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The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show: by Ariel Gore Publisher Comments Orphaned at age four and raised by her black-clad, rosary-mumbling, preoccupied grandmother, Frankka discovered the ability to perform the stigmata as a way to attract her grandmother's attention. Now twenty-eight, Frankka's still using this... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Girls by Lori Lansens Publisher Comments One of the world's oldest living craniopagus conjoined twins at the approach of her thirtieth birthday, bookish Rose Darlen attempts to pen her autobiography while remembering the joys and challenges of her life with sister Ruby, with whom she shares... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Once upon a Day: A Novel by Lisa Tucker Publisher Comments From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of "Shout Down the Moon" and "The Song Readers" comes a wise, humorous, and deeply compassionate story about the risks and rewards of loving when a single day can change one's life.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Suite Francaise: A Novel by Irene Nemirovsky Publisher Comments The first English publication of Suite Française will be a major event. Suite Française is an extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation – recently discovered and published 64 years after the author’s death in Auschwitz. In... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger Publisher Comments A fatal collision of three lives in the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood. In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly fits the pattern of the Boston... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.25 Used - Hardcover
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Savannah Breeze by Mary Kay Andrews Publisher Comments Southern belle BeBe Loudermilk has lost all her worldly possessions, thanks to a brief but disastrous relationship with the gorgeous Reddy, an "investment counselor" who turns out to be a con man. All that's left is a ramshackle 1950s motel on Tybee... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam by Mark Bowden Publisher Comments Five years in the works, from the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down, comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students stormed... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living: A Novel by Carrie Tiffany Publisher Comments In this sensual, witty, and startlingly original first novel, Jean Finnegan searches for her place in a tumultuous world wracked by the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II. Carrie Tiffany captures the frailty and beauty of the human... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler Publisher Comments A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrendered children for adoption in the several decades before Roe v. Wade. In this deeply moving work, Ann Fessler brings to light the lives of hundreds of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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Gatsby's Girl by Caroline Preston Publisher Comments Just as Jay Gatsby was haunted by Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fizgerald was haunted by his own great first love — a Chicago socialite named Ginevra. Alluring, capricious, and ultimately unavailable, she would become his first muse... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish by G Bruce Knecht Publisher Comments This modern pirate yarn has all the makings of a great true adventure tale and is also an exploration of the ways our culinary tastes have all manner of unintended consequences for the world around us. Hooked is a story about the poaching of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Malinche: A Novel by Laura Esquivel Publisher Comments When Malinalli, a member of the tribe conquered by the Aztec warriors, first meets Cortes, she — like many — believes that he is the reincarnated forefather god of her tribe. Naturally, she assumes that her task is to help Cortes destroy the... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Stolen Child: A Novel by Keith Donohue Publisher Comments THE STOLEN CHILD is the story of Henry Day, a seven-year-old kidnapped by a strange group living in the dark forest near his home. He is stolen by changelings—ageless beings whose secret community is threatened by encroaching modern life. They give... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice Publisher Comments Eva Rice, daughter of the famed lyricist Tim Rice, has written a captivating and wonderfully stylized novel about a group of friends in postwar Londons glamorous and daring young society. With mannered prose dripping in the charm of 1950s London... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Two for the Road: Our Love Affair with American Food by Jane Stern Publisher Comments Road trip! In this rollicking memoir, Jane and Michael Stern tell what it's like to eat everywhere across the U.S.A. Driving more than three million miles, eating twelve meals a day, they discover not only the pleasure of biscuits and gravy and cherry... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bed Rest by Sarah Bilston Publisher Comments In this humorous debut novel, readers are introduced to Quinn, a smart, ambitious New York City lawyer, juggling her successful career and impending motherhood like a pro until she's confined to bed rest.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Beautiful Lies: A Novel by Lisa Unger Publisher Comments If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan by Hillary Carlip Publisher Comments A hilariously offbeat memoir about an adventurous young woman's escapades as she defies conventions and transforms an ordinary Los Angeles life into a star-studded, extraordinary miracle of self-discovery. Queen of the Oddballs forms a chronology of... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Season of Fire & Ice by Lloyd Zimpel Publisher Comments From the heartlands of the 1880s Upper Midwest comes a morality tale of survival and destiny.... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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