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Livability: Stories by Jon Raymond Publisher Comments A collection of rich, powerfully human stories from the author of The Half-Life and the movies Old Joy (“one of the finest American films of the year”New York Times) and Wendy and Lucy. A grieving man embarks on a long-imagined affair in the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 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) Your price: $13.99 New - Trade Paper
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Jump Off Creek by Molly Gloss 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) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.50 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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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: $4.95 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 $13.95 Your price: $7.95 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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The Necessary Grace to Fall (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction) by Gina Ochsner Publisher Comments These eleven stories take us from the Czech Republic to Alaska, from Siberia to West Texas, as they stake out territories straddling the border between life and death. In the title story the usual thoroughness of an insurance claims investigator spirals... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fight Club 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 $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Like Never Before by Ehud Havazelet Publisher Comments David Birnbaum is a middle-aged man at the crossroads -- of youth and old age, of Orthodox Judaism and assimilation, of the well-worn past and an uncertain future. He is also at the dramatic center of this sensitive, often funny chronicle of three... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Storm Riders by Craig Lesley Publisher Comments Storm Riders is a story of love in the wake of violence, and trust even in the face of fear. Clark Woods is a man trying his best to raise Wade, his adopted Native American son, born with fetal alcohol syndrome. Stricken with a disease that cripples both... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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It Takes a Worried Man by Tracy Daugherty Publisher Comments The eight stories in Tracy Daugherty's second collection move through the streets of Houston with the quick step of country music and the melancholy humor of the blues. Romance and friendship develop in unlikely places, as people meet across the divide... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Greening of Ben Brown by Michael Strelow Publisher Comments MICHAEL STRELOW HAS GIVEN NORTHWEST READERS an amazing fable for our time and place featuring Ben Brown, a utility lineman who transforms into the Green Man following an industrial accident. Eco-Hero and prophet, the Green Man heads a cast of wonderful... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Resurrectionists by Russell Working List Price $22.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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