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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Staff Pick We didn't read this in high school. The assigned book was The Scarlet Letter, which was already a favorite of mine. Recently, however, I decided that I'd ignored To Kill a Mockingbird for too long. If you haven't read it, or if it's been awhile since you... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Orphan Master's Son 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) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Staff Pick Set on the coast of Maine, this fantastic Pulitzer Prize winner (2009) is a terrific character study. Olive is an irascible, crabby old lady who is difficult to like. Yet, as her life, marriage, and story play out, her character changes in ways that... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Staff Pick Jennifer Egan's new novel is a fantastically inventive, intelligent, and fully realized exploration of music, art, and life. It even includes a chapter written in PowerPoint, which is actually a pleasure to read. A Visit from the Goon Squad is Egan's... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Publisher Comments Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in the New... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Publisher Comments The most talked about — and praised — first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who, from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tinkers by Paul Harding Staff Pick Tinkers is a haunting little book that weaves together the story of George Crosby, who is dying, with the story of his father, Howard Crosby. As George lies hallucinating, he tries to untangle the threads of his youth and finally come to grips with the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Publisher Comments When a true genius appears in the world, You may know him by this sign, that the dunces Are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting" "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Staff Pick The story of two young comic book artists in 1940s New York City, Jewish boys, one of whom fled the German steamroller heading toward his home in Czechoslovakia in a coffin, Chabon's third and best novel is utterly original, a generous fictional addition... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks Staff Pick In her follow-up to Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks has taken historical fiction to another dimension altogether. Using America's Civil War as her frame, she plants a famous (but deeply mysterious) literary figure at its center: Mr. March, the absent... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara Publisher Comments US... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Staff Pick This engrossing Pulitzer Prize-winner is the utterly amazing story of a hermaphrodite. It is so emotionally accurate and insightful that it reads like a memoir. It's also laugh-out-loud funny. Beautifully written and remarkable in its scope and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy Publisher Comments A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Pastoral by Philip Roth Publisher Comments As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty Publisher Comments This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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To Kill a Mockingbird, 40TH Anniversary (60 Edition) by Harper Lee Publisher Comments Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit em, but remember its a sin to kill a mockingbird One of the best-loved classics of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It has won the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner Publisher Comments Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discoverypersonal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Staff Pick This is one of the few books I have read that has made me actively slow down my reading pace. Every sentence, every word feels purely distilled into its most emotionally resonant core. Robinson's prose conjures up that curious feeling you get sometimes... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields Publisher Comments This fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, captured in Daisy's vivacious yet reflective voice, has been winning over readers since its publication in 1995, when it won the Pulitzer Prize. After a youth marked by sudden death and loss... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Staff Pick This is a book that still resonates more than 45 years after being published. After reading it again and again, I am still moved by the power and humanity of the story. Atticus Finch, a small-town lawyer, is one of those quiet heroes who fights for the... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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