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The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel by Michael Chabon Staff Pick This book's premise is FDR's suggestion, back when Israel was being created, that the Jewish Diaspora settle in Alaska. Chabon makes that scenario a reality, except that when the book begins, the Sitka District is set to revert to Alaskan control. Meyer... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover 
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The Motel Life: A Novel (P.S.) by Willy Vlautin Staff Pick Vlautin is a natural. He's managed to craft a debut novel that is funny, sad, uplifting, and honest, in a voice that seems effortless and yet leaves room for both the imagination of the reader and the growth of the writer. Vlautin is the kind of author... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign by Stephan Talty Publisher Comments Awash with bloody battles, political intrigue, and an incredible epoch-ending natural disaster, this is the real-life story of Henry Morgan, the legendary pirate of the Caribbean, who in the 17th century challenged the greatest military power on earth... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen Publisher Comments It was the summer on Vliet Street we all started locking our doors....Sally O'Malley made a promise to her daddy before he died. She swore she'd look after her sister, Troo. Keep her safe. But like her Granny always said — actions speak louder than... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Luncheon of the Boating Party: A Novel by Susan Vreeland Publisher Comments A vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world, ?done with a flourish worthy of Renoir himself? (USA Today) With her richly textured novels, Susan Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of artists? lives. Now, as she did... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding by Rebecca Mead Publisher Comments The 160-billion dollar behemoth that is the American wedding industry and the psychology behind the expense, stress, and folly associated with the typical American wedding Using the American wedding as a rosetta stone, in One Perfect Day writer Rebecca... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Devils in the Sugar Shop by Timothy Schaffert Publisher Comments A failed erotic novelist; a hostess of prim sex-toy parties; an artist and a bookshop owner pursued by a demented if harmless stalker; wives, lovers, twin sisters, daughters — all members of the artsy crowd in Omaha, try to hold their families... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Various Haunts of Men: A Simon Serrailler Mystery by Susan Hill Publisher Comments Young police-woman Freya Graffham is assigned to the case; she's new to the job, compassionate, inquisitive, dedicated, and needs to know — perhaps, too much. She and the enigmatic detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler have the task of... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Some of Tim's Stories (Oklahoma Stories & Storytellers #02) by S. E. Hinton Publisher Comments Short Stories from the bestselling author of The Outsiders, plus exclusive interviews. A teenager when she first gained fame, now a seasoned writer, S. E. Hinton takes her trademark themes to a new level in Some of Tim's Stories — fourteen... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ghostwalk: A Novel by Rebecca Stott Publisher Comments A Cambridge historian, Elizabeth Vogelsang, is found drowned, clutching a glass prism in her hand. The book she was writing about Isaac Newton's involvement with alchemy — the culmination of her lifelong obsession with the seventeenth century —... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hick by Andrea Portes Publisher Comments Foreseeing a hopeless future in barrooms and parking lots, cagey 13-year-old Luli McMullen bolts headlong from the heartland, aiming at Las Vegas where she expects to find herself a sugar daddy. Almost immediately, crooked-bodied Eddie Kreezer, a roving... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Visible World: A Novel by Mark Slouka Publisher Comments The unnamed narrator of The Visible World, the American-born son of Czech immigrants living in New York, grows up in an atmosphere haunted by fragments of a past he cannot understand. Nowhere is this more true than in regard to his mother, Ivana, a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Without a Map: A Memoir by Meredith Hall Publisher Comments Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Pesthouse: A Novel by Jim Crace Publisher Comments Jim Crace is a writer of spectacular originality and a command of language that moves a reader effortlessly into the world of his imagination. In The Pesthouse he imagines an America of the future where a man and a woman trek across a devastated and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Blue Zone: A Novel by Andrew Gross Publisher Comments From the number one New York Times bestselling coauthor of Judge and Jury and Lifeguard comes this electrifying solo debut, The Blue Zone. Kate Raab's life seems almost perfect: her boyfriend, her job, her family...until her father runs into trouble... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.25 Used - Hardcover
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Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee Publisher Comments Casey Han's four years at Princeton gave her many things, But no job and a number of bad habits. Casey's parents, who live in Queens, are Korean immigrants working in a dry cleaner, desperately trying to hold on to their culture and their identity. Their... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Savage Garden: A Novel by Mark Mills Publisher Comments From the author of the acclaimed national bestseller Amagansett comes an even more remarkable novel set in the Tuscan hills: the story of two murders, four hundred years apart — and the ties that bind them together. Adam Banting, a somewhat... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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All Will Be Revealed by Robert Anthony Siegel Publisher Comments An eccentric, exotic photographer is drawn to a beautiful psychic in a turn-of-the-century novel about love, possession, adventure, and greed. At the close of the nineteenth century, wheelchair-bound Augustus Auerbach's only interest is his... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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