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Aubrey-Maturin #9: Treason's Harbour by Patrick Obrian Publisher Comments All Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Aubrey-Maturin #5: Desolation Island by Patrick Obrian Publisher Comments Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopardto Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy'"and a treacherous disease that... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Publisher Comments Peter Carey, Booker Prize-winning author of "Oscar and Lucinda, " powerfully evokes the legend of 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly in this novel narrated in defiantly descriptive prose by the barely literate bushranger himself. 1 map & 3... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ghost World by Daniel Clowes Publisher Comments Jimmy is a stereotypical geek who works at the library in Oakland, California, and is trapped in his own torpidity. Sara is his best friend, but she wants to get a life (translation: an apartment in Brooklyn and a publishing internship). When Sara moves... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice Publisher Comments In a remote room in a large city, a young reporter sits face-to-face with his most astonishing subject: a onetime New Orleans gentleman plantation owner who, in vividly terrifying and haunting detail, recalls his centuries of extraordinary life... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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On Chesil Beach: A Novel by Ian McEwan Publisher Comments A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey Publisher Comments Josephine Tey re-creates one of history's most famous -- and vicious -- crimes in her classic bestselling novel, a must read for connoisseurs of fiction, now with a new introduction by Robert Barnard Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis Publisher Comments In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis — people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously (Movie Tie-in) by Julie Powell Staff Pick Finally, someone willing to admit just how dirty a kitchen can get! Powell's story is at once a comic tale of struggling to find one's balance in the adult world, and a witty exploration of why — and how — we cook. Gastronomes, as well as those more... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg Publisher Comments The three-time Caldecott medalist tells the tale of two ants who decide to leave the safety of the others to venture into a danger-laden kitchen.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Devil in a Blue Dress: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley Publisher Comments Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments Frances Mayes—widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer—opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. In evocative language, she brings the reader... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Hours by Michael Cunningham Publisher Comments A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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White Oleander (Oprah's Book Club) by Janet Fitch Publisher Comments Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A Commemorative Pop-Up by L. Frank Baum and Robert Sabuda Publisher Comments This deluxe pop-up version of Baum's timeless classic celebrates Oz's 100th anniversary, and includes such special effects as the twisting cyclone, the wizard's balloon sailing into the sky, and a holographic foil for the Emerald City. This slightly... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Paris Trout by Pete Dexter Publisher Comments In Paris Trout, Pete Dexter tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that eats away at the social fabric of a small town, exposing the hypocrisies of its ways and shattering the lives of its citizens. The crime is the murder of a fourteen-year-... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Americas black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Publisher Comments Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. The Lovely Bones is such a book — a phenomenal #1 bestseller celebrated at once for its narrative artistry, its luminous... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick Obrian Publisher Comments Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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