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An Incomplete Revenge (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries) by Jacqueline Winspear Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With the country in the grip of economic malaise, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Mudbound: A Novel by Hillary Jordan From Powells.com Featured in Indiespensable Volume 2! Powell's subscription club offers signed first editions, exclusive content, and unique handpicked gifts. Read about this and other past installments!... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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We Disappear (P.S.) by Scott Heim Publisher Comments The body of a teenage boy is discovered in a Kansas field. The murder haunts Donna — a recent widow battling cancer — calling forth troubling details from long-suppressed memories of her past. Hoping to discover more about "disappeared" people,... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell Publisher Comments “I suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me. Nevertheless, I am sure of this much: My little story has become your history. You wont really understand your times until you understand mine... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler Publisher Comments In his previous book, celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the age of globalization and mankind's explosive progress over the last two hundred years was based on the availability of cheap fossil fuels. He observed that the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson Publisher Comments Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot must work together to solve two chilling crimes in a stunning new novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson. One morning in March, on the edge of a cliff overlooking the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Resistance by Owen Sheers Staff Pick A great read that combines the plot of a thriller (Normandy invasion fails; Hitler successfully invades England) with the subtle language of poetry. You are propelled through this story by characters that make you care about a time that never was and a... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Fear and Yoga in New Jersey by Debra Galant Publisher Comments Nina Gettleman-Summer, a New Jersey yoga teacher, should be calmly guiding her high powered students through their savasanas and their chakras. Instead she is worried about...everything: her new meditation fountain overflowed causing one of her more... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine Publisher Comments Trespass is the story of one womans struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utahs red-rock country after her fathers suicide, only to find... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz Publisher Comments THEY'RE BAAAAACK. Their first caper, The Spellman Files, was a New York Times bestseller and earned comparisons to the books of Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich. Now the Spellmans, a highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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An Irish Country Village by Patrick Taylor Publisher Comments Welcome to the Village of Ballybucklebo. Come and say hello to Dr. O'Reilly's odd-as-two-left feet patients, his housekeeper, Mrs. "Kinky" Kinkaid, and O'Reilly's pets, Arthur Guinness, the beer-swilling black Lab and Lady MacBeth, the demonically... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Person of Interest by Susan Choi Publisher Comments From an acclaimed novelist, an emotionally complex and riveting story of suspicion, innocence, and regret. When a mail bomb explodes in the campus office next door, Lee, an Asian American math professor at a second-tier university in the Midwest... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte by Laura Joh Rowland Synopsis Upon learning that she has been falsely accused of plagiarism, the normally mild-mannered Charlotte Bront sets off for London to clear her name. Throughout her adventure, Charlotte lures readers into a fast-paced and vividly imagined romp through... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Cure for Modern Life by Lisa Tucker Publisher Comments From Lisa Tucker, the critically acclaimed author of Once Upon a Day and The Song Reader, comes an extraordinary novel about the way we live now: the choices we make and the decisions we let life make for us. Matthew and Amelia were once in love and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Fraction of the Whole: A Novel by Steve Toltz Staff Pick A Fraction of the Whole is brilliant. Hysterically funny, yet profound. Themes of philosophy and literature, life and love, madness and creativity abound. I thoroughly enjoyed every page of Steve Toltz's debut novel. Perfectly absorbing with richly... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus by Joshua Kendall Publisher Comments The extraordinary true story of Peter Mark Roget and his legendary Thesaurus, Peter Mark Roget — polymath, eccentric, synonym aficionado — was a complicated man. He was an eminent scholar who absorbed himself in his work, yet he also possessed... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain by Martha Sherrill Publisher Comments How one man's consuming passion for dogs saved a legendary breed from extinction and led him to a difficult, more soulful way of life in the wilds of Japan's remote snow country As Dog Man opens, Martha Sherrill brings us to a world that Americans know... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson Publisher Comments Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother make sure the literal family skeleton stays in the closet or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister Thalia, an impoverished... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Soul Thief: A Novel by Charles Baxter Publisher Comments Here is an extraordinary new novel from one of our most admired and acclaimed writers, a creator of stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight (Los Angeles Times). During Nathaniel Mason's first few months as a graduate... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Philosopher's Apprentice: A Novel by James Morrow Publisher Comments A brilliant philosopher with a talent for self-destruction, Mason Ambrose has torpedoed a promising academic career and now faces a dead-end future. Before joining the ranks of the unemployed, however, he's approached by a representative of billionaire... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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