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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides Staff Pick Addressing the ubiquitous love triangle, The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides is a perfectly executed character study of three college students — Leonard, Madeleine, and Mitchell — who variously are a couple, are not a couple, were a couple,... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock Staff Pick In The Devil All the Time, Pollock mixes equal parts Tod Browning (Freaks) and Davis Grubb (The Night of the Hunter) to concoct an entirely original work that is as heartfelt as it is visceral. Simply put, it's an astonishing debut novel.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Stud Book by Monica Drake Publisher Comments A sharp-edged satire of contemporary motherhood from a comic novelist on the rise. In the hip haven of Portland, Oregon, a pack of unsteady but loyal friends asks what it means to bring babies into an already crowded world. Sarah studies animal behavior... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon Publisher Comments The first nonfiction book — searing, revealing, unforgettable — from one of our most acclaimed writers. Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed with street soccer with his... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Staff Pick Waiting for a new Kingsolver novel has been like waiting for a favorite restaurant to reopen after renovations, only it's been nine years of anticipation. With the grand depth of The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna tells of historical and intercultural... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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House of Secrets by Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini Publisher Comments Brendan, Eleanor, and Cordelia Walker once had everything: two loving parents, a beautiful house in San Francisco, and all the portable electronic devices they could want. But everything changed when Dr. Walker lost his job in the wake of a mysterious... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $12.59 Sale - Hardcover
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El Alquimista: Una Fabula Para Seguir Tus Suenos by Paulo Coelho Publisher Comments La mágica historia de Paulo Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un niño pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos enseña la importancia que tiene el saber eschuchar lo que nos dice el corazón, a aprender a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff Publisher Comments Two harrowing crashes . . . A vanished rescue plane . . . A desperate fight for life in a frozen, hostile land . . . The quest to solve a seventy-year-old mystery The author of the smash New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La delivers a gripping... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $20.29 Sale - Hardcover
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The Carrion Birds by Urban Waite Publisher Comments Set in a small town in the Southwest, a soulful work of literary noir rife with vengeance and contrition from a fresh voice in fiction — the author of the highly acclaimed The Terror of Living Life hasn't worked out the way Ray Lamar planned. A... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $18.19 Sale - Hardcover
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Manual of Painting and Calligraphy by Jose Saramago Publisher Comments Manual of Painting and Calligraphy was José Saramago’s first novel. Written eight years before the critically acclaimed Baltasar and Blimunda, it is a story of self-discovery set against the background of the last years of Salazar’s... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments Arguably collects the finest work by America's foremost rhetorical Pugilist (the Village Voice) in one volume for the first time. Spanning four remarkable decades, this collection includes the author's masterful early writings on civil rights, Vietnam... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander Publisher Comments Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prizewinning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition by Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer Publisher Comments It has been fifty years — and millions of readers — since the world was first introduced to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond with Tock, the Humbug, and the captive princesses Rhyme and Reason. Now we have a remarkable 50th... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Life after Life by Kate Atkinson Publisher Comments What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.59 Sale - Hardcover
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter Publisher Comments This groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning book sets the standard for interdisciplinary writing, exploring the patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.80 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett Publisher Comments With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines. In... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Publisher Comments With frizzy orange hair, a plus-sized body, sarcastic demeanor, and "unique learning profile," Danielle Levine doesn't fit in even at her alternative high school. While navigating her doomed social life, she writes scathing, self-aware, and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $11.99 Sale - Trade Paper
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The End by Salvatore Scibona Publisher Comments An incredible debut and National Book Award-nominated novel?it?s ?Memento meets Augie March. Didion meets Hitchcock? (Esquire). It is August 15, 1953, the day of a boisterous and unwieldy street carnival in Elephant Park, an Italian immigrant enclave in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't by Augusten Burroughs Publisher Comments From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes a groundbreaking book by Augusten Burroughs that explores how to survive what you think you can't. If you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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