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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande Publisher Comments In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Staff Pick List Price $15.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel Publisher Comments In her rich and nuanced debut novel, Haven Kimmel brings to life two irresistible people at odds with their small-town lives and with each other. Langston Braverman does not come home to Haddington, Indiana, because she is searching for a simpler... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane Publisher Comments Summer, 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Million Little Pieces by James Frey Publisher Comments Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, A Million Little Pieces is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Kite Runner (03 Edition) by Khaled Hosseini 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 HOSSEINIKITE at checkout. This offer does not apply to eBook purchases. This offer applies to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford From Powells.com War is one of the few great literary topics. Since Homer immortalized the Trojan War 3,000 years ago, legions of writers have been glorifying, lamenting, dissecting, and parodying the soldier's life. So, can the world really bear yet another... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $2.98 Used - Hardcover
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Three Junes by Julia Glass Publisher Comments An astonishing first novel that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade as they confront the joys and longings, fulfillments and betrayals of love in all its guises. In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bobby Gold Stories by Anthony Bourdain Publisher Comments Bestselling author Tony Bourdain is back with a new novel, his first fiction since the groundbreaking success of Kitchen Confidential. Bobby Gold is a loveable criminal. After doing ten years in the clinker, he's out and ready for work. With not even an... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sixpence House by Paul Collins Publisher Comments A bibliophile's pilgrimage to where book lovers go when they die-Hay-on-Wye. Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the little cobblestone village of Hay-on-Wye, the 'Town of... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi Publisher Comments Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between andldquo;crazyandrdquo; and andldquo;creativeandrdquo; in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers. and#160; Shortly before her... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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By the Lake by John Mcgahern Publisher Comments With this magnificently assured new novel, John McGahern reminds us why he has been called the Irish Chekhov, as he guides readers into a village in rural Ireland and deftly, compassionately traces its natural rhythms and the inner lives of its people... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Path: A One-Mile Walk Through the Universe by Chet Raymo Publisher Comments Raymo describes the one-mile walk he has taken every day for the past 40 years, exploring in-depth its natural features and historic relevance. Illustrations.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez Publisher Comments A vibrant and absorbing novel of six friends--each an unforgettable Latina in her late twenties--and the complications and triumphs in their lives As soon as it was written, The Dirty Girls Social Club began turning heads. The Chicago Tribune reported... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Drift by Manuel Luis Martinez Publisher Comments An explosive, fierce, and lyrical novel, set in the barrios of San Antonio and Los Angeles, from an electrifying new voice in American fiction At sixteen, Robert Lomos has lost his family. His father, a Latin jazz musician, has left San Antonio for life... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Clubland the Nocturnal Carnival of Ecsta by Frank Owen Publisher Comments A fearless journalists brilliant unveiling of a world of drugs,dancing, money, madness--and murder after midnight Clubland is the sensational story of the rise and fall of a decadent nocturnal empire that stretched over several American cities and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Hardcover
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Southland by Nina Revoyr Publisher Comments Fiction. Asian American Studies. SOUTHLAND brings us a fascinating story of race, love, murder and history, against the backdrop of an ever-changing Los Angeles. Moving in and out of the past-from the internment camps of World War II, to the barley... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Road to Cooperstown: A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a Lifetime by Tom Stanton Publisher Comments Every true baseball fan dreams of visiting Cooperstown. Some make the trip as boys, when the promise of a spot in the lineup with the Yankees or Red Sox or Tigers glows on the horizon, as certain as the sunrise. Some go later in life, long after their... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Visible Darkness (Max Freeman Novels) by Jonathon King Publisher Comments With his first novel The Blue Edge of Midnight, Jonathon King was praised for his "powerful storytelling" (San Diego Union-Tribune), for his "stunning" and "superb" writing (Pittsburgh Tribune), and for adding "new dimensions to the modern crime novel... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Eleanor & Abel: A Romance by Annette Sanford Publisher Comments From an award-winning writer, an utterly charming, delightfully fractured fairy tale of a romance between two people old enough to know better. When a storm tears a hole in Miss Eleanor Bannister's roof, the itinerant carpenter who volunteers to... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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