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My Cross to Bear by Gregg Allman Publisher Comments As one of the greatest rock icons of all time, Gregg Allman has lived it all and then some. For almost fifty years, he's been creating some of the most recognizable songs in American rock, but never before has he paused to reflect on the long road he's... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.59 Sale - Hardcover 
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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel Publisher Comments From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazines No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $15.40 Sale - Hardcover
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A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful by Gideon Lewis-Kraus Publisher Comments In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the kind of constraint that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife,... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.87 Sale - Hardcover
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The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger Publisher Comments A powerful, funny, richly observed tour de force by one of America’s most acclaimed young writers: a story of love and marriage, secrets and betrayals, that takes us from the backyards of America to the back alleys and villages of Bangladesh. In... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $18.17 Sale - Hardcover
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough Publisher Comments As David McCullough writes, “Not all pioneers went west.” In The Greater Journey, he tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $14.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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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 Sense of an Ending (Vintage International) by Julian Barnes Publisher Comments A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning new chapter in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. This intense... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.47 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Publisher Comments A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe — and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $18.17 Sale - Hardcover
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Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer Publisher Comments New York Times best-selling author Jonah Lehrer shows us how we can all learn to be more creative. Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.20 Sale - Hardcover
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The Sugar Frosted Nutsack by Mark Leyner Publisher Comments High above the bustling streets of Dubai, in the world's tallest and most luxurious skyscraper, reside the gods and goddesses of the modern world. Since they emerged 14 billion years ago from a bus blaring a tune remarkably similar to the Mister Softee... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $17.49 Sale - Hardcover
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews Publisher Comments Up until senior year, Greg has maintained total social invisibility. He only has one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time — when not playing video games and avoiding Earl's terrifying brothers — making movies, their own versions... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.87 Sale - Hardcover
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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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A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez Publisher Comments Julia Alvarez has been called "a one-woman cultural collision" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and that has never been truer than in this story about three of her most personal relationships — with her parents, with her husband, and with a... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $16.07 Sale - Hardcover
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Rain Dragon by Jon Raymond Publisher Comments Damon and his girlfriend Amy have had enough of Los Angeles. Fitful and tired and dreaming of a simpler life, they leave the city to go work on a community farm. But they've scarcely arrived when their vague hopes start to come unraveled: What are they... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper
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Flatscreen by Adam Wilson Publisher Comments Flatscreen tells the story of Eli Schwartz as he endures the loss of his home, the indifference of his parents, the success of his older brother, and the cruel and frequent dismissal of the opposite sex. He is a loser par excellence—pasty, soft... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.27 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell Publisher Comments The much-anticipated return of Henning Mankell's brilliant, brooding detective, Kurt Wallander. On a winter day in 2008, Hakan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. The... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Angry Buddhist by Seth Greenland Publisher Comments Seth Greenland's timely new novel is set in the high California desert between the trailer parks and amphetamine labs of Desert Hot Springs and the classic mid-century architecture of Palm Springs. In this sun-blasted territory, with its equally arid... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper
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You Are Not Like Other Mothers: The Story of a Passionate Woman by Angelika Schrobsdorff Publisher Comments As a young woman, Else made two promises to herself: to live life to the fullest, and to have a child with every man she loves. So here, too, are the stories of Fritz, Hans, and Erich — husbands, companions, lovers, and emissaries of a world in... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.60 Sale - Trade Paper
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Crusoe's Daughter by Jane Gardam Publisher Comments When Polly Flint was six she was sent to live with her two holy aunts in a yellow house close to the Irish Sea. To the lonely orphan this bleak coast of England was so isolated she might well have been marooned on an island. For Polly the world of books &... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier by Ree Drummond Publisher Comments I'm Pioneer Woman. And I love to cook. Once upon a time, I fell in love with a cowboy. A strapping, rugged, chaps-wearing cowboy. Then I married him, moved to his ranch, had his babies . . . and wound up loving it. Except the manure. Living in the... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $20.99 Sale - Hardcover
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