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Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Staff Pick The narrator, Lionel Essrog, known as The Human Freakshow, suffers with Tourette's syndrome and though you might not want to know him in real life, he's got to be one of the most brilliant characters ever created. His quirky rants put me off at first... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire Publisher Comments < P> < i> Is this new land a place where magics really happen?< /P> < P> < /i> From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of < i> Wicked, < /i> comes his much& ndash; anticipated second novel, a brilliant and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.48 Used - Trade Paper
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A Gesture Life by Chang Rae Lee Publisher Comments The riveting story of a Japanese immigrant who leads a proper, decorous life in a New York suburb. As his life slowly unravels, he is transported back to his days as a medic in the Japanese army in World War II, and his obsessive love of a young comfort... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver From Powells.com After earning international acclaim with The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver returns in Prodigal Summer to her childhood stomping grounds of southern Appalachia, making a stop on the New York Times Bestseller list along the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Roberto, Insect Architect (00 Edition) by Nina Laden Publisher Comments Ever since he was a wee mite (termite that is), Roberto wanted to be an architect. He longed to follow in the footsteps-all twelve of them-of such architectural greats as Hank Floyd Mite and Fleas van der Rohe. Discouraged by comments from family and... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Hardcover
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Boggs: A Comedy of Values by Lawrence Weschler Publisher Comments In this highly entertaining book, Lawrence Weschler chronicles the antics of J. S. G. Boggs, an artist whose consuming passion is money, or perhaps more precisely, value. Boggs draws money-paper notes in standard currencies from all over the world-and... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Not One Damsel in Distress : World Folktales for Strong Girls (00 Edition) by Jane Yolen Publisher Comments These thirteen folktales have one thing in common: brainy, brawny, brave heroines--and not one damsel in distress! From Bradamante, the fierce female medieval knight, to Li Chi, the Chinese girl who slays a dreaded serpent and saves her town, these... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Hardcover
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Before I Say Goodbye: Recollections and Observations from One Woman's Final Year by Ruth Picardie Publisher Comments By turns humorous and heart-rending, an unforgettable account of a young woman's spiritual triumphs over breast cancer in the last year of her life Ruth Picardie was only thirty-three when she died, a month after her twins' second birthday and just under... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sleeping Arrangements by Laura Shaine Cunningham Publisher Comments "Here is Lily Moore at 10, as judged by her fifth grade teacher: 'Unsatisfactory...Hair matted, uncombed, disheveled appearance. Soil under nails.' She has in addition been AWOL from school for 37 full and 38 half days...She lives in a bizarre apartment... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King Publisher Comments Anyone alive in Florence on August 19, 1418, would have understood the significance of the competition announced that day concerning the city’s magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, already under construction for more than a century... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry Publisher Comments “Lowry is a master at creating worlds, both real and imagined, and this incarnation of our civilization some time in the future is one of her strongest creations.” -Booklist Six years after The Giver, Lois Lowry ushered readers back... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip by George Saunders Publisher Comments Gappers will get your goat. Literally. If you don't brush them off and return them to the ocean, whence they arrive every day, these bright orange, many-eyed creatures will cover your goats, and the goats will stop giving milk. In a village called... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ali and Nino: A Love Story by Kurban Said Publisher Comments First published in Vienna in 1937, this classic story of romance and adventure has been compared to Dr. Zhivago and Romeo and Juliet. Its mysterious author was recently the subject of a feature article in the New Yorker, which has inspired a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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River of Darkness by Rennie Airth Publisher Comments In rural England, slowly emerging from the sorrow of World War I, the peace of a small Surrey village is shattered by a murderous attack on a household that leaves five butchered bodies and no explanation for the killings. Sent by Scotland Yard to... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments From one of the world's most renowned scientists, conservationists, and animal rights activists comes a bestselling spiritual autobiography that explores her deepest beliefs about spirituality and moral evolution. NPR sponsorship.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lucky Gourd Shop by Joanna Catherine Scott Publisher Comments This moving story about three adopted Korean children's origins is hauntingly powerful, revealing with honesty and empathy the sharpest edges that an unsympathetic world uses to carve our choices.... (read more) Your price: $23.25 New - Hardcover
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Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn by Larry Colton Publisher Comments In Native American tradition, "counting coup" meant literally touching one's enemy in battle and living to tell about it. Now it means playing winning hoops and dominating one's opponent. Counting Coup is the story of the girls' varsity basketball team... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.88 Used - Hardcover
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Last Debate : a Novel of Politics and Journalism (95 Edition) by Jim Lehrer Publisher Comments The renowned PBS anchor takes a fictional look at the presidential debate just eight days before the election, and how politics and journalism clash.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Legend of Bagger Vance a Novel of Golf & by Steven Pressfield Synopsis In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen, meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole showdown. Another golfer will also compete--a troubled local... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Mass Market
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Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy by Jean Stoick and Carl R. Sams II Publisher Comments Who is this Stranger? Why did he arrive after a winter storm and what wonderful surprises does he bring? Your children will love this photographic fantasy created by two noted wildlife photographers. You'll discover this tale is beta-carotene... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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