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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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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: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher Comments With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as "the 21st century daughter of Chinua Achebe." Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - 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: $9.95 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 $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $6.50 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: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Staff Pick List Price $15.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer Publisher Comments Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between carnivore and vegetarian. As he became a husband and a father, he kept returning to two questions: Why do we eat animals? And would we eat them if we knew how they got... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen Staff Pick In Rivka Galchen's incredibly impressive debut novel, Dr. Leo Liebenstein tries to unravel the mystery of his missing wife — and her "replacement," who looks almost exactly like her. Funny, heartbreaking, absurd, and extraordinarily intelligent... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 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: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher Comments Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as “one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years” (Baltimore Sun), with “prose as lush as the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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: $5.95 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian Staff Pick You would think that any novel attempting to conflate the best elements of Scrubs, Noah's Ark, and Lord of the Flies would necessarily be too overwrought and/or gimmicky, but this story is intensely compelling from its first pages. Adrian is obviously... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 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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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: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Absurdistan: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart Publisher Comments From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook comes the uproarious and poignant story of one very fat man and one very small country. Meet Misha Vainberg, aka "Snack Daddy," a 325-pound disaster of a human... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gob's Grief by Chris Adrian Staff Pick This story has everything ? Civil War heroics, survivor guilt, social history, the most believable rendition of Walt Whitman ever attempted in a novel, and an ending of 19th-century fantastical proportions I personally found quite refreshing. Truly, it's... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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