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On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt Staff Pick Lying is a craft, but bullshitting is an art. "Hence the familiar notion of the 'bullshit artist,'" moral philosopher Harry Frankfurt reminds us in this fun, erudite treatise. On Bullshit surely ranks as one of the best gift books to come along in quite... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover 
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People I Wanted to Be: Stories by Gina Ochsner Publisher Comments Gina Ochsner's award-winning, highly acclaimed stories have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. In her eagerly anticipated new collection, Ochsner deftly examines the harrowing moments after a life... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Third Secret: A Novel of Suspense by Steve Berry Publisher Comments Explosive in both its pace and its revelations, The Third Secret is a remarkable international thriller. Bestselling author Steve Berry tackles some of the most controversial ideas of our time in a breakneck journey through the history of the Church and... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Staff Pick "What makes this book fascinating is the way that Levitt uses advanced economic techniques — the kind that would knock me unconscious quicker than chloroform if I had to read them in a textbook — and applies them to seemingly unexplainable phenomena... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Zorro: A Novel by Isabel Allende Staff Pick When was it decided that literary writers shouldn't write about adventure? Once upon a time authors like Stevenson and Dumas were associated with swashbucklers, now classics, Treasure Island and The Three Musketeers; today they'd be laughed right out of... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cover the Butter by Carrie Kabak Publisher Comments Get ready to cheer for Kate Cadogan, a forty-something woman who has spent her life trying to please her husband, her son, her mother and her father without a moments thought to her own needs. Until one day when a series of events causes her to slip... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Company Man by Joseph Finder Publisher Comments Nick Conover, the son of a factory worker, is the CEO of a major corporation in a company town. Nick, once the most admired man in Fenwick, Michigan, is now, having presided over massive layoffs, the most despised. A single parent since the recent death... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life by Steve Leveen Publisher Comments Do not set out to live a well-read life but rather your well-read life. No one can be well-read using someone else's reading list. Unless a book is good for you, you won't connect with it and gain from it. Just as no one can tell you how to lead your... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Benson Deng Synopsis A stunning literary memoir from three of Sudan's Lost Boys recounts a harrowing, horrific journey across an unforgiving landscape and mourns the culture that they left behind.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke Publisher Comments An urban antidote to A Year in Provence, Stephen Clarke's book is a laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of an expat in Paris-for Francophiles and Francophobes alike. A Year in the Merde is the almost-true account of the author's adventures as an... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hunting Unicorns by Bella Pollen Publisher Comments This stylish, screamingly funny, razor-sharp look at the British aristocracy in decline introduces the Bevans. Adrift in a rapidly changing world, the Bevans cling to tradition while wrestling with taxes, tree blight, and the need to keep the family... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dark Harbor by David Hosp Publisher Comments Scott Finn, rising star at a Boston law firm, has worked hard to pull himself out of the Charleston projects. When the body of his co-worker and old flame, Natalie Caldwell, floats to the surface of Boston Harbor, Finn is grief stricken. But almost... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska by Heather Lende Publisher Comments Tiny Haines, Alaska, is ninety miles north of Juneau, accessible mainly by water or air— and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace, and funerals are community affairs... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases by Jeff Vandermeer Publisher Comments “Imagine if Monty Python wrote the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and you sort of get the idea. Afraid youre afflicted with an unknown malady? Finally you have a place to turn!” Book Sense You hold in your hands the most complete and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Historian: A Novel by Elizabeth Kostova Publisher Comments - A brilliant literary novel as well as a breathtaking page-turner, THE HISTORIAN has already created an international frenzy. Set for publication in over 15 languages, this gripping tale is about to take the world by storm.- The most abundantly... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Bright Forever by Lee Martin Publisher Comments On an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books. This simple act is at the heart of The Bright Forever, a... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories by Edward Falco Publisher Comments The contemporary counterpart to Flannery O'Connor's classic A Good Man is Hard to Find, by an award-winning writer.... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Night Garden by Pamela Holm Publisher Comments A story of love, lust, and pest control set against the changing seasons of San Francisco. When Dawn leaves her boyfriend of five years — charismatic, larger-than-life David — she leaves behind their cozy, artsy home, their rose garden, and... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Practice of Deceit by Elizabeth Benedict Publisher Comments When Eric Lavender meets the attorney Colleen O'Brien Golden, his position as one of Manhattan's chic psychotherapists and most eligible bachelors suddenly loses its appeal. The sexy, stylish Colleen lures him to live with her and her young daughter in... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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