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The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter Staff Pick If you have ever loved, buy this book! How's that for a strong recommendation? Charles Baxter is, in my opinion, one of the most under-appreciated contemporary American authors on the scene. He is remarkably talented. This novel, set in Ann Arbor... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson) by Louise Rennison Publisher Comments Angus:My mixed-breed cat, half domestic tabby, half Scottish wildcat. The size of a small Labrador, only mad. Likes to stalk Mr. and Mrs. Next Door's poodle. I used to drag him around on a lead, but, as I explained to Mrs. Next Door, he ate it. Thongs... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Series of Unfortunate Events #06: The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket Publisher Comments In their most daring misadventure, the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by very, very rich people, whose penthouse apartment is located mysteriously close to the place where all their misfortune began. Even though their new home in the city is... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Empire Falls by Richard Russo Publisher Comments In this droll, unsentimental, and occasionally hilarious novel, Richard Russo tells the story of a big-hearted man who becomes the unlikely hero of a small town with a glorious past but a dubious future.<P>The one (barely) viable business in Empire... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Secret Knowledge of Water : Discovering the Essence of the American Desert (00 Edition) by Craig Childs Publisher Comments Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorers. As Craig Childs makes clear in this highly praised book, there are two easy ways to die in the desert: thirst or drowning. His... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer Publisher Comments Artemis... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table by Ruth Reichl Staff Pick In 1978, when Comfort Me with Apples opens, the young woman we met in Tender at the Bone is living in a Berkeley commune with her husband, soon to find herself at the center of a revolution in the American food industry. She's hardly settled into her... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets (No. 2) by J K Rowling Publisher Comments The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Audio Cassette
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Cane River by Lalita Tademy Publisher Comments A unique accomplishment, this is history never before told, an epic novel of four generations of African-American women, a work based on one family's actual meticulously researched past – and a book with enormous implications for us all. Lalita... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Compelled to his task by a direct mystical experience, Father Damien has made enormous sacrifices, and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Stretching Lessons by Sue Bender Publisher Comments Stretching Lessons, the final volume of Sue Bender's Plain and Simple trilogy, is written with all the clarity, honesty, and insight that made Plain and Simple a phenomenal New York Times bestseller. Stretching Lessons is a book about the risks we take... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Jim the Boy by Tony Earley Publisher Comments Both delightful and wise, Jim the Boy brilliantly captures the pleasures and fears of youth at a time when America itself was young and struggling to come into its own.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Of Time and Memory: A Mother's Story by Don J Snyder Publisher Comments Don Snyder knew nothing about his mother aside from the terrible fact that she died at the age of nineteen, just sixteen days after giving birth to him and his twin brother. All his life Don had been too shy, too deeply pained to ask his father or... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ten Women Who Shook the World: Stories by Sylvia Brownrigg Publisher Comments Across a series of vivid, untamed landscapes Sylvia Brownriggs characters wander in search of the obviouslove, fame, a good recipe for canapesas well as the less obvious. In “Hussy from the West” the narrator undertakes a long erotic quest... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $1.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Place Last Seen by Charlotte M Freeman Publisher Comments During an idyllic autumn-day hike in the Desolation Wilderness of the Sierra Nevadas, the Baker family is hurled into a nightmare when six-year-old Maggie, a child with Down Syndrome, runs away while playing hide-and-seek with her brother. As the Search... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $2.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Surviving Galeras by Stanley Williams Publisher Comments Through a harrowing first-person account of an eruption and its aftermath, SURVIVING GALERAS reveals the fascinating, high-risk realm of volcanology and explores the profound impact volcanoes have had on the earth's landscapes and civilizations. In 1993,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman Publisher Comments ALLEGRA GOODMAN has delighted readers with her critically acclaimed collections Total Immersion and The Family Markowitz, and her celebrated first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, which was a national bestseller and a National Book Award finalist. Now, in her... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Next Step in the Dance (98 Edition) by Tim Gautreaux Publisher Comments From the author of the acclaimed story collection Same Place, Same Things comes a novel filled with a rare and affecting sense of tradition and possibility. Paul Thibodeaux is a handsome young man married to Colette, the most beautiful woman in the small... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Breakfast with Scot by Michael Downing Publisher Comments Sam and Ed are living the good life: happy, healthy, devoted to each other and their careers, they have no yearning for the joyful mysteries of parenthood. But when eleven-year-old Scot's mother suddenly dies, the couple is determined to make good on a... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bad News (Dortmunder Novels) by Donald E Westlake Publisher Comments John Dortmunder doesn't like manual labor. So when he gets the offer of money to dig up a grave, he balks . . . then he wonders why Fitzroy Guilderpost, criminal mastermind, wants to pull a switcheroo of two 70-years-dead Indians.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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