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Against the Day: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon Staff Pick Against the Day switches as smoothly from Tom Swift-style "boys adventure" to a Gothic prairie tale in the vein of Cormac McCarthy, as it does from reverence for historical figures and events to explosive iconoclasm. Its world is filled with dirigibles... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover 
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The Terror: A Novel by Dan Simmons Publisher Comments The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn Publisher Comments These ominous words, slashed from the pages of a book of Psalms, are the last threat that the darling of London society, Sir Edward Grey, receives from his killer. Before he can show them to Nicholas Brisbane, the private inquiry agent he has retained... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery Publisher Comments A sweeping debut novel drawn from a history shrouded in secrets about two women — one American, one Japanese — whose fates become entwined in the rapidly changing world of late-nineteenth-century Japan. When nine-year-old Aurelia Bernard... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Echo Maker: A Novel by Richard Powers Staff Pick The Echo Maker is the story of Mark Schluter, a 27-year-old man who has a mysterious accident in his hometown in Nebraska, the site of the magnificent Sandhill Crane migration along the river. When he comes to, he has developed Capgras syndrome, a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther Publisher Comments A passionate and timely debut about mothers and daughters, roots and exile, from the streets of Iran to the suburbs of London In what is certain to be one of the most talked-about fiction debuts of the year, Yasmin Crowther paints a magnificent portrait... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey Publisher Comments Marcus Sakey's wildly praised debut thriller is an explosive, thrill-a-minute read... "Delivers a kick and leaves no loose ends."-- The New York Times On the South Side of Chicago, you're only as strong as your reputation. Danny Carter and his... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Red River by Lalita Tademy Publisher Comments Hailed as powerful,accomplished, and spellbinding, Lalita Tademy's first novel Cane River was a New York Times bestseller and the 2001 Oprah Book Club Summer Selection. Now with her evocative, luminous style and painstaking research, she takes her family'... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sliver of Truth by Lisa Unger Publisher Comments The highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Lies. Charged with relentless intensity and kinetic action, and playing out with unnerving suspense on the streets of New York and London, Sliver of Truth delves deep into the... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Find Me by Carol Oconnell Publisher Comments From one of the most acclaimed crime writers in America comes her most astonishing novel: a story of love, loss, death-and discovery. Over the course of eight novels, Carol O'Connell and her protagonist, New York detective Kathy Mallory, have carved out... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Black Sun by James Twining Publisher Comments It is a secret that has been hidden for more than a half century....The clues have been scattered across the globe. Now someone has begun to piece them together — and the future of the world depends on his being stopped in time. In Maryland, a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel by Walter Mosley Publisher Comments This bold new novel from Walter Mosley startles in both its rawness and its honest portrayal of a man on a quest for sexual redemption in midlife. When Cordell Carmel catches his longtime girlfriend with another man, the act that he witnesses seems... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Charity Girl by Michael Lowenthal Publisher Comments Charity Girl examines a dark period in our history, when fear and patriotic fervor led to devastating consequences. During World War I, the U.S. government waged a moral and medical campaign, incarcerating and quarantining fifteen thousand young women... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Kockroach by Tyler Knox Publisher Comments In Kockroach, a wholly original work of literary noir, Tyler Knox brilliantly turns Kafka's The Metamorphosis on its head. It is the mid-1950s, and in a fleabag hotel off Times Square, Kockroach, perfectly content with life as an insect, awakens to... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality by Pauline W Chen Publisher Comments From her first dissection of a cadaver to the first time she pronounced a patient dead, Chen combines personal experience with clinical expertise in this riveting, deeply nuanced critique of the medical profession.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield Staff Pick In this incredible work on music and soul mates, Sheffield shares his story of two loves with great humor and pathos. Love Is a Mix Tape is a moving tribute to a lost friend and the power of song.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sacred Games: A Novel by Vikram Chandra Staff Pick "Sacred Games is a brilliant crime epic, which impressively balances a literary detective and gangster story with a cinematically violent tale of contemporary Bombay. One of Chandra's most remarkable achievements amidst this novel of marvels is his... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison Publisher Comments Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a master...who makes the ordinary extraordinary, the unnamable unforgettable," beloved author Jim Harrison returns with a masterpiece — a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman Staff Pick A fascinating work of history about a cruel response to a misunderstood disease, The Colony vividly recounts the saga of the leprosy colony on Molokai and the community once forcibly interred there. Tayman crafts a gripping, and at times horrifying... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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