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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Publisher Comments This special edition of A Wrinkle in Time includes a new essay that explores the science behind the fantasy. Rediscover one of the most beloved children's books of all time: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle: Meg Murray, her little brother Charles... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Half Magic (Edward Eager's Tales of Magic) by Edward Eager Staff Pick I love this story. Four children (one brother and three sisters) find a magic coin. They don't initially understand the coin's special properties or how to use it without causing unwanted mayhem — since only half of a wish comes true when wished in the... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Staff Pick Long before Jeffrey Eugenides gave us the Pulitzer Prize-winning Middlesex, he delivered this dark jewel of a novel. Set in small town America, this study of a broken family of suicidal sisters will shock you. It is so compelling, you will be absolutely... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again by J R R Tolkien Publisher Comments J.R.R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Moviegoer by Walker Percy Publisher Comments The dazzling novel, written in 1961, that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback edition. "A brilliant novel. . . . . Percy touches the rim of so many human... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier Publisher Comments With the clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language that make her one of The New York Times's premier stylists, Pulitzer Prize-winner Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Life is So Good by George Dawson Synopsis What makes a happy person, a happy life? George Dawson, who learned how to read when he was 98, tells how as he describes his own remarkable odyssey across the span of the 20th century.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers Publisher Comments The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life by Alison Weir Publisher Comments Eleanor of Aquitaine was a complex, boldly original woman who transcended the mores of her society. In this stunning biography, Alison Weir paints a vibrant portrait of this truly exceptional queen, and provides new insights into her private life. With... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories by Nathan Englander Publisher Comments One of the most stunning literary debuts of our time, these energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories introduce an astonishing new talent. In the collection's hilarious title story, a Hasidic man gets a special dispensation from his... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 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 Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde Publisher Comments "These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."--Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a black, lesbian feminist identity took place in these poems, and set the terms--beautifully, forcefully--for contemporary multicultural and pluralist debate."--... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Stumbling Toward Enlightenment by Geri Larkin Publisher Comments A humorous and honest collection of Buddhist wisdom from a Western beginner'Âs perspective. Instead of promising a straight and clear path to enlightenment, author and teacher Geri Larkin shows us that even stumbling along that path can... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chronicles of Narnia #02: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis Publisher Comments They open a door and enter a world Narnia ... a land frozen in eternal winter ... a country waiting to be set free. Four adventurers step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia -- a land enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Summer After June by Ashley Warlick Publisher Comments Ashley Warlick's prizewinning first novel, THE DISTANCE FROM THE HEART OF THINGS, won nationwide acclaim for its portrayal of a young woman both smart and loving. Gail Godwin declared it "an occasion for rejoicing, as fresh and needed as rain after a... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Redwall #01: Redwall by Brian Jacques Publisher Comments A special release of one of the most beloved fantasy adventures of our time!... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Iii Dubus Publisher Comments NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Moghul Buffet (Soho Crime) by Cheryl Benard Publisher Comments An American businessman visiting Peshawar, Pakistan, vanishes from his hotel room. The only clue is an enigmatic message in blood scrawled on the Coke machine. A series of murders follows. But in a country where half the population is hidden beneath... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Libby: the Sketches, Letters & Journal of Libby Beaman, Recorded in the Pribilof Islands, 1879-1880 by Elizabeth Beaman John Publisher Comments Libby Beaman was the first American woman to travel to the Alaskan Pribilof Islands. Based on her diary, the tale of Libby, her husband, and the powerful first officer is told in all its passion. 20 line drawings.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Honest-To-Goodness Truth by Patricia C. Mckissack Publisher Comments "Tell the truth and shame the devil," Libby's mama has told her. So whatever is Libby doing wrong? Ever since she started telling only the truth, the whole world seems to be mad at her. First it's her best friend, Ruthie Mae, who gets upset when Libby... (read more) Your price: $17.99 New - Hardcover
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