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Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant by Jenni Ferrari-Adler Publisher Comments In this delightful and unexpected collection, writers, foodies, and others ruminate on the distinctive experiences of cooking for one and dining alone.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Killer Weekend by Ridley Pearson Publisher Comments The first in a new series for Pearson, "Killer Weekend" pits rural Sheriff Walt Fleming against threats political and corporeal, as madness erupts in Sun Valley, Idaho, when a local attorney announces her candidacy for president.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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How to Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper Publisher Comments "Beautifully crafted." "Fantastically funny." "Compulsively readable." Jonathan Tropper has earned wild acclaim — and comparisons to Nick Hornby and Tom Perrotta — for his biting humor and insightful portrayals of families in crisis and men... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dirty Martini (Jack Daniels Mysteries) by J. A. Konrath Publisher Comments The latest "entertaining," "tangy," and "hilarious" Jack Daniels mystery from Anthony, Macavity, and Gumshoe Award finalist J.A. Konrath In Whiskey Sour, Chicago police Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels hunted... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Hardcover
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Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones Publisher Comments Intense, beautiful, and fable-like, Joness "Mister Pip" is a remarkable work of fiction that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of literature to transform lives. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize. (Literary Fiction)... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Peculiar Grace by Jeffrey Lent Publisher Comments The critically-acclaimed author of "In the Fall" delivers this insightful, revealing portrait of family secrets, in a book marked by an unforgettable cast of characters who have learned to survive by giving shape to their losses.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.97 Sale - Hardcover
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The World without Us by Alan Weisman Publisher Comments Discover the impact of the human footprint in The World Without Us. Take us off the Earth and what traces of us would linger? And which would disappear? Alan Weisman writes about which objects from today would vanish without us; how our pipes, wires, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff Staff Pick "Ruff throws the reader some astounding curveballs, often necessitating the need to re-read and re-re-read some passages to make tentative sense of what's going on. In this way, Bad Monkeys pleasingly resembles cinematic brain corkscrews such as Memento... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Flexible
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Swim to Me by Betsy Carter Publisher Comments It's a fresh start for Delores Walker when she steps off the bus in Tampa to become a minimum-wage mermaid at Weeki Wachee Springs. Carter conjures up a time in America when everything was possible--even mermaids from the Bronx.... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $6.75 Used - Hardcover
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Red Rover by Deirdre McNamer Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of "Rima in the Weeds" and "My Russian" comes this stirring novel about idealism laid waste and the haunting, redemptive bonds of friendship.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Rest of Her Life: A Novel by Laura Moriarty Publisher Comments In The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to one another. Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Up High in the Trees by Kiara Brinkman Publisher Comments When Sebby Lane asks his mother where he came from, she points to the trees high above their heads... In this startling and brave debut novel, Kiara Brinkman introduces an extraordinary young boy, a boy Cristina Garcia has called "a Little Prince for... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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The River Wife by Jonis Agee Publisher Comments Agees stunning novel tells the story of Jacques Ducharme, a frontier river pirate, and the five women whose lives he touches.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman Publisher Comments “We all set our sights on the Great American Novel. . . . [Thomas Maltman] comes impressively close to laying his hands on the grail.”—Madison Smartt Bell, The Boston Globe “Maltman’s prose and pacing flow from an expert... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Here If You Need Me: A True Story by Kate Braestrup Review "[A] superbly crafted memoir of love, loss, grief, hope and the complex subtleties of faith." Washington... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer Staff Pick Septembers of Shiraz describes the journey, both psychological and physical, of a Jewish family whose father is imprisoned in the first years of revolutionary Iran. It is a beautifully written expose of the trauma that occurs to individuals when there... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Loving Frank: A Novel by Nancy Horan Publisher Comments I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Island by Victoria Hislop Publisher Comments Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mothers past. When she decides to visit her mothers native Crete, she discovers her great-grandmother and a family rent by tragedy, war, and a secrecy that holds them all in its powerful grip.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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