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The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie Staff Pick The Gun Seller reminds me of a well-made gin and tonic — crisp, hip, and refreshing, with a droll twist of lime.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Always We Begin Again : the Benedictine Way of Living (96 Edition) by John Mcquiston Publisher Comments When an attorney with a busy commercial practice went searching for a italy balanced life, he found the blueprint for it in the sixth-century text of St. Benedict's Rule. McQuiston interprets and restates the ancient system of spiritual living, enabling... (read more) Your price: $10.00 New - Trade Paper
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (99 Edition) by Janisse Ray Publisher Comments Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood spent in rural... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Search the Dark by Charles Todd Publisher Comments The introspective hero of wings of Fire and A Test of Wills (Edgar Award nominee) return in a provocative new mystery. Inspector Ian Rutledge, haunted by memories of World War I and the harrowing presence of Hamish, a dead soldier, is "a superb... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Plainsong (Vintage Contemporaries) by Kent Haruf Staff Pick Just before Plainsong really hit big, I interviewed Kent Haruf for a now-defunct magazine called Boswell; and after speaking to Mr. Haruf for an hour, caught a glimpse of the modest spirit behind this wise novel. The story is written with deep humility... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bowling Alone: Civic Disengagement in America by Robert D Putnam Publisher Comments Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified and describes in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone. Drawing on vast new data from... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Olivia by Ian Falconer Publisher Comments A truly unique debut about a precocious cat with BIG dreams Dressed in his signature top hat and black cape, Hamweenie is poised to earn his place among the most famous celebrities and daredevils of all time. From the stage to the red carpet, the skies... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Headlong by Michael Frayn Publisher Comments An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master. Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his art-historian wife are asked to assess three dusty paintings... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann Ross Publisher Comments Miss Julia, a recently bereaved and newly wealthy widow, is only slightly bemused when one Hazel Marie Puckett appears at her door with a youngster in tow and unceremoniously announces that the child is the bastard son of Miss Julia's late husband... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Blind Assassin 1st Edition by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Kin by Crystal Williams Publisher Comments In her first book-length collection of poetry, Crystal Williams utilizes memory and music as she lyrically weaves her way through American culture, pointing to the ways in which alienation, loss, and sensed "otherness" are corollaries of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro Synopsis During the Sino-Japanese War, a young man returns to Shanghai to solve the mystery of his parents' disappearance some 20 years earlier. A feat of narrative skill and soaring imagination, "When We Were Orphans" is Ishiguro at his brilliant best.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Story of a Million Years by David Huddle Publisher Comments In the tradition of Updike and Cheever, Huddle skillfully captures the way "secrets cobweb within relationships, engendering a sharp-edged loneliness between people who think they know each other" ("Orlando Sentinel"). A "Los Angeles Times" Best Book of... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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You Can't Win by Jack Black Publisher Comments A legendary American cult classic, a best seller in 1926 when first published, and reprinted five times, this is the true story of criminal convict and hobo Jack Black.... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Change Me into Zeus's Daughter by Barbara Robinette Moss Publisher Comments A haunting and triumphant story of a difficult and keenly felt life, Change Me into Zeus's Daughter is a remarkable literary memoir of resilience, redemption, and growing up in the South. Barbara Robinette Moss was the fourth in a family of eight... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Star Called Henry (Last Roundup #01) by Roddy Doyle From Powells.com Roddy Doyle writes like nobody?s business. Each of his titles, from The Commitments (Doyle?s debut) to The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, has earned both critical and popular acclaim. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, his funny, pitch-perfect... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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High Wind in Jamaica (99 Edition) by Richard Hughes Publisher Comments The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Inextinguishable Symphony: The True Story of Love and Music in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith Publisher Comments Set amid the growing tyranny of Germany's Third Reich, here is the riveting and emotional tale of G?nther Goldschmidt and Rosemarie Gumpert, two courageous Jewish musicians who struggled to perform under unimaginable circumstances-and found themselves... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss Synopsis In this sublimely moving story of one of the 19th century's most fabled human oddities, Strauss rescues the original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, from the sideshow of history, drawing from their extraordinary conjoined lives a first novel of... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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The Name of the World by Denis Johnson Review "Denis Johnson's topsy-turvy novella pulls with G-force....The book's headlong momentum may thrust you back against your chair for its whole 129-page run... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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