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The Host by Stephenie Meyer Staff Pick You may know Stephenie Meyer's name due to her wildly successful young adult vampire series, The Twilight Saga. She takes a break from that with her latest, The Host; touted as her first book for "adults," it's a fun science fiction novel, with just a... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach Staff Pick Following her usual template, Mary Roach finds a subject in the scientific community that is equal parts fascinating and scandalous, and writes an extensively researched and thoroughly amusing book about it. Beyond the initial titillation stemming from a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Girl with No Shadow by Joanne Harris Publisher Comments Be careful what you wish for... Hailed as an "irresistible confection" (Entertainment Weekly), "as sweet, rich and utterly satisfying as a fine truffle" (Wall Street Journal), and "an amazement of riches" (New York Times), Chocolat won the hearts of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer Publisher Comments A Today Show Summer Reads Pick A Washington Post Book of the Year "We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect, and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship--how we can ever truly know another... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The House at Riverton by Kate Morton Publisher Comments The House at Riverton is a gorgeous debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnessed it all and kept a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger Publisher Comments A stunning successor to his best selling novel Peace Like a River, Leif Enger's new work is a rugged and nimble story about an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng Publisher Comments An epic novel nominated for the Man Booker Prize, this extraordinary debut tells the story of a young man's perilous journey through the betrayals of war and into manhood.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Outlander by Gil Adamson Staff Pick The Outlander by Gil Adamson is a wondrous vacation for your mind. With its eccentric characters and luminous prose, this novel is a romping escapade of big fun.... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Publisher Comments Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. Balram... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble Publisher Comments How do you cope in a world without your mother? When Barbara realizes time is running out, she writes letters to her four daughters, aware that they'll be facing the trials and triumphs of life without her at their side. But how can she leave them when... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Child 44: A Novel by Tom Rob Smith Publisher Comments A propulsive, relentless page-turner. A terrifying evocation of a paranoid world where no one can be trusted. A surprising, unexpected story of love and family, of hope and resilience. CHILD 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever read. There is no... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz Staff Pick With the same sly humor and neighborly curiosity he brought to Confederates in the Attic and Blue Latitudes, in A Voyage Long and Strange Tony Horwitz roams the New World, surveying the destinations of history's foremost explorers: Leif Eiriksson... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich Staff Pick Darker than many of Louise Erdrich's other works, A Plague of Doves is the story of the unsolved murder of a North Dakota family that will haunt the reader long after the pages have ceased turning.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian Publisher Comments In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Peace by Richard Bausch Publisher Comments From the prize-winning novelist and world-renowned short story writer, recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award and the Academy Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, a powerful novel about war, trust, and salvation that begs to be read in a single... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Scribbling the Cat, the unforgettable true story of a boy who comes of age in the oil-fields and open plains of Wyoming; a heartrending story of the human spirit that lays bare where... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Romanov Bride by Robert Alexander Publisher Comments The bestselling tale of Romanov intrigue from the author of The Kitchen Boy Book groups and historical fiction buffs have made Robert Alexander's two previous novels word-of-mouth favorites and national bestsellers. Set against a backdrop of Imperial... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $4.97 Sale - Hardcover
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The Conversion by Joseph Olshan Publisher Comments Russell Todaro, a young American translator, moves to Paris to take stock of his life and goals only to further lose himself in the surprising twists fate has in store for him. One night, two men waving guns and knives break and enter their Paris hotel... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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After Hours at the Almost Home by Tara Yellen Synopsis Its Super Bowl Sunday at the Almost Home Bar and Grill with the hometown Broncos playing for their second championship in a row, and the already busy night is about to get busier. When the bartender walks off, she leaves the remaining staff to the chaos... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $3.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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The God of War by Marisa Silver Publisher Comments The year is 1978. Ares Ramirez, age 12, lives with his mother, Laurel, and his younger brother Malcolm in a trailer at the edge of the Salton Sea, an unintentionally man-made body of water in the middle of the Southern California desert. It is a desolate,... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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