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Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Staff Pick Do we really need another sweeping historical epic set in 16th-century England? One which possesses at its heart yet another subplot about Henry VIII and his volatile affections? We certainly do if the novel is written by Hilary Mantel. Written in a... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sense of an Ending (Vintage International) 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 $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bring Up the Bodies (A John MacRae Book) by Hilary Mantel Staff Pick Would the sequel live up to expectations? Actually, yes. Hilary Mantel's talent for rich detail and sensuous atmosphere is still apparent, and Bring Up the Bodies is, in some ways, a much more gripping, riveting, and textured read than Wolf Hall. For one... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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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: $6.95 Used - 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: $3.50 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: $1.95 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 $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - 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: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ghost Road by Pat Barker Publisher Comments The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy, and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize The Ghost Road is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy. The time of the novel is the closing months of the most... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Publisher Comments Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning best seller lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled Italian villa in the last days of the war. Hana, the grieving nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the emotionally detached... (read more) Your price: $6.98 Sale - 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: $3.50 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: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Amsterdam by Ian McEwan Publisher Comments On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher... (read more) Your price: $5.97 Sale - Hardcover
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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: $3.95 Used - 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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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: $4.95 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: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Siege of Krishnapur (New York Review Books Classics) by J G Farrell Publisher Comments 'The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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