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The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt Staff Pick This entertaining and heartbreaking story is told by a fabulous narrator, Eli Sisters. Eli and his brother Charlie are hired killers in late 19th-century Oregon and California, and this is the tale of their final job.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lean on Pete (P.S.) by Willy Vlautin Staff Pick From Willy Vlautin, one of the most natural storytellers ever to come out of the Northwest, comes a heartbreaking adventure starring 15-year-old Charley Thompson. It's like Tom Sawyer, but with more drunks, death, and weird strangers. Another engrossing... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fight Club (96 Edition) by Chuck Palahniuk Staff Pick A modern classic. I devoured Fight Club in one day several years ago and its impact hasn't been lessened in subsequent rereadings. Palahniuk's style is punchy, fast-paced, and often hilarious. It may be difficult to read the novel today without picturing... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee Publisher Comments The debut novel from critically-acclaimed and New York Timesbestselling author Chang-rae Lee. In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true Americana... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Resistance by Barry Lopez Publisher Comments From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams, a highly charged, stunningly original work of fiction-a passionate response to the changes shaping our country today. In nine fictional testimonies, men and women who have resisted the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater by Marc Acito Publisher Comments A deliciously funny romp of a novel about one overly theatrical (and sexually confused) New Jersey teenager's larcenous quest for his acting school tuition. It's 1983 in Wallingford, New Jersey, a sleepy bedroom community outside of Manhattan... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater by Marc Acito Staff Pick Former theatre geeks unite! I truly enjoyed this nostalgic romp through the life of Edward Zanni, a young thespian in suburban New Jersey. Edward's quest to attend Juilliard and the madness and mayhem that surround him turn the pages of this great story.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bearing the Body by Ehud Havazelet Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of the Year At the start of Bearing the Body, Nathan Mirsky learns that his older brother has died in San Francisco, apparently murdered after years of aimlessness. On the spur of the moment, Nathan leaves his job as a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shards by Ismet Prcic Publisher Comments Ismet Prcic's brilliant, provocative, and propulsively energetic debut is about a young Bosnian, also named Ismet Prcic, who has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California. He is advised... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Arabian Jazz by Diana Abu-Jaber Publisher Comments Balances are struck in this luminous first novel-between two radically distinct cultures, between obligation and self-will, between past and future, between hilarity and heartbreak-as the Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud settles in a small, poor-white... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Jump-Off Creek by Molly Gloss Publisher Comments A reading group favorite, The Jump-Off Creek is the unforgettable story of widowed homesteader Lydia Sanderson and her struggles to settle in the mountains of Oregon in the 1890s. Every gritty line of the story rings true” (Seattle Times) as... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best People in the World: A Novel by Justin Tussing Publisher Comments In Paducah, Kentucky, high floodwalls confine the current of the mighty Ohio, and for seventeen-year-old Thomas, the small town he has known all his life is full of limits that have left him feeling as reined in as the river. Things only get worse when... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Arabian Jazz by Diana Abu-Jaber Publisher Comments In Diana Abu-Jaber's "impressive, entertaining" (Chicago Tribune) first novel, a small, poor-white community in upstate New York becomes home to the transplanted Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud: his grown daughters, Jemorah and Melvina; his sister... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Jump-Off Creek Publisher Comments William Kittredge called The Jump-Off Creek "a truly beautiful piece of American storytelling." The struggles of a widowed homesteader braving the austere and unsparing Blue Mountains contain "enough valor to make an ordinary life seem heroic" (Los... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Storm Riders by Craig Lesley Publisher Comments Winner of the Oregon Book Awards H.L. Davis Prize for Fiction Storm Riders examines the conflicted love of a single father struggling to raise his adopted Native American son, who was born with fetal alcohol syndrome. When a small girl mysteriously... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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People I Wanted to Be: Stories by Gina Ochsner Publisher Comments Gina Ochsner's award-winning, highly acclaimed stories have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. In her eagerly anticipated new collection, Ochsner deftly examines the harrowing moments after a life... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dreams Like Thunder by Diane Simmons Publisher Comments Ten-year-old Alberta lives in the sagebrush country of eastern Oregon. She longs to travel the world just like her "exotic" relatives who are due to visit the family ranch.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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