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The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy Publisher Comments In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed "Hansel" and "Gretel." They wander in the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz Staff Pick Blue Latitudes is an enjoyable and often hilarious journey into the amazing life and adventures of Captain James Cook and his crew. There is no better way to learn nautical history than to bring an Aussie, and a bottle of grog, along.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Last Train To Paradise by Les Standiford Publisher Comments Now in paperback, "Last Train to Paradise" is acclaimed novelist Standiford's fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad--one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Publisher Comments Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Last Car to Elysian Fields: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee Burke Publisher Comments For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt him. So to return there -- as he does in "Last Car to Elysian Fields" -- means visiting old ghosts, exposing old wounds... (read more) Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber From Powells.com This entertaining and morally persuasive portrait of 19th-century London society, from the lowliest of the low to the haughtiest of the high, has been widely hailed as "Dickensian." A better term would be "hyper-Dickensian." Faber's filthy guttersnipes... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer Staff Pick Great essays like these give you an opportunity to look at the world through another person's eyes and re-examine your own experiences. The 26 included here take you on a journey through the a myriad women's lives. I laughed, I cried, I felt better about... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life by Noah Lukeman Publisher Comments As a literary agent, Noah Lukeman hears thousands of book pitches a year. Often the stories sound great in concept, but never live up to their potential on the page. Lukeman shows beginning and advanced writers how to implement the fundamentals of... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Off to the Side by Jim Harrison Publisher Comments Selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 'Off to the Side' is the tale of one of America's most beloved writers, Jim Harrison.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Coastliners by Joanne Harris Publisher Comments An Interview with Joanne Harris In many ways, "Coastliners reads like a thriller -- many of the twists and turns of the book are utterly unexpected. Was this element of intrigue something you intended at the outset, or did it evolve as you wrote? List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem Publisher Comments This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth by Joe Conason Publisher Comments In Big Lies, Joe Conason rips through the ten most damaging lies perpetrated by the right wing propaganda machine. This scathing, fact-filled analysis debunks it all: - The myth that Republicans are fiscal geniuses and champions of free enterprise. - The... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why: True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death by Laurence Gonzales Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-284) and index.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter Publisher Comments Five Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul and Patsy meant to end up. Both from the East Coast, they met in college, fell in love, and settled down to married life in the Midwest. Saul is Jewish and a compulsively inventive worrier; Patsy is gentile... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori, Book One by Lian Hearn Staff Pick The first in a trilogy, Across the Nightingale Floor is being compared with the likes of the Pullman Trilogy, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings — and rightly so. It is easily the best fantasy novel I've read in quite a while. The story line follows... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot by Graham Roumieu Publisher Comments America’s favorite crypto-zoological hominid is hilariously recast as the modern-day everyman, struggling with eating disorders, casual cannibalism, pop culture, and philosophical quandaries (“Me once believe in good. Now, no. World go shit,... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory Publisher Comments A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor?s examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she?s tall, skinny, and weak. It?s four o?clock, and she hasn?t been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Secret Father by James Carroll Publisher Comments It is 1961. Khrushchev is hurling threats, a U.S. spy plane has been shot down over the Soviet Union, tensions are rising. Berlin has been cut off from the West: its only a matter of weeks until the Wall will be erected. The United States and Americans... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Orchard by Larry Watson Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Montana 1948, Larry Watson, spins an unforgettable story of obsession and betrayal, set against the stark backdrop of rural Wisconsin. Like so many women who crossed the lonely Atlantic before her, Sonja Skordahl is told that... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Mailman by J Robert Lennon Publisher Comments This extraordinary novel is a blackly comic epic, a twisted voyage through small-town America, which tells the story of a brilliant, neurotic man desperately in search of love. Albert Lippincott is a resident of Nestor, New York—mailman... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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