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At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson Staff Pick There is nothing on this planet that Bryson cannot make fascinating. In his hands, exploring the minutiae of his house becomes an adventure. (Granted, his house is a Victorian vicarage in Norfolk, England.) At Home is a joyful, chatty dip into the... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson Publisher Comments William Gibson is known primarily as a novelist, with his work ranging from his groundbreaking first novel, Neuromancer, to his more recent contemporary bestsellers Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History. During those nearly thirty years... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Publisher Comments Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid... (read more) Your price: $17.99 New - Hardcover
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Glaciers (Tin House New Voice) by Alexis Smith Publisher Comments Isabel is a single, twenty-something thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.67 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel of North Korea by Adam Johnson Publisher Comments An epic novel that elevates its acclaimed author to a whole new level, The Orphan Master’s Son is a stunning work of fiction that follows a young man’s undercover journey in the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.20 Sale - Hardcover
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Crazy Enough: A Memoir by Storm Large Publisher Comments Yes, Storm Large is her real name, though shes been called many things. As a performer, the majority of descriptions have led with “Amazon,” “Powerhouse,” “a six-foot Vargas pinup come to life.” Playboy called her a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Bossypants by Tina Fey Publisher Comments Before Liz Lemon, before Weekend Update, before Sarah Palin, Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $11.19 Sale - Trade Paper
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Red Mist (Scarpetta) by Patricia Cornwell Publisher Comments The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer. Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus Publisher Comments In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families. A terrible epidemic has struck... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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V Is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries) by Sue Grafton Publisher Comments A spiderweb of dangerous relationships lies at the heart of V is for Vengeance, Sue Grafton's daring new Kinsey Millhone novel. A woman with a murky past who kills herself-or was it murder? A spoiled kid awash in gambling debt who thinks he can beat the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right by Thomas Frank Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of What's the Matter with Kansas?, a wonderfully insightful and sardonic look at why the worst economy since the 1930s has brought about the revival of conservatism Economic catastrophe usually brings social protest and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron Publisher Comments Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Born a Tutsi, he... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.47 Sale - Hardcover
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Synopsis The New Jim Crow was initially published with a modest first printing and reasonable expectations for a hard-hitting book on a tough topic. Now, ten-plus printings later, the long-awaited paperback version of the book Lani Guinier calls “brave and... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores by Greg Palast Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either. This is the story... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Among Others by Jo Walton Staff Pick Serious readers spend half their lives consumed by what they are reading. I haven't seen a novel that so vividly illustrates this as Among Others does. I've been reading science fiction and fantasy since a young age, and I loved how Walton, a constant... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.49 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco Publisher Comments THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLER, UMBERTO ECO’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL AND BEST-SELLING NOVEL SINCE THE NAME OF THE ROSE "Erudite and pop, sinister and passionate . . . A work destined to become a classic." — La Repubblica (Italy)... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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All There Is: Love Stories from Storycorps by Dave Isay Publisher Comments A celebration of love from StoryCorps. In All There Is, founder Dave Isay shares stories of love and marriage from the revolutionary oral history project, revealing the many and remarkable paths that relationships can take. From the excitement and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.47 Sale - Hardcover
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Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson Publisher Comments It is 83 years after the last of the thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler took the name of Corrino and established himself as the first Emperor of a new Imperium. Great changes are brewing that will shape and... (read more) Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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The Essential Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter and Willow Rosenthal Publisher Comments The andquot;how-toandquot; guide for a new generation of farmers from the author of Farm City and a leading urban garden educator. In this indispensable guide, Farm City author Novella Carpenter and Willow Rosenthal share their experience as successful... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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Blueprints of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot Publisher Comments From the "wickedly talented" (Boston Globe) and "darkly funny" (New York Times Book Review) Ryan Boudinot, Blueprints of the Afterlife is a tour de force. It is the Afterlife. The end of the world is a distant, distorted memory called “the Age... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.80 Sale - Trade Paper
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