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The Chronology of Water: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch Staff Pick Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir, The Chronology of Water, is fierce and voluptuous. Intimate and expansive. Hard, hard stuff presented in gorgeous language. I picked it up on impulse, read the first line, and was crying before I reached the end of the opening... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.17 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow Staff Pick Heartbreaking in its honesty, this perfect jewel of a novel mirrors the real life of the author, who grew up biracial in Portland, Oregon, in the 1980s. After an accident claims her family, Rachel is sent to live with her grandmother in a predominantly... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $11.16 Sale - Trade Paper
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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan Staff Pick Michael Pollan may be incapable of uninteresting writing. Discerning and lucid, his works tend to provoke the reader to engage themselves (at least in thought, if not deed) well beyond the final page. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education is Pollan's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Peak by Roland Smith Staff Pick When 14-year-old Peak Marcello is caught scaling a skyscraper to place his signature graffiti tag, he is offered a choice: spend three years in juvenile detention, or climb Mt. Everest with his long-absent father. And though the choice might be easy... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Mass Market
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Heartsick by Chelsea Cain Staff Pick One of the best thrillers I've read in years, Heartsick is taut, edgy, and disturbing, and Archie Sheridan is a compelling new character. I eagerly anticipate the next book in this new series.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Mass Market
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Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles Staff Pick Creatively constructed, this novel-in-a-letter has more to do with the main character's complaints about his own life than his missed flight. Dear American Airlines, the first novel by the New York Times cocktail columnist Jonathan Miles was surely... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Garden Anywhere: How to Grow Gorgeous Container Gardens, Herb Gardens, Kitchen Gardens and More -- without Spending a Fortune by Alys Fowler Staff Pick Garden Anywhere is an apartment-dwelling wannabe-horticulturalist's dream. With easy-to-follow instructions and super-creative container garden ideas — like making window boxes out of wine crates and growing potatoes in feed sacks — this book is... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Junkyard Dogs (Walt Longmire Mysteries) by Craig Johnson Staff Pick Gripping, gritty, and hilarious, Junkyard Dogs is the sixth in the Walt Longmire series, but you can dive in and thoroughly enjoy it without reading the previous books. Though once you've read one Craig Johnson novel, you'll feel the need to read all of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years (The Wicked Years #03) by Gregory Maguire Staff Pick With this latest installment, it has become clear that Gregory Maguire's already politically subversive Wicked Years series is growing ever darker. A Lion among Men is devoted to (as you may have guessed) the story of the Cowardly Lion, known here as... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Bon Appetit Cookbook by Barbara Fairchild Staff Pick In what amounts to a "greatest hits" collection, The Bon Appétit Cookbook offers over 1,200 approachable recipes for a very wide range of dishes from around the globe. Using good techniques resulting in fantastic food, these practical, cook-friendly... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $18.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Backyard Ballistics by William Gurstelle Staff Pick As tempting as it sounds to spend the afternoon with the two digital puppies wrestling under Lara Croft's wife-beater, nothing is really more entertaining than plain ol' throwing rocks at stuff. Or, better still, shooting said rocks out of a homemade... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Clown Girl: A Novel by Monica Drake Staff Pick A famous author once said, "Characters to me, the ones I write, aren't persuasive till I can postulate what they do for a living." In her full-length debut, Monica Drake postulates into life a young woman named Nita, otherwise known as Sniffles, a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.17 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit Staff Pick "Rebecca Solnit's marvelous new book of essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, is about the spaces between stability and risk, solitude, and the occasional claustrophobia of ordinary life. She explores the mysterious without puncturing the mystery, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Perennial Companions: 100 Dazzling Plant Combinations for Every Season by Tom Fischer Staff Pick There is never a dull moment in a well-stocked perennial garden, but with so many varieties to choose from, it can be hard to know where to start. In Perennial Companions, Timber Press editor-in-chief Tom Fischer takes the guesswork (but not the fun) out... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bright before Us (Tin House New Voice) by Katie Arnold-Ratliff Staff Pick Katie Arnold-Ratliff's debut novel is a gorgeous, wrenching, razor-sharp portrait of a young man's life unraveling. Through emotional immediacy, wonderfully drawn characters, and chiseled prose, Bright before Us marks the arrival of a shining new... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.80 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Common Pornography: A Memoir by Kevin Sampsell Staff Pick I loved Kevin Sampsell's A Common Pornography. Though by "loved" I mean "was impressed and cringed a lot." This collection of short "memory experiments" runs the gamut from hilarious to heartbreaking, and Sampsell has an incredible knack for illuminating... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Summer without Men Signed Edition by Siri Hustvedt Staff Pick Smart, wry, engaging, and affecting, The Summer without Men is a triumph. The narrator's voice is utterly distinctive, and her mind is a joy to inhabit. A must for Hustvedt fans, and if you haven't read her before, you're missing out on one of America's... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Geek Dad's Guide to Weekend Fun: Cool Hacks, Cutting-Edge Games, and More Awesome Projects for the Whole Family by Ken Denmead Staff Pick The Geek Dad's Guide to Weekend Fun practically makes fun happen just by existing — and not just on weekends and not just for dads. This book contains unlimited inspiration for any level of handy parent to while away innumerable hours doing nerdy... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness by Reinhard Kleist Staff Pick Reinhard Kleist gives us a dark and nuanced portrait of the Man in Black, with stunning black-and-white artwork that perfectly complements the retelling of Johnny Cash's life. Interspersed among the narrative are short selections of illustrated song... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead Staff Pick My first thought when I closed the covers of this book was, Wow. My second thought was, I want to read this again. My third thought was, How can I possibly describe this book to anyone else? When You Reach Me is like one of those great books/movies... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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