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The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss Staff Pick In this brilliant work on love and loss, two stories, past and present, merge. With compassion and humor, Nicole Krauss writes a beautiful and incredibly imaginative novel, delivering readers through twists and turns to arrive at a wholly satisfying... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Staff Pick List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer Staff Pick I absolutely loved Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close a most precious and delightful novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Oskar Schell made me laugh, smile, and just feel good. He is a charmer who's won my heart through the tears and the joy.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Rust (Random House Reader's Circle) by Philipp Meyer Staff Pick A noir story in spirit if not in form, Philipp Meyer's debut novel shows off the skills of a terrific writer. Characters' voices leap off the page in a bleak and desperate narrative full of sympathy, perspective, and brilliant prose. The lives of these... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher Comments With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Karen Russell Staff Pick If Flannery O'Connor had somehow become enamored of magical realism, she might have created a short story collection such as this. Russell is evidently entranced by youth, and her various and sundry child characters are brought vividly to life in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Then We Came to the End: A Novel by Joshua Ferris Staff Pick Then We Came to the End tells the story of an ad agency in decline, circa 2001. "We had a toy client, a car client, a long-distance carrier and a pet store," readers are told. We. Ferris uses the first person plural to present the agency's collective... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu Publisher Comments Before he can retire, Las Vegas detective Salazar is determined to solve a recent spate of murders. When he encounters a pair of conjoined twins with a container of blood near their car, hes sure he has apprehended the killers, and enlists the help of Dr.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Great House by Nicole Krauss Staff Pick Nicole Krauss, author of the bestselling History of Love, showcases her brilliant storytelling yet again. Her artistic way of weaving a tale and the amazing characters she develops are beyond compare. It's no wonder she's featured on the New Yorker's 20... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower Staff Pick The long-awaited debut collection by Wells Tower does not disappoint. Full of masterful tales, brilliant humor, and soul-shattering pathos, Tower's work should place him at the forefront of American storytellers.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart Staff Pick This dark, smart satire appears at a perfect, uncertain moment for our culture. Will books still exist as we know them? And how will love fare in an electronic world? Shteyngart enables us to laugh our fears away — at least, for the duration of this... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z. Z. Packer Staff Pick I read this whole collection more or less by accident, as I originally only intended on browsing the book. ZZ Packer's style is well-crafted, her writing flawless; and the stories are vivid, almost like stored memories you're only now recalling. It's a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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War by Candlelight: Stories (P.S.) by Daniel Alarcon Publisher Comments Something is happening. Wars, both national and internal, are being waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New York apartments. War by Candlelight is an exquisite collection of stories that carry the reader from... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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All the Living by C. E. Morgan Publisher Comments A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice One of the National Book Foundation's 5 Best Writers Under 35 Finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished book of fiction Third Place in Fiction for the Barnes & Noble... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li Publisher Comments “A literary voice that brings to mind Nabokov’s description of Chekhov’s narrative style: ‘The story is told in the most natural way possible…the way one person relates to another the most important things in his life... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The End by Salvatore Scibona Publisher Comments An incredible debut and National Book Award-nominated novel?it?s ?Memento meets Augie March. Didion meets Hitchcock? (Esquire). It is August 15, 1953, the day of a boisterous and unwieldy street carnival in Elephant Park, an Italian immigrant enclave in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Madeleine Is Sleeping (Harvest Book) by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum Staff Pick A fat woman sprouts delicate wings and takes flight; a failed photographer stumbles into the role of pornographer; a beautiful young wife grows to resemble her husband's viol: these are all characters in Sarah Shun Li Bynum's marvelous gem of a novel... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum Publisher Comments "A wonderfull, practically magical writer." Curtis Sittenfeld, author of American Wife "Bynum enchants." Vanity Fair "[N]imble and entertaining." New York Times Book Review Ms. Beatrice Hempel, teacher of seventh grade, is... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lost City Radio (P.S.) by Daniel Alarcon Publisher Comments For ten years, Norma has been the on-air voice of consolation and hope for the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios—a people broken by war's violence. As the host of Lost City Radio, she reads the names of those who have... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Better Angel: Stories by Chris Adrian Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE In this inventive collection of stories, Chris Adrian treads the terrain of human suffering--illness, regret, mourning, sympathy--in the most unusual ways.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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