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Shanghai Diary 2ND Edition a Young Girls Journey 1st Edition by Ursula Bacon Publisher Comments By the late 1930s, Europe sat on the brink of a world war. As the holocaust approached, many Jewish families in Germany fled to one of the only open port available to them: Shanghai. Once called "the armpit of the world," Shanghai ultimately served as... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists by Gideon Defoe Publisher Comments Not since Moby-Dick...No, not since Treasure Island...Actually, not since Jonah and the Whale has there been a sea saga to rival The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, featuring the greatest sea-faring hero of all time, the immortal Pirate Captain,... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Popular Music from Vittula by Mikael Niemi Publisher Comments Popular Music from Vittula tells the fantastical story of a young boy's unordinary existence, peopled by a visiting African priest, a witch in the heart of the forest, cousins from Missouri, an old Nazi, a beautiful girl with a black Volvo, silent men... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Case Histories: A Novel by Kate Atkinson Publisher Comments A triumphant new novel from award-winner Kate Atkinson: a breathtaking story of families divided, love lost and found, and the mysteries of fate. Case One: Olivia Land, youngest and most beloved of the Land girls, goes missing in the night and is... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler From Powells.com The Amateur Marriage opens on December 7, 1941, as Pauline impulsively leaps from a streetcar, catapulting her into the Baltimore store of Michael Anton's mother, and into Michael's heart. Michael enlists, and on his return they marry, with... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore Staff Pick Please, Santa, come back from the dead! World-class satirist Christopher Moore is here just in time for the holidays.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell Publisher Comments A literary event — a brilliant new rendering of the oldest epic in the world by esteemed translator and bestselling author Stephen Mitchell. Although Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, and although there have... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Second Space: New Poems by Czeslaw Milosz Publisher Comments Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz's most recent collection Second Space marks a new stage in one of the great poetic pilgrimages of our time. Few poets have inhabited the land of old age as long or energetically as Milosz, for whom this territory holds both... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Family Trade by Charles Stross Publisher Comments A bold fantasy in the tradition of Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber, The Merchant Princes is a sweeping new series from the hottest new writer in science fiction! Miriam Beckstein is happy in her life. She's a successful reporter for a hi-tech... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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How to Be Lost by Amanda Eyre Ward Publisher Comments From the author of the celebrated Sleep Toward Heaven comes a novel of love and secrets. To their neighbors in suburban Holt, New York, the Winters family has it all: a grand home, a trio of radiant daughters, and a sense that they are safe in their... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Banishing Verona: A Novel by Margot Livesey Publisher Comments Zeke is twenty-nine and working as a carpenter and painter in London. Verona is thirty-seven, headstrong, and seven months pregnant. When the two meet in a house that Zeke is renovating, they fall in love, only to be separated less than 24 hours later... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Men and Cartoons: Stories by Jonathan Lethem Publisher Comments Jonathan Lethem's new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers — nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as Lethem samples high and low culture to create... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cheat and Charmer by Elizabeth Frank Publisher Comments Twenty-five years in the making, a first novel that has already been compared to The Sun Also Rises and The Last Tycoon, Cheat and Charmer is certain to be one of the most admired literary debuts of the season. Written by Pulitzer Prize?winning... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country by Joe Queenan Publisher Comments One semitropical Fourth of July, Joe Queenan's English wife suggested that the family might like a chicken vindaloo in lieu of the customary barbecue. It was this pitiless act of gastronomic cultural oppression, coupled with dread of the fearsome... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Going Postal: A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett Publisher Comments Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses — until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into...a government job? By all rights, Moist... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Kiss Them Goodbye by Stella Cameron Publisher Comments Just weeks after inheriting Rosebank, a once-magnificent plantation on the banks of Bayou Teche, David Patin was killed in a mysterious fire, leaving his daughter, Vivian, almost bankrupt. With few options remaining, Vivian Patin decides to restore the... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $0.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Twelve Little Cakes by Dominika Dery Publisher Comments Long before she was born, Dominika first appeared to her mother in a dream, so when she came to be, she was welcomed with eager expectation and much love. Though her arrival was auspicious, as the child of recognized dissidents associated with the failed... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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West of Then: A Mother, a Daughter, and a Journey Past Paradise by Tara Bray Smith Publisher Comments A dazzling, devastating memoir about one woman's search for her wayward mother, whose past is inextricably linked with the bittersweet history of their home, Hawaii. At the center of West of Then is Karen Morgan -- island flower, fifth generation haole... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World by Nicholas A. Basbanes Publisher Comments In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist that year for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and expanded in... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Darling by Russell Banks Publisher Comments Russell Banks has exhibited an astonishingly imaginative range throughout his distinguished career as a novelist, and his uniquely realistic American voice, on display in such modern classics as Rule of the Bone and Continental Drift, continues to shine... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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