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The Whole World Over by Julia Glass Publisher Comments From the author of the beloved novel Three Junes comes a rich and commanding story about the accidents, both grand and small, that determine our choices in love and marriage. Greenie Duquette, openhearted yet stubborn, devotes most of her passionate... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig Publisher Comments The saga of how a widow from Minneapolis and her brother--soon to become the new teacher in a tiny Montana community in 1909--change lives in unexpected ways has all the charm of old-school storytelling, from Dickens to Laura Ingalls Wilder.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Haiku Apprentice: Memoirs of Writing Poetry in Japan by Abigail Friedman Publisher Comments The problem came to a head one day as I was driving through Tokyo. While waiting for the light to change, I saw the following public service announcement on the side of a bus:Omoiyari hitonikurumani konomachini (Sympathy / toward people, toward cars... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Widdershins by Charles de Lint Staff Pick To say that Charles de Lint "returns to form" here would suggest that he left his form to begin with. Widdershins is top-notch de Lint, as fine an urban fantasy as he's ever written, and guaranteed to please his many die-hard fans... as well as earn him... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Publisher Comments An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel by Louis Bayard Publisher Comments From the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Timothy comes an ingenious tale of murder and revenge, featuring a retired New York City detective and a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe. At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Let Me Finish by Roger Angell Publisher Comments "Here, at home inside a Jane Austen novel, I passed my college weekends, carving Sunday roasts and getting the station wagon serviced, explaining the double finesse in bridge, lacing up ice skates, sharing by radio the fall of Paris and the night... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters Publisher Comments In this extraordinary book, Alexander Masters has created a moving portrait of a troubled man, an unlikely friendship, and a desperate world few ever see. A gripping who-done-it journey back in time, it begins with Masters meeting a drunken Stuart lying... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery Publisher Comments "Christopher Hogwood came home on my lap in a shoebox. He was a creature who would prove in many ways to be more human than I am." — from The Good Good Pig A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Crows Over the Wheatfield by Adam Braver Publisher Comments Driving home at dusk, Claire Andrews, an art history professor at a prestigious New England university, accidentally strikes and kills a boy who darts into the path of her car. She is immediately cleared of blame but is nonetheless left psychologically... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields Publisher Comments The colorful life of the remarkable woman who created To Kill a Mockingbird—the classic that became a touchstone for generations of Americans To Kill a Mockingbird, the twentieth-centurys most widely read American novel, has sold thirty million... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea — winner of the National Book Award — the startling story of the Plymouth Colony. From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Love in the Present Tense by Catherine Ryan Hyde Publisher Comments “So much of how it was started was when that cop got out and came up to me. But I didn’t know all this when it first happened. I guess you never do. I didn’t know there would ever be a Leonard, or that this man would be his father, or... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The King of Lies by John Hart Publisher Comments From John Hart, the masterful New York Times bestselling and two-time Edgar Award-winning author of The Last Child and Down River, comes this tour de force of murder and the dark ripples it sends through a man, his family and community. Jackson... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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City of Shadows by Ariana Franklin Publisher Comments A cultured city scarred by war. An eastern émigré with scars and secrets of her own. A young woman who claims to be a Russian grand duchess. A brazen killer, as vicious as he is clever. A detective driven by decency and the desire for justice.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel Staff Pick I read The Collected Stories in order, over the course of a single week. My long overdue introduction to Amy Hempel — it was a very good week, indeed. By the time I finished I'd penciled five names onto the back of the last page: friends who'll soon be... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Song of the Crow by Layne Maheu Publisher Comments A narrating crow wonders why a lanky old man would build such an oddly shaped home--this RarkS--so far from the waters. At a time when many are searching for meaning, Maheu's extraordinary debut novel asks readers to ponder the unsettled state of the... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Hardcover 
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