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Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson Staff Pick A story about faith, love, history and growing old, this book is poignant and lovely. It is a long letter from a father who thinks he is soon to die, to his seven-year-old son. Robinson's command of language, her deep understanding of humanity, and her... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.) by Laurence Bergreen Publisher Comments In 1519, Magellan, five ships, and more than two hundred men set sail from Spain to find a water route to the Spice Islands. Despite suffering starvation, disease, torture, and death, they discovered the passageway known today as the Strait of Magellan... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sweet Science by A. J. Liebling Publisher Comments A.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Night Fall by Nelson Demille Publisher Comments #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille brings back Detective John Corey of The Lion's Game and Plum Island in a provocative new novel inspired by actual events. On a Long Island beach at dusk, Bob Mitchell and Janet Whitney conduct their... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant Publisher Comments Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories by Michael Chabon Publisher Comments Michael Chabon is back with a brand-new collection that reinvigorates the stay-up-all-night, edge-of-the seat, fingernail-biting, page-turning tradition of literary short stories, featuring Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Peter Straub, David Mitchell... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes of My Life by Pat Conroy and Suzanne Williamson Pollak Publisher Comments “This book is the story of my life as it relates to the subject of food. It is my autobiography in food and meals and restaurants and countries far and near. Let me take you to a restaurant on the Left Bank of Paris that I found when writing The... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World by Arthur Herman Publisher Comments To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how Britain's Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to power unprecedented in history. From its beginnings under Henry VIII and adventurers like John Hawkins and Francis Drake, the Royal Navy toppled one... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt Publisher Comments Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill Publisher Comments “This series kickoff is an embarrassment of riches: Holmesian sleuthing, political satire, and [a] droll comic study of a prickly late bloomer.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “The sights, smells, and colors of Laos practically... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson Publisher Comments Sometimes subtle, sometimes striking, the interplay between our lives and our books is the subject of this unique memoir by well-known publishing correspondent and self-described "readaholic" Sara Nelson. From Solzhenitsyn to Laura Zigman, Catherine M... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Banewreaker: Volume 1 of the Sundering by Jacqueline Carey Publisher Comments If all that is good thinks you evil... are you? Once upon a time, the Seven Shapers dwelled in accord and Shaped the world to their will. But Satoris, the youngest among them, was deemed too generous in his gifts to the race of Men, and so began the... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Welcoming Wildlife to the Garden: Creating Backyard and Balcony Habitats for Wildlife by Catherine J Johnson Synopsis Welcoming Wildlife to the Garden offers ecologically sound gardening and landscaping techniques to turn barren lawns and concrete spaces into hospitable environments for birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals. The book takes readers through... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lake of Sorrows by Erin Hart Publisher Comments Acclaimed by the critics for her luminous first novel, Haunted Ground, Erin Hart returns with a magnificent new tale of death and destiny, past and present, in an Ireland rich with tradition, myth, and mystery. American forensic pathologist Nora Gavin... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Molvania by Santo Cilauro Publisher Comments Turning the standard text and design of familiar travel guides on its ear is the mandate of the Jetlag Travel Guide to Molvanîa, the small Eastern European nation keen to position itself as a tourist attraction, despite the fact that it doesn't exist.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Heloise & Abelard by James Burge Publisher Comments The heart-rending love story of Abelard and Heloise was one of the most talked about relationships in the Middle Ages, and is one of the greatest love stories of all time. Peter Abelard was arguably the greatest poet, philosopher, and religious teacher... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures: 1,001 Things You Hate to Love by Sam Stall Publisher Comments What do Neil Diamond, Touched by an Angel, Pamela Anderson, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, White castle hamburgers, Benny Hill, Thomas Kinkade, and the song “You Light Up My Life” have in common? They’re all guilty pleasures—and... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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False Profits by Patricia Smiley Publisher Comments - Featuring a fresh new voice and cast of characters, False Profits will appeal to the same audience who made bestsellers of the novels by Janet Evanovich.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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East Side Story by Louis Auchincloss Publisher Comments "Louis Auchincloss has an enveloping story to tell and a perfect, understated knowledge of those who inhabit it," said the New York Times of The Scarlet Letters. The same can be said of Auchincloss's new novel, a tour de force that charts the rise of one... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Foul Matter by Martha Grimes Publisher Comments Sophisticated intrigue, dry humor, and eccentric characters flow effortlessly from Martha Grimes's rich imagination. Not to mention the atmospheric and storytelling genius that has made her a consistently bestselling author. Her newest novel, Foul Matter,... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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