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People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks Staff Pick Give me a mystery (one that is structured around an antiquarian book, no less!), a historical setting, and an exquisite writer like Geraldine Brooks, and I am suddenly avoiding daily rituals like sleep and food. Nothing could deter me from turning the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone by Beth Lisick Publisher Comments Grappling with her lifelong phobia of anything slick, cheesy, or remotely claiming to provide self-empowerment, Beth Lisick wakes up on New Year's Day 2006 with an unprecedented feeling. She is finally able to admit to herself that she's grown tired of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Venetian Betrayal: A Novel by Steve Berry Publisher Comments In 323 B.C.E, having conquered Persia, Alexander the Great set his sights on Arabia, then suddenly succumbed to a strange fever. Locating his final resting place — unknown to this day — remains a tantalizing goal for both archaeologists and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Golden Age: A Novel by Tahmima Anam Publisher Comments As young widow Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Today she will throw a party for her son and daughter. In the garden of the house she has built, her roses are blooming, her children are almost grown, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan Publisher Comments "The Middle Place is about calling home. Instinctively. Even when all the paperwork -- a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns -- clearly indicates you're an adult, but all the same, there you are,... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Silent in the Sanctuary: A Lady Julia Grey Mystery by Deanna Raybourn Publisher Comments fresh from a six-month sojourn in Italy, Lady Julia returns home to Sussex to find her father's estate crowded with family and friends— but dark deeds are afoot at the deconsecrated abbey, and a murderer roams the ancient cloisters. Much to her... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blasphemy by Douglas J. Preston Publisher Comments The world's biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself. The Torus is the most expensive machine ever created by humankind, run by the world's most powerful... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Painter of Battles: A Novel by Arturo Perez-Reverte Publisher Comments Acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte has earned a distinguished reputation as a master of the literary thriller with his international bestsellers The Club Dumas and The Queen of the South. Now, in this haunting new work, Pérez-Reverte has written his... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy by Robert Leleux Publisher Comments In the Dear John letter Daddy left for Mother and me, on a Saturday afternoon in early June 1996, on the inlaid Florentine table in the front entry of our house, which we found that night upon returning from a day spent in the crème-colored light of... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Collaborator of Bethlehem (Omar Yussef Mysteries) by Matt Rees Publisher Comments Rees presents a riveting first novel in a new mystery series set in the heartof the Middle East.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Her Last Death: A Memoir by Susanna Sonnenberg Publisher Comments Her Last Death begins as the phone rings early one morning in the Montana house where Susanna Sonnenberg lives with her husband and two young sons. Her aunt is calling to tell Susanna her mother is in a coma after a car accident. She might not live. Any... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Jewel Trader of Pegu by Jeffrey Hantover Publisher Comments A melancholy young Jewish gem merchant, Abraham, born in Venice, has lived his life behind the ghetto walls of that damp, oppressive city. He has lost a wife and the son whose difficult birth killed her. Now there is nothing left for him there. In... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Firefly Rain by Richard Dansky Publisher Comments A riveting supernatural mystery like you've never read before. The prodigal son leaves the big city to return to his dearly departed parent's house in North Carolina only to find, now that he's home, that something is trying to make damn sure he... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Senator's Wife: A Novel by Sue Miller Publisher Comments Once again Sue Miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and imperfection, and in their obdurate, unyielding love. The author of the iconic The Good Mother and the best-... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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They Did It with Love by Kate Morgenroth Publisher Comments Secrets lurk under the smooth surface of a wealthy Connecticut neighborhood, until a murder reveals all. Sofie and her husband have left Manhattan in search of a more tranquil life in the suburbs. But when a member of Sofie's new neighborhood book... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Every Last Cuckoo by Kate Maloy Publisher Comments In the tradition of Jane Smiley and Sue Miller, author Maloy has crafted a wise and gratifying novel about a woman who finds the most rewarding role of her life just when she thought the best years were over.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink Publisher Comments The first novel by Bernhard Schlink since his international best seller The Reader, Homecoming is the story of one man's odyssey and another man's pursuit. A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home by Kim Sunée Publisher Comments Already hailed as "brave, emotional, and gorgeously written" by Frances Mayes and "like a piece of dark chocolate — bittersweet, satisfying, and finished all too soon" by Laura Fraser, author of An Italian Affair, this is a unique memoir about the... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Beginner's Greek: A Novel by James Collins Publisher Comments When Peter Russell finally meets the woman of his dreams he falls as madly in love as you can on a flight from New York to LA. Her name is Holly. She's achingly pretty with strawberry-blonde hair, and reads Thomas Mann for pleasure. She gives Peter her... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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