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Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments From the simple setting of his own barber shop, Jayber Crow, orphan, seminarian, and native of Port William, recalls his life and the life of his community as it spends itself in the middle of the twentieth century. Surrounded by his friends and... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman Publisher Comments Harriet Scott Chessman takes us into the world of Mary Cassatt's early Impressionist paintings through Mary's sister Lydia, whom the author sees as Cassatt’s most inspiring muse. Chessman hauntingly brings to life Paris in 1880, with its thriving... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Polish Officer by Alan Furst Publisher Comments September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler?s Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst Publisher Comments In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath—a hugely charismatic hero—becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in eastern Europe. From the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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You Are Being Lied to: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths by Russell Kick Publisher Comments You Are Being Lied Tois a massive collection of articles that ruthlessly destroy the distortions, myths, and outright lies that are fed to us by the government, the media, corporations, history books, organized religion, science and medicine, and society... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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You Read to Me and I'll Read to You: Twentieth-Century Stories to Share by Janet Schulman Publisher Comments An anthology with sure-fire appeal for children who are starting to read on their own but still enjoy being read to. This brilliant collection by the editor of The 20th Century Children’s Book Treasury contains 26 selections for parents and... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Embers by Sandor Marai Publisher Comments The rediscovery of a masterpiece of Central European literature originally published in Budapest in 1942 and unknown to modern readers until last year. An extraordinary novel about a triangular relationship, about love, friendship, and fidelity, about... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lying Awake (Vintage Contemporaries) by Mark Salzman Staff Pick Sister John of the Cross is a nun with special gifts; she is filled with poetry, with love for God and the Innocent Spouse, and with pain (real pain in the form of blinding headaches that give her no rest, but during which she has visions). Something... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck Publisher Comments To young Jenny, the house on Mary Street was home -- the place where she was loved, a blue-sky world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kiss on the cheek. But... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Olivia Saves the Circus by Ian Falconer Publisher Comments The #1 New York Times bestselling kitty boy goes to the circus! In his newest adventure, the irresistible Skippyjon Jones swings out of his closet and into the spectacular Cirque de Ole, where his pals, the Chimichango gang, perform feats of derring-do... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk Publisher Comments From one of the most important and acclaimed writers at work today, a thrilling new novel — part murder mystery, part love story — set amid the perils of religious repression in sixteenth-century Istanbul. When the Sultan commissions a... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Uncivil Seasons by Michael Malone Publisher Comments The polite Piedmont town of Hillston, North Carolina, wants to go on believing it is still too temperate to require homicide experts. But when the wife of a state senator is found beaten to death, the inner circle of Hillston?s ruling families arranges... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Good German by Joseph Kanon Publisher Comments Now a Major Motion Picture The bestselling author of Los Alamos returns to 1945. Hitler has been defeated, and Berlin is divided into zones of occupation. Jake Geismar, an American correspondent who spent time in the city before the war, has... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Borrowed Finery: A Memoir by Paula Fox Publisher Comments An exotic, heartbreaking memoir that should finally earn Paula Fox, a distinguished novelist and children's book writer, the audience she has for decades deserved Paula Fox has long been acclaimed as one of America's most brilliant fiction writers... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The World Below by Sue Miller Publisher Comments From the author of While I Was Gone, a stunning new novel that showcases Sue Miller's singular gift for exposing the nerves that lie hidden in marriages and families, and the hopes and regrets that lie buried in the hearts of women. Maine, 1919. Georgia... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $2.48 Used - Hardcover
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German Boy: A Child in War by Wolfgang W Samuel Publisher Comments “I think German Boy has all the qualities of greatness. I love the book.” -- from the Foreword by Stephen Ambrose As the Third Reich crumbled in 1945, scores of Germans scrambled to flee the advancing Russian troops. Among them was a little... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Center of Things by Jenny Mcphee Publisher Comments “Every story is a love story.”–Nora Mars, Evil Love, (1962) Nora Mars–glamour girl, star of stage and screen, B-movie goddess–has slowly aged out of mainstream popularity and quickly slipped into a coma. Known as much for... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Power Politics 1ST Edition by Arundhati Roy Publisher Comments Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author of The God of Small Things, explores the politics of writing and the human and environmental price of "development" in her latest work, Power Politics. In a clear and compelling voice, Roy challenges... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende Publisher Comments Internationally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende has written a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile, a marvelous family saga that takes up and continues the story begun in her highly acclaimed Daughter of... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $0.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Distant Land of My Father: A Novel of Shanghai by Bo Caldwell Publisher Comments For Anna, the narrator of Bo Caldwell's richly lyrical and vivid first novel, growing up in the magical world of Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s creates a special bond between her and her father. He is the son of missionaries, a smuggler, and a... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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