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Remainder (Vintage Originals) by Tom McCarthy Staff Pick Would you trade memories for money? What if you didn't have a choice? If you didn't remember what caused your memory loss, how would you spend the settlement that resulted? In Tom McCarthy's Remainder, the unnamed man chooses to recapture imagined... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson Staff Pick This book is a knock-out. But what a gentle punch. In the face of their personal losses, a friendship slowly and intimately develops between two women on a quiet plot of land near a small town in Sweden. This is a truly absorbing read that is sure to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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You Don't Love Me Yet: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem Publisher Comments From the incomparable Jonathan Lethem, a raucous romantic farce that explores the paradoxes of love and art. Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. Most of the time... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Finn: A Novel by Jon Clinch Publisher Comments In this masterful debut by a major new voice in fiction, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature's most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn's father. The result is a deeply original tour de... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay Publisher Comments A missing manuscript A young woman's voyage of discovery And the curious bookshop where it all begins... In this charming novel about the eccentricities and passions of booksellers and collectors, a captivating young Australian woman takes a job at a... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.24 Sale - Hardcover
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Vinnie's Head by Marc Lecard Publisher Comments Small-time Long Island criminal, Johnnie LoDuco, after giving up a promising career as a smut peddler, gets involved with some friends who rob a convenience store, get caught because they are too stoned to make a getaway, and then pin all the blame on... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Spellman Files (Izzy Spellman Mysteries) by Lisa Lutz Publisher Comments Meet Izzy Spellman, a 28-year-old private eye working for her familys investigative business--a family that puts the fun in dysfunctional--in this irresistible, laugh-out-loud debut novel. Simon &... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Echelon Vendetta by David Stone Publisher Comments His systematic detachment compromised when a close friend dies from an apparent suicide just before his family is brutally murdered, CIA agent Micah Dalton travels from Europe to America in search of a killer whose methods have been borrowed from Native... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben Publisher Comments "Masterfully crafted, deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding."--Los Angeles Times In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep Economy makes the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Past Perfect by Susan Isaacs Publisher Comments Having been fired from her CIA dream job without an explanation thirteen years earlier, cable television writer Katie Schottland is enlisted for help by a former colleague who offers insight into the mystery of Katie's dismissal. By the author of Any... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.98 Used - Hardcover
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On the Wrong Track: A Holmes on the Range Mystery by Steve Hockensmith Publisher Comments It may be 1893 and the modern world may be in full swing, but cowboy Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer is an old-fashioned kind of guy: He prefers a long trail ride even when a train could get him where he's going in one-tenth the time. His brother Otto ("Big... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Case of the Missing Books (Mobile Library Mysteries) by Ian Sansom Publisher Comments Israel Armstrong is a passionate soul, lured to Ireland by the promise of an exciting new career. Alas, the job that awaits him is not quite what he had in mind. Still, Israel is not one to dwell on disappointment, as he prepares to drive a mobile... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends: The Business Adventures of Mark Twain, Chronic Speculator and Entrepreneur by Peter Krass Publisher Comments In addition to being one of America's most renowned and beloved writers, Mark Twain considered himself a hard-nosed, visionary businessman. After achieving worldwide literary success in mid-life, Twain actively pursued his business interests: he... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel by Joe Hill Publisher Comments A collector of obscure and macabre artifacts, from a cannibal cookbook to a used hangman's noose, unscrupulous metal band musician Judas Coyne is unable to resist purchasing a ghost over the Internet, which turns out to be the vengeful spirit of his late... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Friends of Meager Fortune by David Adam Richards Publisher Comments In his major new novel, Richards explores the dying days of the lumber industry in the mid-20th century. This is a transfixing love story of betrayal, envy, and sexual jealousy, as well as a devastating portrait of a pre-mechanized time, and a brilliant... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Storm Runners by T Jefferson Parker Publisher Comments Hitting rock bottom after losing his family and ability to work after an explosion that had been set to kill him, former police officer Matt Stromsoe eventually moves on with his life and takes a job with a private security firm working as a bodyguard... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums Publisher Comments Mississippi Sissy is destined to become an American classic In a book that echoes the time-honored fiction of Harper Lee and Flannery O'Connor and memoirs by Mary Karr and Augusten Burroughs, Kevin Sessums brings the American South and the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen Publisher Comments A vivid, funny, and viscerally powerful memoir about childhood, assimilation, food, and growing up in the 1980s As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Bich Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity. In the pre... (read more) List Price $52.55 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Royal Nonesuch: Or, What Will I Do When I Grow Up? by Glasgow Phillips Publisher Comments Glasgow Phillips published his debut novel Tuscaloosa at the tender age of twenty-four. The results were disastrous: encouraging reviews, translations, a paperback sale, a film option, and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. But over the next two years, as... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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