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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell Staff Pick While it was hard to narrow down my list to just five "best of" picks, I didn't have to think twice about what would be my favorite book of the year. In Cloud Atlas Mitchell again uses the format of connecting short stories with recurring motifs into a... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Staff Pick I know you shouldn't recommend books that you are only halfway through, but this is such a lush tapestry of a book I can't resist. Like a moist rich chocolate torte, Strange and Norrell is the sort of book you ration out to avoid finishing it too soon... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hidden Wholeness : the Journey Toward an Undivided Life (04 Edition) by Parker J. Palmer Publisher Comments In A Hidden Wholeness, Parker J. Palmer reveals the same compassionate intelligence and informed heart that shaped his best-selling books Let Your Life Speak and The Courage to Teach. Here he speaks to our yearning to live undivided lives–lives that... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Hardcover
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Better Together: Restoring the American Community by Robert D. Putnam Publisher Comments In his acclaimed Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam describes the United States as a nation in which we have become increasingly disconnected from one another and in which our social structures have disintegrated. But in the final chapter of that book he... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir by Nick Flynn Publisher Comments "Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. But if I let him inside the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri Publisher Comments Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi Publisher Comments In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day," Marjane Satrapi dazzled us with her heartrending memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Here is the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Blacklist (V.I. Warshawski Novels) by Sara Paretsky Publisher Comments Paretsky returns with her heroine V.I. Warshawski in this New York Times bestseller, deemed "a complex, disturbing thriller" by the Associated Press. This is a story of secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations — secrets that are... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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I, Fatty: A Novel by Jerry Stahl Publisher Comments The strange, compelling, and occasionally hysterical story of Hollywood's first celebrity scandal-as told by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, the star at its center. Abandoned as a boy in Kansas, Fatty Arbuckle found adulation first onstage, and then in the new... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Confessions of a Deathmaiden by Ruth Francisco Synopsis Francisco scales the heights of suspense with this enthralling first novel about a hospice worker determined to uncover why the young boy under her care died ominously. "Beautifully written . . . as original as it is absorbing."--Michael Connelly... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Mass Market
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An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg Publisher Comments “One of the truest and most original new voices in American letters,” as Kent Haruf has written, Mark Spragg now tells the story of a complex, prodigal homecoming. Jean Gilkyson is floundering in a trailer house in Iowa with yet another... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Home to Italy by Peter Pezzelli Publisher Comments - Will appeal to fans of Nicholas Sparks and Jeanne Ray. - Home to Italy will feature French Flaps, making it a beautiful gift or keepsake.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Liberating Paris by Linda Bloodworth Thomason Publisher Comments From renowned producer and writer Linda Bloodworth Thomason, creator of the beloved hit television series Designing Women, comes Liberating Paris, an audacious, poignant, and endearing debut novel about love, memories that won't fade, and holding on to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA (Shannon Ravenel Books) by Tim Junkin Publisher Comments Charged with the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in 1984, Kirk Bloodsworth was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die in Maryland's gas chamber. From the beginning, he proclaimed his innocence, but when he was granted a new trial because his... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Japanese Art of Sex: How to Tease, Seduce, and Pleasure the Samurai in Your Bedroom by Jina Bacarr Publisher Comments Learn how to use the ancient and modern Japanese sexual practices of court ladies, courtesans and geisha to spark romance and deliver an erotic "floating world" of pleasure to you and your partner.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos Staff Pick A beautiful story about a pair of damaged women with a forty-two-year age difference coming to a juncture in their lives that causes them to form an ageless alliance. Like pieces of opposite jigsaw puzzles they file the pieces and make them fit.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Divine Husband: A Novel by Francisco Goldman Publisher Comments With his previous novels, Francisco Goldman has reaped immense acclaim and established himself as an American voice of vital importance. His third novel is a marvelous tale of great love, the soul of the Americas and the birth of the modern spirit, set... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Outside Valentine by Liza Ward Publisher Comments Liza Ward's spellbinding first novel is told from the very different points of view of three narrators mysteriously linked by a shocking crime and their efforts to heal the past. Based on the Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate murders in Nebraska... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $2.98 Used - Hardcover
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Triangle : Fire That Changed America (03 Edition) by David Von Drehle Publisher Comments Von Drehle chronicles the tragic day in 1911 when fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. With ladders too short for a rescue, 146 people died--123 were women. It was the worst industrial disaster in NY history... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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