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She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan Publisher Comments The provocative bestseller She's Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Bangkok 8 by John Burdett From Powells.com "Though we know it as Bangkok, the Thai refer to their capital as Krung Thep, which translates as City of Angels. It's an unhappy coincidence. Just like our own City of Angels (Los Angeles), Krung Thep is a once-idyllic city that in recent decades has... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stranger than Fiction: True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary, a collection of essays and journalistic pieces that prove that real life has imagination beaten cold in the strangeness and wonder departments Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Liars and Saints: A Novel by Maile Meloy Publisher Comments With her first novel, Liars and Saints, award-winning author Maile Meloy more than delivers on the promise of her highly acclaimed debut story collection, Half in Love. This richly textured novel tells a story of sex and longing, love and loss, and of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life by Jacob Slichter Publisher Comments A hilarious inside look at the real business of popular music by the drummer of Semisonic that does for rock and roll what Jim Bouton's Ball Four did for baseball. After years of working day jobs and making music in his basement, Jacob Slichter wondered... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Almost French by Sarah Turnbull Publisher Comments The charming true story of a spirited young woman who finds adventure--and the love of her life--in Paris. "This isn't like me. I'm not the sort of girl who crosses continents to meet up with a man she hardly knows. Paris hadn't even been part of my... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley Publisher Comments Easy Rawlins returns to solve a mystery set amid the flames of the hottest summer L.A. has ever seen. Just after devastating riots tear through Los Angeles in 1965 — when anger is high and fear still smolders everywhere — the police turn up... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Big Love by Sarah Dunn Publisher Comments Alison Hopkins is firmly, undoubtedly, and undeniably in love. She and Tom live together, they send wedding gifts as a unit, and, most important, they're happy together — until the evening Tom goes out in the middle of a dinner party to buy some... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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An Unfinished Season by Ward Just Publisher Comments From a distinguished chronicler of American social history and political culture, An Unfinished Season captures the 1950s hauntingly. In a time of rabid anticommunism, worker unrest, and government corruption, even the small-town family could not escape... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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After the Rain by Chuck Logan Publisher Comments Headlights off, a panel truck drives by moonlight across an open field, following tracks that have been there for decades ... Nina Pryce and her husband, Phil Broker, couldn't have more opposite views of the military. Broker's loyalty to the men he... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Run: A True Story of Rescue and Redemption on the Alaska Seas by Todd Lewan Publisher Comments It was the catch of a lifetime. In late January 1998, after a miserable stretch of fishing that hadn't paid for even their groceries, the five-man crew of a seventy-nine-year-old Alaska schooner called the La Conte risked one last run to the Fairweather... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rift Zone by Raelynn Hillhouse Publisher Comments In the turbulent years after the rise of the Berlin Wall, Germany stood dangerously divided between freedom and Communism. Dodging border patrols and guard posts, a silent few were able to cross the borders of the Iron Curtain to deliver needed supplies,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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By a Spider's Thread: A Tess Monaghan Mystery (Tess Monaghan Mysteries) by Laura Lippman Publisher Comments The winner of every major literary award in crime fiction, Laura Lippman brings back her complex and vulnerably human Baltimore P.I., Tess Monaghan, in a tense, expertly spun tale of a family torn asunder by forces it can barely comprehend. Mark Rubin's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gutted: Down to the Studs in My House, My Marriage, My Entire Life by Lawrence Larose Publisher Comments Only a few years ago, Lawrence LaRose won a place on bestseller lists as coauthor of The Code: Time-Tested Secrets for Getting What You Want from Women — Without Marrying Them! But then recklessness set in: LaRose fell in love. In the course of a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Had a Good Time: Stories from American Postcards by Robert Olen Butler Publisher Comments In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Robert Olen Butler examined America through the unusual perspective of the eyes of Vietnamese postwar immigrants. Now, in his dazzling new book of stories, Had a Good Time, he again... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Food of Love by Anthony Capella Publisher Comments The success of Like Water for Chocolate and Chocolat (not to mention their film adaptations), and films such as Big Night and Babettes Feast confirms that fine food and romance are a winning combination. The Food of Love, Anthony Capellas delicious... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tales of the Otori #03: Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn Publisher Comments The long-awaited third installment of the worldwide phenomenon and number-one international bestseller, Tales of the Otori Set in an imagined medieval Japan, Book Three is a thrilling-and surprising- follow-up to the previous adventures of Takeo and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Candy and Me: A Girl's Tale of Life, Love, and Sugar by Hilary Liftin Publisher Comments "Candy and Me" is a delectable memoir for adult girls who thought Candyland was where they'd grow up and live and who wanted every day to be Easter and Halloween. It is for sugar addicts who don't hide their habit and for people with a sweet tooth and a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brimstone by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Publisher Comments A claw print scorched into the wall... The stench of sulfur in the air... Has the Devil come to claim his due? Behind the gates of a fabulous Hampton estate, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers the carnage of a gruesome crime — a... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Callgirl by Jeannette Angell Publisher Comments When Jeanette Angell was 34, a live-in boyfriend vanished, wiping out her savings account and leaving her in precarious financial straits. Reading an advertisement seeking women to work as escorts, she thought this might offer a way out of penury... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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