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Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen Staff Pick In his new novel, Jonathan Franzen surpasses the achievements of his National Book Award-winner, The Corrections. Freedom examines every major theme in American life — politics, class, work, culture, and sex, to name a few — through the lens of one... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender Staff Pick Aimee Bender's first novel since An Invisible Sign of My Own lives up to her astonishing short stories. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is an incredibly poignant and unique coming-of-age story that you won't be able to put down. My favorite book of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon Staff Pick Jaimy Gordon's National Book Award came as no surprise to those of us who had already fallen in love with the mythic, bewitching voices of Lord of Misrule. The characters — and horses — of Indian Mound Downs dwell on a dangerous fringe, powerfully... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Room by Emma Donoghue Staff Pick Emma Donoghue is a truly versatile writer. Although utterly unlike Slammerkin and her other books, Room earns a place of honor while distinguishing itself with a gripping subject that never sinks into gloom, but always floats on a current of Donoghue's... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Staff Pick Jennifer Egan's new novel is a fantastically inventive, intelligent, and fully realized exploration of music, art, and life. It even includes a chapter written in PowerPoint, which is actually a pleasure to read. A Visit from the Goon Squad is Egan's... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson Publisher Comments Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer, and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bad Marie (P.S.) by Marcy Dermansky Staff Pick Wow I loved this book! You know you are dealing with a great writer when you care about a character even though you don't like them. Marie, the nanny, has more to say (both bad and good) about motherhood than most parents. Self-absorbed and... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart Staff Pick This dark, smart satire appears at a perfect, uncertain moment for our culture. Will books still exist as we know them? And how will love fare in an electronic world? Shteyngart enables us to laugh our fears away — at least, for the duration of this... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bloodroot (Vintage Contemporaries) by Amy Greene Publisher Comments Myra Lamb is a wild girl with mysterious, haint blue eyes who grows up on remote Bloodroot Mountain. Her grandmother, Byrdie, protects her fiercely and passes down “the touch” that bewitches people and animals alike. But when John Odom tries... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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So Much for That by Lionel Shriver Staff Pick In So Much for That, Lionel Shriver tackles large subjects marriage, illness, and the failure of the American healthcare system and dissects them with her astute and critical insights. Full of memorable characters, spot-on detail, and... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Kapitoil (P.S.) by Teddy Wayne Publisher Comments “Teddy Wayne has written a brilliant book. Karim Issar is one of the freshest, funniest heroes Ive come across in a long time.” — Ben Fountain, bestselling author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara “An innovative and... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nox by Anne Carson Publisher Comments Nox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and created after the death of her brother. The poem describes coming to terms with his loss through the lens of her translation of Poem 101 by Catullus "for his... (read more) Your price: $39.99 New - Hardcover
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Model Home by Eric Puchner Staff Pick While Warren Ziller is watching his family's financial security bleed out, his wife, Camille, is making really bad public service movies, and their children are struggling to make a meaningful life of their own, something far, far worse is coming their... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Savages by Don Winslow Publisher Comments A breakthrough novel that pits young kingpins against a Mexican drug cartel, Savages is a provocative, sexy, and sharply funny thrill ride through the dark side of the war on drugs and beyond. Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Skippy Dies by Paul Murray Staff Pick Talk about a spoiler! Yes, Skippy dies. (Or maybe he doesn't. I'll never tell.) But the fact of his death isn't nearly as important as the why, which Paul Murray's Dublin-set novel explores with a dizzying mix of hilarity and tragedy that's never less... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Next by James Hynes Staff Pick Wow! What an amazing ending! Next is really an interesting book the ending makes it or breaks it, I think. Kevin is just your average shlub, who can't manage to do anything without being distracted by the women in the immediate vicinity. He's so... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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