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Beautiful Ruins (P.S.) by Jess Walter Staff Pick Jess Walter gets nearer the Pulitzer with Beautiful Ruins. Chance meetings during the 1962 filming of Cleopatra in Italy set in motion events that spiral into the present day. Walter captures perfectly how the best part of life is that it doesn't turn... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cuckoo's Calling by J. K. Rowling as Robert Galbraith Publisher Comments A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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The Orchardist (P.S.) by Amanda Coplin Publisher Comments A Best Book of the Year Washington Post • Seattle Times • The Oregonian National Public Radio • Amazon • Kirkus Reviews Publishers Weekly • The Daily Beast An Indie Next Pick A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick At the turn... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan Publisher Comments From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth. Two thousand years ago, an itinerant... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver Publisher Comments Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. In the lyrical language of her native Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Vintage) by Cheryl Strayed Staff Pick I know this title is everywhere right now. I was very fortunate to get an advanced copy, and I immediately fell in love. Why? Well, like many, my favorite books are those that seem to have been written just for me. I deeply understood the raw ache of... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain Staff Pick One-third of the world's population are introverts, and we are quietly going to take over the world while you extroverts are busy yapping it up and not paying attention. Don't say you haven't been warned.... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell Publisher Comments View our feature on George Orwell’s 1984. Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell’s narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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A Wanted Man: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child Publisher Comments #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The indomitable Reacher burns up the pages.”—USA Today Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, another telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple Publisher Comments Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Publisher Comments The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife by Eben Alexander M.D. Publisher Comments A SCIENTIST'S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg Publisher Comments Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Staff Pick John Green has so cleanly sidestepped anything precious, sentimental, and heart-warming in The Fault in Our Stars, it's a wonder he was even able to write about two teenagers diagnosed with cancer. These are some fertile fields for tweeness, indeed. Oh... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris Publisher Comments A new collection of essays from the #1 New York Times bestselling author who has been called "the preeminent humorist of his generation" by Entertainment Weekly. From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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The Bat: The First Inspector Harry Hole Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original) by Jo Nesbo Publisher Comments The electrifying first appearance of Jo Nesbø’s detective, Harry Hole. Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ender's Game (Ender Wiggins Saga #1) by Orson Scott Card Publisher Comments Ben has been an underdog his whole life. But when he meets Merlinthe Merlinthe wizard delivers devastating news: a vicious band of aliens are approaching, and Ben could be the champion Earth desperately needs. Soon Ben joins the Round... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer Publisher Comments Who are you? When you start to explore this question, you find out how elusive it really is. Are you a physical body? A collection of experiences and memories? A partner to relationships? Each time you consider these aspects of yourself, you realize... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1) by George R. R. Martin From Powells.com If you're a "read-the-book-first" type, you might want to get started now on George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series. HBO has optioned the first book, A Game of Thrones, as a series, and 10 episodes are slated to begin filming in Ireland in... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Joyland by Stephen King Publisher Comments A STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF ALL TIME! Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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