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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: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Pevear & Volokhonsky) Staff Pick In this stunning masterpiece, Dostoevsky weaves together a murder mystery, a psychological thriller, and a taut courtroom drama with religious ideas, observations about family dysfunction, and some blistering social commentary. Absolutely brilliant!... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Staff Pick An utter delight. This enchanting tale has long been a favorite of mine. It has just been reissued to coincide with the soon to be released movie version. Set in 1930s England, this story of young love beguiles with moated castles, moonlight swims, high... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Duchess of Sin (Daughters of Erin Trilogy #2) by Laurel McKee Staff Pick In a genre dominated by Regency England, Duchess of Sin, the second book in the Daughters of Erin trilogy, is a refreshing romp set in 18th-century Ireland, a strife-ridden country recovering from a bloody rebellion two years before. Lady Anna Blacknall,... (read more) Your price: $7.99 New - Mass Market
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Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt Staff Pick Byatt's use of language is lyrical and poignant. It drips from the pages like honey from a lover's tongue....Possession is the sheer essence of Byatt's work. She weaves the tale of a pair of literary scholars studying the lives of two Victorian poets. As... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ten Things I Love about You by Julia Quinn Staff Pick Julia Quinn's witty Regency romance novels are the perfect summer beach read. While I've yet to hit the beach this summer (well, here in Oregon, we call it the "coast"), I still enjoyed Ten Things I Love about You. A country girl, her betrothed — an... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard Staff Pick The Great Fire is one of the most sophisticated novels I’ve read in years. Beautiful writing and acute psychological insights.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Song Is You by Arthur Phillips Staff Pick Arthur Phillips's fourth novel is a beautiful, intelligent meditation on music, loss, and intimacy, a story of star-crossed not-quite-lovers who radically affect each other's lives. The Song Is You is Phillips's best book yet, as smart and intricate as... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse #10) by Charlaine Harris Staff Pick Dead in the Family is much more character driven than the last book in Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series. Finding a dead body on her land (no, not the one she knew was there) leads to the discovery that someone (the new Vampire King? the FBI... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Staff Pick History, time travel, Highland lore, romance, battle, dead sexy Scottish men, and well-written repartee... I dare you to find one thing in that list that doesn't sound completely riveting. You can't do it, can you? Outlander may technically be... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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There's No Place Like Here by Cecelia Ahern Staff Pick What if you found the place where all missing things and people go? What if you found yourself there? Just go ahead and embrace the magical realism in this intriguing novel it's worth it! It is original and charming.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank Staff Pick "Saturday morning I started The Wonder Spot, Melissa Bank's 2005 novel-in-stories. Sunday afternoon I finished. Two days with the Applebaum family took me all the way from turntables to cell phones; we covered a lot of ground, Sophie Applebaum and I... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel Staff Pick A love story wrapped in divine Mexican dishes with just enough charm, magic, and romance to make it a one-of-a-kind fairy tale. Esquivel's writing is so lyrical and animated you can smell the sausages on the grill and feel the overwhelming emotions of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mad Scientist's Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke Staff Pick "I believe I'm one of a kind." In a world full of sentient robots exploited by humankind, Cat knows there is no one else like her childhood tutor, Finn. The tapestry of her life is woven with uncertainty and loss as she makes increasingly poor... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Love in the Afternoon by Lisa Kleypas Staff Pick Lisa Kleypas ends her wonderful Hathaway series with this charming, passionate tale of unlikely love between free-spirited Beatrix Hathaway and world-weary soldier Captain Christopher Phelan.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Dead and Gone: Sookie Stackhouse Novel #9 (Southern Vampire Series) by Charlaine Harris Staff Pick I never tire of Sookie Stackhouse and her adventures. Dead and Gone, Charlaine Harris's ninth in this series, is great fun! Sookie faces angry fairies who are out to kidnap her in order to force her grandfather, a royal fairy, to bend to their will. But... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning Staff Pick After leaving her fans on the edge of our seats with Faefever, Karen Marie Moning delivers a stunning follow-up in Dreamfever. Dreamfever continues the saga of MacKayla Lane, a "sidhe-seer" who, unlike normal humans, can see the "fae": immortal creatures... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole Staff Pick Welcome to the world of Kresley Cole and the Lore. If you love paranormal romances featuring feisty heroines and sexy alpha males, these are the books for you. Passion and fate collide when gentle half-vampire Emmaline Troy is captured by the fierce... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano Staff Pick When he died in 2003, at the age of 50, Roberto Bolaño was all but unknown anywhere north of the Rio Grande, yet he is now acclaimed internationally and considered among the most eminent figures in Latin American letters. Chilean by... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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Quiet American, the (Movie Tie-In) by Graham Greene Staff Pick One of the first things I learned living abroad is that much of the world places far less value on the idea of "innocence" than Americans do. The cult of innocence is an American ideal. One of the finest, most insightful portrayals of an American... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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