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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments “Nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly), The Glass Castle is the bestselling, critically acclaimed, highly publicized, and celebrated memoir by Jeannette Walls.Millions of readers have been transformed by Jeannette Walls’s... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Cave by Jose Saramago Publisher Comments A Los Angeles Times Best Book A New York Times Notable Book "[The Cave] is yet another triumph . . . for Portugal's, or even the world's, greatest living novelist. Read it."-The Washington Post Book World Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris Publisher Comments A new holiday classic from the author of the bestselling Naked and Barrel Fever! Holidays On Ice collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice scraper. This... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Garden of Last Days: A Novel by Andre Dubus III Publisher Comments From the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog — a new big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel. One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. April's usual... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Courage Consort: Three Novellas by Michel Faber Publisher Comments With his elegant prose, distinctive imagination, and deep empathy, the bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White once again dazzles us in three novellas. "The Courage Consort" tells of an a capella vocal ensemble sequestered in a Belgian... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $2.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A Sudden Country: A Novel by Karen Fisher Publisher Comments A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption. James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel by Louis Bayard Publisher Comments From the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Timothy comes an ingenious tale of murder and revenge, featuring a retired New York City detective and a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe. At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Little Children by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms of the playground; Sarah, a lapsed feminist with a bisexual past, who seems to have... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Hamilton Case by Michelle De Kretser Publisher Comments Having come of age on the island nation of Ceylon, Sam Obeysekere is a lawyer whose life is guided by the British culture that dominates his homeland. Educated at Oxford, with a dazzling career in his sights, Sam is more English than the English. Only... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes by Mark Crick Publisher Comments I needed a table at Maxims, a hundred bucks, and a gorgeous blonde; what I had was a leg of lamb and no clues. I took hold of the joint. It felt cold and damp, like a coroners handshake. I took out a knife and cut the lamb into pieces. Feeling the blade... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan Publisher Comments Father Davids presence ignites the suspicions and smoldering hatred of a town that resents strangers, which brings him to a reckoning with the tensions of his past. In this masterfully written novel, O'Hagan explores the emotional and moral... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Hardcover
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A Peculiar Grace by Jeffrey Lent Publisher Comments The critically-acclaimed author of "In the Fall" delivers this insightful, revealing portrait of family secrets, in a book marked by an unforgettable cast of characters who have learned to survive by giving shape to their losses.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.97 Sale - Hardcover
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The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Wife and The Position, a feverishly smart novel about female ambition, money, class, motherhood, and marriage — and what happens in one community when a group of educated women chooses not to work. For a group... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.75 Sale - Hardcover
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The Family Tree by Carole Cadwalladr Publisher Comments "The very cleverness of its central motif--a dissertation on the expression of genetic traits, mostly through the evidence of prime-time soap opera--makes The Family Tree a notable debut. Carole Cadwalladr takes the reader deep under the skin of one... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Hello to the Cannibals by Richard Bausch Publisher Comments "My heart stopped peacefully, its beating grew slow and weak, and then just -- stopped. I died young. There is, really, only a little to tell." And so ended, in 1900, the short but remarkable life of explorer and writer Mary Henrietta Kingsley, most of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $5.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott From Powells.com In 1998, Alice McDermott's fourth novel, Charming Billy, surprised the literary world by capturing the National Book Award. Few doubted that McDermott deserved the prize and the readership it would deliver — she'd also been nominated for... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Hardcover
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The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie Staff Pick The Gun Seller reminds me of a well-made gin and tonic — crisp, hip, and refreshing, with a droll twist of lime.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Waxwings by Jonathan Raban From Powells.com Jonathan Raban, a British expat living in Seattle, won a round-up of awards, including the National Book Award for Bad Land, his eloquent depiction of the homestead rush in Montana and the Dakotas. His next book, Passage to Juneau, was hailed in both... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.25 Sale - Hardcover
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White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway Publisher Comments In her astonishing literary debut, Greenway tells a tale of sacrifice and solidarity between two American sisters who tumble into their teenage years in 1967 Hong Kong, against an extraordinary backdrop that is both sensuous and dangerous.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Boys in the Trees by Mary Swan Publisher Comments “This is a mesmerizing novel, that can truly claim to be filled with a ‘terrible beauty.”Alice Munro Newly arrived to the countryside, William Heath, his wife, and two daughters appear the picture of a devoted family. But when... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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