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We Need To Talk About Kevin (04 Edition) by Shriver Publisher Comments “ This is heavy material, but Ms. Shriver tackles it with admirable panache.”... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Murder in the Bastille (Aimée Leduc Investigation) by Cara Black Publisher Comments "Cara Black books are good companions, and Murder in the Bastille especially so. Fine characters, good suspense, but, best of all, they are transcendentally, seductively, irresistibly French. If you can’t go, these will do fine. Or, better, go... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West by Linda M Hasselstrom Publisher Comments Crazy Woman Creek is a collection of prose and poetry about real women in the West and their connection to a larger whole. Long troubled by the misguided images of skinny cowgirls on prancing palominos, the editors embarked on a mission to set the record... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tampa Burn by Randy Wayne White Publisher Comments In all his life, Marion "Doc" Ford has been passionately, irresponsibly in love with only one woman. Her name was Pilar, and she was married to a thuggish politico named Balserio in a country where Ford was working undercover. When Ford had to run, it... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Eventide by Kent Haruf From Powells.com National Book Award nominee Kent Haruf returns with the successor to his acclaimed, bestselling, and, one must add, truly beloved novel Plainsong. Eventide brings back several characters from the earlier book — the McPheron brothers... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Work of Wolves by Kent Meyers Publisher Comments When fourteen-year-old Carson Fielding bought his first horse from Magnus Yarborough, it became clear that the teenager was a better judge of horses than the rich landowner was of humans. Years later, Carson, now a skilled and respected horse trainer... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hundredth Man by Jack Kerley Publisher Comments Recalling Michael Connelly's taut storytelling and James Patterson's searing narrative twists, The Hundredth Man introduces a daring new talent. From its explosive first pages to its startling conclusion, this novel creates a world where heroes can't... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Hamilton Case by Michelle De Kretser Publisher Comments Having come of age on the island nation of Ceylon, Sam Obeysekere is a lawyer whose life is guided by the British culture that dominates his homeland. Educated at Oxford, with a dazzling career in his sights, Sam is more English than the English. Only... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World by Jack Kelly Publisher Comments Gunpowder first emerged from the ancient Chinese alchemical experiments to usurp the sword, spear and arrow in war, the pick and shovel in working the earth. Francis Bacon ranked its importance with the printing press and the magnet as substances that... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It by Neal Bascomb Publisher Comments There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was the elusive holy grail, believed to be beyond the limits of human speed. In 1952, after suffering defeat at the Helsinki Olympics, three world-class runners set out individually to break that... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming Publisher Comments On April 1, 1930, Jonathan Ketchem's wife Jane walked from her house to the police department to ask for help in finding her husband. The men, worn out from a night of chasing bootleggers, did what they could. But no one ever saw Jonathan Ketchem again...... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London by Sarah Wise Staff Pick The story of the "Italian boy" murder case was fodder for many of the lurid body-snatching tales that later emerged from the pens of Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Shelley, and Bram Stoker. This absorbing narrative evokes Fagin and Bill Sykes, the charred alleys,... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties by Marion Meade Publisher Comments In her exuberant new work, BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers—Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber—whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Some Danger Involved: A Novel by Will Thomas Publisher Comments An atmospheric debut novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, "Some Danger Involved" introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his apprentice, Thomas Llewelyn, as they work to solve the gruesome murder of a young scholar. When a student bearing a... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Hardcover
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Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett Staff Pick Patchett's eloquent prose gives a vivid portrait of the friendship that she and Lucy Grealy shared. I applaud Patchett's honesty and her refusal to gloss over the difficulties of their friendship. When I found out that Lucy Grealy had died, I was stunned... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story by Timothy B. Tyson Staff Pick "We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here." No law can ever change the hearts of men. Timothy B. Tyson chronicles the painful legacies of racism in Oxford, North Carolina, in 1970. The... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Seven Days of Possibilities: One Teacher, 24 Kids, and the Music That Changed Their Lives Forever by Anemona Hartocollis Publisher Comments Hartocollis shares the inspirational true story of one plucky young Bronx public school music teacher whose passion for her students transformed their lives--some for only seven days, others for a lifetime.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Crossing California by Adam Langer Publisher Comments Poignant, ambitious, and tremendously fun, Crossing California is the fiction discovery of the season — a novel about two generations of family and friendship in Chicago from November 1979 through January 1981. In 1979 California Avenue, in... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Way Past Legal by Norman Green Publisher Comments You never know, when it happens, what's going to change your life, what's going to bounce you out of the rut you've been in, send you flying off in some new direction. Manny's latest score left him with more money than he's ever dreamed of, but with... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki Staff Pick Using anecdotes and statistics from such diverse sources as pre-election polls, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, traffic patterns, and jelly bean jars, The Wisdom of Crowds persuasively demonstrates that groups of people are usually smarter than their most... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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