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I'm Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers by Tim Madigan Publisher Comments Advance Praise for Im Proud of You Reveals in a gentle and powerful way how one person can make a difference. Fred Rogers took the time out to share the most powerful gift we can give another, our unconditional love. Hopefully this book will... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood Publisher Comments John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work: not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s, but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Return of the Player by Michael Tolkin Publisher Comments The sequel to the Hollywood classic The Player, and a satire on power, wealth, and family in the twenty-first century. Published to great acclaim and adapted into a celebrated movie by Robert Altman, The Player defined the new Hollywood and became a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld Publisher Comments International Bestseller#1 U.K. BestsellerThe Wall Street Journal BestsellerLos Angeles Times Bestseller In the summer of 1909, Sigmund Freud arrived by steamship in New York Harbor for a short visit to America. Though he would live another... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.25 Used - Hardcover
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The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens Publisher Comments The Law of Dreams tells the story of a young man's epic passage from innocence to experience during The Great Famine in Ireland of 1847. On his odyssey through Ireland and Britain, and across the Atlantic to "the Boston states," Fergus is initiated to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs Novels) by Jacqueline Winspear Publisher Comments Sue Feder/Macavity Award for Best Historical Mystery Award Nominee London, 1931. On the night before the opening of his new and much-anticipated exhibition at a famed Mayfair gallery, Nicholas Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud Publisher Comments From a writer "of near-miraculous perfection" (The New York Times Book Review) and "a literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation" (San Francisco Chronicle), The Emperor's Children is a dazzling, masterful novel about the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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After This: A Novel by Alice McDermott Publisher Comments Alice McDermott's powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Witty, compassionate, and wry, it captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of those decades through the experiences... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen Publisher Comments Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced — the 1918 flu epidemic — Thomas Mullen's powerful, sweeping first novel is a tale of morality in a time of upheaval. Deep in the mist-shrouded... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Dark Angels by Karleen Koen Publisher Comments Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Having left Restoration England in the midst of a messy scandal, she has been living in Louis XIV’s Baroque, mannered France for two years. Now she is returning home to England and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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On Agate Hill by Lee Smith Publisher Comments A dusty box discovered in the wreckage of a North Carolina plantation house contains the remnants of an extraordinary life: an 1870s diary of a young girl, letters, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, court records, marbles, rocks, dolls, and bones. It's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $2.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Zero by Jess Walter Publisher Comments In the tradition of Franz Kafka, Joseph Heller, and Don DeLillo, comes this extraordinary story of searing humor and sublime horror, of blindness, bewilderment, and that achingly familiar feeling that the world has suddenly stopped making sense.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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On Beauty: A Novel by Zadie Smith Publisher Comments A new novel from Zadie Smith, set in Northwest London Somewhere in Northwest London stands Caldwell housing estate, relic of 70s urban planning. Five identical blocks, deliberately named: Hobbes, Smith, Bentham, Locke, and Russell. If you grew up... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Small Acts of Sex and Electricity by Lise Haines Publisher Comments Beauty and privilege, a charming, handsome husband and two promising young daughters, money, a beach house on the Pacific—Jane has everything that Mattie thinks she wants. But Jane always works to damage what she's given. Mattie knows that better... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The King's English by Betsy Burton Publisher Comments Betsy Burton, owner of The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, has been a bookseller for nearly thirty years, and a passionate book lover all her life. Her modestly sized, yet widely respected, shop has hosted authors such as E. L. Doctorow... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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