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Before the Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery by Henning Mankell Publisher Comments Linda Wallander is bored. Just graduated from the police academy, she is waiting to start work at the Ystad police station and move into her own apartment. Meantime, she is living with her father and, like fathers and daughters everywhere, they are... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.50 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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Speak Softly, She Can Hear: A Novel by Pam Lewis Publisher Comments New York City, 1965: At Spence, the exclusive Manhattan girls' school, shy, overweight scholarship student Carole finds herself drawn into an unlikely friendship with charismatic, pedigreed Naomi. On a dare, Carole and Naomi make a pact to lose their... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Little Children by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms of the playground; Sarah, a lapsed feminist with a bisexual past, who seems to have... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Playing with Fire by Peter Robinson Publisher Comments Fire — it consumes futures and pasts in a terrified heartbeat, devouring damning secrets while leaving even greater mysteries in the ashes. The night sky is ablaze as flames engulf two barges moored side by side on an otherwise empty canal. On... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Bleachy Haired Honky Bitch by Hollis Gillespie Publisher Comments < P> Drawing on her peripatetic childhood as the daughter of a travelling salesman, and her adult residence in one of Atlanta's seedier crack neighbourhoods, columnist and NPR commentator Hollis Gillespie has assembled a comic, poignant memoir... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nam-A-Rama by Phillip Jennings Publisher Comments Everybody knows War is Hell. Only the Few and the Proud know what fun Hell can be. Here it is, folks: "How the cow ate the cabbage" in the CLASSIFIED words of the President hisself [sic]. TOP SECRET stuff. EYES ONLY. If you want to know the real story... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Luncheonette: A Memoir by Steven Sorrentino Publisher Comments Steven Sorrentino had moved from West Long Branch, New Jersey, to New York City, with dreams of finding love and Broadway stardom. Venturing out of the closet and feeling free (at last!) from small-town America, Steven found his niche among the quirky... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Most Wanted: A Novel of Suspense by Michele Martinez Publisher Comments Melanie Vargas is a hardworking, hotshot federal prosecutor in New York City with a rising career in the law and a marriage that's on the rocks. Having caught her husband cheating, she's struggling to work things out, if only for her baby daughter's sake.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Fires in the Dark by Louise Doughty Publisher Comments Fires In the Dark reveals the highly secretive and misunderstood world of the coppersmith gypsies. In 1927, when prosperity still reigns in Central Europe, Yenko is born to two Coppersmith Gypsies. His parents, Josef and Anna, are nomads who raise their... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lone Star Rising: The Texas Rangers Trilogy (Texas Rangers Trilogy) by Elmer Kelton Publisher Comments Western fiction legend Elmer Kelton brings together the first three books of his acclaimed Texas Ranger saga in this omnibus volume. Includes "The Buckskin Line, Badger Boy," and "The Way of the Coyote."... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Keeners by Maura Shaw Publisher Comments The rough beauty of County Clare is seventeen-year-old Margaret Meehans whole world, and it is nearly perfect. Her family is well and thriving, farming Irelands staple crop. She expects to marry handsome Tom Riordan, raise their children, and live in a... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Season of the Snake by Claire Davis Publisher Comments One of the Best Books for Reading Groups, Kirkus Reviews Years after the tragic death of her first husband, Nance Able remarries and begins a new life in the West with Ned, a school principal whose quiet charm lulls her to contentment. A scientist... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Year of the Hyenas: A Novel of Murder in Ancient Egypt by Brad Geagley Publisher Comments Year of the Hyenas is a brilliant, original, and unique murder mystery, set in ancient Egypt at the height of that kingdom's glory and power. It is at once a strikingly insightful portrait of a mysterious, complex, and sophisticated society, reminiscent... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend by Mitchell Zuckoff Publisher Comments In 1920, Charles Ponzi raked in millions of dollars by promising people he would double their investments in three months. Only later did anyone realize he was paying old investors with money from new ones, a trick known as robbing Peter to pay Paul... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith Moore Publisher Comments A nonfiction She's Come Undone, Fat Girl is a powerfully honest and compulsively readable memoir of obsession with food, and with one's body, penned by a Guggenheim and NEA award-winning writer. For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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The Face of a Naked Lady: An Omaha Family Mystery by Michael Rips Publisher Comments Nic Rips's son had always known him as a conservative midwesterner, dedicated, affable, bland to the point of invisibility. Upon his father's death, however, Michael Rips returned to his Omaha family home to discover a hidden portfolio of paintings —... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Magdalen Martyrs: A Novel by Ken Bruen Publisher Comments Jack Taylor is walking the delicate edge of a sobriety he doesn't trust when his phone rings. He's in debt to a Galway tough named Bill Cassell, what the locals call a "hard man." Bill did Jack a big favor a while back; the trouble is, he never lets a... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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