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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'j Pancake Publisher Comments Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising career when he took his own life in 1979 at the age of 26. In 1983 Little, Brown and Company's posthumous publication of this book -- a collection of stories that depict, with astonishing power and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach Publisher Comments In many ways, I was an independent woman, writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alice Steinbach. For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow. But somehow she had become dependent in quite another way. I had fallen into... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Notable American Women : Novel (02 Edition) by Ben Marcus Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of "The Age of Wire and String" writes an allegory of the power and impotence of modern women. On a farm in "Ohio, " a mother and father attempt to raise a boy without feelings. He tells the only story a boy with no feelings can... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Charles Dickens (Penguin Lives Biographies) by Jane Smiley Publisher Comments With the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that have won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status, Jane Smiley naturally finds a kindred spirit in the author of classics such as Great Expectations and A Christmas... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ghost World by Daniel Clowes Publisher Comments Jimmy is a stereotypical geek who works at the library in Oakland, California, and is trapped in his own torpidity. Sara is his best friend, but she wants to get a life (translation: an apartment in Brooklyn and a publishing internship). When Sara moves... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Choke: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk Publisher Comments Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Caricature (02 Edition) by Clowes Publisher Comments The dramatic short stories included in Caricature have drawn comparisons to Nabokov for their complex naturalism and sense of humor. Anchored by the title story, considered the first apotheosis of Clowes' seminal Eightball underground comic book series... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance by Marlena De Blasi Publisher Comments When Fernando spots her in a Venice café and knows immediately that she is the One, Marlena de Blasi is caught off guard. A divorced American woman traveling through Italy, she thought she was satisfied with her life. Yet within a few months, she... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee Publisher Comments At the heart of this remarkable new novel by the award-winning author of The Middleman and Other Stories and Jasmine are issues of culture, identity, and familial loyalty. Comparable to The Joy Luck Club in its honest portrayal of the American immigrant... (read more) Your price: $34.25 New - Hardcover
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Red Clay, Blue Cadillac: Stories of Twelve Southern Women by Michael Malone Publisher Comments Twelve short stories of all the wrong women. The author of First Lady and Handling Sin has given us a page turning collection of short stories, with a central theme in each of which the main character is a belle of the South whose talents include a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Publisher Comments When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from this strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a fourteen-year-old girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. In the weeks following... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C Chaudhuri Publisher Comments The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley Publisher Comments The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Solace of Leaving Early: A Novel by Haven Kimmel From Powells.com Haven Kimmel writes with an unusual blend of wit and honey, poetry and charm. The Solace of Leaving Early, her first novel, sparkles with intelligence and imagination, and she has a perfectly light touch — leavening her darker themes with subtlety... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Meet John Trow by Tom Dyja Publisher Comments Steven Armour, though only forty, is already fighting off a midlife crisis — his once-brilliant career fizzling, his marriage going stale, his inner life taking strange, disorienting turns. Then, on an impulse, Steven joins a group of Civil War... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter Publisher Comments An extraordinary fiction debut: a large, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same time, a work of brilliantly astute social observation. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods-My Mother's, My Father's and Mine by Noelle Howey Publisher Comments Throughout her childhood in suburban Ohio, Noelle struggled to gain love and affection from her distant father. In compensating for her fathers brusqueness, Noelle idolized her nurturing tomboy mother and her conservative grandma who tried to turn her... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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American Gods by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments The storm was coming.... Shadow spent three years in prison, keeping his head down, doing his time. All he wanted was to get back to the loving arms of his wife and to stay out of trouble for the rest of his life. But days before his scheduled... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Life of Pi by Yann Martel Publisher Comments Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Drake's Fortune: The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest Confidence Artist by Richard Rayner Publisher Comments Over the course of twenty years, from 1914 to 1933, Oscar Hartzell conned millions of dollars from tens of thousands of trusting, innocent people. And when he was caught, they gave him more. There are no folk heroes more all-American than con artists... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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