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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 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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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) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash Publisher Comments In his phenomenal debut novel — a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small North Carolina town — author Wiley Cash displays a remarkable talent for lyrical, powerfully emotional... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman Publisher Comments Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world. What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran Publisher Comments Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt?... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sacre Bleu: A Comedy D'Art (P.S.) by Christopher Moore Publisher Comments It is the color of the Virgin Mary's cloak, a dazzling pigment desired by artists, an exquisite hue infused with danger, adventure, and perhaps even the supernatural. It is... Sacre Bleu In July 1890, Vincent van Gogh went into a cornfield and shot... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Canada by Richard Ford Publisher Comments When fifteen-year-old Del Parsons' parents rob a North Dakota bank, his normal life is altered forever, and a threshold is crossed that can never be uncrossed. His parents' imprisonment threatens a turbulent and uncertain future for Del and his... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons Publisher Comments The legend behind such songs as “Suzanne,” “Bird on the Wire” and “Hallelujah” andthe poet and novelist behind such groundbreaking literary works as Beautiful Losers and Book of Mercy, Leonard Cohen is one of the most... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Engelmann Publisher Comments Life is close to perfect for Emil Larsson, a self-satisfied bureaucrat in the Office of Customs and Excise in 1791 Stockholm. He is a true man of the Town — a drinker, card player, and contented bachelor — until one evening when Mrs. Sofia... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman Publisher Comments Perennial New York Times and nationally bestselling author and acclaimed multiple-prize winner Laura Lippman delivers a brilliant novel about a woman with a secret life who is forced to make desperate choices to save her son and herself. When Hector... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain Publisher Comments A finalist for the National Book Award! Three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare with Iraqi insurgents has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America's most sought-after heroes. Now they're on a media... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 by Madeleine Albright Publisher Comments Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Battle of Britain, the near-total destruction of European Jewry, the Allied victory in World War II, the rise of communism, and the onset of the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Live by Night by Dennis Lehane Publisher Comments From Gone, Baby, Gone to Mystic River to Shutter Island to The Given Day, the phenomenal Dennis Lehane has proven himself to be one of the most versatile and exciting novelists working in America today — whether hes breaking new ground with... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reamde by Neal Stephenson Publisher Comments From the extraordinary Neal Stephenson comes an epic adventure that spans entire worlds, both real and virtual. The black sheep of an Iowa farming clan, former draft dodger and successful marijuana smuggler Richard Forthrast amassed a small fortune over... (read more) Your price: $18.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Staff Pick The Song of Achilles revisits the sprawling story of the Trojan War but focuses on the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus. It is a love story so intensely searing, the brutal 10-year Trojan War somehow takes a backseat: the love they share... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The One I Left Behind by Jennifer McMahon Publisher Comments The summer of 1985 changes Reggie’s life. An awkward thirteen-year-old, she finds herself mixed up with the school outcasts. That same summer, a serial killer called Neptune begins kidnapping women. He leaves their severed hands on the police... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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You and Me by Padgett Powell Publisher Comments Padgett Powell, author of the acclaimed The Interrogative Mood and “one of the few truly important American writers of our time” (Sam Lipsyte), returns with a hilarious Southern send-up of Samuel Beckett's classic Waiting for Godot. Truly a... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mirage (P.S.) by Matt Ruff Publisher Comments 11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad, and a third into the Arab Defense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourth plane, believed to be bound for Mecca, is brought... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Indiscretion by Charles Dubow Publisher Comments Harry and Madeleine Winslow have been blessed with talent, money, and charm. Harry is a National Book Award-winning author. Madeleine is a woman of sublime beauty and grace. The Winslows play host to a coterie of close friends and acolytes eager to bask... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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