-selling author of Stiffturns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex.... (read more)

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Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal
Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal
by Julie Metz
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Julie Metz seemed to have the perfect life--an adoring if demanding husband, a happy, spirited daughter, a lovely old house in an idyllic town outside New York City--when in an instant, everything changed. Her charismatic, charming husband, Henry... (read more)

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About Face (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery)
About Face (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery)
by Donna Leon
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Donna Leon’s eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon’s best... (read more)

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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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Relentless (Lost Fleet)
Relentless (Lost Fleet)
by Jack Campbell
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After successfully freeing Alliance POWs, Black Jack Geary learns that the Syndics plan to ambush the fleet in an attempt to annihilate it once and for all. And as Geary has the fleet jump from one star system to the next, saboteurs contribute to the... (read more)

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Naamah's Kiss
Naamah's Kiss
by Jacqueline Carey
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Once there were great magicians born to the Maghuin Dhonn; the folk of the Brown Bear, the oldest tribe in Alba. But generations ago, the greatest of them all broke a sacred oath sworn in the name of all his people. Now, only small gifts remain to them... (read more)

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The American Future: A History
The American Future: A History
by Simon Schama
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This eye-opening examination of the historic 2008 presidential campaign takes familiar stories and headlines and gives them a unique, unforgettable spin. History rarely feels so immediate.... (read more)

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Timberline Lodge: The History, Art, and Craft of an American Icon
Timberline Lodge: The History, Art, and Craft of an American Icon
by Sarah Baker Munro
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Timberline Lodge -- the magnificent Oregon icon on Mount Hood -- is one the few twentieth-century American buildings of its size constructed and furnished entirely by hand. Dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt in September 1937 and a National Landmark... (read more)

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage)
by Stieg Larsson
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National Bestseller An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. Harriet... (read more)

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Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur
Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur
by Pamela Slim
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I work for Powell's — a pretty far cry from a "corporate prison" — but even so, I found Escape from Cubicle Nation to be equal parts inspirational and practical. Mixing contemporary research with anecdotes and exercises, Slim's engaging book will... (read more)

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How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give in
How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give in
by Jim Collins
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Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall... (read more)

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Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything
Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything
by Daniel P. Goleman
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The bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership now brings us Ecological Intelligence--revealing the hidden environmental consequences of what we make and buy, and how with that knowledge we can drive the essential changes we all... (read more)

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How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music
by Elijah Wald
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"There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear... (read more)

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Magic in the Blood (Allie Beckstrom)
Magic in the Blood (Allie Beckstrom)
by Devon Monk
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Working as a Hound--tracing illegal spells back to their casters--has taken its toll on Allison Beckstrom. When she is asked to help on a missing person's case, Allie finds herself drawn into the underworld of criminals, ghosts, and blood magic.... (read more)

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The Little Stranger
The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
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A chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain, by the bestselling and award-winning author of The Night Watch and Fingersmith. Sarah Watersas trilogy of Victorian novels Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, and Fingersmith earned her... (read more)

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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
by Katherine Howe
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Connie Goodwin should be spending her summer doing research for her Ph.D. dissertation in American History. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she's compelled to help. It's not long before... (read more)

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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
by Michio Kaku
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Teleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar space ships--the stuff of science fiction or potentially attainable future technologies? Inspired by the fantastic worlds of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Back to the Future, renowned theoretical... (read more)

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My Father's Tears and Other Stories
My Father's Tears and Other Stories
by John Updike
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John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel. Personal... (read more)

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Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese
Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese
by Brad Kessler
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In his transformation from staunch urbanite to countrified goat farmer, Kessler explores the rustic roots of many aspects of Western culture, and how diet, alphabet, religions, and economy all grew out of a pastoral setting.... (read more)

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Stone's Fall
Stone's Fall
by Iain Pears
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A return to the form that launched Iain Pears onto bestseller lists around the world: a vast historical mystery, marvelous in its ambition and ingenius in its complexity. In his most dazzling novel since the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller An... (read more)

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Demon Mistress (Otherworld)
Demon Mistress (Otherworld)
by Yasmine Galenorn
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The D'Artigo Sisters--half-human, half-Faerie operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency--are charged with rooting out the secret society responsible for unleashing chaos magic against the city, and with stopping a demon from devouring Delilah's... (read more)

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Juggler of Worlds
Juggler of Worlds
by Larry Niven
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For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds.  Now Sigmund is pulling the strings . . . Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential - and imaginary -... (read more)

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Child 44
Child 44
by Tom Rob Smith
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Child 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever read. There is no crime. Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamental pillars is that its citizens live free from the fear of... (read more)

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April and Oliver
April and Oliver
by Tess Callahan
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Best friends since childhood, the sexual tension between April and Oliver has always been palpable. Years after being completely inseparable, they become strangers, but the wildly different paths of their lives cross once again with the sudden death of... (read more)

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Downtown Owl
Downtown Owl
by Chuck Klosterman
Staff Pick
Chuck — unleashed! Downtown Owl thrives on Klosterman's familiar brew of sharp commentary, pop culture references, and endlessly entertaining digressions into the inane and bizarre... served here in his predictably funny (but perhaps surprisingly... (read more)

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