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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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cloudstreet 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 $18.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Between Bites: Memoirs of a Hungry Hedonist by James Villas Publisher Comments Great food and stimulating prose come together in this provocative insiders memoir of a life driven by a passion for fine cuisine and the good life. With a Southerners knack for storytelling, acclaimed writer and former Town & Country... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Dive from Clausen's Pier (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ann Packer Publisher Comments A riveting novel about loyalty and self-knowledge, and the conflict between who we want to be to others and who we must be for ourselves. Carrie Bell has lived in Wisconsin all her life. She?s had the same best friend, the same good relationship... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Deckscaping: Gardening and Landscaping on and Around Your Deck by Barbara W. Ellis Publisher Comments Decks are popular in North American landscapes because they serve as outdoor santuaries. They are in the back yard, where life is quiet and less hectic. But a large, flat expanse of deck isn't all that exciting. Often decks look bare and univiting and... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Week in Winter by Marcia Willett Publisher Comments "A Week in Winter may be set in the winter, but it's the perfect addition to your summer beach tote." -- Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel Sitting on the edge of the moor in Cornwall lies a spectacular old farmhouse called Moorgate. Now, after a year of... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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That Eye, the Sky by Tim Winton Publisher Comments In this modern Australian classic, award-winning author Tim Winton tells the story of young Ort Flack and his struggle to come to grips with the forces pulling his family apart. An extraordinary snapshot of boyhood, That Eye, the Sky is also a powerful... (read more) Your price: $11.75 New - 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: $16.99 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: $0.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Wish You Were Here by Stewart Onan Publisher Comments Award-winning writer Stewart O'Nan has been acclaimed by critics as one of today's most accomplished novelists and hailed by The New York Times as "a master of voices and the place they resonate from, of human rhythms and the universal rhythms they... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Unless by Carol Shields Publisher Comments I'm not interested, the way some people are, in being sad. I've had a look, and there's nothing down that road. Well now! What about the ripping sound behind my eyes, the starchy tearing of fabric, end to end; what about the need I have to curl up my... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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In the Forest by Edna Obrien Publisher Comments Taken from a true story, this psychological thriller returns to the countryside of western Ireland, the vivid backdrop of the author's "Wild December." Michen O'Kane's problems go beyond early loss and abuse--the killing instinct is already kindled in... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $1.25 Used - Hardcover
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Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin Publisher Comments Summer in Baden-Baden was acclaimed by The New York Review of Books as a short poetic masterpiece and by Donald Fanger in The Los Angeles Times as gripping, mysterious and profoundly moving. A complex, highly original novel, Summer in Baden-Baden has a... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dirt Music by Tim Winton Staff Pick What propels this work is the intensity of Winton's very poetic style. A plot like this with these characters would typically make me tear my hair out with irritation. Under Winton's paternal guidance (not unlike Thomas Hardy's) I was consistently... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.50 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: $7.50 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: $5.50 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: $5.50 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: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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My Life in Heavy Metal: Stories by Steve Almond Publisher Comments Steve Almond's collection My Life in Heavy Metal features twelve powerful stories that take a clear-eyed view of relationships between young men and women who have come of age in an era without innocence. In the title story, an El Paso newspaper clerk... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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