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Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon Publisher Comments With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, award-winning author Solomon conducts a definitive narrative of incomparable range and resonance on his family secret of mental illness. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Cloudstreet (91 Edition) by Tim Winton Publisher Comments From separate catastrophes, two rural Australian families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Not by Accident: Reconstructing a Careless Life by Samantha Dunn Publisher Comments One day as Samantha Dunn was leading her horse through the canyons of California, he inadvertently trampled her, nearly severing her leg. In a life filled with risk-taking and injuries, this was the most serious accident yet. It spurred Dunn to question... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Complications by Atul Gawande Publisher Comments A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand From Powells.com Occasionally a sporting hero comes along and takes a nation by storm, breaking records and physically achieving the seemingly impossible. Olympic athletes winning gold medals can bring out feverish national pride, a sporting representation of Us... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Publisher Comments With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Wild Ginger by Anchee Min Publisher Comments The beautiful, iron-willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when we first meet her, but already she has been singled out by the Red Guards for her "foreign-colored eyes." Her classmate Maple is also a target of persecution. It is through the... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy by James S Hirsch Publisher Comments A best-selling author investigates the causes of the twentieth century's deadliest race riot and how its legacy has scarred and shaped a community over the past eight decades. On a warm night in May 1921, thousands of whites, many deputized by the local... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan Publisher Comments Published in hardcover to outstanding acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, and winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize, Gould's Book of Fish is a marvelously imagined epic of nineteenth-century Australia -- a world of convicts and... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall Publisher Comments If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head. As formative events go, nothing else comes close. With these words Edgar Mint, half-Apache and mostly orphaned, makes his... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark (Honoring a Detroit Legend) by Tom Stanton Publisher Comments A powerful memoir of fathers, sons, and the end of baseball at Tiger Stadium. Both rollicking and introspective, "The Final Season" recounts an era that ends with the author's realization that his anguish wasn't just about the loss of a beloved ballpark... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature by Neal Pollack From Powells.com I don't know who decided to call this twiggy little volume of nebbishy rubbish a "Great Deal." It's neither great — hah, that's a laugh — nor is it a deal. In fact, spending money on Neal Pollack's pompous reminiscences and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost Nation by Jeffrey Lent Synopsis Bestselling author Lent retruns with "Lost Nation." Set in the early 19th century, the story opens with a man known only as Blood guiding an oxcart of rum toward a land where the luckless--or outlawed--have made a fresh start.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Riders by Tim Winton Publisher Comments After traveling through Europe for two years, Scully and his wife Jennifer wind up in Ireland, and on a mystical whim of Jennifer's, buy an old farmhouse which stands in the shadow of a castle. While Scully spends weeks alone renovating the old house... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blue Bear a True Story of Friendship Tragedy & Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness by Lynn Schooler Staff Pick Nature writing at its best. Lynn Schooler, an Alaskan nature guide and photographer, tells the story of his friendship with renowned Japanese photographer Michio Hoshino. This friendship and their quest to photograph the almost mythical blue bear... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Garden of Faith by Lynne Hinton Publisher Comments Welcome back to the charming world of Hope Springs, the small southern town at the center of bestselling author Lynne Hinton's Hope Springs trilogy. In this sequel to Friendship Cake, the same delightful women have finished the cookbook that brought them... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bad Blood a Memoir by Lorna Sage Publisher Comments Lorna Sage's adventure in autobiography is a searing and funny anatomy of three marriages that brings to life her girlhood in postwar provincial Britain. Her early childhood was dominated by her brilliant, bitter grandfather, a drinker, a womanizer, a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Love Is the Killer App by Tim Sanders Publisher Comments Are you wondering what the next killer app will be? Do you want to know how you can maintain and add to your value during these rapidly changing times? Are you wondering how the word love can even be used in the context of business? Instead of wondering,... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Baseball: A Literary Anthology by Nicholas Dawidoff Publisher Comments Robert Frost never felt more at home in America than when watching baseball "be it in park or sand lot." Full of heroism and heartbreak, the most beloved of American sports is also the most poetic, and writers have been drawn to this sport as to no other.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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You're an Animal, Viskovitz! by Alessandro Boffa Publisher Comments In this wickedly hilarious collection of fables, Alessandro Boffa introduces us to Viskovitz and his never-ending search for his true love, Ljuba. As he changes from a lovelorn lion to a jealous finch, from a confused dung beetle to an enlightened police... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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