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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Staff Pick "Inspired by her grandparents' love story in which the grandmother outlived her husband by nearly three decades, Niffenegger has invented Henry and Clare, and their unique and complicated love story involving the ability to live in the past and future in... (read more) List Price $14.95 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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Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (P.S.) by Vendela Vida Staff Pick Let me say first that I read this book because of the title. Much like buying a book for its cover, I was drawn in by the possibility that this poetic directive would yield a satisfying story. I was not disappointed; there's a lot to appreciate here... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ahab's Wife (P.S.) by Sena Jeter Naslund Publisher Comments "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature along with "Call me Ishmael." Sena Jeter Naslund has created an entirely new universe with a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson Staff Pick Hailed by critics across the globe, showered with awards, Out Stealing Horses is a book that true lovers of the written word will hold close to their hearts. With its captivating prose and characters who burrow under your skin and refuse to come out, Per... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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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: $5.95 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: $4.25 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 $16.25 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 The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery Publisher Comments The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Good Family (P.S.) by Terry Gamble Publisher Comments Drawing from her own experiences as a descendant of one of America's industrial families, Gamble wields an insider's observation with Wharton-esque charm to create a compassionate, funny, often heartbreaking portrait of a woman's search for home.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Northline (Harper Perennial P.S.) by Willy Vlautin Publisher Comments Fleeing Las Vegas and her abusive boyfriend, Allison Johnson moves to Reno, intent on making a new life for herself. Haunted by the mistakes of her past, and lacking any self-belief, her only comfort seems to come from the imaginary conversations she has... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement (P.S.) by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments Sylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to life, it garnered... (read more) List Price $13.99 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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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Staff Pick A remarkable first novel, ingeniously written in the form of a letter to the Chinese premier soon to visit India, Adiga's dark yet witty debut brings to Western readers the tense drama of a developing country and a character caught up in corruption and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 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 $14.99 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 this 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 erode... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tales of the City (P.S.) by Armistead Maupin Publisher Comments For more than three decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culturefrom a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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