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The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein Staff Pick After the umpteenth customer recommended this book to me, I made it my book club pick. The first few lines made me a bit nervous (because it could have gone so terribly wrong, you see), but I was laughing and crying within the first three pages. I... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover 
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The Writing Class by Jincy Willett Publisher Comments Amy Gallup was a promising writer once--published and highly praised at twenty-two. It was all downhill from there, and now, year in and year out, she teaches a writing workshop at the local university extension. And this semester begins just the same... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine by Benjamin Wallace Publisher Comments In recent years, several of Americas leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. The monetary value is estimated at over half a billion dollars. Why would they be moved to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Netherland by Joseph O'Neill Publisher Comments In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans — a banker originally from the Netherlands — finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Richest Season by Maryann Ab Mcfadden Publisher Comments "In Maryann McFadden's brave and carefully made novel, The Richest Season, two women set out on open-ended odysseys, one to find her life, one to find meaning in her death. Lonely Joanna gives up all she knows for a single chance at all she needs... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Boat by Nam Le Publisher Comments A stunningly inventive, deeply moving fiction debut: stories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York City to Iowa City; from a tiny fishing village in Australia to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea, in a... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Summer Blowout by Claire Cook Publisher Comments Bella Shaughnessy is addicted to lipstick with names like My Chihuahua Bites and Kiss My Lips, an occupational hazard, since she works as a stylist and makeup artist for her family's small chain of beauty salons in Marshbury, Massachusetts, along with... (read more) Your price: $22.25 New - Hardcover
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The Marriage of True Minds by Stephen Evans Synopsis The story of a crossed love that is star to every wandering bark. Together as husband and wife, Nick Ward and Lena Grant ran a successful boutique law firm in Minneapolis, vanquishing all their legal foes side by side. When Nicks charmingly erratic... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dead Silver by Neil Mcmahon Publisher Comments Their first appearance in Lone Creek helped garner McMahon the most extraordinary reviews of his career. None other than mystery guru Otto Penzler said: "It is the poignant and knowing prose that elevates this novel to literature. What separates this... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Final Theory by Mark Alpert Publisher Comments Debut novelist Mark Alpert brings one of the most explosive books of 2008, seamlessly weaving current issues of science, history, and politics with white-knuckle chases. David Swift, a professor at Columbia University, is called to the hospital to... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Dear American Airlines: A Novel by Jonathan Miles Staff Pick Creatively constructed, this novel-in-a-letter has more to do with the main character's complaints about his own life than his missed flight. Dear American Airlines, the first novel by the New York Times cocktail columnist Jonathan Miles was surely... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Gossip of the Starlings by Nina De Gramont Publisher Comments When Catherine Morrow is admitted to the Esther Percy School for Girls, it's on the condition that she reform her ways. But that's before the beautiful and charismatic Skye Butterfield, chooses Catherine for her best friend. Skye is in love with danger... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mistress of the Sun by Sandra Gulland Publisher Comments The author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine Bonaparte trilogy returns with another irresistible historical novel, this one based on the life of Louise de la Vallière, who, against all odds, became one of the most mysterious consorts of... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Promise of the Wolves: A Novel by Dorothy Hearst Publisher Comments WHAT IS THE PROMISE OF THE WOLF? NEVER CONSORT WITH HUMANS. NEVER KILL A HUMAN UNPROVOKED. NEVER ALLOW A MIXED-BLOOD WOLF TO LIVE. At least that's what the wolves of the Wide Valley believe. Until a young wolf dares to break the rules -- and forever... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris Publisher Comments Zoë Ferrariss electrifying debut of taut psychological suspense offers an unprecedented window into Saudi Arabia and the lives of men and women there. When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing, along with a truck and her favorite camel, her... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey Publisher Comments It seems like mutual good luck for Abigail Taylor and Dara MacLeod when they meet at St. Andrews University and, despite their differences, become fast friends. Years later they remain an unlikely pair. Abigail, an actress who confidently uses her charms... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House by David Giffels Publisher Comments Finding the perfect house is never easy. Rebuilding one from a crumbling pile—to say nothing of making it into a home—is even harder. With their infant son in tow, David Giffels and his wife comb the environs of Akron, Ohio, in search of just... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Garden of Last Days: A Novel by Andre Dubus III Publisher Comments From the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog — a new big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel. One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. April's usual... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff Publisher Comments Make this your next book club selection and everyone saves. Get 15% off when you order 5 or more of this title for your book club. Simply enter the coupon code BENIOFFCITY at checkout. This offer does not apply to eBook purchases. This offer applies to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Another Man's Moccasins (Walt Longmire Mysteries) by Craig Johnson Publisher Comments LONGMIRE, a new A&E drama series The fourth mystery in New York Times bestselling author Craig Johnson's award-winning Walt Longmire series featuring Sheriff Walt Longmire of Absaroka County, Wyoming, is not to be missed. It delivers more of the taut... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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