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Pattern Recognition by William Gibson Publisher Comments The accolades and acclaim are endless for William Gibson's coast-to-coast bestseller. Set in the post-9/11 present, Pattern Recognition is the story of one woman's never-ending search for the now.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Cadillac Beach by Tim Dorsey Publisher Comments Chapter One Tampa -- 1996 A bearded man in rags stood on the side of a busy noon intersection, holding up a cardboard sign: will be your psychic friend for food. A Volvo rolled up. The bum leaned to the window. "People are out to get you. Vaccinations... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Staff Pick When you start a novel with your protagonist selecting any book they want from a place called the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, you're going to get a bookseller's attention. Ruiz Zafon's novel works on so many levels for me. As a story, it resonates... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Baking Illustrated: The Practical Kitchen Companion for the Home Baker by Cook's Illustrated Publisher Comments Have you ever devoted a Sunday afternoon to baking bread only to turn out loaves that are misshapen and dense? Or struggled over pie crust, ending up with a dry and crumbly dough that was impossible to roll out? We have. And that?s why we?ve tested and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Borderlines: A Memoir by Caroline Kraus Publisher Comments What would you do if your best friend was also your worst enemy? When Caroline Kraus leaves behind her sheltered, upper-middle-class home in St. Louis for San Francisco following the death of her mother, she is searching for clarity and a fresh... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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With by Donald Harington Publisher Comments A sensual, irresistible tale full of unexpected twists and turns in the wilds of the Ozarks, "The Boston Globe" calls "With" a "life-affirming, surprising, beautifully written novel," and "Raleigh News" names it the "Best Novel of the Year."... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire Publisher Comments National Book Award-winning memoir of exile from a tangerine-colored paradise: “Eire has done a splendid job….Masterfully written, bursting with wonderful details and images and populated by characters so well described that they seem to be... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik Staff Pick Who knew that bird watching could be so astonishingly competitive? Obmascik's The Big Year follows three birding fanatics, giving us a highly amusing look at the race to hold the record of spotting the most bird species within North America in one year... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Aloft by Chang Rae Lee Publisher Comments Set on affluent Long Island, Aloft follows the life of a suburban, upper-middle-class man during a time of family crisis. Jerry Battle's favorite diversion is to fly his small plane over the neighboring towns and villages. When his daughter and her fianc... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dearest Dorothy, Are We There Yet? (Dearest Dorothy) by Charlene Baumbich Publisher Comments For the legions of readers who enjoy books that celebrate life’s simple pleasures, eighty-seven-year-old Dorothy Jean Wetstra and her beloved farming town of Partonville, Illinois, will become instant favorites. In this hilarious, touching series,... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $21.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain by Alice W Flaherty Publisher Comments What underlies the human ability, desire, and even compulsion to write? Alice Flaherty first explores the brain state called hypergraphia - the overwhelming desire to write - and the science behind its antithesis, writer's block. As a leading neurologist... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Holy Fools by Joanne Harris Publisher Comments With her internationally bestselling novels Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, and Coastliners, Joanne Harris has woven intoxicating spells that celebrate the sensuous while exposing the passion, secrets, and folly beneath the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Land of Echoes: A Cree Black Novel (Cree Black Thriller) by Daniel Hecht Publisher Comments In the end it is people, not places, that are haunted. Tommy Keeday is a talented student at a boarding school for gifted Navajo teens, located in the vast high desert of western New Mexico. When he is suddenly seized by an illness with bizarre and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hot Plastic by Peter Craig Publisher Comments A fast-paced, cleverly conceived, utterly surprising suspense novel about father and son grifters and the female con artist who comes between them — Elmore Leonard meets Dennis Lehane meets Quentin Tarantino. Kevin's dad, Jerry, is a crook... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Beulah Land by Krista Mcgruder Publisher Comments Thirteen stories in which lush country settings are juxtaposed against taut urban landscapes.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir by Neeley Tucker Publisher Comments Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.48 Used - Hardcover
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Cooking for Harry: A Low-Carbohydrate Novel by Kay Marie James Publisher Comments Harry became a fabulous cook. It began with a simple indulgence: secret bowls of buttery popcorn that he and his wife, Francie, would share after the children were tucked into bed. The aroma of melting butter, the hot kernels on their tongues, the salt... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Shadow Men: A Max Freeman Novel by Jonathon King Publisher Comments A gripping new chapter in the Max Freeman series, from the critically acclaimed, Edgar Award?winning author of The Blue Edge of Midnight. It begins with an 80-year-old mystery. Three men — a father and his two sons — vanished while working... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Question of Blood: An Inspector Rebus Novel by Ian Rankin Publisher Comments There is no mystery. Lee Herdman stormed into a private school just north of Edinburgh and killed two boys. He was a loner, a creep, an army veteran who got kicks out of terrifying local teenagers on his speedboat — just the sort of shady character... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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