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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments “Nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly), The Glass Castle is the bestselling, critically acclaimed, highly publicized, and celebrated memoir by Jeannette Walls.Millions of readers have been transformed by Jeannette Walls’s... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore Publisher Comments Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean Publisher Comments One of the most talked about books of the year... Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. And while the elderly Russian woman cannot hold on to fresh memories — the details of her grown children's lives, the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife by Caitlin Flanagan Staff Pick Caitlin Flanagan is stirring the pot once again with her provocative take on modern motherhood. Drawn from articles written for the New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly, Flanagan's musings range from the irony of a white wedding to the odd rise in sexless... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Lightning Keeper by Starling Lawrence Publisher Comments The Lightning Keeper is a sweeping epic novel of ambition, love, and enterprise in America. It is the story of an unlikely Romeo and Juliet romance at the dawn of the electric age, with the nation balancing on the brink of world war and a scientific... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Bright Forever by Lee Martin Publisher Comments One evening, Katie Mackey sets out on her bicycle to return some library books. This simple act is at the heart of a suspenseful novel that mixes fact, speculation, and the human need to know even the hardest truth.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Saving the World: A Novel by Julia Alvarez Publisher Comments Julia Alvarez's resplendent new novel takes us into the worlds of two women swept up in campaigns against the scourges of their day. Alma Huebner, a Latin American novelist transplanted to the United States, is writing another of her bestselling family... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel by Colson Whitehead Staff Pick Fans of the extended junketeering riffs in John Henry Days, rejoice: Colson Whitehead is back with a short, satirical novel about a city — and a man — looking for a fresh start. Gone are the extended digressions and extravagant stylistic shifts of... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe by Sam Walker Publisher Comments A Wall Street Journal writer spends a season in a fantasy baseball league to explore the inner workings and contagious passions of one of the country's most popular pursuits. Every spring, millions of Americans prepare to take part in one of the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life by Mameve Medwed Publisher Comments What do a chamber pot, a famous poet, a family feud, and a long-ago suitor all have in common? In this delicious laugh-out-loud new novel of love and loss, rivalry and reconciliation, treasure and trash, by acclaimed author Mameve Medwed (Mail, The End... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Secret Supper: A Novel by Javier Sierra Publisher Comments The most-talked-about international bestseller of the year! Tightly paced and atmospheric, The Secret Supper is a dazzling historical thriller with a unique vision of both Leonardo da Vinci's genius and his masterpiece — which you will never... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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L'America by Martha McPhee Publisher Comments In the brilliant Greek sunshine of a small Aegean island, Beth and Cesare meet-and thus begins a transformative love affair that spans two continents, two decades, and two lifetimes. Cesare is a cosseted Italian boy, raised in a prosperous town where his... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $2.98 Used - Hardcover
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Murder in Montmartre by Cara Black Publisher Comments In this sixth novel featuring Paris P.I. Aime Luduc, Aime must prove the innocence of her childhood friend Laure, a policewoman charged with shooting her partner to death during a meeting with an informer in Montmartre.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb Publisher Comments Lilly, the main character of Camilla Gibb's stunning new novel, has anything but a stable childhood. The daughter of English/Irish hippies, she was born in Yugoslavia, breast-fed in the Ukraine, weaned in Corsica, freed from nappies in Sicily and walking... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Year in Japan by Kate Williamson Publisher Comments The Land of the Rising Sun is shining brightly across the American cultural landscape. Recent films such as Lost in Translation and Memoirs of a Geisha seem to have made everyone an expert on Japan, even if they¿ve never been there. But the only way for... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Secret Girl by Molly Bruce Jacobs Publisher Comments For decades, a well-to-do Baltimore family guarded a secret they felt too ashamed to reveal, much less speak of among themselves. For one daughter, that secret would haunt her for years but ultimately compel her to take surprising risks and reap... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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In a Paris Moment by Meredith Mullins Publisher Comments Travel to the City of Light with this stunning collection of photographs and beautifully written vignettes--illuminating the heart of Paris. With this elegant book in hand, readers will enjoy an intimate look at the beauty, humor, rhythms, and spirited... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper 
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