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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Staff Pick An autistic math genius sets out to solve the murder-by-pitchfork of a neighbor's dog. The narrator's autism gives a terrific, interesting depth to his voice. Incredibly well done, Mark Haddon's debut novel is sweet, original, and moving.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick Gladwell's appeal can be traced directly to his studied obsession with familiar objects and events, and his remarkable talent for synthesizing complicated ideas into compelling stories. In The Tipping Point, the author set out to describe how ideas... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks Staff Pick In her follow-up to Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks has taken historical fiction to another dimension altogether. Using America's Civil War as her frame, she plants a famous (but deeply mysterious) literary figure at its center: Mr. March, the absent... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert Staff Pick Elizabeth Gilbert first met Eustace Conway in New York City, on the sidewalk in front of her apartment. He'd traveled from North Carolina, dressed in handmade buckskin clothing and "carrying an impressive knife on his belt." Gilbert, a regular... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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New Spanish Table by Anya Von Bremzen Staff Pick Last Saturday, Mindy hosted a dinner party. Every recipe was lifted directly from The New Spanish Table. For three hours, we washed down mouth-watering small plates with Spanish wine (each guest brought a bottle). Goat Cheese-Stuffed Piquillo Peppers got... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments The bestselling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century. "What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford Publisher Comments A "New York Times" Notable Book, this landmark biography uncovers for the first time the dark side of Edna St. Vincent Millay, the most famous poet of the Jazz Age. Chosen by "Entertainment Weekly" as the #1 nonfiction book of the year.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Beauty: A Novel by Zadie Smith Publisher Comments A new novel from Zadie Smith, set in Northwest London Somewhere in Northwest London stands Caldwell housing estate, relic of 70s urban planning. Five identical blocks, deliberately named: Hobbes, Smith, Bentham, Locke, and Russell. If you grew up... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford From Powells.com War is one of the few great literary topics. Since Homer immortalized the Trojan War 3,000 years ago, legions of writers have been glorifying, lamenting, dissecting, and parodying the soldier's life. So, can the world really bear yet another... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $2.98 Used - Hardcover
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Big If by Mark Costello Staff Pick Vi Asplund, a Secret Service agent, returns to her childhood home to protect the vice president as he campaigns in the New Hampshire primary. Jens, her brother, still lives in Portsmouth, writing code for a wildly successful computer game. If Mark... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Something Rising (Light and Swift) by Haven Kimmel Staff Pick Cassie Claiborne is a street-smart Nine-Ball prodigy, a temperamental tomboy, too knowing to accept her surroundings and too circumscribed by them to find release. I was less than thirty pages into Something Rising and already I sensed I'd be missing her... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby Staff Pick Name one other book critic that consistently makes you laugh out loud without denigrating the work of his subject. Right, you can't. (If you can, please, let me know.) Hornby's monthly "What I've Been Reading" columns for the Believer magazine (collected... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Publisher Comments When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from this strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a fourteen-year-old girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. In the weeks following... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem Publisher Comments This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 by Dave Eggers and Zadie Smith Publisher Comments Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by an editor who is widely recognized as a leading... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin Publisher Comments I know Dan to have a deep musical knowledge and strong intellect combined with a warm spirit and a big heart. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of popular music . . . He is a fine writer and has the ability to make difficult concepts very clear... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami Staff Pick As Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits begins, thirty men, women, and children crowd onto an inflatable boat to embark on the dangerous fourteen-kilometer crossing from Morocco to Spain. Laila Lalami navigates their desperate attempt as prologue to a novel... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Prisoner Pear: Stories from the Lake by Elissa Minor Rust Staff Pick I don't often read short stories, but Elissa Minor Rust's debut arrived on my desk last week with a yellow sticky note proclaiming, "Local author!" Why not, I figured — and what do you know, I've been returning for another story or two almost every day... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The World without Us by Alan Weisman Publisher Comments Discover the impact of the human footprint in The World Without Us. Take us off the Earth and what traces of us would linger? And which would disappear? Alan Weisman writes about which objects from today would vanish without us; how our pipes, wires, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Almost Moon: A Novel by Alice Sebold Publisher Comments When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily. So begins The Almost Moon, Alice Sebold's astonishing, brilliant, and daring new novel. A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this unforgettable work by the author of The Lovely... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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