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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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Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Staff Pick The narrator, Lionel Essrog, known as The Human Freakshow, suffers with Tourette's syndrome and though you might not want to know him in real life, he's got to be one of the most brilliant characters ever created. His quirky rants put me off at first... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami From Powells.com Haruki Murakami is generally considered the greatest Japanese writer of his generation, but at times he seems more in tune with the culture of the West than of his native country. Throughout his work, the food, music, movies, and literature... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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American Pastoral by Philip Roth Publisher Comments As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Gesture Life by Chang Rae Lee Publisher Comments The riveting story of a Japanese immigrant who leads a proper, decorous life in a New York suburb. As his life slowly unravels, he is transported back to his days as a medic in the Japanese army in World War II, and his obsessive love of a young comfort... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hours by Michael Cunningham Publisher Comments A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Publisher Comments Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead Publisher Comments Lila Mae Watson is the first black female Elevator Inspector in the history of the Department. She is an Intuitionist, able to intuit defects purely by tuning in to the machinery. The opposition, the Empiricists, practice dutiful and routine physical... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst Publisher Comments In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath—a hugely charismatic hero—becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in eastern Europe. From the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Publisher Comments Set along a bloody frontier in our own time, this is Cormac McCarthy's first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling "Border Trilogy." Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Name of the World (00 Edition) by Denis Johnson Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of Jesus' Son and Already Dead returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. The Name of the World is a mesmerizing portrait of a professor at a Midwestern university who has been patient in his grief after an accident... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hours by Michael Cunningham Publisher Comments The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel becomes a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Soul Mountain by Xingjian Gao Publisher Comments In 1983 Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. But six weeks later, a second examination revealed the cancer was gone, and he was thrown back into the world of the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh From Powells.com In the past decade writers such as A. L. Kennedy, Iain Banks, Alan Warner, Michel Faber, and Ian Rankin have made Scotland one of the most talked about literary communities in the world. No writer, though, has been more central to this "... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gain by Richard Powers From Powells.com Recipient of the prestigious MacArthur "genius" grant and finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Richard Powers has long been a favorite of literary critics. The editors of the Utne Reader, though, came... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tomcat in Love by Tim O'Brien From Powells.com Tim O'Brien is known as a "Vietnam" writer, primarily because his novels and stories about that particular catastrophe and its aftermath are without question among the finest ever written. O'Brien won the 1979 National Book Award... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine: Stories by Thom Jones Review "Spending time with Jones' battle-worn eccentrics and disenfranchised misfits leaves you feeling bruised but also elated." Kate Sekules... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Ravelstein (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Saul Bellow Publisher Comments Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously — and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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