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One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus Publisher Comments One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson Publisher Comments National Bestseller September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Number Devil : a Mathematical Adventure (98 Edition) by Hans Magnus Enzensberger Publisher Comments The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration. In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers,... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead Publisher Comments Lila Mae Watson is the first black female Elevator Inspector in the history of the Department. She is an Intuitionist, able to intuit defects purely by tuning in to the machinery. The opposition, the Empiricists, practice dutiful and routine physical... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson Publisher Comments With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Quiet Game by Greg Iles Publisher Comments When former prosecutor Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, he doesn't find the peace he desperately craves. He finds that his own father is being blackmailed by a corrupt ex-cop. And when Penn investigates, he uncovers a murderous... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Blindness by Jose Saramago Publisher Comments The late Nobel laureates final novel, a radical retelling of the Old Testament "Reading the Portuguese writer José Saramago, one quickly senses the presence of a master." Christian Science Monitor "Saramago is the most tender of writers...with a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mark of the Angel by Nancy Huston Publisher Comments This novel marks the stuning American debut of an internationally acclaimed writer. Combining the narrative drive of Birdsong with the emotional resonance of The Reader, The Mark of the Angel is a haunting and unforgettable tale of three lives... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.98 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Forests of the Night by Amelia Atwater-rhodes Publisher Comments By day, Risika sleeps in a shaded room in Concord, Massachusetts. By night, she hunts the streets of New York City. She is used to being alone. But someone is following Risika. He has left her a black rose, the same sort of rose that sealed her fate 300... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Question of Bruno 1st Edition by Aleksandar Hemon Synopsis A novella and stories linked by characters, by locations, and by interwoven substories, "The Question of Bruno" is set in Chicago and Sarajevo and is a book about the trauma of war and how an exile makes a new life in a new land.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mother Goose (Mother Goose) by Sylvia Long Publisher Comments From bestselling artist Sylvia Long comes an enchanting collection of over seventy-five classic Mother Goose rhymes. Imbued with the artist's love of nature and overflowing with charming details, this spectacular compilation includes such timeless... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Little Locksmith by Katharine Hathaway Publisher Comments The Little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway's luminous memoir of disability, faith, and transformation, is a critically acclaimed but largely forgotten literary classic brought back into print for the first time in thirty years. The Little Locksmith... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Hellenga Publisher Comments Robert Hellenga, bestselling author of The Sixteen Pleasures, once again reveals his profound understanding of the strength and resilience of the human spirit in a compelling and masterful novel. Alan Woodhull ("Woody"), a classics professor at a small... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Niccolo Rising (House of Niccolo) by Dorothy Dunnett Publisher Comments With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman's World by Robert Lacey Publisher Comments As the Shadow of the Millennium Descended Across England and Christendom, it Seemed as if the World was About to End. Actually, it was Only the Beginning... Welcome to the Year 1000. This is What Life was Like. How clothes were fastened in a world... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How Green Was My Valley (40 Edition) by Richard Llewellyn Publisher Comments How Green Was My Valley is Richard Llewellyn's bestselling -- and timeless -- classic and the basis of a beloved film. As Huw Morgan is about to leave home forever, he reminisces about the golden days of his youth when South Wales still prospered, when... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hiawatha by David Treuer Publisher Comments Recently widowed, and encouraged by government relocation schemes to move Native Americans off their reservations, Betty takes her four young children from their Ojibwe roots to make a new life in Minneapolis. Her younger son Lester finds romance on the... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith Publisher Comments In the spring of 1898, A. E. (Alexandria) Bartram--a spirited young woman with a love for botany--is invited to join a field study in Yellowstone National Park. The study's leader, a mild-mannered professor from Montana, assumes she is a man, and is less... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Down on Ponce by Fred Willard Publisher Comments This cracker-noir crime novel follows a crew of eccentric career criminals as they take down a powerful group of money launderers in Atlanta.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Friendship Cake by Lynne Hinton Publisher Comments Here in the country, women grew up learning to cook before they were tall enough to reach the stove. It was the mother's and the grandmother's responsibility to make sure all the girls in the family could make a meal out of one strip of meat and a cup... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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