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A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Novel by Khaled Hosseini Staff Pick Never mind the sophomore slump — this book devours that cliché. As well as illuminating the rich history and familial culture behind war-torn Afghanistan, A Thousand Splendid Suns is filled with authentic relationships and characters that are... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover 
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The Blood of Flowers: A Novel by Anita Amirrezvani Publisher Comments In 17th-century Persia, a 14-year-old woman believes she will be married within the year. But when her beloved father dies, she and her mother find themselves alone and without a dowry. With nowhere else to go, they are forced to sell the brilliant... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones Publisher Comments This alluring novel of friendship, love, and cuisine brings the best-selling author of Lost in Translation and A Cup of Light to one of the great Chinese subjects: food. As in her previous novels, Moness captivating story also brings into focus a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver and Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America by Andrew Ferguson Publisher Comments Before he grew up and became one of Washington's most respected reporters and editors, Andrew Ferguson was, of all things, a Lincoln buff — with the photos hung on his bedroom wall to prove it. Decades later, Ferguson's latent buffdom is reignited... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Five Skies: A Novel by Ron Carlson Publisher Comments Award-winning short story writer Ron Carlson delivers a stirring novel about three men confronting their pasts and their purpose. Beloved story writer Ron Carlson's first novel in thirty years, Five Skies is the story of three men gathered high in... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman Staff Pick You don't have to have action figures on your desk to appreciate Austin Grossman's novel Soon I Will Be Invincible. Sure, superheroes and supervillains clash on a galactic scale, but it's not all about fighting for Truth and Justice. The reader gets an... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story by Leonie Swann Publisher Comments A witty philosophical murder mystery with a charming twist: the crack detectives are sheep determined to discover who killed their beloved shepherd. On a hillside near the cozy Irish village of Glennkill, the members of the flock gather around their... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje Staff Pick Reading Ondaatje's new book, Divisadero, is like listening to great music. You are caught up in the moment, the elegiac writing, and propelled into a different reality. The crescendo brings it altogether, the passion, the years of hurt and pain, and the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins Publisher Comments The Shadow Catcher dramatically inhabits the space where past and present intersect, seamlessly interweaving narratives from two different eras: the first fraught passion between turn-of-the-twentieth-century icon Edward Curtis (1868-1952) and his muse... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates Publisher Comments In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. After... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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What You Have Left by Will Allison Publisher Comments This powerful first novel, shot through with sly humor and a knowing sympathy for human weakness, examines the weight of history, the nature of loss, and the possibility of forgiveness.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Religion by Tim Willocks Publisher Comments May 1565. Suleiman the Magnificent, emperor of the Ottomans, has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the Baptist. The largest armada of all time approaches the Knights Christian stronghold on the island of Malta. The Turks know the Knights... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.00 Used - Hardcover
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Life's a Beach by Claire Cook Publisher Comments By the bestselling author of "Must Love Dogs," the story of two grown-up sisters who fight like cats and dogs--but call each other at least twice a day.... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bad Luck and Trouble 1st Edition by Lee Child Publisher Comments From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night... In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex–army investigators is being hunted down one by one... And on the streets of Portland... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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From the Palmer Raids to the PATRIOT Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America by Christopher M. Finan Publisher Comments Christopher M. Finan received Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award for 2008. The award is presented for the best published work in the area of intellectual freedom. Eligible books were published between 2006 and 2007. In 1919, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven by Susan Richards Shreve Publisher Comments An indelible portrait of the fallout of childhood illness, separation from a protective mother, and first love, Shreve chronicles her stay at the Warm Springs sanitarium during the height of the polio epidemic. Her memoir is both a fascinating historic... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Austenland by Shannon Hale Publisher Comments Jane is a young New York woman who can never seem to find the right man—perhaps because of her secret obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. When a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Falling Man: A Novel by Don DeLillo Staff Pick Falling Man is Don DeLillo's exquisite, memorable take on 9/11. Somewhat more stylistically spare than his earlier books, Falling Man nonetheless feels like the book DeLillo was meant to write; themes he has addressed throughout his body of work —... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Landsman by Peter Charle Melman Publisher Comments Melman has crafted a riveting tale of redemption and romance in the midst of this nations most bloody and convulsive conflict. Transfixing and transporting, this novel is as well wrought as any classic work of historical fiction.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.75 Used - Hardcover
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