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The Round House by Louise Erdrich Staff Pick Exploring themes of crime, justice, and revenge, Erdrich spins a tale of the brutal rape of a Native American woman who lives on a reservation in North Dakota. When 13-year-old Joe's mother is raped and very nearly murdered, he watches as his family... (read more) Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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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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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: $4.95 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 $15.00 Your price: $7.95 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: $4.50 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: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Echo Maker by Richard Powers Publisher Comments Winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction The Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it" (Booklist, starred review). On a winter night on a remote Nebraska... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Peter Matthiessens great American epic-Killing Mister Watson, Lost Mans River, and Bone by Bone-was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books. In this... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien Publisher Comments "To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales." So wrote The New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Spectator Bird (Contemporary American Fiction) by Wallace Stegner Publisher Comments Joe Allston is a retired literary agent who is, in his own words, "just killing time until time gets around to killing me." His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon Staff Pick Jaimy Gordon's National Book Award came as no surprise to those of us who had already fallen in love with the mythic, bewitching voices of Lord of Misrule. The characters — and horses — of Indian Mound Downs dwell on a dangerous fringe, powerfully... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter Publisher Comments Porters reputation as one of americancas most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower as well as four stories not available... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Publisher Comments Winner of the 1997 National Book Award A New York Times and Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year Charles Frazier has created a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land, a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard Staff Pick The Great Fire is one of the most sophisticated novels I’ve read in years. Beautiful writing and acute psychological insights.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Waiting by Ha Jin Publisher Comments "In Waiting, Ha Jin portrays the life of Lin Kong, a dedicated doctor torn by his love for two women: one who belongs to the New China of the Cultural Revolution, the other to the ancient traditions of his family's village. Ha Jin profoundly... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty Publisher Comments This complete collection includes all the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are forty-one stories in all, including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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