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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson Staff Pick Bill Bryson has tackled the Appalachian Trail, troublesome words, Captain James Cook, and repatriation. After the entertaining (and just slightly ambitious) Short History of Nearly Everything, he turns the spotlight back on himself. "This is a book about... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure-garbage removal... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses by Stacy Mitchell Publisher Comments Large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America and are rapidly transforming our economy, communities, and landscape. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Sharing Knife: Beguilement, Volume 1 by Lois McMaster Bujold Staff Pick Fawn and Dag are an unlikely pair but the chemistry between them is unmistakable! With The Sharing Knife Lois McMaster Bujold starts us on a new series — same great writing and boundless imagination but with a good dose of romance thrown in. I raced... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand Publisher Comments Widely praised and widely read, Elizabeth Hand is regarded as one of America's leading literary fantasists. This new collection (an expansion of the limited-release Bibliomancy, which won the World Fantasy Award in 2005) showcases a wildly inventive... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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An Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the World of Books by Wendy Werris Publisher Comments Traces the author's thirty-six-year journey of self-discovery and literary enlightenment, a time marked by her temporary job at a 1970s Hollywood bookstore; an array of colleagues, lovers, and prestigious authors; and her relationship with her Jackie... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The World to Come by Dara Horn Publisher Comments A million-dollar painting by Marc Chagall is stolen from a museum. The unlikely thief is Benjamin Ziskind, a thirty-year-old quiz-show writer. As Benjamin and his twin sister try to evade the police, they find themselves recalling their dead parents--the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry Publisher Comments The author of Population: 485 returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and...gardening tips? Think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, complete with stock cars, sexy vegetables, and a laugh track. "All I wanted to do was fix my old... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rain Village by Carolyn Turgeon Publisher Comments Young Tessa is a diminutive girl, far too small for farm work, and the object of ridicule by both her own family and the other children in their isolated Midwestern community. Her father seems to believe in nothing beyond his crops, certainly not... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The Lay of the Land: A Novel by Richard Ford Staff Pick Richard Ford's anti-hero Frank Bascombe has returned, middle-aged, possibly wiser, more cynical, and heading into a Thanksgiving season without his wife, but with other family members that he might not want to see. Ford is a great writer; in The Lay of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Thunderstruck by Erik Larson Publisher Comments A vivid portrait of the Edwardian era recounts two parallel stories--the case of Dr. Hawley Crippen, who murdered his wife and fled the country with his mistress to build a new life in America, and Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Stripped by Brian Freeman Publisher Comments This ambitious follow-up to Brian Freeman's debut novel, Immoral, which Michael Connelly called "a page-turner of the highest caliber," delivers non-stop action and gut-wrenching intrigue on the streets of Sin City--where you can hit the jackpot, or you... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Restless: A Novel by William Boyd Publisher Comments It is Paris, 1939. At the funeral of her beloved younger brother, twenty-eight year old Eva Delectorskaya notices a stranger. Lucas Romer is a patrician looking Englishman with a secretive air and a persuasive manner. He also has a mysterious connection... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister's Wife Examines Faith by Carlene Cross Publisher Comments Cross looks back at the life that led her to marry a charismatic young man who appeared destined for greatness as a minister within the fundamentalist church. Here is an eloquent and compelling story of faith lost and regained.... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lisey's Story: A Novel by Stephen King Publisher Comments Two years after losing her husband of twenty-five years, Lisey looks back at the sometimes frightening intimacy that marked their marriage, her husband's successes as an award-winning novelist, and his secretive nature that established Lisey's... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $2.98 Used - Hardcover
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The Ghost at the Table (Shannon Ravenel Books) by Suzanne Berne Publisher Comments The Fiske family is gathered at the exquisitely restored New England home of the second of three sisters. The family table groans with the weight of guilt and blame. The result is the taut story of a 21st-century family's unraveling, played against a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Museum of Lost Wonder: A Graphic Guide to Reawakening the Human Imagination by Jeff Hoke Publisher Comments The Museum of Lost Wonder is a ray of hope in a dreary world. It is an oasis in an age when we are inundated everywhere we go with messages of consumption and materialism. It is an invitation into the imagination of a brilliant artist as well as a... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $8.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Death Angel by Martha Powers Publisher Comments Kate and Richard Warner have a quiet, routine life until the one afternoon that changes them forever. Within a few short hours, they are thrust into the black hole of every parent's worst nightmare. Suddenly they are at the center of attention of their... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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