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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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.95 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) List Price $28.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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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: $8.00 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: $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: $3.50 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 $16.00 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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Life of Pi by Yann Martel Publisher Comments Pi Patel is sixteen when his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. The ship sinks, and Pi is left alone on a lifeboat, his only companions stranded zoo animals: a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra, and a Bengal... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 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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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: $5.50 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: $4.95 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: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively Publisher Comments Penelope Lively won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for this deeply moving, elegantly structured novel. Elderly, uncompromising Claudia Hampton lies in a London hospital bed with memories of life fluttering through her fading consciousness. An author... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst Publisher Comments THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE 2004 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION, AND NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST A New York Times Bestseller (Extended) · A LA Times Bestseller List · A Book Sense National Bestseller · A... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Last Orders by Graham Swift Publisher Comments Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment of their mission, their errand becomes an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner Publisher Comments In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 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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