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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Staff Pick Julian Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for this lyrical little tome, and, in spite of the controversy surrounding the prize and the 2011 shortlist, I believe he deserved the award. It's the kind of book that one races through, stopping every now and then... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson Publisher Comments "He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one…" Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Staff Pick Heralded upon release for its elegance and restraint, The Remains of the Day has become a classic of British literature — and one of my favorite books! Ishiguro's simple, painstakingly precise language beautifully captures a man and an era that... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gathering by Anne Enright Publisher Comments The new novel from one of Ireland's most prominent voices, The Gathering is an extraordinary anatomization of a family confronting the ghosts of its history. A dazzling writer of international stature, Anne Enright is one of Ireland's most singular... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sense of an Ending (Vintage International) by Julian Barnes Publisher Comments A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning new chapter in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. This intense... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.47 Sale - Trade Paper
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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Staff Pick One of the best works of contemporary literature. This rare work of fiction by Roy is a gem. Her intensity and intellect are felt in both her nonfiction and in her fiction.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sacred Hunger (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Barry Unsworth Publisher Comments Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. In this... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sea by John Banville Staff Pick Banville's fluid prose glides over the pages of The Sea, a rich story filled with heart and bittersweet longing. I pored over the luminescent descriptions of time and place and the beautiful characters that make up this world. Clearly the Man Booker was... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Publisher Comments In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, one thousand and one children are born — each of whom, though forced to struggle through hardships... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Staff Pick A remarkable first novel, ingeniously written in the form of a letter to the Chinese premier soon to visit India, Adiga's dark yet witty debut brings to Western readers the tense drama of a developing country and a character caught up in corruption and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Life of Pi by Yann Martel Staff Pick I admit it; before reading Life of Pi, I thought, There's just no way that Yann Martel can write a whole book about a teenage boy and a tiger stranded together in a lifeboat for 277 days. But, I was so wrong; he pulls it off beautifully. You will love... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sea: A Novel by John Banville Staff Pick Banville's fluid prose glides over the pages of The Sea, a rich story filled with heart and bittersweet longing. I pored over the luminescent descriptions of time and place and the beautiful characters that make up this world. Clearly the Man Booker was... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt Staff Pick Byatt's use of language is lyrical and poignant. It drips from the pages like honey from a lover's tongue....Possession is the sheer essence of Byatt's work. She weaves the tale of a pair of literary scholars studying the lives of two Victorian poets. As... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bone People by Keri Hulme Publisher Comments At once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where Maori and European New Zealand meet, Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People is a powerful and unsettling tale saturated with violence and Maori spirituality.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Inheritance of Loss: A Novel by Kiran Desai Publisher Comments From the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard comes a masterpiece set in a corner of the Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life — Kiran Desai's new novel about belonging and estrangement, exile and homecoming, is... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Publisher Comments With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II.The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawe Jhabvala Publisher Comments Set in India, HEAT AND DUST is the story of Olivia, a beautiful, spoiled, bored English colonial wife in the 1920s who is drawn inexorably into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in plots and intrigues. Olivia outrages the tiny,... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle Publisher Comments In this national bestseller and winner of the Booker Prize, Roddy Doyle, author of the "Barrytown Trilogy," takes us to a new level of emotional richness with the story of ten-year-old Padraic Clarke. Witty and poignant--and adored by critics and readers... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally From Powells.com In an engrossing account based on the testimony of those known as Schindlerjuden (Schindler's Jews,) Thomas Keneally reconstructs the story of Oskar Schindler, the enigmatic prison camp Direktor and German war profiteer who became the unlikely... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Publisher Comments Peter Carey, Booker Prize-winning author of "Oscar and Lucinda, " powerfully evokes the legend of 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly in this novel narrated in defiantly descriptive prose by the barely literate bushranger himself. 1 map & 3... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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