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Carved in Bone (Body Farm Novels) by Jefferson Bass Publisher Comments On the campus of the University of Tennessee lies a patch of ground unlike any in the world. The "Body Farm" is a place where human corpses are left to the elements, and every manner of decay is fully explored -- for the sake of science and the cause of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Frangipani by Celestine Hitiura Vaite Publisher Comments An international literary sensation. First published in Australia, Frangipani has already been licensed in Canada, Holland, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US. The debut of an entrancing new storyteller, Vaite seasons her tale with charming bits of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook Publisher Comments A brilliantly imagined, lavish, and transporting novel of a young woman's search for the truth about her family's mythic past Meg Mabry has spent her life with her back turned to her legendary family legacy. In the 1890s her great-grandmother Hannah Bass... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Strong West Wind by Gail Caldwell Publisher Comments In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Love and Other Impossible Pursuits: A Novel by Ayelet Waldman Publisher Comments With wry candor and tender humor, acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman has crafted a strikingly beautiful novel for our time, tackling the absurdities of modern life and reminding us why we love some people no matter what. For Emilia Greenleaf, life is... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Family Daughter: A Novel by Maile Meloy Publisher Comments From the award-winning author of Half in Love and Liars and Saints, a riveting story of love, sex, secrets, guilt, and forgiveness. Maile Meloy's debut novel, Liars and Saints, captured the hearts of readers and critics alike. Now Meloy returns with... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer Publisher Comments Why do males and females frequently differ so markedly in body size and morphology? Sex, Size, and Gender Roles is the first book to investigate the genetic, developmental, and physiological basis of sexual size dimorphism found within and among the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of "Traveling Light" ponders how well one can know his neighbor in this novel of secrets, family, hope, and survival set in the suburban Midwest.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Holmes on the Range: A Mystery by Steve Hockensmith Publisher Comments "Dazzling. Sherlock Holmes in a Stetson turns out to be a dandy idea." --Boston Globe 1893 is a tough year in Montana, and any job is a good job. When brothers Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer sign on as ranch hands at a secretive ranch, they're... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh Publisher Comments Set in Viking Greenland in AD 985, this dramatic historical novel focuses on the intertwined lives of three women straddling the pagan past and Christian future A vividly imagined chronicle of love, hatred, and revenge at a time when the Vikings were... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Ghost Orchid by Carol Goodman Publisher Comments In her enthralling novels of literary suspense, Carol Goodman writes stories that resonate with emotion set in lush landscapes that entice the senses. Now, with The Ghost Orchid, a narrative that seamlessly weaves together the past and the present... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rattled by Debra Galant Publisher Comments Set in the fictional subdivision of Galapagoes Estates,” Rattled is a very funny look at what happens when soccer moms, animal rights activists, dishonest real estate developers and, of course, rattlesnakes get together and fight for... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Strivers Row by Kevin Baker Publisher Comments Summer, 1943. Harlem is a never-ending carnival. Soldiers and sailors, hustlers and glamour girls fill its streets, looking for excitement. Every night, dance halls like the Savoy Ballroom are filled with frenzied jitterbuggers, and the best jazz... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel Publisher Comments The # 1 New York Times bestseller A Girl Named Zippy was a rare and welcome treat: a memoir of a happy childhood. Spunky, strong-willed, and too smart for her own good, Zippy Jarvis brought readers delight and joy. In She Got Up Off the Couch, Haven... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be: A Rock & Roll Fairy Tale by Jen Trynin Publisher Comments PRAISE FOR EVERYTHING I'M CRACKED UP TO BE "With humor and heart, Jen Trynin's Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be perfectly captures the utter surreality of the here-today-gone-tomorrow swirling vortex that is The Music Business, while also revealing the... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Skinner's Drift by Lisa Fugard Publisher Comments Ten years after leaving South Africa, the country of her birth and the place where her mother died, Eva van Rensburg returns to her dying father, a violent man whose terrible secret Eva has kept since she was a child. In this beautiful first novel... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway Publisher Comments In her astonishing literary debut, Greenway tells a tale of sacrifice and solidarity between two American sisters who tumble into their teenage years in 1967 Hong Kong, against an extraordinary backdrop that is both sensuous and dangerous.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pursuit (Inspector Espinosa Mysteries) by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-roza Publisher Comments When his daughter disappears and a patient emerges as the prime suspect, a troubled psychiatrist comes to Espinosa for help, in the fifth novel in the beguiling Brazilian crime series A hospital psychiatrist feels hes being... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Whale Season by N M Kelby Publisher Comments One Christmas Eve, Whale Harbor is visited by a man who thinks he’s Jesus and claims to be looking for a game of poker. But, as usual, things are not quite what they seem. Having some version of the Lord in town for his birthday creates a strange... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Hardcover
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