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Out by Natsuo Kirino Staff Pick I ventured into Out having gone on a detective murder mystery kick — the great Raymond Chandler, the invincible Dorothy L. Sayers... So it was no surprise that I next turned to Japan's queen of crime writing. Out is a can't-stop-reading, classy... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Entombed by Linda A Fairstein Publisher Comments From New York Times bestselling author and famed former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein comes a chilling new Alexandra Cooper novel, Entombed, in which Alex matches wits with the master of detective fiction himself-Edgar Allan Poe... Workers... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Altars of Power and Grace: Create the Life You Desire by Robin Mastro Publisher Comments You Desire, by Robin and Michael Mastro, is the first book by this internationally known scholar/architect/design team. With over 35 years of combined experience in the field of Vastu Shastra, the Indian science of environmental harmony that predates and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 Success Principles: How To Get From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be by Jack Canfield Publisher Comments The Principles Always WorkIf You Work the Principles Get ready to transform yourself for success. Jack Canfield, cocreator of the phenomenal bestsellingChicken Soup for the Soul® series, turns to the principles he's studied, taught, and lived for... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon Publisher Comments In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured up the golden age of comic books — intertwining history, legend, and storytelling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Enslaved by Ducks by Bob Tarte Publisher Comments The book that Entertainment Weekly called "hilarious," Publishers Weekly declared "a true pleasure," Booklist called "heartwarming," and the Dallas Morning News praised as "rich and funny" is now available in paperback. When Bob Tarte bought a house... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments From the author of the prize-winning King Leopold's Ghost comes a taut, thrilling account of the first grass-roots human rights campaign, which freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world. In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Oracle Night by Paul Auster Publisher Comments Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationary shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson Publisher Comments Olivia Hunt's Hollywood life has come to a grinding halt. A hotshot producer accustomed to first-class amenities, Olivia has just been unceremoniously fired after her last movie tanked. Her boyfriend, Michael, has dumped her. And she's not the blonde she... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier Publisher Comments A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Baker Towers: A Novel by Jennifer Haigh Publisher Comments A stunning follow-up to her bestselling debut, Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh returns with Baker Towers, a compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II. Bakerton is a company town built on coal,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Little Book of Snowflakes by Kenneth Libbrecht Publisher Comments "Snowflakes, like people, are all different and beautiful, but they can be a nuisance when they lose their identity in a mob." The Little Book of Snowflakes presents these evanescent formations in their breathtaking individuality, pinpointing their... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Meritocracy: A Love Story by Jeffrey Lewis Publisher Comments Meritocracy is the story of a generation when it was young, caught at the moment when history arrived to exact a tragic and inevitable price. It is the end of the summer of 1966 and a small group of friends, recent Yale graduates, gather in a Maine... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 by Annie Proulx Publisher Comments The stories in Annie Proulx's new collection are peopled by characters who struggle with circumstances beyond their control in a kind of rural noir half-light. Trouble comes at them from unexpected angles, and they will themselves through it, hardheaded... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty Publisher Comments Once in a great while, a story comes along that has everything: plot, setting, and, most important of all, the kind of characters that sweep readers up and take them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride. Well, get ready for Ron McLartys The Memory of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Carry Me Home by Sandra Kring Publisher Comments The love of family. The heartbreak of war. The triumph of coming home. 1940. Rural Wisconsin. Sixteen-year-old Earl “Earwig” Gunderman is not like other boys his age. Fiercely protected by his older brother, Earwig sees his town and the world... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Downtown: My Manhattan by Pete Hamill Publisher Comments A rich historical and personal portrait of Manhattan from the bestselling writer who is for many the living embodiment of the city. Manhattan, the keystone of New York City, is a place of ghosts and buried memory. One can still see remnants of the... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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