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A Complicated Kindness: A Novel by Miriam Toews Staff Pick Sharp and often howlingly funny — but insistently generous — A Complicated Kindness introduces sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel, straining under the pressure of family, boys, and authority, common enough conflicts drawn here in extravagant, heartrending... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J. R. Moehringer Publisher Comments A moving, vividly told memoir full of heart, drama, and exquisite comic timing, about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar J.R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: It was the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Highest Tide: A Novel by Jim Lynch Staff Pick "Jim Lynch's fictional debut explores what's so remarkable about the squid and its unusual ocean brethren, as well as what it's like growing up by the edge of sea. The Highest Tide has much to recommend it, including the narrator himself....[A] classic... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks Publisher Comments In 1894 Carrie McGavock is an old woman who has only her former slave to keep her company...and the almost 1,500 soldiers buried in her backyard. Years before, rather than let someone plow over the field where these young men had been buried, Carrie dug... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Faithless by Karin Slaughter Publisher Comments The victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods — then killed in a horrifying fashion. When Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver stumble upon the body, both become consumed with finding out who killed the pretty, impeccably dressed young woman. And for... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart Publisher Comments When Cameron was fifteen, Sonia was her best friend — no one could come between them. Now Cameron is a twenty-nine-year-old research assistant with no meaningful ties to anyone except her aging boss, noted historian Oliver Doucet. When an... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Pardonable Lies: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries) by Jacqueline Winspear Publisher Comments A new Maisie Dobbs novel from award-winning author Jacqueline Winspear In the third novel of this unique and masterly crime series, a deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton, KC, to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Immoral by Brian Freeman Publisher Comments In a riveting debut thriller that has drawn comparisons to masters of the genre like Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly, Brian Freeman weaves obsession, sex, and revenge into a story that grips the reader with vivid characters and shocking plot twists... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hunger's Brides: A Novel of the Baroque by Paul Anderson Publisher Comments Apocalyptic, lyrical, and erotically charged, Hunger's Brides is an epic novel of genius, obsession, and mystery surrounding the Baroque-era Mexican nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, who at the time of her death in 1695 was arguably the greatest writer... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston Publisher Comments A moon rock missing for thirty years... Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon... A scientist with ambition enough to kill... A monk who will redeem the world... A dark agency with a deadly mission... The... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas by Diane Wilson Publisher Comments The gripping true story of one woman's fight to save her town and her way of life from deadly industrial chemicals. Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, proves that one "ordinary" woman can force a giant chemical... (read more) List Price $25.25 Your price: $5.00 Used - Hardcover
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If You Want Me to Stay by Michael Parker Publisher Comments On a journey from their small North Carolina town to find their mother, John Dunn, Jr. and his little brother, Tank, are caught between the endless idealism of childhood and the sobering tests of adulthood, and negotiate their way through a landscape of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Sudden Country: A Novel by Karen Fisher Publisher Comments A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption. James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from “our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism”—The New York Times Book Review Americans working lives are growing more precarious every day... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Art of Uncontrolled Flight by Kim Ponders Publisher Comments A stunning literary debut about a woman – an airforce pilot – torn between duty and desire. The long shadow of a charismatic father leads Annie Shaw to decide, as far back as she can remember, to follow in his footsteps and become an air... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts. After all, the family descends from an Indian... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant Publisher Comments A magnificent storyteller with vast imaginative range, Anita Diamant gave voice to the silent women of the Old Testament in The Red Tent. Now, in her third novel, she brings to vivid life an early New England world that history has forgotten. Set on Cape... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Gardenias by Faith Sullivan Publisher Comments This novel revisits the author's most beloved characters from "The Cape Ann," taking them from their hometown to new lives, new dreams, and new risks in San Diego.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Little Star of Bela Lua by Luana Monteiro Publisher Comments A luminous fish appears in an impoverished village like a sign from God and proceeds to perform questionable miracles on its foolish, desperate citizens. A guitar-strumming rhymester triumphs over her male opponents in the competitive folk art of the... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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