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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose Staff Pick At the heart of the immense and growing interest in Lewis and Clark in recent years stands this book. WWII historian Stephen Ambrose had long harbored a private obsession for the Expedition of the Corps of Discovery, and in Undaunted Courage he was able... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Master Butchers Singing Club (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Changed Man (P.S.) by Francine Prose Publisher Comments What is charismatic Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow to think when a rough-looking young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of Maslow's human rights foundation and declares that he wants to "save guys like me from becoming guys... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Outer Banks: Three Early Novels (P.S.) by Russell Banks Publisher Comments An Omnibus Edition of Three Classic Early Novels from the Critically Acclaimed Author of Cloudsplitter and Affliction Family Life: Russell Banks's first novel is an adult fairy tale of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom where the myriad... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Father's Law (P.S.) by Richard Wright Publisher Comments Never before published, the final work of one of America's greatest writers. A Father's Law is the novel Richard Wright, acclaimed author of Black Boy and Native Son, never completed. Written during a six-week period near the end of his life, it... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Motel Life: A Novel (P.S.) by Willy Vlautin Staff Pick Vlautin is a natural. He's managed to craft a debut novel that is funny, sad, uplifting, and honest, in a voice that seems effortless and yet leaves room for both the imagination of the reader and the growth of the writer. Vlautin is the kind of author... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley Publisher Comments "Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune Aldous Huxley is rightly considered a prophetic genius and one of the most important literary and philosophical voices of the 20th Century, and Brave New World is... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Back to Wando Passo (P.S.) by David Payne Publisher Comments Hailed as "the most gifted American novelist of his generation" (Boston Globe), David Payne introduces us to Ransom Hill, a big-hearted, wild-man lead singer of a legendary indie rock group, who has come to South Carolina determined to save his marriage,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Michael Tolliver Lives (P.S.) by Armistead Maupin Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Gathering by Anne Enright Publisher Comments The new novel from one of Ireland's most prominent voices, The Gathering is an extraordinary anatomization of a family confronting the ghosts of its history. A dazzling writer of international stature, Anne Enright is one of Ireland's most singular... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tracks by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments Set in North Dakota at a time in the past century when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their lands, Tracks is a tale of passion and deep unrest. Over the course of ten crucial years, as tribal land and trust between people... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Bride Stripped Bare (P.S.) by Nikki Gemmell Publisher Comments A woman disappears, leaving behind an incendiary diary chronicling a journey of sexual awakening. To all who knew her, she was the good wife: happy, devoted, content. But the diary reveals a secret self, one who's discovered that her new marriage... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Taming the Beast (P.S.) by Emily Maguire Publisher Comments At the tender age of fourteen, Sarah Clark is seduced by her thirty-eight-year-old English teacher, Daniel Carr, and becomes entangled in an illegal, erotic, passionate, and dangerous affair—a vicious meeting of minds and bodies that ends badly... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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I Love You, Beth Cooper (P.S.) by Larry Doyle Publisher Comments In the tradition ofPersepolisandAmerican Born Chinese, a wise and funny high school heroine comes of age.Tina M., sophomore, is a wry and endearing observer of the cliques and mores of Yarborough Academy. (andldquo;The name makes it sound fancier than... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Lightning Keeper (P.S.) by Starling Lawrence Publisher Comments This is the story of an unlikely love at the dawn of the electric age in America. In 1914, Toma Pekocevic is a penniless immigrant in New York recently escaped from the bloody politics of the Balkans that has claimed most of his family. He is also a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Serpent Box (P.S.) by Vincent Louis Carrella Publisher Comments In the deep mountains of Appalachia, the Flints of Leatherwood, Tennessee, spread the word of the gospels by handling deadly serpents and drinking lye in front of large gatherings of the faithful. Believing his ten-year-old son Jacob called Toad... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes and Edith Grossman Staff Pick Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote has quickly become a favorite, lauded by academics and common readers alike. Don't fail to check this out, the world's first modern novel.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Last Season (P.S.) by Eric Blehm Publisher Comments In the spirit of Jon Krakauer's bestselling Into the Wild, Eric Blehm's The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada. The... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library) by Thomas Pynchon Publisher Comments The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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