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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: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries) by Sandra Cisneros Publisher Comments Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson Staff Pick Hailed by critics across the globe, showered with awards, Out Stealing Horses is a book that true lovers of the written word will hold close to their hearts. With its captivating prose and characters who burrow under your skin and refuse to come out, Per... (read more) List Price $15.00 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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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: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Plainsong (Vintage Contemporaries) by Kent Haruf Staff Pick Just before Plainsong really hit big, I interviewed Kent Haruf for a now-defunct magazine called Boswell; and after speaking to Mr. Haruf for an hour, caught a glimpse of the modest spirit behind this wise novel. The story is written with deep humility... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig Publisher Comments A New York Times Editors Choice A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year [quote side bar] "Flawless."O, the Oprah Magazine "Courageous."Washington Post Book World "Evocative."The New Yorker "Life-affirming."... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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East of the Sun by Julia Gregson Publisher Comments In the rich tradition of The Jewel in the Crown and The Far Pavilions, this sweeping international bestseller from a major new talent captures the lives of three young women on their way to a new life in india during the 1920s. Chosen as a Richard and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano Publisher Comments A stunning debut novel about the intertwined destinies of two friends brought together by childhood tragedy. A three-million-copy Italian bestseller and winner of that country's prestigious Premio Strega award. A prime number is inherently a solitary... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 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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Great House by Nicole Krauss Publisher Comments For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet's secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet's daughter arrives to take it away,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 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 addition of... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $4.50 Used - 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: $3.75 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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Midwives (Oprah's Book Club) by Chris Bohjalian Publisher Comments With a suspense, lyricism, and moral complexity that recall To Kill a Mockingbird and Presumed Innocent, this compulsively readable novel explores what happens when a woman who has devoted herself to ushering life into the world finds herself charged... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Love Medicine (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments The stunning first novel in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, Love Medicine tells the story of two families the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. Written in Erdrich's uniquely poetic, powerful style, it is a multigenerational portrait of strong... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Staff Pick Waiting for a new Kingsolver novel has been like waiting for a favorite restaurant to reopen after renovations, only it's been nine years of anticipation. With the grand depth of The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna tells of historical and intercultural... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon Staff Pick The Lazarus Project, Hemon's latest novel, is about storytelling, the nature of memory and reality, and America's relationship to the rest of the world, both past and present. It's blackly funny, crackling with intelligence, and populated by realistic... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Small Island by Andrea Levy Publisher Comments Winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction A Picador Original Trade Paperback Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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