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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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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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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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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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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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The System of the World: #03 Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson Staff Pick The concluding volume of the Baroque Cycle mixes swashbuckling adventure, historical romance, mathematics, and Isaac Newton into a frothy brew that's truly irresistible.... (read more) List Price $16.99 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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Truck: A Love Story (P.S.) by Michael Perry Publisher Comments The author of Population: 485 returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and...gardening tips? Think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, complete with stock cars, sexy vegetables, and a laugh track. "All I wanted to do was fix my old... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar (P.S.) by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 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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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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If Today Be Sweet (P.S.) by Thrity Umrigar Publisher Comments The recent death of her beloved husband, Rustom, has taken its toll on Tehmina Sethna. Now, while visiting her son, Sorab, in his suburban Ohio home, she is being asked to choose between continuing her old life in India and starting a new one in this... (read more) List Price $13.95 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: $4.25 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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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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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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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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April 1865: The Month That Saved America (P.S.) by Jay Winik Publisher Comments This gripping, panoramic narrative takes readers on a breathless ride through 30 tumultuous days at the end of the Civil War, showing that the nation's future rested on a few crucial decisions and twists of fate. 16-page insert.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Beet Queen (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt Fritzie and her husband, Pete; ordinary Mary, who will cause... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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