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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn Publisher Comments Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of — and in the words of — America's women, factory workers, African... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Run (P.S.) by Ann Patchett Staff Pick Run, a worthy successor to Bel Canto, shows off Patchett's trademark gorgeous prose and emotional depth. Her characters are believably flawed, but ultimately good and decent human beings who you want to spend time with.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition) by Anthony Bourdain Publisher Comments When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded that appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectable... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brave New World (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley Publisher Comments Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—here humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union (P.S.) by Michael Chabon Staff Pick After winning the Pulitzer Prize for his groundbreaking The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon returns for another literary tour de force. In a "what-if" story for adults, Chabon imagines that Alaska was turned into a Jewish state... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shadow of the Silk Road (P.S.) by Colin Thubron Publisher Comments To travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart, and camel, Colin Thubron covered some... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 by Jay Winik Publisher Comments It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Space between Us (P.S.) by Thrity Umrigar Publisher Comments Poignant, evocative, and unforgettable, The Space Between Us is an intimate portrait of a distant yet familiar world. Set in modern-day India, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sacred Games: A Novel (P.S.) by Vikram Chandra Staff Pick "Sacred Games is a brilliant crime epic, which impressively balances a literary detective and gangster story with a cinematically violent tale of contemporary Bombay. One of Chandra's most remarkable achievements amidst this novel of marvels is his... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bad Monkeys (P.S.) by Matt Ruff Staff Pick Bad Monkeys twists, turns, shifts, and shakes its way through the story of Jane Charlotte, a woman who claims to be a member of a clandestine organization dedicated to fighting evil known as the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons. A gripping... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (07 Edition) by Michael Wex Publisher Comments In his New York Times bestseller, Born to Kvetch, author Michael Wex led readers on a hilariously edifying excursion through Yiddish culture and history. With Just Say Nu, he shows us how to use this remarkable language to spice up conversations, stories,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind -- and Almost Found Myself -- on the Pacific Crest Trail (P.S.) by Dan White Publisher Comments The Pacific Crest Trail stretches from Mexico to Canada, a distance of 2,650 grueling, sun-scorched, bear-infested miles. When Dan White and his girlfriend announced their intention to hike it, Dan's parents — among others — thought they were... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (P.S.) by Neil Gaiman Staff Pick Fantasy author Gaiman is at his best in this short story collection, which contains an embarrassing riches of storytelling that is at times dark, funny, terrifying, beautiful, and always brilliant.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Out Backward (P.S.) by Ross Raisin Publisher Comments Sam Marsdyke is a lonely young man, dogged by an incident in his past and forced to work his family farm instead of attending school in his Yorkshire village. He methodically fills his life with daily routines and adheres to strict boundaries that keep... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crooked Little Vein (P.S.) by Warren Ellis Publisher Comments Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president's heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitution — the real one the Founding Fathers... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Where God Was Born: A Daring Adventure Through the Bible's Greatest Stories (P.S.) by Bruce Feiler Publisher Comments At a time when America debates its values and the world braces for religious war, Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers Walking the Bible and Abraham, travels ten thousand miles through the heart of the Middle East—Israel, Iraq... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Love You, Beth Cooper (P.S.) by Larry Doyle Publisher Comments In the tradition ofPersepolisandAmerican Born Chinese, a wise and funny high school heroine comes of age.Tina M., sophomore, is a wry and endearing observer of the cliques and mores of Yarborough Academy. (andldquo;The name makes it sound fancier than... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Why I'm Like This: True Stories (P.S.) by Cynthia Kaplan Publisher Comments Cynthia Kaplan takes us on a hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking journey through her unique, uncensored world—her bungled romantic encounters and unsung theatrical experiences; her gadget-obsessed father, her pill-popping therapist, and her... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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