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The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf Staff Pick The End of America should be required reading for every American. Rather than giving us a partisan 600-page tome on the crimes of the Bush administration, Naomi Wolf lays out clearly and concisely how we as a people have allowed our government to move... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt Publisher Comments The brilliant new novel from one of our most respected writershis most ambitious and accessible to date. On a January morning in 1913, G. H. Hardyeccentric, charismatic and, at thirty-seven, already considered the greatest British mathematician of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Pure in Heart (Simon Serrailler Crime Novels) by Susan Hill Publisher Comments In this follow-up to "The Various Haunts of Men," Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler is on vacation in Venice, trying to come to terms with the brutal murder of a young woman who had been in love with him. His trip is cut short after he is... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev Publisher Comments From the internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Meir Shalev comes a mesmerizing novel of two love stories, separated by half a century but connected by one enchanting act of devotion. During the 1948 War of Independence--a time when pigeons are still... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard Publisher Comments The runaway French bestseller hailed by the New York Times as “a survivors guide to life in the chattering classes.” If civilized people are expected to have read all important works of literature, and thousands more books are published... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Abstinence Teacher: A Novel by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise children, but amid its good schools and healthy real estate market, a small-town culture war is brewing. The Abstinence Teacher focuses on two divorced parents who become adversaries in the mess: Ruth... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Race by Richard North Patterson Publisher Comments “An electrifying page-turner.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer Hes a decorated Gulf War pilot. A fashion plate. A ladies man. An independent thinker who speaks his mind and never takes no for an answer. The only thing Americans can... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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God of Luck by Ruthanne Lum Mccunn Publisher Comments “ Held me captive right from the start.”—Alan Cheuse, NPR, All Things Considered “Her clear voice and simple but elegant style easily turns this work into a real page-turner.”—Library Journal “A vivid tale of a... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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I Am Legend by Richard Matheson Publisher Comments Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth--but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures. A Warner Bros. film based on the book opens nationwide in December... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind by Paula Kamen Publisher Comments A friend and confidante reveals the private Iris Chang — the woman behind the international celebrity and bold personality — and attempts to understand Chang's terrible psychological decline. Iris Chang's mysterious suicide in 2004, at age... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Sound of Butterflies by Rachael King Publisher Comments Amateur naturalist Thomas Edgar is offered the chance of a lifetime: to travel to the Amazon as part of a scientific exploration. Hoping to discover the mythical butterfly of which he has long dreamed — his Papilio sophia — he eagerly accepts... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Thanksgiving Table: Recipes and Ideas to Create Your Own Holiday Tradition by Diane Morgan Publisher Comments For novices, orchestrating The Feast is no easy task. And even for old pros it's a bit of a challenge. Enter "The Thanksgiving Table" offering you everything you need from foolproof cooking secrets and techniques and classic and innovative recipes, to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Darkness Falls 1st Edition by Kyle Mills Publisher Comments An all-too-plausible eco-thriller from the best-selling author of The Second Horseman. Erin Neal has been living a secluded life in the Arizona desert since the death of his girlfriend and he isn't happy when an oil company executive comes calling. A... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell by Rachel Herz Publisher Comments Shakespeare wrote that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But if you cannot smell, does the rose lose its sweetness? The first and definitive book on the psychology of smell, The Scent of Desire traces the importance of smell in our lives... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Free Life by Ha Jin Publisher Comments From Ha Jin, the widely-acclaimed, award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash, comes a novel that takes his fiction to a new setting: 1990s America. We follow the Wu family — father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao — as they fully sever... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Hardcover
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20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill Publisher Comments Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945... Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dead Man in Paradise: Unraveling a Murder from a Time of Revolution by J B Mackinnon Publisher Comments The award-winning story of a nephew's search for the truth behind his uncle's murder— described by CBC radio as "equal parts Ian Rankin, Jan Morris and Joan Didion." At nightfall on June 22, 1965, amid the turmoil of the Dominican revolution and U.S.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Monk Jumped Over a Wall by Jay Nussbaum Publisher Comments J.J. Spencer is one of the many hungry young lawyers eager to climb the corporate ladder to the great future awaiting him. With his first annual review approaching, J.J. is confident his keen work for the top Manhattan law firm he is employed by will be... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis by Michael Pritchett Publisher Comments National publicity Author events Reading... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Hardcover 
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