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The Dead Fathers Club by Matt Haig Publisher Comments A ghost story with a twist — a suspenseful and poignantly funny update of the Hamlet story. Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem: His dad, who was killed in a car accident, appears as a bloodstained ghost at his own funeral and... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak Publisher Comments From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families. In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country's violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fruit of the Lemon by Andrea Levy Publisher Comments From Andrea Levy, author of Small Island and winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Best of the Best Orange Prize, comes a story of one woman and two islands. Faith Jackson knows little about her parents' lives before they moved to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers by Amy Stewart Staff Pick The magic of a great writer is that she can elevate any topic to fascinating status. In Flower Confidential, Amy Stewart uses equal parts journalism and florid writing to illuminate the machinal underpinnings of the flower industry. From the grail-like... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Sunday List of Dreams by Kris Radish Publisher Comments The beloved Book Sense bestselling author tells the story of a mother, a daughter, and the unforgettably funny, unabashedly sexy, and unexpectedly inspiring journey that will strengthen their bond forever.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Devotion by Howard Norman Publisher Comments Fans of Howard Norman, the internationally acclaimed author of The Hunting of L and The Bird Artist and a two-time National Book Award finalist, will find in his latest novel — an intense and intriguingly unconventional love story — all the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Deep Storm by Lincoln Child Publisher Comments Twelve-thousand feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean... Scientists are excavating the most extraordinary undersea discovery ever made. But is it the greatest archaeological find in history — or the most terrifying? Former naval doctor Peter Crane... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria by Marlena De Blasi Publisher Comments Touching and humorous, Marlena de Blasi's account of moving with her husband, Fernando, to Orvieto, the largest city in Italy's Umbria, is a story that will appeal to anyone who delights in travel and shares the fantasy of beginning a new life in a very... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ask Again Later by Jill A Davis Publisher Comments From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Girls' Poker Night" comesthe hilarious yet poignant story of a woman trying to resist the urge to livewith one foot constantly out the door.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian Publisher Comments Throughout his career, Chris Bohjalian has earned a reputation for writing novels that examine some of the most important issues of our time. With Midwives, he explored the literal and metaphoric place of birth in our culture. In The Buffalo Soldier, he... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China by Matthew Polly Publisher Comments Bill Bryson meets Bruce Lee in this raucously funny story of one scrawny American's quest to become a kung fu master at China's legendary Shaolin Temple. Growing up a ninety-pound weakling tormented by bullies in the schoolyards of Kansas, young Matthew... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster Publisher Comments A man pieces together clues to his past—and the identity of his captors—in this fantastic, labyrinthine novel An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Flesh and Bone (Body Farm Novels) by Jefferson Bass Publisher Comments Dr. Bill Brockton, the founder of the world-famous Body Farm, is hard at work on a troubling new case. A young man's battered body has been found in nearby Chattanooga, and it's up to the talented Dr. Brockton to assemble the pieces of the forensic... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Skylight Confessions: A Novel by Alice Hoffman Publisher Comments The marriage of Arlyn Singer and John Moody, opposites who are drawn to each other despite a mutual lack of understanding, has a profound and lasting impact on them, their children, and their grandchildren, in a poignant novel of three generations of a... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mistress of the Art of Death: A Novel by Ariana Franklin Publisher Comments The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a "vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition." In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate a series of gruesome... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar Publisher Comments In 1979 Libya, nine-year-old Suleiman endures his mother's increasingly disturbing bedside stories full of old family bitterness. His father is away on business (again), and Suleiman is soon caught up in a world he cannot hope to understand in this novel... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood Publisher Comments In the spirit of How to Make an American Quilt and The Joy Luck Club, a novel about friendship and redemption. After the sudden loss of her only child, Stella, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island, as a way to fill the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin Publisher Comments In December 1944, Admiral William Bull Halsey was America's most popular and colorful naval hero. While supporting General Douglas MacArthur's famous I Shall Return invasion of the Philippines, he unwittingly sailed his undefeated Pacific Fleet into the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lost City Radio: A Novel by Daniel Alarcon Publisher Comments A powerful and searing novel of three lives fractured by a civil war. For ten years, Norma has been the voice of consolation for a people broken by violence. She hosts Lost City Radio, the most popular program in their nameless South American country,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Buzzword Dictionary: 1,000 Phrases Translated from Pompous to English by John Walston Publisher Comments Pompous jargon pervades English these days, from corporate speak to silly legalisms. This lighthearted look at how English is being mangled reveals the underlying meaning, as well as the attitudes behind the meaning, of more than 1,000 buzzwords.... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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