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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Staff Pick Okay, never mind that The Shadow of the Wind starts off in a wonderfully mysterious bookstore and that there's a romantic element that is not schmaltzy, but "timeless" in the best sense of the word. What I loved was how I thought I knew where the author... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Snobs by Julian Fellowes Publisher Comments A Times (London) bestseller from the author of Gosford Park Edith Lavery, the pretty daughter of an accountant, meets gossip-column favorite Charles Broughton (Earl of Broughton and heir to the Marquess of Uckfield) at Ascot. When he proposes and she... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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High Country (Anna Pigeon Mysteries) by Nevada Barr Publisher Comments It's fall in the Sierra Mountains, and Anna Pigeon is slinging hash in Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel. Four young people, all seasonal park employees, have disappeared, and two weeks of work by crack search-and-rescue teams have failed... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Kafka on the Shore 1st Edition by Haruki Murakami Staff Pick In Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami brings the Oedipus legend to contemporary Japan. The reader is treated to his musings on art, culture, the loss of innocence and...cats, in his patented, magic-realist way. Easily his best novel translated into... (read more) Your price: $40.00 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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The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell Publisher Comments From Bernard Cornwell, the New York Times bestselling author whom the Washington Post calls perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today, comes a saga of blood, rage, fidelity, and betrayal that brings to center stage King Alfred the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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At Risk: A Novel by Stella Rimington Publisher Comments An announcement is made at a meeting of the British Intelligence Joint Counter-Terrorist group: "The opposition may be about to deploy an invisible." An "invisible" is CIA-speak for the ultimate intelligence nightmare: a terrorist who is an ethnic native... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Effects of Light by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore Publisher Comments Throughout their childhood, Myla and Pru Wolfe pose for a haunting series of photographs. Young, beautiful, and motherless, the sisters bond fiercely in their shared sense of loss, unquenchable thirst for knowledge, and status as favorite subjects for... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Narcissist's Daughter by Craig Holden Publisher Comments In his earlier acclaimed novels, Craig Holden created a thrilling vision of America that was at once lyrical and dark. Now, with The Narcissist's Daughter, he expands that vision in his most accomplished and controversial work to date, a drama about the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Thread of Grace: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell Publisher Comments Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God. It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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You Are Not the One: Stories by Vestal Mcintyre Publisher Comments In this debut collection of eight compulsively readable stories, Vestal McIntyre combines honesty and compassion with hilarious dialogue—bringing together the comic milieu of David Sedaris with the spot-on perceptions of Adam Haslett's You Are Not a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal Staff Pick Proving that sometimes it's not the story that matters nearly so much as how you tell it, Rosenthal has organized one of the most entertaining, compulsively readable memoirs in recent memory. Go ahead, I dare you to put it down.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Same Sweet Girls by Cassandra King Publisher Comments The new novel by the celebrated author of The Sunday Wife chronicles the lives of a tight-knit group of lifelong friends. None of the Same Sweet Girls are really girls anymore and none of them have actually ever been that sweet. But this spirited group... (read more) List Price $33.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn by Kris Radish Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Elegant Gathering of White Snows comes a poignant, outrageous, refreshingly liberating story about one woman whose life takes an unexpected turn... Meg Fratano has just witnessed the unthinkable: her husband of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Very Private Gentleman: A Novel by Martin Booth Publisher Comments "Crisp yet lyrical, simple yet intelligent...haunting, shocking, and tense."--Booklist The locals in the Italian village where he lives call him Signor Farfalla--Mr. Butterfly--for he appears to be a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. But as... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sight Hound by Pam Houston Publisher Comments The long-awaited novel — a very special love story — from the best-selling author of Cowboys Are My Weakness. This is the story of a woman, Rae, and her dog, Dante, a wolfhound who teaches "his human" that love is stronger than fear (the... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years by Michael Collins Publisher Comments When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Rock Orchard by Paula Wall Publisher Comments "Some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus. The man who sees sunrise from a Belle woman's bed will swear he's been born again." So begins Paula Wall's funny, poignant, and sexy novel, The Rock Orchard. Musette Belle could lay her hand on a baby... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Civil Wars: The Battle for Gay Marriage by David Moats Publisher Comments In the years since Vermont became the first state to legalize civil unions for gay and lesbian couples, the issue has grown from an item for state legislature agendas to one for national debate. But David Moats tells the intimate story behind the larger... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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As Hot as It Was You Ought to Thank Me by Nanci Kincaid Publisher Comments Thirteen-year-old Berry Jackson has more good sense than all the Bible-thumping grown-ups in her hometown of Pinetta, Florida. In the woods behind Berry's house are the swamp and the snakes and the quicksand, where men are said to have been swallowed up... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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