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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: $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 $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Publisher Comments NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 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: $3.95 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: $6.95 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: $2.50 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... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - 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 the... (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: $8.00 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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Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic–Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone–was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $2.50 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 Echo Maker by Richard Powers Publisher Comments Winner of the 2006 National Book Award 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 road, twenty... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 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: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon Publisher Comments At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts are all struggling to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 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: $2.50 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: $2.50 Used - 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: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson Staff Pick Ambition doesn't always translate into success, which is why some books that take authors nearly ten years to write become massive paperweights. Then there's Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson's first novel in nine years and an unconditional masterpiece. This... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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