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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Staff Pick Ishiguro takes a meditative look at childhood, loss of innocence, and human deception and the drive for survival. This is a haunting narrative that is joyous and sad at once — reminiscent of Philip K. Dick, but with a very literary and poignant eye for... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Anansi Boys: A Novel by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime. Anansi Boys God is dead. Meet the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Veronica: A Novel by Mary Gaitskill Publisher Comments The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica is about flesh and spirit, vanity, mortality, and mortal affection. Set mostly in Paris and Manhattan in the desperately glittering 1980s, it has... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss Staff Pick In this brilliant work on love and loss, two stories, past and present, merge. With compassion and humor, Nicole Krauss writes a beautiful and incredibly imaginative novel, delivering readers through twists and turns to arrive at a wholly satisfying... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole by Stephanie Doyon Publisher Comments For generations, Cedar Hole has been the armpit of Gilford County, a town full of apathetic underachievers trapped by a defunct railroad, distrust of the outside world, and their own lack of imagination. It has also been the home of the Pinkhams, a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer Staff Pick I absolutely loved Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close a most precious and delightful novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Oskar Schell made me laugh, smile, and just feel good. He is a charmer who's won my heart through the tears and the joy.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Beasts of No Nation: A Novel by Uzodinma Iweala Staff Pick See Africa through the words of a gifted young writer named Uzodinma Iweala, whose debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, exposes the genocide plaguing that continent in a car-crash voice that won't let you turn away.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Garner: A Novel by Kirstin Allio Publisher Comments Garner, New Hampshire is a town delineated by its Puritan ethics and its "Live Free or Die" mentality. In 1925, Garner's economic prospects are in decline and a group of young, wealthy New Yorkers descend on Frances Giddens's family farm for summer... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $2.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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On Beauty: A Novel by Zadie Smith Publisher Comments New York Times Ten Best Books of 2012 A boldly Joycean appropriation, fortunately not so difficult of entry as its great model Like Zadie Smiths much-acclaimed predecessor White Teeth (2000), NW is an urban epic.” --Joyce Carol Oates... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Publisher Comments Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthys first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy. Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Historian: A Novel by Elizabeth Kostova Publisher Comments - A brilliant literary novel as well as a breathtaking page-turner, THE HISTORIAN has already created an international frenzy. Set for publication in over 15 languages, this gripping tale is about to take the world by storm.- The most abundantly... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Home Land by Sam Lipsyte Staff Pick A caustic and hilarious story about Lewis Miner, a man afflicted by a terrible high school experience and blessed with an acid tongue that takes no prisoners. Lipsyte's sentences are creations of absolute wonder and terrific angst.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Accidental: A Novel by Ali Smith Staff Pick The Accidental, Ali Smith's dazzling new novel, explores the modern family in all its chaos, darkness, and love, using some of the most inventive prose seen in recent years. Smith's story is bewitching, her characters empathetic, and her craft impeccable.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Saturday by Ian McEwan Staff Pick Ian McEwan's new novel is generous, contemplative, and moving and in good company, joining classics like Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses that take place during a single day. McEwan intricately weaves characters and themes towards an eloquent and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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