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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides From Powells.com In 1993, Jeffrey Eugenides published The Virgin Suicides, a spellbinding novel about five mysterious sisters in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and the boys whose lives they would forever change. Middlesex, the author's long awaited follow-up, introduces... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Lost by Gregory Maguire Publisher Comments Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford Publisher Comments A "New York Times" Notable Book, this landmark biography uncovers for the first time the dark side of Edna St. Vincent Millay, the most famous poet of the Jazz Age. Chosen by "Entertainment Weekly" as the #1 nonfiction book of the year.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald Publisher Comments A "Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine" and "Entertainment Weekly" Best Book of 2001, "Austerlitz"--now in paperback--is the last and greatest work of fiction from one of the masters of world literature. Photos throughout.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult Publisher Comments From the national bestselling author of PLAIN TRUTH comes an acclaimed, richly atmospheric novel about a teacher undone by a disturbing modern-day witch hunt. Tall, blonde and handsome, Jack McBride was once a beloved teacher and football coach at a girl'... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk Publisher Comments From the author of the New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, a cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon, one that reinvents the apocalyptic thriller for our times. Carl Streator is a solitary widower and a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Staggerford Flood (Mysteries & Horror) by Jon Hassler Publisher Comments Jon Hassler, "Minnesota's most engaging cultural export," returns in his latest novel to the town of his first-Staggerford-reuniting the irrepressible Agatha McGee with characters from her past, as well as introducing her to new friends. Now in her... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Sunday Wife by Cassandra King Publisher Comments Married for 20 years to the Reverend Benjamin Lynch, a handsome, ambitious minister of the prestigious Methodist church, Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of the role of a Sunday wife. When her husband is assigned to a... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fraud by David Rakoff Publisher Comments A dishy, incisive exploration of gossip from celebrity rumors to literaryromans à clef, personal sniping to political slander by one our “great essayists” (David Brooks) To his successful examinations of some of the most powerful forces... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bread Alone by Judith Ry Hendricks Publisher Comments The life of 31-year-old trophy wife Wynter Morrison suddenly changes course when her husband announces one evening that their marriage is over. Emotionally devastated and desperate for a change of scenery, Wyn moves to Seattle where she spends aimless... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk Publisher Comments At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold Publisher Comments Glen David Gold's literary debut dazzled critics and fans from coast to coast. Now Carter's center stage for a spectacular paperback... The response to Glen David Gold's debut novel, Carter Beats the Devil was extraordinary. He hypnotized us with his... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott From Powells.com In both her novels and nonfiction, Lamott has an uncanny knack for breaking down complicated issues with common (albeit quirky) sense. Problems don't disappear; they just become infinitely more manageable in the light. She's obsessively honest ? a woman... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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In Search of Captain Zero Pa: PB Reprint by Allan Weisbecker Publisher Comments In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sold his home and his possessions, loaded his dog and surfboards into his truck, and set off in search of his long-time surfing companion, Patrick, who had vanished into the depths of Central America. In this rollicking memoir... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn Publisher Comments Every now and then a novel appears, completely unlike anything that has appeared before. Across the Nightingale Floor is such a work-a magical creation of a world beyond time. Set in an imaginary, ancient Japanese society dominated by warring clans... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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July, July by Tim O'Brien Publisher Comments Terrifically rich in story, full of unforgettable characters, "July, July" is the definitive novel of the baby boom generation, the men and women whose lives were molded and defined by the 1960s. Set at the 30th high school reunion of Minnesota's Darton... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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In the River Sweet by Patricia Henley Publisher Comments National Book Award finalist Patricia Henley captivates us with this engrossing novel of a woman whose long-held secret will transform her life and her marriage. From all appearances, Ruth Anne Bond is enviably lucky. Her husband, Johnny, still treats... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Coastliners by Joanne Harris Publisher Comments Joanne Harris writes fiction that engages every one of the senses: reviewers called Chocolat "delectable" and Five Quarters of the Orange "sweet and powerful." In her new novel, she takes readers to a tiny French island where you can almost taste the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Casa Rossa by Francesca Marciano Review “Betrayal, abandonment, stolen lovers, and secrets…spiced with those special Italian flavors: beauty, melodrama, and–of course–murder…A great read.” –Daily Candy... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster From Powells.com Paul Auster could be postmodernism's poster child. Structurally overt, intellectually complex, metaphorically self-conscious, Auster explores surfaces in order to dig deep and borrows classical forms in order to reveal contemporary dissonance... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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