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Infinite Jest: A Novel by David Foster Wallace Publisher Comments Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff Staff Pick I'm rather sure that all three of Stacy Schiff's previous works have been nominated for some award or another. With a pedigree like that, you know that her latest biography is bound to be a must-read. Stripping away all the previous misconceptions about... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Life by Keith Richards Publisher Comments The long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Ladies and gentlemen: Keith Richards. With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean Staff Pick Sam Kean proves that chemistry makes for great storytelling with this entertaining look at the human stories behind the elements found in the periodic table. A delightful history of science, The Disappearing Spoon makes for both an engaging and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Case Histories: A Novel by Kate Atkinson Publisher Comments This new novel from award-winner Atkinson is a breathtaking story of families divided, love lost and found, and the mysteries of fate. As Private Detective Jackson Brodie investigates three cases, startling connections and discoveries emerge.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments These are riveting memoirs of one of the great moral and political figures of our time, an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris Staff Pick Completely autobiographical and, as always, hilarious, Me Talk Pretty One Day is my favorite of all the David Sedaris collections. The first half of the book focuses on his childhood in North Carolina and his very unusual family; the second half details... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell Publisher Comments In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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White Oleander (Oprah's Book Club) by Janet Fitch Publisher Comments A bestselling first novel about a young woman growing up the hard way, this is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, their ambiguous alliances, and the search for love and identity. When a woman murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life, her... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Then We Came to the End: A Novel by Joshua Ferris Staff Pick Then We Came to the End tells the story of an ad agency in decline, circa 2001. "We had a toy client, a car client, a long-distance carrier and a pet store," readers are told. We. Ferris uses the first person plural to present the agency's collective... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell Publisher Comments Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher Comments "In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, a place called the Devil's Highway. Fathers and sons, brothers and strangers, entered a desert so harsh and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves from... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Publisher Comments To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor", and they... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach Staff Pick If it weren't for the Morning News Tournament of Books, I would never have read The Art of Fielding. Baseball? No, thanks. But have no fear it's not really a book about baseball. Henry Skrimshander is a shortstop prodigy who lives and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Room by Emma Donoghue Staff Pick Emma Donoghue mines current headlines for her harrowing account of a young women held captive in a room for years. Forced to bear a child by her captor, "Ma" becomes increasingly desperate to escape her one-room hell. On the other hand, Jack, her 5-year-... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Terror by Dan Simmons Staff Pick This book is based factually on the missing Franklin expedition, last seen by Europeans in July of 1845. The HMS Erabus and the ill-named HMS Terror were the space shuttles of their day, and Dan Simmons spins a haunting and suspenseful tale of this... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris Publisher Comments "David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art", (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller From Powells.com "Live from New York is described as 'an uncensored history of Saturday Night Live' and that is exactly what you get: no mincing of words, no glancing blows....See the hatred that Jim Belushi still bears for Bob Woodward for writing about his brother... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James Bradley Publisher Comments James Bradley's #1 bestseller Flags of Our Fathers made real the humanity and legacy of war as few books had before. Now, in Flyboys, Bradley returns to World War II and an extraordinary and totally unknown true story of courage. Over... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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