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Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time by Michael Perry Publisher Comments Here the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town), and the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Mirror Mirror: A Novel by Gregory Maguire Staff Pick Maguire's latest retelling of a classic fairy tale is Snow White set in Renaissance Italy and features Lucrezia Borgia as the wicked stepmother. Intriguing, surreal, exotic, and sensual, the author's style is mature, assured, and utterly engaging. This... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-253) and index.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lord John and the Private Matter (Lord John Grey Novels) by Diana Gabaldon Publisher Comments In her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels, Diana Gabaldon introduced millions of readers to a dazzling world of history and adventure — a world of vibrant settings and utterly unforgettable characters. Now one of these characters, Major... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings by Amy Tan Publisher Comments Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, she explores this legacy, as well as American circumstances, and finds ways to honor the past while creating her own brand of destiny. She discovers answers... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Train 1st Edition by Pete Dexter Publisher Comments Los Angeles, 1953. Lionel Walk is a young black caddy at Brookline, the oldest, most exclusive country club in the city, where he is known by the nickname “Train.” A troubled, keenly intelligent kid with no particular interest in his own... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Unprofessionals by Julie Hecht Publisher Comments There is no American writer alive who is funnier, more inquisitive, or more surprising than Julie Hecht. The Unprofessionals, her first novel, whose nameless narrator also told the stories in the author's bestselling collection, Do the Windows Open?, is... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Me and Orson Wells by Robert Kaplow Publisher Comments Me and Orson Welles is a comic coming-of-age novel set against the background of the twenty-two-year-old Orson Welles preparing his debut of the Mercury Theatre on Broadway. The novel concerns Richard Samuels, a stage-struck kid who takes on a small roll... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Our Lady of the Forest by David Guterson From Powells.com A sense of place strongly informs David Guterson's work; he has often written about the Pacific Northwest, most notably in Snow Falling on Cedars, and his natural settings help forge the events in his characters' lives. In his newest novel, Our... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'Ang and Sung Dynasty Verse by Red Pine Publisher Comments Poetry is China’s greatest art, and for the past eight centuries Poems of the Masters has been that country’s most studied and memorized collection of verse. For the first time ever in English, here is the complete text, with an introduction... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Trade Paper
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Love by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida-even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Coseys Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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How Soon Is Never? by Marc Spitz Publisher Comments From Spitz--"Spin" writer and author of "We Got the Neutron Bomb"--comes a poignant, hilarious novel of what happens when you're 30-something, strung-out, disillusioned . . . and utterly sure that getting a broken-up band back together will change your... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Maigret's Christmas by Georges Simenon Publisher Comments Nine short stories make up this delightful holiday-themed collection, each featuring Georges Simenon's famous detective, Jules Maigret. Christmas mysteries abound: an otherwise sensible little girl insists that she has seen Father Christmas, a statement... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village by Sarah Erdman Publisher Comments The village of Nambonkaha in the Ivory Coast is a place where electricity hasnt yet arrived, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women pounding corn fills the morning air like a drumbeat. As Sarah Erdman enters the social fold... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Keeper's Son by Homer Hickam Publisher Comments "Homer Hickam Is The Best Natural Storyteller I've Read In Years."--Stephen Coonts From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rocket Boys comes a tale of romance and daring set against the World War II battle for the Atlantic. Haunted by inner... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.98 Used - Hardcover
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Ready for Anything by David Allen Publisher Comments With wit, motivational insights, and inspiring quotes, "Ready for Anything" shows readers how to make things happen with less effort, stress, and ineffectiveness, and lots more energy, creativity, and clarity. This is the perfect book for those wanting... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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No Angel by Penny Vincenzi Publisher Comments With more than 3.5 million copies sold, Penny Vincenzi is one of the world's preeminent writers of popular fiction — and American readers no longer have to miss out on the fun. With the publication of No Angel, a novel introducing the engaging cast... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Death's Jest-Book by Reginald Hill Publisher Comments From the winner of Britain's most prestigious Diamond Dagger Award comes a beautifully written, multilayered psychological thriller. Three times Yorkshire policeman Peter Pascoe has wrongly accused ex-con, aspiring academic, and inveterate joker Franny... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Red Hat Club by Haywood Smith Publisher Comments Now the sassy southern New York Times bestseller that started it all is available on CD! Meet Georgia, SuSu, Teeny, Diane, and Linda—five women whove been best friends through thirty years since high school. Sit in when they don their red hats... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life by Caroline Moorehead Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-436) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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