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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Publisher Comments An ingenious code hidden in the works of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien Publisher Comments The prequel to The Lord of the Rings—The Hobbit—is now a major motion picture directed by Peter Jackson THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME The dark, fearsome Ringwraiths are searching for a Hobbit. Frodo Baggins knows that... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Mass Market
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The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One by Rick Riordan Staff Pick Percy Jackson is not normal. He's got ADHD and attention deficit, and he's been kicked out of every school he's ever attended. Now he discovers he's a half blood: half human, half Olympian god. But his problems are only beginning. Someone has stolen Zeus'... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien Publisher Comments "To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales." So wrote the New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now-classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Little Children by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments TOM PERROTTA's thirtyish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad, dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms at the playground, and his wife, Kathy, a documentary filmmaker envious of the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Little Children by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms of the playground; Sarah, a lapsed feminist with a bisexual past, who seems to have... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Foundling: Monster Blood Tattoo Book One (Monster Blood Tattoo #01) by D. M. Cornish Staff Pick In a world inhabited by monsters and the super-powered humans who hunt them, an young boy comes of age. Not only is the setting as well-crafted as anything by Tolkien or Rowling, but the illustrations that go along with this gripping and sometimes scary... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity by Primo Levi Publisher Comments In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and Italian citizen of Jewish race, was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Laughing Gas by P G Wodehouse Publisher Comments Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of the hilarity borders on an obsession. When a bratty Hollywood child star and an English aristocrat exchange souls at the dentist in Laughing Gas, the result... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx Publisher Comments Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they'... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $2.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi Publisher Comments Praise for Persepolis and Persepolis 2 “A mighty achievement [and] an inspiring coming-of-age story.” ––USA Today “Delectable . . . Dances with drama and insouciant wit.” ––New York Times Book Review “... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Staff Pick If your only experience with Catch-22 was reading it for a class in high school — or if you haven't even read it at all — you owe it to yourself to revisit this book. It's a comic masterpiece, yes, but more than that: Catch-22 is a blast of anarchic... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wide Sargasso Sea (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Jean Rhys Synopsis The fortieth anniversary reissue of the best-selling "tour de force" (Walter Allen, "New York Times Book Review"). Jean Rhys's reputation was made upon the publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rules for Radicals by Saul D Alinsky Publisher Comments First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman Staff Pick Do you ever wonder where gods go when all their worshippers are gone? Neil Gaiman tries to answer that question. Some live quiet lives in the Midwest, some don't remember who they are, and others have plans. Gaiman, as always, has a unique voice and good... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Club Dumas: A Novel by Arturo Perez-Reverte Publisher Comments #1 International Bestseller "A thriller of marvelous intricacy."The New York Times Book Review Lucas Corso is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg Publisher Comments On the last page of the Caldecott-winning book Jumanji, young Danny Budwing is seen running after his brother, Walter, with a game tucked under his arm. Now after twenty years, Chris Van Allsburg is ready to reveal what happens when Danny and Walter roll... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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French Lieutenant's Woman #1: The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles Publisher Comments As part of Back Bay's ongoing effort to make the works of John Fowles available in uniform trade paperback editions, two major works in the Fowles canon are reissued to coincide with the publication of Wormholes, the author's long-awaited new collection... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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