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The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus Publisher Comments WANTED: One young woman to take care of a four-year-old boy. Must be bordering on masochistic. Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a nap-deprived pre-schooler. Must love getting thrown up on, literally and figuratively, by everyone in his family Mostly,... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $1.98 Used - Hardcover 
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Mr. Commitment by Mike Gayle Publisher Comments Straight from the bestseller lists in the UK comes a novel "full of belly laughs and painfully acute observations" (The Independent on Sunday), an excursion into the world of a modern male that "delivers its punch lines directly to the heart" (Birmingham... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Girlfriend 44 by Mark Barrowcliffe Publisher Comments From age ten, Harry has had just one ambition—to find the one girl for him. Forty-three women and twenty-odd years later, he is still looking. He doesnt ask for much: just a beautiful intellectual who doesnt mind his constant infidelity. Harrys... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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High Fidelity by Nick Hornby Publisher Comments High Fidelity is the story of Rob, a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend Laura has just left him for Ian from the flat upstairs. Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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About a Boy by Nick Hornby Publisher Comments Now a major motion picture from Universal Pictures. Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women—women who would not ordinarily look twice at Will—might... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe Publisher Comments At once uproariously entertaining and deadly serious--a comedy of manners and mores, but also a conscientious and politically charged reminder of an age quite easily forgotten, yet not far removed from our own. --Henry Hitchings, Times Literary... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler Publisher Comments Hilarious, sexy, and deeply tender, Kissing in Manhattan follows a troupe of love-hungry urbanites through a charmed metropolis and into the Preemption -- the mythic Manhattan apartment building readers first discovered when The New Yorker debuted David... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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How to Be Good by Nick Hornby From Powells.com "Hornby is adept at the humorous everyday observation, and there are enough wry grins to be found here. However, where his previous narrators have been hapless but not altogether hopeless, here Hornby is saying 'There are no happy endings, there is just... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paper Moon by Joe D. Brown Publisher Comments The classic tale of a female Huck Finn, Peter Bogdanovich's film version of the book was nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in the darkest days of the Great Depression, this is the timeless story of an 11-year-old orphan's rollicking journey through... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Man and Boy by Tony Parsons From Powells.com "The characterization is generous and astute, the story shoots along at a brisk pace, and Parsons writes openly and honestly, avoiding tiresome cliches. It is a pity that there are so few other books written by men that are so accessible to both men and... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Thirtynothing by Lisa Jewell Publisher Comments Have you ever wondered what happened to your first love? That's the premise of this sparkling new romantic comedy from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller Ralph's Party — an irresistible novel about best friends, turning thirty..... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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