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All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy Publisher Comments Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton. The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Staff Pick McCann chooses to describe one day in the life of New York City, the day in 1974 that the aerialist walked between the not-quite-finished Twin Towers. The chasm between rich and poor, the joy of connection, and the inevitability of our mortality are told... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Publisher Comments Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Publisher Comments Winner of the 2011 National Book Award A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Award After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Moviegoer by Walker Percy Publisher Comments The dazzling novel, written in 1961, that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback edition. "A brilliant novel. . . . . Percy touches the rim of so many human... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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White Noise by Don DeLillo Publisher Comments Jack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New york expatriates who want to immerse themselves in "American magic and dread." Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mating by Norman Rush Publisher Comments US... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Europe Central by William T. Vollmann Publisher Comments In his newest work, Vollmann presents a mesmerizing series of intertwined paired stories that compare and contrast the moral decisions made by various figures associated with the warring authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the 20th century.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Year of Magical Thinking (Vintage International) by Joan Didion Staff Pick Best book of 2005, favorite book of the year...Slice the question any number of ways, but the book published last year that I'm most grateful for having read is The Year of Magical Thinking, a devastating affirmation of love and commitment, hope and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Staff Pick This heartbreaking story of a Confederate soldier is absolutely riveting. Although Inman is gravely wounded, he deserts the army and heads back home on foot, keenly aware that he has the slimmest chance of making it alive. Trying to elude bounty... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett Publisher Comments The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Staff Pick Best book of 2005, favorite book of the year...Slice the question any number of ways, but the book published last year that I'm most grateful for having read is The Year of Magical Thinking, a devastating affirmation of love and commitment, hope and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Charming Billy by Alice McDermott Publisher Comments Billy Lynch's family and friends have gathered at a small Bronx bar. They have come to comfort his widow and to eulogize one of the last great romantics, trading tales of his famous humor, immense charm, and unfathomable sorrow. As they linger on into... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award,The Color Purpleis the moving story of a young womans endurance of shame and suffering to become whole and to know God. The novel became an instant classic and has been adapted into a film and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Three Junes by Julia Glass Publisher Comments An astonishing first novel that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade as they confront the joys and longings, fulfillments and betrayals of love in all its guises. In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Synopsis In 1997, Charles Fraziers debut novel Cold Mountain made publishing history when it sailed to the top of The New York Times best-seller list for sixty-one weeks, won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Award, and went on to sell over... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Staff Pick McCann chooses to describe one day in the life of New York City, the day in 1974 that the aerialist walked between the not-quite-finished Twin Towers. The chasm between rich and poor, the joy of connection, and the inevitability of our mortality are told... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx Publisher Comments When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Publisher Comments Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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