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The River Why by David James Duncan Publisher Comments Not in recent memory has there been such a unique and vibrant fictional character — a character who could make us laugh so easily, feel so deeply, who speaks with such startling truth about the way we live — as Gus Orviston, the irreverent young... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten Publisher Comments For more than twenty years, Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed specialty food store, has been cooking and baking extraordinary dishes for enthusiastic customers in the Hamptons. For many of those years, people have tried to get the exuberant owner, Ina... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates Publisher Comments With a new introduction by Richard Ford. From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs. It's the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Baby Beebee Bird by Diane Redfield Massie Publisher Comments The zoo animals find a way to keep the baby beebee bird awake during the day so they can get some sleep at night. Now in a newly enlarged edition with full-color illustrations.... (read more) Your price: $17.99 New - Hardcover
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The Voluptuous Vegan: More Than 200 Sinfully Delicious Recipes for Meatless, Eggless, and Dairy-Free Meals by Myra Kornfeld Publisher Comments There are many great reasons to eat vegetarian meals -- they're low in saturated fat, high in fiber, and chock-full of nutrients. But the considerable health benefits aside, gourmets often scoff at the likes of seitan and tofu, while vegans... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Strangeness of Beauty by Lydia Minatoya Publisher Comments A quietly daring exploration of art, family, culture, and conscience, as three generations of women, American and Japanese, face a strained reunion in pre-World War II Japan. Etsuko and her six-year-old motherless niece return from jazz-age Seattle to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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First Avenue by Lowen Clausen Synopsis This amazing self-published debut novel has achieved word-of-mouth success, and now is available in paperback for its first nationwide distribution. This passionate and powerful story introduces a Seattle cop who can't shake the image of the abandoned... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Publisher Comments Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Into the Forest by Jean Hegland Publisher Comments This deeply felt story of two sisters struggling to survive amid the collapse of technology and society is at once a classic tale of mythic proportions--and a modern myth with a timely message. "Beautifully written and often profoundly moving".--"San... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey From Powells.com "Sentimental attachment to geography irritated her, Australians were riddled with it," writes Tim Winton of his protagonist Georgie Jutland in his glorious new novel Dirt Music. As an Australian ex-patriot I concur. I can also add that... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ogre (72 Edition) by Michel Tournier Publisher Comments An international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, The Ogre is a masterful tale of innocence, perversion, and obsession. It follows the passage of strange, gentle Abel Tiffauges from submissive... (read more) List Price $33.50 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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It's Not Mean If It's True: More Trials from My Queer Life by Michael Thomas Ford Publisher Comments With two best-sellers and a Lambda Literary Award under his belt, Michael Thomas Ford is still cranky. Lucky for us. The author of Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Meand That's Mr. Faggot to Youreturns with more skewed observations on the strange state of the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden by Kathleen Cambor Publisher Comments An Elegantly Crafted Love Story Set In Post-Civil War America In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden tells of a bittersweet romance set against the backdrop of the greatest industrial disaster in American history: the construction and subsequent collapse in... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bone Deep in Landscape : Writing, Reading, and Place (99 Edition) by Mary Clearman Blew Publisher Comments Great-granddaughter of homesteaders in north-central Montana, Mary Clearman Blew grew up in one of the last vestiges of the rural frontier. Her girlhood chores--hauling water and rounding up cattle--were remote even to her town-bred classmates in the... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ella in Bloom by Shelby Hearon Publisher Comments Shelby Hearon has been widely praised for the insight, wit, and subtlety with which her novels limn the complexities of marriage and family ("What Jane Austen is to courtship, Shelby Hearon is to marriage" --New York Newsday), and the ways in which place... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark by Carmen Agra Deedy Publisher Comments Deedy retells the story of King Christian X and the Danish resistance to the Nazis during World War II. Full-color illustrations.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean by Melinda Blanchard Publisher Comments This is the true story of a trip to the beach that never ends. It's about a husband and wife who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise -- and discover that even paradise has its pitfalls. It's a story filled with... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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And Quiet Flows the Vodka, Or When Pushkin Comes To Shove : the Curmudgeon's Guide To Russian Literature With the Devil's Dictionary of Received Ideas (00 Edition) by Alicia Chudo Publisher Comments Russia has fascinated outsiders for centuries, and according to Alicia Chudo (the pen name of Gary Saul Morson), it is high time this borscht stopped. Examining one thousand years worth of unreadable writers, revolutionaries who can't hit the broad side... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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