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Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri Staff Pick Unaccustomed Earth is in many ways a deeply and authentically sad book. I would not advise reading the stories too quickly; they will each haunt you for days afterward (and, unusually in a collection like this, they are all equally strong). But Lahiri's... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney Publisher Comments A brilliant and breathtaking debut that captivated readers and garnered critical acclaim in the United Kingdom, The Tenderness of Wolves was long-listed for the Orange Prize in fiction and won the Costa Award (formerly the Whitbread) Book of the Year... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Olive Kitteridge: Fiction by Elizabeth Strout Staff Pick Set on the coast of Maine, this fantastic Pulitzer Prize winner (2009) is a terrific character study. Olive is an irascible, crabby old lady who is difficult to like. Yet, as her life, marriage, and story play out, her character changes in ways that... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock Staff Pick This book, and its writer, came out of nowhere and knocked me square in the throat. You could see Knockemstiff as a dark, demented updating of Winesburg, Ohio, or you could simply notice it as the work of a new American master. Pollock goes where many... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--And the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller Publisher Comments A groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists -- Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon -- charts their lives as women at a magical moment in time. Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See by Bruce Chadwick Publisher Comments Highly recommendeda gripping narrative of the critical year of 1858 and the nation's slide toward disunion and war. Chadwick is especially adept at retelling the intense emotions of this critical time, particularly especially in recounting abolitionist... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Shadow Year: A Novel by Jeffrey Ford Publisher Comments In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Fourth Man by K O Dahl Publisher Comments A woman wakes up in the middle of the night. A strange man is in her bedroom. She lies there in silence, paralyzed with fear. The woman is an author and the man one of her characters, one in a long line that waits in her driveway for the time when shell... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Resurrectionist by Jack O'Connell Publisher Comments Part classic noir thriller, part mind-bending fantasy, The Resurrectionist is a wild ride into a territory where nothing is as it appears. It is the story of Sweeney, a druggist by trade, and his son, Danny, the victim of an accident that has left... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.75 Used - Hardcover
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The View from the Seventh Layer by Kevin Brockmeier Staff Pick Brockmeier's prose is at once fanciful and meditative. This new collection of stories confirms his stature as one of America's most audacious fabulists.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: And Other Stories by John Kessel Publisher Comments Pride and Prometheus, a story in The Baum Plan for Financial Independence involving characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, is winner of the 2008 Nebula award for Best Novelette. A long-awaited collection of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Memory by Philippe Grimbert Publisher Comments Twenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths from a balcony, Philippe Grimbert has written a gripping novel about the hidden memories that dominated their lives. A colossal bestseller in Europe, Memory is the story of a family haunted... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $3.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Belong to Me by Marisa De Los Santos Staff Pick Belong To Me is a portrait of suburban assimilation filled with heart, laughter, and recognition. Marisa de los Santos manages to write about the funny, awkward situations that so many of us have endured, while creating characters as real as your own... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch Publisher Comments Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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House Rules: A Memoir by Rachel Sontag Publisher Comments At an early age, Rachel Sontag realized there was something deeply wrong with her father. On the surface, he was a well-respected, suburban physician. But questioning his authority led to brutal fights; disobedience meant humiliating punishments. When... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Blue Star by Tony Earley Publisher Comments Seven years ago, readers everywhere fell in love with Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old at the heart of Tony Earley's bestseller Jim the Boy. Now a teenager, Jim returns in another tender and wise story of young love on the eve of World War Two.... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Outcast: A Novel by Sadie Jones Staff Pick A deeply felt exploration of damaged families and relationships, Sadie Jones's gorgeous debut novel is subtle, moving, and surprising.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood by Robyn Scott Publisher Comments A glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric family will be one of the season's most talked-about memoirs. Robyn Scott's story of moving at the age of seven to Botswana with her adventure... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Wife and The Position, a feverishly smart novel about female ambition, money, class, motherhood, and marriage — and what happens in one community when a group of educated women chooses not to work. For a group... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.75 Sale - Hardcover
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The Man Who Turned Into Himself by David Ambrose Publisher Comments In the middle of an important meeting, businessman Rick Hamilton has a terrible premonition: His wife is about to die. Racing to save her, he finds her lifeless body in the road, her car crushed by a truck. The light dwindles from his eyes . . . and... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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