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Swamplandia! 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 $26.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Atlantis Complex (Artemis Fowl #07) by Eoin Colfer Publisher Comments Artemis has committed his entire fortune to a project he believes will save the planet and its inhabitants, both human and fairy. Can it be true? Has goodness taken hold of the world"s greatest teenage criminal mastermind? Captain Holly Short is... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut Staff Pick Alas, Kurt Vonnegut is still dead. Luckily for grieving readers, the cascade of Vonnegut's work continues to flow. This book features 16 previously unpublished stories from the early years of his career, each of which will delight his longtime fans.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler Publisher Comments When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power — vodka. You would too if you found out that your boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo or if you had to pretend to be honeymooning with your... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Underneath by Kathi Appelt Publisher Comments There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road. A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Wee Free Men: The Beginning by Terry Pratchett Publisher Comments When Tiffany Aching sets out to become a witch, she faces ominous foes and gains unexpected allies. As she confronts the Queen of Fairies and battles an ancient, bodiless evil, she is aided (and most ably abetted) by the six-inch-high, fightin', stealin',... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (2nd Edition) by Toby Hemenway Staff Pick Gaia's Garden has been an indispensable reference for gardeners who want to turn their yards into ecosystems that work with nature to create gardens that are beautiful, beneficial (to insects, birds, and people), and self-sustaining. This second edition... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $20.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Warriors: Power of Three #04: Eclipse by Erin Hunter Publisher Comments Firestar's three grandchildren have learned of the powerful prophecy that foretells their destinies, and the responsibility of deciding the Clans' future weighs heavily on the three apprentices. But each secretly yearns for power: Lionpaw dreams of being... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Put 'em Up!: A Comprehensive Home Preserving Guide for the Creative Cook, from Drying and Freezing to Canning and Pickling by Sherri Brooks Vinton Staff Pick If your cool aunt taught you how to preserve and make jam, Put 'em Up! would be the chronicle of her lessons. Sherri Brooks Vinton knows preserving, and she peppers the recipes with tips learned only through experience. Canning can even be a party... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Fancy Nancy Explorer Extraordinaire! (Fancy Nancy) by Jane O'Connor Publisher Comments For the fanciest girl around, the outdoors are out of this world Fancy Nancy and her best friend, Bree, set out to explore the fascinating world of wildflowers, trees, leaves, birds, and, of course, butterflies in their exclusively glamorous Explorers... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Best American Short Stories 2009 (Best American Short Stories) by Alice Sebold Publisher Comments Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from "famous to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Publisher Comments With frizzy orange hair, a plus-sized body, sarcastic demeanor, and "unique learning profile," Danielle Levine doesn't fit in even at her alternative high school. While navigating her doomed social life, she writes scathing, self-aware, and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $11.99 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles Staff Pick Creatively constructed, this novel-in-a-letter has more to do with the main character's complaints about his own life than his missed flight. Dear American Airlines, the first novel by the New York Times cocktail columnist Jonathan Miles was surely... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness by Reinhard Kleist Staff Pick Reinhard Kleist gives us a dark and nuanced portrait of the Man in Black, with stunning black-and-white artwork that perfectly complements the retelling of Johnny Cash's life. Interspersed among the narrative are short selections of illustrated song... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert Publisher Comments NOMINATED FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE A profoundly moving portrait of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters, A Short History of Women chronicles five generations of women from the close of the nineteenth century through the early... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones Publisher Comments Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great-Uncle William's tiny cottage while he's ill should have been easy. But Great-Uncle William is better known as the Royal Wizard Norland, and his house bends space and time. Its single door leads to... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Garden Anywhere: How to Grow Gorgeous Container Gardens, Herb Gardens, Kitchen Gardens and More -- without Spending a Fortune by Alys Fowler Staff Pick Garden Anywhere is an apartment-dwelling wannabe-horticulturalist's dream. With easy-to-follow instructions and super-creative container garden ideas — like making window boxes out of wine crates and growing potatoes in feed sacks — this book is... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.47 Sale - Trade Paper
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This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper Staff Pick When Judd's father dies, he joins his family for a week to observe shivah. Meanwhile, in the face of his wife's affair and a divorce on his horizon, he discovers his wife is pregnant. This doesn't much sound like a funny book, but it truly is. Tropper... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J. R. R. Tolkien Staff Pick Tolkien fans don't need to be told that a new, previously unpublished work by The Master is a major event. The surprise here is that Tolkien narrates Norse mythology with the same energy, wit, and excitement with which he brings hobbits to life.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker Staff Pick The Anthologist is the one of the funniest books I read this year, and one of Baker's best in a long time. Baker creates an incredibly winning main character in Paul Chowder, a minor poet trying (and repeatedly failing) to write the introduction to an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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