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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Publisher Comments The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Grendel by John Gardner Staff Pick It's easy to find oneself in the thrall of hanks of blond hair and mead-fueled heroism, but it is a more difficult task to regard, with care, the heart of a monster. The monster (but is he?) in question is Grendel, an introspective animal who loves his... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Publisher Comments In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri Publisher Comments Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson Publisher Comments National Bestseller Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Kate Atkinson’s dazzling debut novel is a deeply moving story of family heartbreak and happiness. Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss Staff Pick In this brilliant work on love and loss, two stories, past and present, merge. With compassion and humor, Nicole Krauss writes a beautiful and incredibly imaginative novel, delivering readers through twists and turns to arrive at a wholly satisfying... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer Staff Pick I absolutely loved Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close a most precious and delightful novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Oskar Schell made me laugh, smile, and just feel good. He is a charmer who's won my heart through the tears and the joy.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Staff Pick Well, first, I am a sucker for any book set at the circus. But throw in the massive talent that Sara Gruen has and then tell me a love story? Far from the cliché book club pick, Water for Elephants will be read for your next club meeting and then you'll... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay Publisher Comments Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a 10-year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel dHiv roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama Publisher Comments The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to his family's summer... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments The first book in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, which also includes The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace, Love Medicine tells the story of two families--the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. Now resequenced by the author with the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss Staff Pick In this brilliant work on love and loss, two stories, past and present, merge. With compassion and humor, Nicole Krauss writes a beautiful and incredibly imaginative novel, delivering readers through twists and turns to arrive at a wholly satisfying... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus Publisher Comments One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lark and Termite. Jayne Anne Phillips by Jayne Anne Phillips Publisher Comments National Bestseller New York Times Notable Book Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year Lark and Termite is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother,... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Say You're One of Them (Oprah #63) by Uwem Akpan Publisher Comments Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gifts of any kind... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson Publisher Comments A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Peace Like a River by Leif Enger Staff Pick "A lean and lovingly told story, drawn from Midwestern life, sparked with moments of the miraculous."... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory Publisher Comments "If Mother Goose and Philip K. Dick had a love child, and Richard Brautigan raised him in Watermelon Sugar, he might write stories like Ben Loory." -Jonathan Evison Loory's collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables is populated... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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West of Here by Jonathan Evison Publisher Comments At the foot of the Elwha River, the muddy outpost of Port Bonita is about to boom, fueled by a ragtag band of dizzyingly disparate men and women unified only in their visions of a more prosperous future. A failed accountant by the name of Ethan... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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World Made by Hand by James Kunstler Publisher Comments In The Long Emergency celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production, combined with climate change, had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. In World Made by Hand, an... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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