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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer Staff Pick I absolutely loved Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close a most precious and delightful novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Oskar Schell made me laugh, smile, and just feel good. He is a charmer who's won my heart through the tears and the joy.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover 
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With No One as Witness (Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers Novels) by Elizabeth George Publisher Comments Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley takes on the case of his career. When it comes to spellbinding suspense and page-turning excitement, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George always delivers. As the Wall Street Journal raves, "Ms. George... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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You Can't Get There from Here: A Year on the Fringes of a Shrinking World by Gayle Forman Publisher Comments In this exploration of globalization, a journalist interweaves eight stories, revealing how diverse lives are being inextricably altered by the ever-shrinking world that everyone shares.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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War by Candlelight: Stories by Daniel Alarcon Publisher Comments Something is happening around the globe: mass movements of peoples, dislocations of language and culture in the wake of war and economic crises — simply put, our world is changing. In this exquisite collection, Daniel Alarcón takes the reader... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Question of Blood: An Inspector Rebus Novel by Ian Rankin Publisher Comments When a former soldier and recluse murders two 17-year-old students at a posh Edinburgh boarding school, Inspector John Rebus immediately suspects there is more to the case than meets the eye.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Small Island by Andrea Levy Publisher Comments Winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction A Picador Original Trade Paperback Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Saturday by Ian McEwan Staff Pick Ian McEwan's new novel is generous, contemplative, and moving — and in good company, joining classics like Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses that take place during a single day. McEwan intricately weaves characters and themes towards an eloquent and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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In the Company of Liars by David Ellis Publisher Comments In the Company of Liars is a truly original thriller, strikingly fresh and unpredictable. Told in chronological reverse, from its enigmatic end to its brilliant beginning, the novel is centered on a woman who is on trial for murder-Allison Pagone, a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cut and Run by Ridley Pearson Publisher Comments The most harrowing and deeply emotional thriller to date from bestselling author Ridley Pearson. Six years ago witness protection agent Roland Larson did the unthinkable: he fell in love with Hope Stevens, a protected witness whose testimony had put... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald Staff Pick Intricately detailed yet compulsively readable, Conspiracy of Fools is the best account yet of the Enron debacle. Eichenwald makes you feel like you are there — in the boardroom, on the cell phone — while the deals get brokered and the walls come... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Beautiful Inez by Bart Schneider Publisher Comments From critically acclaimed novelist Bart Schneider comes a captivating tale of romantic love and sexual adventure, social change and family upheavals, set against the vibrant backdrop of San Francisco in the 1960s. Inez Roseman has a brilliant career as a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $1.75 Used - Hardcover
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Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance by Matthew Kneale Publisher Comments The author of the award-winning novel English Passengers takes readers around the world in twelve deftly crafted stories that illuminate the uncertainties of life at home and abroad. Matthew Kneale received high praise for the prize-winning English... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Job Hopper: The Checkered Career of a Down-Market Dilettante by Ayun Halliday Publisher Comments In this uproarious collection of essays, Halliday displays a work ethic all employers can admire: wearing a leg brace to work after calling in "sick," quitting the same day she starts by claiming her stepbrother had been in a bike accident, and faking... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Painted Kiss by Elizabeth Hickey Publisher Comments In her passionate and atmospheric debut novel, The Painted Kiss, Elizabeth Hickey reimagines the relationship between Gustav Klimt and the woman whose name he uttered with his dying breath. Vienna in 1886 was a city of elegant cafés, grand opera... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Hatbox Letters by Beth Powning Publisher Comments "Superbly written... [Powning] penetrates the complexities of relationships in family and community."--Library... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson Publisher Comments When Arlene Fleet headed off to college in Chicago, she made three promises to God: She would never again lie, never fornicate outside marriage, and never, ever go back to her tiny hometown of Possett, Alabama. All God had to do in exchange was to make... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $3.00 Used - Hardcover
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Staff Pick Ishiguro takes a meditative look at childhood, loss of innocence, and human deception and the drive for survival. This is a haunting narrative that is joyous and sad at once — reminiscent of Philip K. Dick, but with a very literary and poignant eye for... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller Publisher Comments From one of America's best-loved novelists comes an unforgettable tale of a family breaking apart and coming together again, set in the vineyards of Northern California. A hymn to marriage, and to adolescent yearning, this is Sue Miller at her inimitable... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America by Fergus Bordewich Publisher Comments An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change The Civil War brought to a climax the country's bitter division. But the beginnings of slavery's denouement can be traced to a courageous... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Changed Man: A Novel by Francine Prose Staff Pick Francine Prose. How does she do it? She makes the real world more real. Her writing is filled with people we know and (sometimes) hate. Her latest novel, A Changed Man, is a wonderful introduction for readers unfamiliar with her work. It's the story of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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