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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 culture—from 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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Quicksilver: Baroque Cycle #01 by Neal Stephenson Publisher Comments Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.) by Michael Chabon Publisher Comments Retired to the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, rumored to be a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.98 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 $14.95 Your price: $7.98 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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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 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 $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer Publisher Comments Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It is a perfect window into the cross-currents of today's world, with all its joys and its sorrows. In this remarkably insightful, wide-ranging work of reportage, Franklin Foer takes us on a... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shadow of the Silk Road (P.S.) by Colin Thubron Publisher Comments To travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart, and camel, Colin Thubron covered some... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Electric Michelangelo (P.S.) by Sarah Hall Publisher Comments Cy Parks is the Electric Michelangelo, an artist of extraordinary gifts whose medium happens to be the pliant, shifting canvas of the human body. Fleeing his mother's legacy — a consumptives' hotel in a fading English seaside resort — Cy... (read more) List Price $13.95 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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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: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Stormy Weather (P.S.) by Paulette Jiles Publisher Comments Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls—responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea—know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Kockroach (P.S.) by Tyler Knox Publisher Comments It is the mid-1950s, and Kockroach, perfectly content with his life infesting a fleabag hotel off Times Square, awakens to discover that somehow he's been transformed into, of all things, a human. A tragic turn of events, yes, but cockroaches are... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Staff Pick Perfect for book groups, a charming series of letters make up this short novel set in post-WWII Europe. The correspondents, drawn together by their love of books and affection for each other, collectively tell a moving tale of endurance and friendship in... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong (P.S.) by Marc Hauser Publisher Comments In his groundbreaking book, Marc Hauser puts forth a revolutionary new theory: that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 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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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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The Way the Crow Flies (P.S.) by Ann-Marie MacDonald Staff Pick Ann-Marie MacDonald writes beautifully; her words wrap around you and envelop you. The Way the Crow Flies is engaging and evocative. She captures the pure joy and pain of childhood better than anyone since Margaret Atwood. That would be enough but then... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Utterly Monkey (P.S.) by Nick Laird Publisher Comments Danny Williams didn't mean to be a lawyer, but somehow he is -- and for up to eighteen hours a day. He's well paid, home owning, and twenty-seven but is also overworked, lonely, and frequently stoned. The plan was to leave the troubles of a small town... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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