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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Staff Pick The story of two young comic book artists in 1940s New York City, Jewish boys, one of whom fled the German steamroller heading toward his home in Czechoslovakia in a coffin, Chabon's third and best novel is utterly original, a generous fictional addition... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Publisher Comments The most talked about — and praised — first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who, from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves from... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller Staff Pick In her 2001 debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller recalled in vivid, often excruciating detail coming of age in Rhodesia as a long civil war raged in neighboring Mozambique and her own country slid down the violent path toward an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje Publisher Comments With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bel Canto: A Novel by Ann Patchett Publisher Comments Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka Publisher Comments The debut novel from the PEN/Faulkner Award Winning Author of The Buddha in the Attic On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Empire Falls by Richard Russo Publisher Comments In this droll, unsentimental, and occasionally hilarious novel, Richard Russo tells the story of a big-hearted man who becomes the unlikely hero of a small town with a glorious past but a dubious future.<P>The one (barely) viable business in Empire... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Wild Life by Molly Gloss Staff Pick At the turn of the century, in the primeval forest of the Pacific Northwest, a fiery feminist becomes lost. Struggling to survive, night after terrifying night, she is finally rescued by... Bigfoot!? Huh? No, really — this incredible story works. Gloss... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hound Health Handbook: The Definitive Guide to Keeping Your Dog Happy, Healthy & Active by Betsy Brevitz D.V.M Staff Pick Everything you need to know to keep your dog healthy, your mind at ease, and your wallet full. From puppies to seniors, it's all here: fleas and allergies, vaccines and behavioral problems, emergencies and basic first aid. I'll be giving Hound Health... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman Publisher Comments ALLEGRA GOODMAN has delighted readers with her critically acclaimed collections Total Immersion and The Family Markowitz, and her celebrated first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, which was a national bestseller and a National Book Award finalist. Now, in her... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks Publisher Comments In The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident. Using four different narrators, Banks creates a small-town morality play that addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: when the worst thing happens, who... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Unbearable Lightness of Being (84 Edition) by Milan Kundera Publisher Comments Plot Summary Tereza and Tomas, Tomas and Sabina, Sabina and Franz, Franz and Marie-Claude--four people, four relationships. Milan Kundera's masterful novel, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), tells the interlocking stories of these four... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Franny and Zooey by J D Salinger Staff Pick I named my yellow Lab "Zooey" and believe me, I don't make those kinds of decisions hastily. It was either Zooey or Pooh, and, well, I wondered what kind of looks I might get from strangers, shouting "Pooh!" at my dog in the park. Would people know that... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Underworld by Don DeLillo Staff Pick DeLillo's eleventh novel is a masterwork of language, character, vision, and story. Rarely does a book of this proportion succeed completely on every level, but from the cinematic opening in Ebbets Field on the afternoon of Bobby Thomson's legendary... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Dixie City Jam by James Lee Burke Publisher Comments Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux matches wits with neo-Nazi psychopath Will Buchalter to find a sunken German submarine, while a Mafia war explodes in New Orleans. Reprint.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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High Fidelity by Nick Hornby Publisher Comments High Fidelity is the story of Rob, a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend Laura has just left him for Ian from the flat upstairs. Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace Publisher Comments A sumptuous, scintillating stew of sixty four short fictions about appetite, food, and the objects of our desire All great meals, it has been said, lead to discussions of either sex or death, and The Devil's Larder, in typical Cracean fashion, leads to... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding From Powells.com Bridget Jones is the character that Helen Fielding invented to record the trials and tribulations of being a single woman in her thirties, adding a reworking of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to hilarious result. Bridget Jones's Diary was... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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