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Bee Season by Myla Goldberg Publisher Comments Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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White Teeth (Vintage International) by Zadie Smith Publisher Comments Zadie Smith was born in northwest London in 1975. The Autograph Man is her second novel. Her first, White Teeth, was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and the Commonweatlh Writers First Book... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain Publisher Comments When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in the New Yorker,he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential,he expanded that appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectable... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Road Angels: Searching for Home on America's Coast of Dreams by Kent Nerburn Publisher Comments Chapter OneGood Bulbs"Hell, there ain't no one beginning. A couple of creeks, some lakes and streams, water running in from some swamps. It all just adds up. Pretty soon there's a river.-- An old Ojibwe man discussing the source of the Mississippi here... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult Publisher Comments A shocking murder shatters the picturesque calm of Pennsylvania's Amish country -- and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer who steps in to defend the young woman at the center of the storm.... Plain Truth The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad by Anna Pavord From Powells.com Extraordinary fact: In Amsterdam in 1838 the asking price for a single tulip bulb, the "Semper Augustus," was 13,000 florins. Anna Pavord explains in her elegant tome The Tulip that at the time this amount was "more than the cost... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn Publisher Comments "Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Men in the Off Hours (00 Edition) by Anne Carson Publisher Comments Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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This Is Not a Novel by David Markson Publisher Comments This Is Not a Novel is a "novel" like no other, with the possible exception of the author's own Reader's Block, which Anne Beattie hailed as "a work of genius." This Is Not a Novel is a highly inventive work that drifts "genre-less" somewhere in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost Legends of New Jersey by Frederick Reiken Publisher Comments From the critically acclaimed author of The Odd Sea, a poignant and magical coming-of-age story that "deftly explores the mysteries of love and loss" (Time) It's the early 1980s and the suburban streets of New Jersey are filled with Bruce Springsteen-era... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tell No One by Harlan Coben Publisher Comments For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison Publisher Comments The corpse is missing its head and is dressed in American clothes. Found by a Tibetan prison work gang on a windy cliff, the grisly remains clearly belong to someone too important for Chinese authorities to bury and forget. So the case is handed to... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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In the Fall (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jeffrey Lent Publisher Comments Compared by critics to William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy, Jeffrey Lents In the Fall is the most stunning debut to come along in years. Ambitious in scope and passionately executed, this epic novel is the rarest of things: a truly moving, emotionally... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult Publisher Comments When Jack St. Bride arrives by chance in the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls, he decides to reinvent himself. Tall, blond, and handsome, Jack was once a beloved teacher and soccer coach at a girls' prep school -- until a student's crush sparked a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Astronauts: & Other Stories by Matthew Iribarne Publisher Comments In this debut collection, Matthew Iribarne writes with astonishing clarity and grace about people trying to make sense of the world that has fallen out beneath them. The sweeping vision of these stories, set mainly on the West Coast, is illuminated by a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Informant: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald Publisher Comments From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy – which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man... It was one of the FBI's biggest... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Theory of Relativity by Jacquelyn Mitchard Publisher Comments A Theory of Relativity Jacquelyn Mitchard's firs novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, launched Oprah's Book Club and riveted millions of readers across the country.In her unforgettable voice, Ms. Mitchard delivered a tense, gripping story steeped in the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Augusta, Gone: A True Story by Martha Tod Dudman Publisher Comments "I'm not telling you where I am. Don't try to find me." Remember Go Ask Alice? Augusta, Gone is the memoir Alice's mother never wrote. A single parent, Martha Tod Dudman is sure she is giving her two children the perfect life, sheltering them from the... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Water Touching Stone by Eliot Pattison Publisher Comments In this sequel to the internationally acclaimed The Skull Mantra, Shan Tao Yun is cloistered in a remote Tibetan sanctuary when he receives shattering news. A teacher revered by the oppressed has been found slain and, one by one, her... (read more) Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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