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The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig Publisher Comments A New York Times Editors Choice A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year [quote side bar] "Flawless."O, the Oprah Magazine "Courageous."Washington Post Book World "Evocative."The New Yorker "Life-affirming."... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien Publisher Comments "To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales." So wrote The New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lonesome Dove by Larry Mcmurtry Publisher Comments A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtrys Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon Staff Pick Jaimy Gordon's National Book Award came as no surprise to those of us who had already fallen in love with the mythic, bewitching voices of Lord of Misrule. The characters — and horses — of Indian Mound Downs dwell on a dangerous fringe, powerfully... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa Publisher Comments Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey Publisher Comments A mesmerizing tale of a father and daughters sailing adventure from Trinidad to the Galapagos Islands, longlisted for the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Monique Roffey, vibrant new voice in Caribbean fiction and author of the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction by Elissa Schappell Publisher Comments Blueprints for Building Better Girls delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female characters—from the high school slut to the good girl, the struggling artist to the college party girl, the wife who yearns for a child to the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Publisher Comments The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award,The Color Purpleis the moving story of a young womans endurance of shame and suffering to become whole and to know God. The novel became an instant classic and has been adapted into a film and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Incendiary: A Novel by Chris Cleave Staff Pick You really have to give some giant props to a novel that starts out, "Dear Osama." What follows is a searing portrait of a woman riven by grief, pain, guilt, and horror at the (particularly gruesome) death of her husband and child due to a terrorist... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright Publisher Comments In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, it has snowed. Gina Moynihan, girl about town, recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for "the love of her life," Seán Vallely. As the city outside comes to a halt, Gina... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Home Uk Edition by Marilynne Robinson Publisher Comments WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE 2009 A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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William Trevor: Selected Stories by William Trevor Publisher Comments A second volume of short fictionfeaturing fourteen uncollected storiesfrom the bestselling author and master of the form Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T.C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Emperor of Lies. Steve Sem-Sandberg by Steve Sem Sandberg Publisher Comments Fiction of true moral force, brilliantly sustained and achieved...I find it difficult to think of any book that has had such an immediate and powerful impact on me...Brave and brillant.--Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall In February 1940, the Nazis... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s.--The New York Times Book Review Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman Synopsis In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing. Francisco,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Box: Tales from the Darkroom by Gunter Grass Publisher Comments “It is impossible not to be impressed by [Grasss] inexhaustible desire to experiment with the novel and by the many good stories and passages of exquisite writing in The Box.”—Charles Simic, New York Review of Books In this inspired... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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In Other Rooms Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin Publisher Comments Passing from the mannered drawing rooms of Pakistan s cities to the harsh mud villages beyond, Daniyal Mueenuddin s linked stories describe the interwoven lives of an aging feudal landowner, his servants and managers, and his extended family... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Room Uk by Emma Donoghue Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Olive Kitteridge Uk by Elizabeth Strout Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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