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The Confusion: The Baroque Cycle, # 2 by Neal Stephenson Publisher Comments In this compelling adventure, Stephenson brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in the late 1600s on the high seas. It is a time of breathtaking genius and discovery for men and women whose exploits define an age known as Baroque.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books by Paul Collins Publisher Comments Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside — to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants — and forty bookstores. Taking... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed by Carl Honore Publisher Comments We live in the age of speed. The world around us moves faster than ever before. We strain to be more efficient, to cram more into each minute, each hour, each day. Since the Industrial Revolution shifted the world into high gear, the cult of speed has... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Cottage for Sale (Must Be Moved): A Woman Moves a House to Make a Home by Kate Whouley Synopsis Memoir of a single woman who moved a one-room cottage twenty-five miles and attached it to her three-room house, to make more room for her life and her work. Along the way the way she received help and support from a group of eccentric friends, an army... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism by Dawn Prince Hughes Publisher Comments "This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people's autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it." In this elegant and thought... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Good Patient by Kristin Waterfield Duisberg Publisher Comments Darien is a young woman who seems to have everything: a successful job, an adoring husband, and a bright future. She also has a tendency towards violent, self-destructive outbursts when she's alone. When her private life spirals out of control, her... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Past Due by William Lashner Publisher Comments Chapter Eight They say Philly is a city of neighborhoods, but it's really a city of neighborhood taps. There they sit, one on every corner, with the same hanging sign, the same glass block windows, the same softball trophies, the same loyalty among their... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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An Egg on Three Sticks by Jackie M Fischer Publisher Comments Finally Abby is thirteen. A real teenager who only wants to pierce her ears, have a boyfriend, and run her own life. But when her mother suffers a nervous breakdown, Abby faces a life far different from what she hoped for. Set in the Bay Area in the '70s,... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries, and Preoccupations (National Geographic Directions) by Howard Norman Publisher Comments Master storyteller Howard Norman draws on more than 30 years of visiting Nova Scotia for this remarkable book of selective memories. Combining stories, folklore, memoir, nature, poetry, and expository prose, the chapters of My Famous Evening ... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler Publisher Comments Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.75 Used - Hardcover
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Antonio's Wife by Jacqueline Dejohn Publisher Comments "An excellent novel, brimming with passion, verve and wit."... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Hardcover
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Doctored Evidence 1st Edition by Donna Leon Publisher Comments Donna Leon's riveting new novel, Doctored Evidence, follows Commissario Guido Brunetti down the winding streets of contemporary Venice as he throws open the doors of a case his superiors would rather leave closed. When a miserly spinster is found... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism by Paul Collins Publisher Comments When Paul Collins's son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his head...but not answer to his own name. A casual conversation-or any social interaction that the rest of us take for granted-will, for Morgan,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper Staff Pick Capturing the sensitivity felt for one's home town and the repercussions of the callow time warp known as "high school," this little novel is the kind of book you just want to put into the hands of every male you grew up with and a few you know now.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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In the Land of Temple Caves: From St. Emilion to Paris's St Sulpice by Frederick W Turner Publisher Comments In September 2001, following moments when civilization seemed to have unraveled, Frederick Turner undertook a quest for confirmation that Art does matter, that it is the preeminent human expression of the Life Force; that it is as undeniably necessary as... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $13.00 New - Hardcover
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Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals by Thomas Moore Publisher Comments Every human life is made up of the light and the dark, the happy and the sad, the vital and the deadening. How you think about this rhythm of moods makes all the difference. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Care of the Soul comes the... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Scribbling the Cat 1st Edition by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments Best-selling memoirist Alexandra Fuller travels with a strangely charismatic Rhodesian war veteran into a modern-day heart of darkness. When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond Staff Pick Here's a great recipe: Take one often-obsessed-upon food item, one aptly named author, and an enormous amount of writing talent. Mix them all together and you have Candyfreak. A great book that melts in your mind, not in your hand.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Useful Girl by Marcus Stevens Publisher Comments On the plains of Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas, two paths unexpectedly cross: that of a 17-year-old girl running away from home and that of a young Cheyenne girl running for her life.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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