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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Changed Man (P.S.) by Francine Prose Publisher Comments What is charismatic Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow to think when a rough-looking young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of Maslow's human rights foundation and declares that he wants to "save guys like me from becoming guys... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Master Butchers Singing Club (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.) by Peter Hessler Publisher Comments In the tradition of "Iron & Silk" comes a powerful memoir about a young American teacher in the Peace Corps living in the small Chinese city of Fuling as it navigates increasing waves of cultural and social upheaval. Maps.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley Publisher Comments "Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune Aldous Huxley is rightly considered a prophetic genius and one of the most important literary and philosophical voices of the 20th Century, and Brave New World is... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Bride Stripped Bare (P.S.) by Nikki Gemmell Publisher Comments A woman disappears, leaving behind an incendiary diary chronicling a journey of sexual awakening. To all who knew her, she was the good wife: happy, devoted, content. But the diary reveals a secret self, one who's discovered that her new marriage... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Taming the Beast (P.S.) by Emily Maguire Publisher Comments At the tender age of fourteen, Sarah Clark is seduced by her thirty-eight-year-old English teacher, Daniel Carr, and becomes entangled in an illegal, erotic, passionate, and dangerous affair—a vicious meeting of minds and bodies that ends badly... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ahab's Wife (P.S.) by Sena Jeter Naslund Publisher Comments "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature along with "Call me Ishmael." Sena Jeter Naslund has created an entirely new universe with a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Good Family (P.S.) by Terry Gamble Publisher Comments Drawing from her own experiences as a descendant of one of America's industrial families, Gamble wields an insider's observation with Wharton-esque charm to create a compassionate, funny, often heartbreaking portrait of a woman's search for home.... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Electric Michelangelo (P.S.) by Sarah Hall Publisher Comments Cy Parks is the Electric Michelangelo, an artist of extraordinary gifts whose medium happens to be the pliant, shifting canvas of the human body. Fleeing his mother's legacy a consumptives' hotel in a fading English seaside resort Cy... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Way the Crow Flies (P.S.) by Ann-Marie MacDonald Staff Pick Ann-Marie MacDonald writes beautifully; her words wrap around you and envelop you. The Way the Crow Flies is engaging and evocative. She captures the pure joy and pain of childhood better than anyone since Margaret Atwood. That would be enough but then... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement (P.S.) by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments Sylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to life, it garnered... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The System of the World: #03 Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson Staff Pick The concluding volume of the Baroque Cycle mixes swashbuckling adventure, historical romance, mathematics, and Isaac Newton into a frothy brew that's truly irresistible.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende Publisher Comments What happens when a graduate of MIT, the bastion of technological advancement, and his bride move to a community so primitive in its technology that even Amish groups consider it antiquated? Eric Brende conceives a real-life experiment: to see if, in... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems (P.S.) by Gwendolyn Brooks Publisher Comments The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, showcases an esteemed artist's technical mastery, her warm... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (P.S.) by Michael Chabon Staff Pick Pulitzer Prize-winner Chabon's first novel (written for his master's thesis at UC Irvine) was published when he was twenty-five, and quickly became a bestseller. Set in the steel ciy, this hilarious coming-of-age story tells the tale of Art Bechstein's... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen & Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (P.S.) by Trevor Corson Publisher Comments In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and aneccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lucky Girls: Stories (P.S.) by Nell Freudenberger Publisher Comments First highlighted in the "New Yorker" fiction issue, "Lucky Girls" is a collection of five novella-like stories that take place mostly in Asia--the debut of a new talent and a "New York Times" Notable Book.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury (P.S.) by Sam Weller Publisher Comments Accomplished journalist Sam Weller met the Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and longtime friends. With unprecedented access to... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Beet Queen (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt Fritzie and her husband, Pete; ordinary Mary, who will cause a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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