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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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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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A Map of Tulsa by Benjamin Lytal Publisher Comments A stunning debut novel of first love set against the art scene of late-90s Tulsa by a former New Yorker editorial staffer. The first days of summer: Jim Praley is home from college, ready to unlock Tulsa's secrets. He drives the highways. He forces... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill Publisher Comments In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside Americas new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $20.99 Sale - Hardcover
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Vegetable Literacy: Cooking and Gardening with Twelve Families from the Edible Plant Kingdom, with Over 300 Deliciously Simple Recipes by Deborah Madison Publisher Comments In her latest cookbook, Deborah Madison, America's leading authority on vegetarian cooking and author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, reveals the surprising relationships between vegetables, edible flowers, and herbs within the same botanical... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $28.00 Sale - Hardcover
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The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout Publisher Comments Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout’s “magnificent gift for... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.20 Sale - Hardcover
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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt Publisher Comments Tackling the “darkest question in all of philosophy” with “raffish erudition” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.87 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Dark by Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen Publisher Comments Laszlo is afraid of the dark. The dark lives in the same house as Laszlo. Mostly, though, the dark stays in the basement and doesn't come into Lazslo's room. But one night, it does. This is the story of how Laszlo stops being afraid of the dark.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.89 Sale - Hardcover
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Clockwork Princess (Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare Publisher Comments Don’t miss The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, soon to be a major motion picture in theaters August 2013. Danger intensifies for the Shadowhunters as the New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy comes to a close. If the only way to... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $13.99 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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A Little Book of Sloth by Lucy Cooke Staff Pick Do you shriek or weep easily? Then be prepared to go into overload! These little bundles of SQUEE! will melt even the most curmudgeonly naysayers. You'll find yourself saying, "Kittens? What kittens?", or possibly becoming what I call "sloth-drunk." As... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.89 Sale - Hardcover
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That Is Not a Good Idea! by Mo Willems Publisher Comments That Is Not a Good Idea! is a hilarious, interactive picture book from bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems, the creator of books like Dont Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, the Knuffle Bunny series, the Elephant and Piggie series, Goldilocks and... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $12.59 Sale - Hardcover
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Otis and the Puppy by Loren Long Publisher Comments Otis and his farm friends love to play hide-and-seek. Otis especially loves to be "It," finding his friends as they hide. Yet when the newest addition to the farm — a bounding puppy who can't sit still and has a habit of licking faces... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $12.59 Sale - Hardcover
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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 Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism among the Primates by Frans de Waal Publisher Comments For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he delivers fascinating fresh evidence for the seeds of ethical behavior in primate societies that further cements the case for the biological... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.57 Sale - Hardcover
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Steam Train, Dream Train by Sherri Duskey Rinker and Tom Lichtenheld Publisher Comments The team behind the #1 New York Times bestseller Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site returns with another fabulous book for bedtime! The dream train pulls into the station, and one by one the train cars are loaded: polar bears pack the reefer car... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.89 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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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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Write This Book: A Do-It-Yourself Mystery by Pseudonymous Bosch Publisher Comments I feared this may happen. I knew reading was a dangerous business, but now it's not safe for writers either! You see, the author of this book is missing. Well, maybe not "missing." A certain author whom I won't name (okay, me) has abandoned his book and... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.89 Sale - Hardcover
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The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson Staff Pick In a futuristic Brazilian city where dancing and danger are often the same thing, a glowing protagonist is tangled up in art, rebellion, and charming young men with tragic fates. The near-instant total immersion of this book left me dazzled by Johnson's... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $12.59 Sale - Hardcover
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