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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves from... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Tell No One by Harlan Coben Publisher Comments Dr. David Beck has relived the horror of what happened eight years ago: the last night he saw his wife alive. When a message appears on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know, Beck is taunted by the impossible--that somewhere, somehow... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers Publisher Comments After the death of her longtime friend and flatmate, retired British history teacher Julia Garnet does something completely out of character: She takes a six-month rental on a modest appartamento in Venice. An atheist, a Communist, and a virgin, Julia... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest by Sy Montgomery Publisher Comments Scientists call them Inia geoffrensis, an ancient species of toothed whale whose origin dates back about 15 million years. To the local people of the Amazon, pink river dolphins are "botos," shape shifters that, in the guise of human desire, can claim... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gob's Grief by Chris Adrian Staff Pick This story has everything ? Civil War heroics, survivor guilt, social history, the most believable rendition of Walt Whitman ever attempted in a novel, and an ending of 19th-century fantastical proportions I personally found quite refreshing. Truly, it's... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Misfits by James Howe Publisher Comments Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie Tookis and Addie Carle and Joe Bunch and me. We call ourselves the Gang of Five, but there are only four of us. We do it to keep people on their toes. Make... (read more) Your price: $17.99 New - Hardcover
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The Apprentice Lover by Jay Parini Publisher Comments A poet and biographer, Jay Parini is also a novelist whose fiction has been acclaimed as "dazzli/ng," (Los Angeles Times) "achingly beautiful," (Washington Post) and "a subtle masterpiece" (John Bayley in the Times Literary Supplement). In his new novel,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys by Chris Fuhrman Publisher Comments Set in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic joy of youth and encounters with the concerns of early adulthood. Francis Doyle, Tim Sullivan, and their three closest friends are altar boys at Blessed Heart Catholic Church... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sacrament of Lies by Elizabeth Dewberry Publisher Comments An allusive psychological mystery filled with murders, corruption, politics Southern-style, and shadowy conspiracies. "In Sacrament of Lies, the line between certainty and madness is as thin as a razor and equally as dangerous. Elizabeth Dewberry has... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Miracle at St. Anna by James Mcbride Publisher Comments James McBride's powerful memoir, The Color of Water, was a publishing phenomenon, spending more than two years on the New York Times bestsellers list and becoming required reading in high schools and colleges across the country. Now, in his long-awaited... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Fruitflesh by Gayle Brandeis Publisher Comments If you want to tap into your most authentic source of creativity -- if you hunger to express yourself, to free the stories that swirl within you -- thenFruitflesh was writtenfor you. Structured around the growing cycle -- seeds, roots, trunk, branches... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt Synopsis An astonishing literary debut: the true story of a remarkable woman's life in the contemporary American West, where the lessons she learned carried her through blizzards, devastating prairie fires, and extreme isolation.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Esther Stories by Peter Orner Publisher Comments Covering considerable geographic ground--from Nova Scotia to Mississippi--the stories in this debut collection explore the impact of life's essential moments. Winner of the 2000 James Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award from the Iowa Writers... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past by Fern Schume Chapman Publisher Comments One woman's moving story of her journey with her mother to find their past and the tragedy that haunts it In 1937, Edith Westerfeld's parents--before being killed by the Nazis--sent her from Germany to live with relatives in America. Fifty-four years... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Good Men: A Novel of Heresy by Charmaine Craig Publisher Comments Charmaine Craig was studying medieval history at Harvard when she first encountered the startling testimony of Grazida Lizier, a young woman tried by the Inquisition in 1320. Even after she was accepted into the MFA program at the University of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey Publisher Comments "Easily the most brilliant fiction I've seen this year -- it proves the potential brilliance of the novel form." -- John Fowles,... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In Sunlight in a Beautiful Garden by Kathleen Cambor Publisher Comments In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden is the story of a bittersweet romance set against the backdrop of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood -- a tragedy that cost some 2,200 lives when the South Fork Dam burst on Memorial Day weekend, 1889. The dam was the... (read more) Your price: $12.99 New - Trade Paper
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Hell to Pay by George P Pelecanos Staff Pick "Pelecanos's is a voice that never loses its power. It has an edge and an obscureness that other mystery writers only dream about."... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert Publisher Comments Randall was Ellen's favorite cousin. When he dies on Iwo Jima, she turns to the legacy he left her: his diary and a book called "The Gardens of Kyoto." Unfolding in lyrical, seductive prose, her story becomes a mesmerizing exploration of the interplay of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Singing Boy by Dennis Mcfarland Publisher Comments On the way home from dinner, Malcolm Vaughn is shot and killed in front of his family - the victim of a random act of violence. Undone by shock and grief, his wife Sarah retreats from the world, postponing her return to work and their son Harry's return... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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