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Glaciers (Tin House New Voice) by Alexis Smith Publisher Comments Isabel is a single, twenty-something thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.67 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris Staff Pick Sedaris diverges from his usual essays to give us a book of fables. Like all good fables and fairy tales, they're pretty gruesome and horrifying, and there's most always a moral to be found. These include a healthy dose of charm and wit, though. Ian... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays by David Sedaris Publisher Comments In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Postmortal by Drew Magary Publisher Comments John Farrell is about to get "The Cure." Old age can never kill him now. The only problem is, everything else still can . . . Imagine a near future where a cure for aging is discovered and-after much political and moral debate-made available... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Emma by Jane Austen Publisher Comments Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich… Emma is also overly confident in her abilities as a matchmaker for the residents of Highbury in Jane Austen’s widely beloved classic novel. Although convinced that she herself will never marry, Emma... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Anne Brashares Publisher Comments From the author of the multimillion-copy, #1 bestselling series The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants comes a heartbreaking first adult novel. Ann Brashares's series, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, has made her one of the most successful... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $4.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris Synopsis Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is updated and expanded with six more pieces, including a never-before-published story to help spread the cheer and mortification of the season.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson Publisher Comments 'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Publisher Comments This book tells the tale of Gregor Samsa, a young salesman, who wakes up one day to find he has turned into ‘a kind of giant bug. Samsa has been a model of virtue for years, single handedly supporting his parents and sister, but suddenly he finds... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Postmistress by Sarah Blake Publisher Comments The New York Times bestseller- "A beautifully written, thought-provoking novel." -#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathryn Stockett. In 1940, Iris James is the postmistress in coastal Franklin, Massachusetts. Iris knows more about the townspeople... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver Publisher Comments Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Publisher Comments Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris Publisher Comments David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art, (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal Publisher Comments Judith Whitman always believed in the kind of love that picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio. Long ago, she once experienced that love. Willy Blunt was a carpenter with a dry wit and a steadfast sense of honor. Marrying him seemed like a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.49 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory Publisher Comments Three women who share one fate: the Boleyn Inheritance ANNE OF CLEVES: She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a court ruled by the terror of a vengeful king who despises her. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bite Me: A Love Story by Christopher Moore Publisher Comments The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, and my manga-haired love monkey stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public. Whoa. And this is a love story... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Average American Male by Chad Kultgen Publisher Comments Are you ready to meet the average American male?... (read more) Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008 by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments This unique volume brings together for the first time three decades of short stories by one of the most innovative and exciting writers of our day. A master of the genre, Louise Erdrich has selected these pieces—thirty works that first appeared in... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Cave by Jose Saramago Publisher Comments A Los Angeles Times Best Book A New York Times Notable Book "[The Cave] is yet another triumph . . . for Portugal's, or even the world's, greatest living novelist. Read it."-The Washington Post Book World Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall From Powells.com Featured in Indiespensable Volume 18! Powell's subscription club offers signed first editions, exclusive content, and unique handpicked gifts. Read about this shipment on our blog!... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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