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The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments From the author of "Cod" comes the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people. Kurlansky's passion for the Basque people and his exuberant eye for detail shine through this fascinating book which blends human stories with economic, literary... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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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 $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Book of Luminous Things : an International Anthology of Poetry (96 Edition) by Czeslaw (ed.) Milosz Staff Pick A fine collection of Milosz's favorite poems, A Book of Luminous Things casts a wide net over time and place. It's at once an excellent book for novice readers of poetry and long-time admirers.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley Publisher Comments #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "A WISE, SPIRITED NOVEL . . . [IN WHICH] SMILEY PLUMBS THE WONDROUSLY STRANGE WORLD OF HORSE RACING." --People "ONE OF THE PREMIER NOVELISTS OF HER GENERATION, possessed of a mastery of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.48 Used - Trade Paper
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon Publisher Comments With this brilliant novel, the bestselling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys gives us an exhilarating triumph of language and invention, a stunning novel in which the tragicomic adventures of a couple of boy geniuses reveal much about... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom Publisher Comments "Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books." --The New Yorker A great short story has the emotional depth and intensity of a poem and the wholeness and breadth of a novel. Amy Bloom writes great short... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words by Susan Wooldridge Publisher Comments Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is a poet and teacher who conducts workshops privately, as well as in the California Poets in the Schools program. Her exuberant, critically acclaimed teaching guide takes instructors, writers, and general readers into the very... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd Publisher Comments "A truly exceptional...account of his time in the Balkans and Chechnya....I read [Loyd's] story of war and addiction (to conflict and to heroin) with a sense of gratitude for the honesty and courage on every page." Independent (UK)"... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cool for You by Eileen Myles Publisher Comments Grainy, stained and stripped, this nonfiction novel traces the downbeat progress of a girl growing up in working-class Boston. Schooled by mean and memorable Catholic nuns, this tomboy heroine stumbles and dreams her way through the painful corridors of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose by Raymond Carver Publisher Comments Call If You Need Me includes all of the prose previously collected in No Heroics, Please, four essays from Fires, and those five marvelous stories that range over the period of Carver's mature writing and give his devoted readers a final glimpse of the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Zinc Fingers: Poems From A-to Z (00 Edition) by Meinke Publisher Comments Watching Steffi beat Monica on tv at Fat Jack's in Provincetown I was seized with an urge as I sometimes am to write a syllabic poem on the spot which was none too clean and packed to the gills with elbows and shrimp Hey Sparky I yelled to the bartender... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Make Believe by Joanna Scott Publisher Comments Writing with the sustained brilliance that made a Pulitzer Prize finalist of her previous novel, Joanna Scott shines her lights upon the inner lives of children and the complexities of the family bond in this astonishing new novel. Make Believe is... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sports Guy: In Search of Corkball, Warroad Hockey, Hooters Golf, Tiger Woods, and the Big, Big Game by Charles Pierce Publisher Comments Here, at last, is Charles Pierce's best writing on sports, collected for the first time in one volume. All of these pieces, first published in GQ, the National, and Esquire, showcase Pierce's trademark humor. Some are spot-on profiles of famous sports... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Feeling Sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty Publisher Comments A #1 Bestseller in Australia and Book Sense 76 Pick Life is pretty complicated for Elizabeth Clarry. Her best friend Celia keeps disappearing, her absent father suddenly reappears, and her communication with her mother consists entirely of wacky notes... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Book Borrower by Alice Mattison Publisher Comments On the first page of The Book Borrower, Toby Ruben and Deborah Laidlaw meet in 1975 in a New York City playground, where the two women are looking after their babies. Deborah lends Toby a book, Trolley Girl, — a memoir about a long ago trolley... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Bullfighting by A L Kennedy Publisher Comments An Anchor Books Original One day, on the brink of despair and contemplating her own mortality, novelist A. L. Kennedy is offered an assignment she cant refuse–an opportunity to travel to Spain and cover a sport that represents the ultimate... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Grapes of Math: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles by Greg Tang Publisher Comments This innovative book challenges children and their parents to open their minds and solve problems by looking for patterns, symmetries, and familiar number combinations displayed within eye-catching pictures. Full color.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Custom of the Sea by Neil Hanson Publisher Comments "The nightmarish events of the shipwreck are reported with real power."-New York Times Book Review Adrift at sea, your food and water gone, you are slowly starving to death: what would you do to survive? On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Folly by Laurie R King Publisher Comments An acclaimed master of suspense creates a heroine you will never forget in this superbly chilling novel of a woman who begins a desperate undertaking that may transform her life--or end it. What happens if your worst fears aren't all in your mind? Rae... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Over Tumbled Graves by Jess Walter Review "(Walter's) first novel is an accomplished character study...A very satisfying debut... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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