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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Publisher Comments Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Arthur and George: A Novel by Julian Barnes Staff Pick Can I already announce the best book of 2006 in January? If so, here it is! With his customary elegant prose and intricate and wry observational skill, Julian Barnes narrates the true story of the relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and George... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Little History of the World by E H Gombrich Publisher Comments In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan Staff Pick A fresh, stirring look at the Dust Bowl and Depression, Timothy Egan follows the personal dramas of a handful of families, allowing their voices to reveal the environmental and human tragedies that rocked the nation. Grippingly detailed, this exciting... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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The House of Paper by Carlos Maria Dominguez Publisher Comments Bluma Lennon, distinguished professor of Latin American literature at Cambridge, is hit by a car while crossing the street, immersed in a volume of Emily Dickinson's poems. Several months after her untimely demise, a package arrives for her from... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Life All around Me by Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons Staff Pick In 1987, Kaye Gibbons published Ellen Foster, the remarkable story of an orphan who struggles to claim her own identity in a violent and chaotic world. The sequel — The Life All around Me by Ellen Foster — has been worth the wait. In her new novel... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $2.75 Sale - Hardcover
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The People's Act of Love by James Meek Synopsis In the outer reaches of a country recently torn apart by civil war lives a small Christian sect and its enigmatic leader, Balashov. Anna Petrovna, a beautiful, restless photographer, is raising her young son by herself amid this brutal landscape... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig Publisher Comments The author of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation continues the romantic adventures of Englands greatest spy with a newly arrived adversary from France, the murderous Black Tulip The Pink Carnation, historys most elusive spy and Englands only... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex Publisher Comments Isabella dEste, daughter of the Duke of Ferrara, born into privilege and the political and artistic turbulence of Renaissance Italy, is a stunning black-eyed blonde and a precocious lover and collector of art. Worldly and ambitious, she has never envied... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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Blindfold Game by Dana Stabenow Publisher Comments A nail-biting international thriller on the high seas from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow "Action-packed...an ingenious plot." --Denver Post In Thailand, a bomb destroys a tourist spot while two North Korean terrorists casually... (read more) Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car! by Tim Harford Publisher Comments An economist's version of The Way Things Work, this engaging volume is part field guide to economics and part expose of the economic principles lurking behind daily events, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices. The Undercover... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman Staff Pick A fascinating work of history about a cruel response to a misunderstood disease, The Colony vividly recounts the saga of the leprosy colony on Molokai and the community once forcibly interred there. Tayman crafts a gripping, and at times horrifying... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Love Walked in: A Novel by Marisa de Los Santos Publisher Comments A tribute to classic film and true romance, LOVE WALKED IN tells the story of two women one older, one younger and the unexpected ways in which their lives are forever changed by chance. For thirty-one-year old Cornelia Brown, life is a series of... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gentlemen and Players: A Novel by Joanne Harris Publisher Comments Audere, agere, auferre. To dare, to strive, to conquer. For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Life's Little Annoyances: True Tales of People Who Just Can't Take It Anymore by Ian Urbina Publisher Comments "A gold mine of ideas . . . to help us wage personal and quiet vengeance against those who annoy us." --South Florida Sun-Sentinel For some of us, it's the automated voice that answers the phone when we'd rather talk to a real person. For... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The World to Come: A Novel by Dara Horn Publisher Comments A painting by Marc Chagall is stolen from a museum, and the unlikely thief is Benjamin Ziskind, a 30-year-old quiz-show writer. The author interweaves a real art heist, history, biography, theology, and Yiddish literature in a novel that opens the door... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Accidental: A Novel by Ali Smith Staff Pick The Accidental, Ali Smith's dazzling new novel, explores the modern family in all its chaos, darkness, and love, using some of the most inventive prose seen in recent years. Smith's story is bewitching, her characters empathetic, and her craft impeccable.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel by Paul Auster Publisher Comments National Bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Mademoiselle Benoir by Christine Conrad Publisher Comments Inspired by a true story, this is the saga of Tim Reinhart, a former New York teacher, who enters a wondrous new world the moment he buys a farmhouse in the country of France and falls in love with Mademoiselle Benoir, a beautiful, aristocratic woman 20... (read more) Your price: $18.75 New - Hardcover 
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