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She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan Publisher Comments The provocative bestseller She's Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Empire Falls: A Novel by Richard Russo Publisher Comments With Empire Falls, Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America's most compelling and compassionate storytellers. Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Straight Man: A Novel by Richard Russo Publisher Comments In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser Publisher Comments Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his fathers cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters — one a dreamlike shadow, the other a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates Publisher Comments The literary event of 2001 is now the paperback event of 2002: The Collected Stories of Richard Yates gathers the late author's powerful and peerless short fiction in one comprehensive volume. Praised by such authors as Michael Chabon, Stewart O'Nan... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Risk Pool by Richard Russo Publisher Comments A wonderfully fun and perceptive novel in the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo Publisher Comments In his slyly funny and moving new novel, the author of The Risk Pool follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat, upstate New York town--and in the lives of the unluckiest of its citizens. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Paul... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Whore's Child: And Other Stories by Richard Russo Publisher Comments To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Empire Falls (HBO Tie-In) by Richard Russo Staff Pick Careful: Laboratory tests confirm that Richard Russo's prose promotes addictive behavior among committed readers of fiction. His fifth novel, Empire Falls, turns its own pages. Booklist noted, "Russo follows up his rollicking academic satire, Straight... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever Staff Pick "I finished ['The Swimmer'] remarkably satisfied, but piqued, and randomly began to consume the stories one after another. This collection contains pieces spanning more than thirty years of Cheever's career. He writes old-fashioned stories with dateless... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Winesburg, Ohio (Modern Library) by Sherwood Anderson Publisher Comments Before Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Richard Ford, there was Sherwood Anderson, who, with Winesburg, Ohio, charted a new direction in American fiction — evoking with lyrical simplicity quiet moments of epiphany in the lives of ordinary men and... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Maine: The Seasons by Terrell S. Lester and Ann Beattie and Richard Ford and Elizabeth Strout and Richard Russo Publisher Comments Maine attracts 11 million visitors a year. Terrell S. Lester's magnificent full-color photographs celebrate the state in all its glory, in all four seasons. With essays by Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Richard Russo, and Elizabeth Strout. The perfect... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mohawk by Richard Russo Publisher Comments Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. Dallas Younger, a star athlete in high school, now drifts from tavern to poker game, losing money, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Our Town a Play in Three Acts by Thornton Wilder Publisher Comments First produced and published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize--winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners has become an American classic and is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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