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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson Publisher Comments Combining magnificent historical research with a thrilling story, Manhunt describes the hourandndash;byandndash;hour details of the twelve days after Abraham Lincoln's assassination when various factions within the U.S. government andndash; and even some... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Falling through the Earth: A Memoir by Danielle Trussoni Publisher Comments One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year From her charismatic father, Danielle Trussoni learned how to rock and roll, outrun the police, and never shy away from a fight. Spending hour upon hour trailing him around the... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Kill Me (Dr. Alan Gregory Novels) by Stephen White Publisher Comments THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT. New York Times bestselling author Stephen White has written a new breed of thriller. Throw out everything you think you know about twists, turns, and surprises. Get ready for the next big thing. Get ready to meet the Death Angels... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Rock Orchard by Paula Wall Publisher Comments Some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus. The man who sees sunrise from a Belle woman's bed will swear he's been born again. When it came to men, Charlotte Belle strictly ascribed to the law of catch and release. As soon as she could get a man out... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Beautiful Madness: One Man's Journey Through Other People's Gardens by James Dodson Publisher Comments During an amazing year of living botanically, James Dodson went behind the scenes of the world's two most important garden shows (the Philadelphia Flower Show and the Chelsea Garden Show in New York City); spent time with the Botticelli of Bulbs... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Intuition: A Novel by Allegra Goodman Staff Pick Allegra Goodman is well known for her skillful, nuanced, and irreverent prose from such novels as Kaaterskill Falls and Paradise Park. Although the prose is just as strong in Intuition, the story and characters are so engrossing it's hard to slow down... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Labyrinth: A Novel by Kate Mosse Publisher Comments July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth. Eight hundred... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery Staff Pick Not only is paleontologist Flannery's urgent call to arms about global climate change fascinating and terrifying, it is also the most accessible book on the topic around. Flannery writes beautifully, clearly examining every angle of the debate... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel by Sarah Dunant Publisher Comments My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor's army blew a hole in the wall of God's eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Fallen: A Novel by T. Jefferson Parker Publisher Comments My life was ordinary until three years ago when I was thrown out of a downtown hotel window. My name is Robbie Brownlaw, and I am a homicide detective for the city of San Diego. I am twenty-nine years old. I now have synesthesia, a neurological condition... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Prayers for the Assassin: A Novel by Robert Ferrigno Publisher Comments Enormous in scope and vividly imagined, this sensational thriller set in a futuristic Islamic America delivers a powerful page-turning read filled with riveting characters, violence, betrayal, and intrigue.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Halfway House by Katharine Noel Publisher Comments One day, Angie Voorster — diligent student, all-star swimmer, and Ivy League-bound high school senior — dives to the bottom of a pool and stays there. In that moment, everything the Voorster family believes they know about one another changes.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel by Kevin Brockmeier Publisher Comments "Remember me when I'm gone" just took on a whole new meaning. The City is inhabited by the recently departed, who reside there only as long as they remain in the memories of the living. Among the current residents of this afterlife are Luka Sims, who... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult Publisher Comments Jodi Picoult, the New York Times bestselling author of Vanishing Acts, offers her most powerful chronicle yet of an American family with a story that probes the unbreakable bond between parent and child -- and the dangerous repercussions of trying to... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Fugitive Wife by Peter C Brown Publisher Comments Fleeing from a stormy marriage, Essie, a Midwestern farm girl, joins up with prospectors bound for Nome. Feisty and resourceful, Essie soon makes money caring for horses and delivering mail to the miners' beach diggings. Soon, too, Essie is drawn to Nate... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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And She Was by Cindy Dyson Publisher Comments There are places that can remake you -- slippery, gray places. Places that hold their secrets in the fog and whisper them on the wind. And when Brandy, a floundering, trashy, Latin-spewing cocktail waitress, finds herself drifting across the line between... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir (P.S.) by Josh Kilmer-purcell Publisher Comments I Am Not Myself These Days follows a glittering journey through Manhattan's dark underbelly a shocking and surreal world where alter egos reign and subsist (barely) on dark wit and chemicals...a tragic romantic comedy where one begins by rooting... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Plum Wine (Wi Library Amer Fiction) by Angela Davis-gardner Publisher Comments In Davis-Gardner's Plum Wine, love and secrets unfold amidst rice-paper scrolls, raku bowls, and the tenacious legacy of war in 1960s Japan.... (read more) List Price $24.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The House of Scorta by Laurent Gaude Publisher Comments Spanning five generations in a small village in Southern Italy, Gaud's novel is laced with infamous crimes, forsaken loves and lifelong secrets. The epic saga opens in 1870; while their lineage seems doomed to struggle, the Scortas are blessed with an... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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