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Stray by Rachel Vincent Publisher Comments There are only eight breeding female werecats left... And I'm one of them. I look like an all-American grad student. But I am a werecat, a shape-shifter, and I live in two worlds. Despite reservations from my family and my Pride, I escaped the... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories by Miranda July Staff Pick Is there a creative project Miranda July can't conquer? If you've jealously posed this question before reading her fiction, stay away from the new collection. No One Belongs Here More Than You will only embitter you further. It's not enough for July to... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Now Is the Hour by Tom Spanbauer Publisher Comments Rigby John Klusener is hitchhiking to San Francisco. The year is 1967, the town is Pocatello, Idaho. Fresh out of high school, Rigby John is leaving behind his bohemian ex-girlfriend, his prayerful mother, his distant father, and the hay dust of his... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Maytrees by Annie Dillard Staff Pick This stunningly crafted novel of love and loss will not disappoint fans of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Erudite observations of nature show off Dillard's skill as a poetic and lyrical writer, while the astute observations of love and life resonate.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Michael Tolliver Lives: A Novel by Armistead Maupin Publisher Comments Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, is arguably one of the most widely loved characters in contemporary fiction. Now, almost twenty years after ending his ground-breaking saga of San... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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F-5: Devastating, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century by Mark Levine Publisher Comments It was April 3, 1974. Crime was soaring. Unemployment and inflation were out of control. A costly war had just come to its demoralizing end, and an unpopular President was on his way out of office. Then, over a sixteen-hour period, nature stepped forward... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Stalin's Ghost: An Arkady Renko Novel by Martin Cruz Smith Staff Pick Arkady Renko, intrepid Moscow investigator, was first introduced to readers in the incomparable Gorky Park. This latest adventure perfectly captures Putin's Russia, ultra-modern and ultra-corrupt, yet haunted by the sorrows and ghosts of its Stalinist... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Nail Through the Heart by Timothy Hallinan Publisher Comments East meets West in this exotic and evocative, beautifully crafted and relentlessly paced thriller that hails the arrival of an exceptional new suspense series.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy by Michael Tucker Publisher Comments From actor Michael Tucker comes this celebration of a good marriage and a careful study of the nature of home, written with an epicureans delight in detail and a gourmands appreciation for all things fine.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Origin: A Novel by Diana Abu-Jaber Publisher Comments Lena is a fingerprint expert at a crime lab in the small city of Syracuse, New York, where winters are cold and deep. Suddenly, a series of crib deaths--indistinguishable from SIDS except for the fevered testimony of one distraught mother with... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician: A Novel by Daniel Wallace Publisher Comments It’s 1950 and magician Henry Walker is traveling through the South with Jeremiah Musgrove’s Chinese Circus.Though once a world-famous illusionist, Henry seems to have lost his magic, and when the novel opens he’s in some serious trouble... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Heart in the Right Place: A Memoir by Carolyn Jourdan Publisher Comments Carolyn Jourdan had it all: the Mercedes Benz, the fancy soirees, the best clothes. She moved in the most exclusive circles in Washington, D.C., rubbed elbows with big politicians, and worked on Capitol Hill. As far as she was concerned, she was changing... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Volk's Game by Brent Ghelfi Publisher Comments Alexei Volkovoy--known to the underworld as Volk--is a hardened veteran of the conflict in Chechnya, a gun-for-hire now living in a lawless Russia, serving two corrupt masters: one is Maxim, a psychotic Azeri mafia kingpin, the other a mystery man known... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Much Married Man by Nicholas Coleridge Publisher Comments From one of the sharpest observers of the modern scene comes this witty, intelligent, and irresistible novel in the tradition of Gosford Park and Snobs. Anthony Anscombe has everything he could ever want: an exquisite family estate, enviable... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.48 Used - Hardcover
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Peony in Love by Lisa See Staff Pick Lisa See aptly follows her blockbuster novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, with a lovely book that immerses the reader deep into 17th-century Chinese culture. Part love story, part ghost story, part historical fiction; See hangs the bones of her story... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney Publisher Comments In this brutal, epic debut novel, a man is found murdered and a 17-year-old boy is on the run. While vigilantes and rescue searchers head out to look for the fugitive, all the mother of the boy wants is her son back. She will do anything to see him home... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan Publisher Comments Father Davids presence ignites the suspicions and smoldering hatred of a town that resents strangers, which brings him to a reckoning with the tensions of his past. In this masterfully written novel, O'Hagan explores the emotional and moral... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Hardcover
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The Best of Friends: Two Women, Two Continents, and One Enduring Friendship by Sara James Publisher Comments From sharing secrets as children to chasing unconventional dreams as adults, network correspondent Sara James and wildlife filmmaker Ginger Mauney explore their learning curve on life through the lens of their thirty-year friendship Transplanting... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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