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I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Staff Pick An utter delight. This enchanting tale has long been a favorite of mine. It has just been reissued to coincide with the soon to be released movie version. Set in 1930s England, this story of young love beguiles with moated castles, moonlight swims, high... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Kindred by Octavia E Butler Publisher Comments Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. With more than 100,000 copies in print, Kindred is a classic... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Staff Pick When friends tell me to pick a book for them to read that I really like, this is the one I give most often. Brilliant, wacko, kooky, sharp short stories from one of my favorite writers.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver From Powells.com Very rarely does a novel have as significant an impact as has The Poisonwood Bible. Though it has received a great deal of critical recognition – it was, after all, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize – what has really distinguished... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel Publisher Comments Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry Publisher Comments Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the finest book to come out of Europe this year," The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty is acclaimed Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's lyrical tale of a fugitive everyman. For Eneas McNulty, a happy, innocent... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sandry's Book by Tamora Pierce Publisher Comments Part of the 8-book Tamora Pierce reissue for Fall 2006, this title in the Circle of Magic quartet features spellbinding new cover art. Coincides with the release of WILL OF THE EMPRESS in trade pb. Four elements of power, four mages-in-training learning... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Tales of Alvin Maker #01: Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card Publisher Comments A very special child is born into an alternate frontier America, where folk magic works.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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North to the Night: A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic by Alvah Simon Publisher Comments In June 1994 Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set off in their 36-foot sailboat to explore the hauntingly beautiful world of icebergs, tundra, and fjords lying high above the Arctic Circle. Four months later, unexpected events would trap Simon alone on... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Best American Short Stories 1999 by A Tan Publisher Comments In choosing this year's best American short stories, guest editor Amy Tan found herself drawn to fiction that satisfied her appetite for the magic and mystery she once loved as a child, when she was addicted to fairy tales. The result is a vibrant... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Little More about Me by Pam Houston Publisher Comments "Pam Houston catches the voice of an entire generation of adventurous young women whose intrepid hearts lead them into deep water," says Elle magazine. Now, with the gift of "speaking to Everywoman" (Library Journal), Houston treats us to a celebration... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Walkin' the Dog by Walter Mosley Publisher Comments "Socrates Fortlow, an ex-convict forced to define his own morality in a lawless world, confronts wrongs that most people would rather ignore and comes face-to-face with the most dangerous emotion: hope. It has been nine years since his release from... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett From Powells.com Since she received the 1996 National Book Award for Ship Fever and Other Stories, Andrea Barrett has been a recognized force in American letters, not only as a writer of lyrical, historical fiction, but also as a distinguished literary critic... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear Publisher Comments A 2000 HUGO AWARD NOMINEE Greg Bear's powerfully written, brilliantly inventive novels combine cutting-edge science and unforgettable characters, illuminating dazzling new technologies--and their dangers. Now, in Darwin's Radio, Bear draws on state-of... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Publisher Comments "Tell your story walking." St. Vincent's Home for Boys, Brooklyn, early 1970s. For Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. The Human Freakshow, a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach, rearrange objects),... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sleepy Bears by Mem Fox Publisher Comments "She kissed his sleepy head and said, 'Sleep, my sweetheart, sleep, my bear, Your cradle swings in the evening air . . . '" When winter comes, six sleepy bears are rhymed to sleep by Mother Bear. Color illustrations throughout.... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Hardcover
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Eucalyptus (Harvest Book) by Murray Bail Publisher Comments The gruff widower Holland has two possessions he cherishes above all others: his sprawling property of eucalyptus trees and his ravishingly beautiful daughter, Ellen. When Ellen turns nineteen Holland makes an announcement: she may marry only the man who... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order by Marcelle Karp Publisher Comments Both a literary magazine and a chronicle of girl culture, Bust was born in 1993. With contributors who are funny, fierce, and too smart to be anything but feminist, Bust is the original grrrl zine, with a base of loyal female fans – all those women... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Picnic Lightning (98 Edition) by Billy Collins Publisher Comments Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. To celebrate his years as U.S. Poet Laureate, we are pleased to announce these special, limited... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland Publisher Comments The smashingingly successful novel about a supposed Vermeer painting that is traced back through the centuries to the moment of its inspiration.... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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