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The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson Publisher Comments Olivia Hunt's Hollywood life has come to a grinding halt. A hotshot producer accustomed to first-class amenities, Olivia has just been unceremoniously fired after her last movie tanked. Her boyfriend, Michael, has dumped her. And she's not the blonde she... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin Publisher Comments Farmer Brown has a problem. His cows like to type. All day long he hears "Click, clack, MOO. Click, clack, MOO. Clickety, clack, MOO. But Farmer Brown's problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes.... First they demand... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf Staff Pick The End of America should be required reading for every American. Rather than giving us a partisan 600-page tome on the crimes of the Bush administration, Naomi Wolf lays out clearly and concisely how we as a people have allowed our government to move... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Publisher Comments Peter Carey, Booker Prize-winning author of "Oscar and Lucinda, " powerfully evokes the legend of 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly in this novel narrated in defiantly descriptive prose by the barely literate bushranger himself. 1 map & 3... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Love in a Fallen City (New York Review Books Classics) by Eileen Chang Publisher Comments 'The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ghost World by Daniel Clowes Publisher Comments Jimmy is a stereotypical geek who works at the library in Oakland, California, and is trapped in his own torpidity. Sara is his best friend, but she wants to get a life (translation: an apartment in Brooklyn and a publishing internship). When Sara moves... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Things to Bring, S#!t to Do: A Life in Lists by Karen Rizzo Publisher Comments The emotional highs and lows, the romantic escapades and the financial setbacks, the moments of comedy, anxiety, and personal tragedy—they’re all brought vividly to life in Things to Bring, S#!t to Do, the first memoir told entirely in lists... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.75 Sale - Hardcover
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The Last Life by Claire Messud Publisher Comments Narrated by a fifteen-year-old girl with a ruthless regard for truth, The Last Life is a beautifully told novel of lies and ghosts, love and honor. Set in colonial Algeria, and in the south of France and New England, it is the tale of the LaBasse family,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Borrowed Finery: A Memoir by Paula Fox Publisher Comments Born in the 1920s to nomadic, bohemian parents, Paula Fox is left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage, then cared for by a poor yet cultivated minister in upstate New York. Her parents, however, soon resurface. Her handsome father is a hard-drinking... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $3.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Emma Brown: A Novel from the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Brontë by Charlotte Brontë and Clare Boylan Publisher Comments Charlotte Brontë's death in 1855 deprived the world of what might have been her masterpiece. The twenty unfinished manuscript pages that are the nucleus of Emma Brown signaled her most compelling work since Jane Eyre — the story of a young girl... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Falling through the Earth: A Memoir by Danielle Trussoni Publisher Comments One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year From her charismatic father, Danielle Trussoni learned how to rock and roll, outrun the police, and never shy away from a fight. Spending hour upon hour trailing him around the... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Exit Ghost by Philip Roth Staff Pick Exit Ghost continues the story of Roth's alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, now back in New York and struggling with issues of old age, love, and illness. Roth once again gives us a character rendering that is tender, tough, and ultimately gratifying.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Hours by Michael Cunningham Publisher Comments A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of... (read more) List Price $14.00 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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Lying Awake (Vintage Contemporaries) by Mark Salzman Staff Pick Sister John of the Cross is a nun with special gifts; she is filled with poetry, with love for God and the Innocent Spouse, and with pain (real pain in the form of blinding headaches that give her no rest, but during which she has visions). Something... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Pure in Heart (Simon Serrailler Crime Novels) by Susan Hill Publisher Comments In this follow-up to "The Various Haunts of Men," Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler is on vacation in Venice, trying to come to terms with the brutal murder of a young woman who had been in love with him. His trip is cut short after he is... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life by Robert Goolrick Publisher Comments It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemed possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal. For one little boy, however, life had become anything but "normal." To... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $15.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier Staff Pick List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer Staff Pick Great essays like these give you an opportunity to look at the world through another person's eyes and re-examine your own experiences. The 26 included here take you on a journey through the a myriad women's lives. I laughed, I cried, I felt better about... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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