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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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The Help by Kathryn Stockett Publisher Comments Visit www.penguin.com for the latest news, tour information and more. Listen to an excerpt from the audiobook. The wildly popular New York Times bestseller and reading group favorite Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper
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Swamplandia! (Vintage Contemporaries) by Karen Russell Staff Pick Russell's debut novel is in a literary class of its own. Swamplandia! is a mystical, fascinating coming-of-age story told from the perspective of the charming 13-year-old Ava. A shabby tourist attraction in Florida and unpredictable family members flavor... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.47 Sale - Trade Paper
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After You've Gone by Jeffrey Lent Publisher Comments With the advent of the Second World War, Henry and Olivia's only son, Robert, secretly enlists with the British army. Following the war, Henry travels to Holland to discover the truth behind his son's life. After learning of his son's service to the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice,... (read more) List Price $26.00 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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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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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 Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano Publisher Comments A stunning debut novel about the intertwined destinies of two friends brought together by childhood tragedy. A three-million-copy Italian bestseller and winner of that country's prestigious Premio Strega award. A prime number is inherently a solitary... (read more) List Price $15.00 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 Publisher Comments A new holiday classic from the author of the bestselling Naked and Barrel Fever! Holidays On Ice collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice scraper. This... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Jewish Messiah by Arnon Grunberg Publisher Comments One of the great provocateurs of world literature has written perhaps his most outrageous and morally necessary novel: the story of a confused young man from a family with a Nazi past who decides he will devote his life to redeeming the suffering of the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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 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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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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The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form. Cormac McCarthy by Cormac Mccarthy Publisher Comments A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment, Black and White, as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back... (read more) List Price $20.75 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht Staff Pick The postwar chaos in the Balkans provides the backdrop for Obreht's superbly crafted debut. A young physician seeks to unravel the mystery that surrounds both her grandfather's death and the mystifying Deathless Man he encountered throughout his adult... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern From Powells.com Featured in Indiespensable Volume 30! 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 $26.95 Your price: $18.87 Sale - Hardcover
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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Staff Pick "Inspired by her grandparents' love story in which the grandmother outlived her husband by nearly three decades, Niffenegger has invented Henry and Clare, and their unique and complicated love story involving the ability to live in the past and future in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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