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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore Staff Pick Christopher Moore's Lamb is an utterly hilarious take on the story of Jesus. Told from the perspective of Jesus' smart-ass best friend, Biff, it is irreverent without being disrespectful. Lamb, or any of Moore's books, would be perfect for someone who... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller Staff Pick In her 2001 debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller recalled in vivid, often excruciating detail coming of age in Rhodesia as a long civil war raged in neighboring Mozambique and her own country slid down the violent path toward an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #01) by Jasper Fforde Staff Pick The Eyre Affair took me a little time to really get into, but once Thursday Next — a literary detective from the future — enters Charlotte Bronte's novel and tries to save Jane and the story, the book is thoroughly fun, with all the digs at the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson Staff Pick An amazing history that recounts the inconceivable events surrounding the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Larson's tale captures a time and place that vividly come to life. The central characters in this tale are Daniel H. Burnham, the architect... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Publisher Comments Make this your next book club selection and everyone saves. Get 15% off when you order 5 or more of this title for your book club. Simply enter the coupon code KIDDSECRET at checkout. This offer does not apply to eBook purchases. This offer applies to... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti Staff Pick Winner of the 2001 Viareggio-Repaci Prize for Fiction, this hauntingly powerful novel has been on the bestseller list in Italy for months. It is unforgettable, passionate and has a range of depth that grapples with your conscience.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Number 9 Dream (01 Edition) by David Mitchell Staff Pick Against the hyperkinetic backdrop of twenty-first-century Tokyo, Eiji Miyake searches for the father who abandoned him. Dreams and fantasy, fact and fiction merge in a complex narrative that rewards the ambitious reader. David Mitchell continues to prove... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges Publisher Comments General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Pattern Recognition by William Gibson Publisher Comments Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett Publisher Comments Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalaya to an Adirondack village, these wonderfully imagined stories and novellas travel the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. A mapper of the highest mountain... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Zeno's Conscience (01 Edition) by Italo Svevo Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvii).... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Young Wan: An Agnes Browne Novel by Brendan O'Carroll Publisher Comments In The Mammy, star Irish comedian Brendan O'Carroll introduced fans to the earthy and exuberant Agnes Browne, a fiesty young widow struggling to raise an unruly, high-spirited brood in The Jarro, the gritty tenement heart of 1960s Dublin. Over the course... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt Staff Pick Poignant and erotic, this sumptuous novel is Hustvedt's best yet.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gilgamesh by Joan London Synopsis London's stunning debut novel is set in 1937 Australia. Seventeen-year-old Edith is enthralled by the stories of her English cousin and his American friend about their archaeological dig in Iraq--especially tales of the ancient Mesopotamian king... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments What happens when a trained killer discovers that his true vocation is love? Having survived the killing fields of World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns home to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend who was killed in... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Life Before Her Eyes by Laura Kasischke Publisher Comments Diana stands before the mirror preening with her best friend, Maureen. Suddenly, a classmate enters holding a gun, and Diana sees her life dance before her eyes. In a moment the future she was just imagining--a doting wife and mother at the age of forty--... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru Publisher Comments Pran Nath Razdan, the boy who will become the Impressionist, was passed off by his Indian mother as the child of her husband, a wealthy man of a high caste. Pran lived a life of luxury just downriver from the Taj Mahal, but at fifteen, the news of Prans... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tepper Isn't Going Out by Calvin Trillin Publisher Comments Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parked car, and his car always seems to be in a particularly desirable parking spot. Not... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crow Lake by Mary Lawson Publisher Comments Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thing ? a literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent. Here is a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Haunting of L. by Howard Norman Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Bird Artist, the final book in his Canadian trilogy (with The Bird Artist and The Museum Guard): a novel about spirit photographs, adultery, and murder It is 1927. Young Peter Duvett has accepted a job as an assistant... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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