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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell Staff Pick Finally, someone willing to admit just how dirty a kitchen can get! Powell's story is at once a comic tale of struggling to find one's balance in the adult world, and a witty exploration of why — and how — we cook. Gastronomes, as well as those more... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems by David Rakoff Staff Pick "Don't Get Too Comfortable is a gratifying reading experience for the misanthrope in all of us. Rakoff has a style and wit that is appropriately cruel towards its deserving targets. If you actually enjoy foie gras, performance art, or stalking... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester Staff Pick "If you liked Krakatoa, The Professor and the Madman, or any of Winchester's other works, you'll like this one. He explains geological ideas well, and is well on his way to being the new ambassador of geology's influence on human history. He places... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Anansi Boys: A Novel by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime. Anansi Boys God is dead. Meet the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach Staff Pick In her remarkable debut, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach explored what happens to the body after death, and in the process brought the corpse to glittering life. In her follow up, she stakes out similar terrain. What happens to the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Mercy of Thin Air: A Novel by Ronlyn Domingue Publisher Comments In 1920s New Orleans, Raziela Nolan's magnificent love affair is interrupted by her untimely and tragic death. Immediately after, she chooses to stay between — a realm that exists after life and before whatever lies beyond it. From this remarkable... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa by Karin Muller Publisher Comments Looking to gain a competitive edge in her judo practice and a fresh perspective on her life, a documentary filmmaker commits to living in Japan for a year. She discovers in sometimes awkward, sometimes awesomely funny interactions just how maddeningly... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres Publisher Comments This riveting memoir is the story of a 16-year-old girl and her adopted, black, 16-year-old brother in Indiana who are sent to a reform school in the Dominican Republic by their violent father and distant mother more involved with her church's... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas Publisher Comments Freshwater Road is the story of one young woman?s journey into adulthood via the political and social upheavals of the civil rights movement. A young black collegian, Celeste Tyree, leaves Ann Arbor to go to Pineyville, Mississippi, in the summer of 1964... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $22.25 New - Hardcover
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The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde Publisher Comments It's Easter in Reading — a bad time for eggs — and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict, and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Stranger House by Reginald Hill Publisher Comments In The Stranger House, Reginald Hill takes a break from his Dalziel and Pascoe series, and delivers a stunning stand-alone novel full of suspense, romance, history, and an exploration of the sometimes twisted side of the human psyche. The tiny village of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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X Out of Wonderland: A Saga by David Allan Cates Publisher Comments X Out of Wonderland is a farce, modeled after Candide, that takes on the Global Free Market and just about every other aspect of contemporary life. Outrageous and poignant by turns, X is a satire with heart, and an intense and funny reading experience.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt Staff Pick Once again John Berendt proves he is a powerful magnet for eccentrics. With clever proficiency, Berendt depicts for readers a host of quirky characters, providing an exclusive glimpse into the Venice you won't see as a tourist. Gossipy yet wholly... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Grace That Keeps This World by Tom Bailey Publisher Comments On the edge of the Adirondack wilderness, survival is a way of life for the Hazen family. Gary Hazen is a respected forester and hunter, known for his good instincts and meticulous planning. He and his wife, Susan, have raised their sons to appreciate... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Maybe a Miracle by Brian Strause Publisher Comments In this disarming debut, Brian Strause has written a vastly entertaining novel about an American family transfixed by a series of mysterious events. From a comfortable suburb of Columbus, Ohio, emerges a story of rebellion, faith and hope, bridging the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The March: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow Publisher Comments In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Town That Forgot How to Breathe by Kenneth J Harvey List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Wolf Point by Edward Falco Publisher Comments A taut, dramatic literary thriller that examines betrayal, trust and forgiveness.<br><br><br><br>Tom "T" Walker, a 57-year-old businessman, knows better than to pick up a beautiful young woman hitchhiking with her dangerous... (read more) Your price: $22.25 New - Hardcover 
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The Point of Fracture by Frank Turner Hollon Publisher Comments After nearly fifteen years in a childless marriage, Michael Brace and his beautiful wife, Suzanne, live separate lives in the same house. Suzanne has crippling headaches, and she's haunted by childhood memories of her father, visions of violence. Michael... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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