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A Series of Unfortunate Events #01: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket Publisher Comments Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. In the first two books alone, the three youngsters... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui by Karen Kingston Staff Pick If you want your home to be a clean, clutter-free space but have difficulty getting rid of unneeded belongings and unwanted gifts, Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui is the book for you; fifty pages in and you'll be eager to put the book down and start... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Publisher Comments Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hours by Michael Cunningham Publisher Comments A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Caucasia by Danzy Senna Publisher Comments Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970's Boston. The sisters are so close that they have created a private language, yet to the outside world they can't be... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Desperate Characters (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Paula Fox Publisher Comments Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. But after Sophie is bitten on the hand... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard Publisher Comments Jo Ann Beard grew up amid a tightly knit clan of mothers, aunts, sisters, and girlfriends. Her steadfast family and its culture of women somehow made the prospect of dangerous neighborhood boys, friendly barflies, and potential romance all the more... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Opened Ground Selected Poems 1966-1996 (98 Edition) by Seamus Heaney Publisher Comments As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Troy and Sweeney Astray, and several previously... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orleans wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. From Floridas swamps to its courtrooms, the New Yorker writer follows one... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mammy by Brendan Ocarroll Publisher Comments "Mammy" is what Irish children call their mothers and The Mammy is Agnes Browne--a widow struggling to raise seven children in a North Dublin neighborhood in the 1960s. Popular Irish comedian Brendan O'Carroll chronicles the comic misadventures of this... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull Publisher Comments Jonathan Hull's debut novel is an epic story of love found and lost, of life in all its joy and tragedy, that takes readers as far as a French battlefield during World War I and as near as a California nursing home. Spanning the twentieth century in time,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen Publisher Comments Kenneth Patchen sets off on an allegorical journey of his own in which the far boundaries of love and murder, madness and sex are sensually explored. His is the tale of a disordered pilgrimage to H. Roivas (Heavenly Savior) in which the deranged... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Chocolat by Joanne Harris Publisher Comments In tiny Lansquenet, where nothing much has changed in a hundred years, beautiful newcomer Vianne Rocher and her exquisite chocolate shop arrive and instantly begin to play havoc with Lenten vows. Each box of luscious bonbons comes with a free gift... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kalimantaan by C S Godshalk Publisher Comments One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sorrow (Curbstone Press Contemporary Poets) by Claribel Alegria Publisher Comments In Sorrow, Claribel Alegria plumbs the depths of grief and wrests hope from pain and memory in lyrics written as love letters to her deceased husband. The poems not only summon their shared past in vivid detail, but also ponder the meaning of death and... (read more) Your price: $13.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine by Frank Huyler Publisher Comments Reminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of spare and elegant stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Taking the Wall (99 Edition) by Jonis Agee Publisher Comments Fiction. As the engines roar and the green flag waves, these stories tear across their rural landscape with the energy of a Winston Cup race. Like W.P. Kinsella's minor league ballplayers, Jonis Agee's drivers, pit crews, mechanics, and their families... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Grandad's Prayers of the Earth by Doug Wood Publisher Comments A beautiful and moving picture book about the bond between a grandparent and child—and the enduring spirit of love. "Grandad and I likes to go for walks in the woods together. We didn't walk very far. Or very fast. Or very straight. While... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Loop by Joe Coomer Publisher Comments Lyman, a thirty-year-old orphan, is sipping coffee on the front steps of the trailer he calls home one morning, when a ninety-year-old parrot arrives with a beakful of cryptic sayings -- such as "That which hath wings shall tell the matter" -- and a... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Eating the Cheshire Cat by Helen Ellis Publisher Comments Eating the Cheshire Cat is a stunning debut from a young writer whose expert literary craftsmanship rivals that of the most seasoned novelists. With humor both clever and macabre, Helen Ellis lures us into a world of perfectly planned parties and steep... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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