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Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design by Max Jacobson and Murray Silverstein and Barbara Winslow Publisher Comments Clearly written and profusely illustrated, Patterns of Home brings the timeless lessons of residential design to homeowners who seek inspiration and direction in the design or remodel of their homes. Patterns of Home promises to become the "design bible"... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Neither Wolf Nor Dog by Kent Nerburn Publisher Comments In this 1996 Minnesota Book Award winner, Nerburn draws the reader deep into the world of an Indian elder known only as Dan--a world of Indian towns, white roadside cafes, and abandoned roads that swirl with the memories of the Ghost Dance and Sitting... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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My Losing Season by Pat Conroy Publisher Comments Turning to nonfiction, the bestselling author of "Beach Music" has written an American classic about young men and the bonds they form, about losing and the lessons it imparts, and about finding one's self in the midst of defeat.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Sc Chessman Publisher Comments In this richly imagined fiction, Harriet Scott Chessman entices us into the world of Mary Cassatt's early Impressionist paintings. Chessman's gift for storytelling mingles with her extraordinary understanding of these beautiful and significant works of... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai Publisher Comments Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening. An immediate international bestseller, it tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros Publisher Comments The celebrated author of The House on Mango Street gives us an extraordinary new novel, told in language of blazing originality: a multigenerational story of a Mexican-American family whose voices create a dazzling weave of humor, passion, and poignancy... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Look at Me by Jennifer Egan Publisher Comments In her first novel since her widely praised debut, The Invisible Circus, Jennifer Egan demonstrates once again her virtuosity at weaving a spellbinding story with language that dazzles. In this boldly ambitious and symphonic novel, she captures the tenor... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Avoidance by Michael Lowenthal Publisher Comments Jeremy struggles to write his dissertation on the Amish and the laws of expulsion. How does someone, excluded entirely from the only community they have ever known, live the rest of their life? After extensive interviews with Beulah—a young... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cave by José Saramago Staff Pick This story, like the author's previous novel, All the Names, starts off with a seemingly simple plot line — almost fable-like — and develops in metaphoric and philosophic richness. Filled with wit and wisdom and finishing with a most wonderful ending,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner Publisher Comments Meet Rose Feller. She's thirty years old and a high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She has an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Paradise Alley by Kevin Baker Publisher Comments At the height of the Civil War, what begins with strong words and a few broken bottles will, over the course of five days, escalate into the worst urban conflagration in American history. Hundreds of thousands of poor Irish immigrants smolder with... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Why Did I Ever? by Mary Robison Publisher Comments From the critically acclaimed author of Oh! and An Amateur's Guide to the Night, Mary Robison's first new work in over a decade. After a ten-year silence, Mary Robison has emerged with a novel so beguiling and funny, it has brought her live reading... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Innocents by Cathy Coote Publisher Comments Written when Coote was 19, "Innocents" is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is perverted, even evil. But when the perpetrator is a... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Erasure by Percival L. Everett Publisher Comments Hailed by the New York Times as "both a treatise and a romp," a bold and brilliant novel of a man coming to terms with himself. Now in paperback, this provocative tale within a tale details the life of avant-garde novelist and college professor... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy by Andro Linklater Publisher Comments Measuring America is the fascinating, provocative, and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measuresthe American Customary System, unlike any other in the worldand how this has profoundly shaped our country... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Boralis by Lucy Jago Publisher Comments Science, biography, and arctic exploration coverage in this extraordinary true story of the life and work of Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland, the troubled genius who solved the mysteries of one of nature’s most spectacular displays... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Place by Laura Lippman Publisher Comments Over the course of six novels featuring Baltimore private investigator Tess Monaghan, author Laura Lippman has won a mantel full of awards (including the Edgar), consistently resounding critical acclaim ("The best mystery writing around" -- Village Voice)... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Chasing Rumi: A Fable about Finding the Heart's True Desire by Roger Housden Publisher Comments Stirred by the potent poetry of Sufi mystic Rumi, a restless young man embarks on a life altering pilgrimage. This enchanting story, set in the late 1940s, takes us from the hills and piazzas of Florence to the green-domed mosques of Konya, Turkey. Upon... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Huntsman by Whitney Terrell Publisher Comments When a young debutante's body is pulled from the Missouri River, the inhabitants of Kansas City — a metropolis fractured by class division — are forced to examine their own buried history. At the center of the intrigue is Booker Short, a bitter... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $1.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Shoe Outside the Door (01 Edition) by Michael Downing Publisher Comments "Not simply a narrative history: it raises the larger question of what constitutes the Americanization of Zen."... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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