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The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J R Moehringer Publisher Comments The bestselling memoir that captured the hearts of readers and critics nationwide is now available in paperback In the tradition of This Boy's Life and The Liar's Club, J.R. Moehringer's The Tender Bar is a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron Publisher Comments The perfect holiday gift: a pair of hilarious books from the “wickedly witty and astute” Nora Ephron, a “crackling smart cultural scribe” (The Boston Globe) whose insights and observations have made her a heroine to women all over... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany Publisher Comments This controversial bestselling novel in the Arab world reveals the political corruption, sexual repression, religious extremism, and modern hopes of Egypt today. All manner of flawed and fragile humanity reside in the Yacoubian Building, a once... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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special topics in calamity physics by Marisha Pessl Staff Pick What begins as an innocent (if quirky) adolescent tale swiftly transforms into an absorbing high school whodunit. If I had to compare it to a few recent films, it manages to come across both as gritty as Brick and as refreshing as Juno, but with a... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories by Ben Fountain Publisher Comments The well-intentioned protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught — to both disastrous and hilarious effect — in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. In Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! by Mark Binelli Publisher Comments The Nic Sacco and Bart Vanzetti of Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! are not exactly the infamous anarchists controversially sentenced to death by the United States government. Instead, in this hilarious first novel, they are silent film stars, slapstick... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr Publisher Comments After returning from the Civil War, Cass Wakefield means to live out the rest of his days in his hometown in Mississippi. But when a childhood friend asks him to accompany her to Franklin, Tennessee, to recover the bodies of her father and brother from... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: A Novel by Gordon Dahlquist Publisher Comments With translation rights sold in twenty-five countries, Gordon Dahlquists spectacular and extraordinary debut novel was one of the most-talked-about acquisitions of 2005. Now this monumental Victorian thriller is destined to be the publishing sensation of... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Assassins Gallery by David L Robbins Publisher Comments As relentless and gripping as "The Day of the Jackal," this richly authentic thriller offers the tale of a hired killer stalking FDR in the waning days of World War II. An asonishingly original story that challenges the very course of history.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Talk Talk by T. C. Boyle Publisher Comments From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women, a historical novel about three women’s lives on a California island On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Prisoner of Guantanamo by Dan Fesperman Publisher Comments Dan Fesperman's award-winning novels have transported readers to the heart of some of the world's most volatile places: Yugoslavia during the Balkan Wars in Lie in the Dark and The Small Boat of Great Sorrows ("A new standard for war-based thrillers"... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Resurrection by Tucker Malarkey Publisher Comments Set in Cairo during the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, Tucker Malarkey's Resurrection draws on the actual events surrounding the findings of the lost gospels at Nag Hammadi, Egypt. Suppressed by the Church Fathers, who elected to include only four... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Second Burial for a Black Prince by Andrew Nugent Publisher Comments Sergeant Molly Power is on duty when the call comes in. A young African man has been attacked and left for dead in the countryside. His leg was amputated, but he managed to get to the house of a farmer, although he'll die in the hospital later that night... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $2.98 Used - Hardcover
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Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead by Alan DeNiro Publisher Comments These stories skitter sideways across literary and genre fiction categories, using the toolbox of genres like science fiction and fantasy to grapple with issues of identity, family, gender, and politics. DeNiro is frequently funny, surreal, or slapstick,... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Microthrills: True Stories from a Life of Small Highs by Wendy Spero Publisher Comments Raised in Manhattan by her tiny sex-therapist mother and her two eccentric grandparents, Wendy Spero has always sought excitement in "microthrills," the small, strange highs that give her life meaning. Her story begins in the one-bedroom, Upper East Side... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.25 Sale - Hardcover
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My Half of the Sky by Jana Mcburney Lin Publisher Comments Jana McBurney-Lin's debut novel My Half of the Sky introduces Li Hui, a modern young Chinese woman of marriageable age who has recently graduated from Xiamen University. Her goal is to realize Mao's words: Women hold up half of the sky. Li Hui struggles... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Three Days to Never by Tim Powers Publisher Comments When Albert Einstein told Franklin Roosevelt in 1939 that the atomic bomb was possible, he did not tell the president about another discovery he had made, something so extreme and horrific it remained a secret...until now. This extraordinary new novel... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Happy Hour at Casa Dracula by Marta Acosta Publisher Comments Acosta delivers a hilarious and sexy paranormal novel about a Latina young woman who finds love and acceptance among a family of sophisticated vampires.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips Publisher Comments James Tiptree, Jr., burst onto the science fiction scene in the late 1960s with a series of hard-edged, provocative stories. He redefined the genre with such classics as Houston, Houston, Do You Read? and The Women Men Don't See. For nearly ten years he... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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