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Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders Publisher Comments One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet. In the taut opener, “Victory... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories by Karen Russell Publisher Comments From the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia! — a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize — a magical new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell’s gifts at their inimitable best. A dejected teenager discovers that... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Life after Life by Kate Atkinson Publisher Comments What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.59 Sale - Hardcover
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Vegetable Literacy: Cooking and Gardening with Twelve Families from the Edible Plant Kingdom, with Over 300 Deliciously Simple Recipes by Deborah Madison Publisher Comments In her latest cookbook, Deborah Madison, America's leading authority on vegetarian cooking and author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, reveals the surprising relationships between vegetables, edible flowers, and herbs within the same botanical... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $28.00 Sale - Hardcover
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How Music Works by David Byrne Publisher Comments How Music Works is David Byrne's remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he explains how the advent of recording technology in the... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis Publisher Comments A debut of extraordinary distinction: through the life of her unforgettable heroine, Hattie Shepherd, the author tells the story of the children of the Great Migration, a story of bitterness and love and the promise of a new North, built on the backs of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Crap Kingdom by DC Pierson Publisher Comments THE CHOSEN ONE MUST BE RETRIEVED FROM EARTH HE WILL BRING DOWN THE WALL AND RESTORE THE KINGDOM TO GLORY HIS NAME IS TOM PARKING With this mysterious yet oddly ordinary-looking prophecy, Tom's fate is sealed: he's been plucked from his life and whisked... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Benediction by Kent Haruf Publisher Comments From the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife, Mary... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill Publisher Comments In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside Americas new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $20.99 Sale - Hardcover
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NOS4A2 by Joe Hill Publisher Comments Joe Hill, the acclaimed, award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Heart-Shaped Box and Horns, plunges you into the dark side of imagination with a thrilling novel of supernatural suspense that will have you flinching at shadows and checking... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $20.29 Sale - Hardcover
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A Little Book of Sloth by Lucy Cooke Staff Pick Do you shriek or weep easily? Then be prepared to go into overload! These little bundles of SQUEE! will melt even the most curmudgeonly naysayers. You'll find yourself saying, "Kittens? What kittens?", or possibly becoming what I call "sloth-drunk." As... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.89 Sale - Hardcover
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The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout Publisher Comments Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout’s “magnificent gift for... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.20 Sale - Hardcover
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple Publisher Comments Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.49 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Stud Book by Monica Drake Publisher Comments A sharp-edged satire of contemporary motherhood from a comic novelist on the rise. In the hip haven of Portland, Oregon, a pack of unsteady but loyal friends asks what it means to bring babies into an already crowded world. Sarah studies animal behavior... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Clockwork Princess (Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare Publisher Comments Don’t miss The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, soon to be a major motion picture in theaters August 2013. Danger intensifies for the Shadowhunters as the New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy comes to a close. If the only way to... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $13.99 Sale - Hardcover
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments How a lone mans epic obsession led to one of Americas greatest cultural treasures: Prizewinning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history — and the driven, brilliant man... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Pacific Northwest by Lorene Edwards Forkner Publisher Comments There is nothing more regionally specific than vegetable gardening. What to plant, when to plant it, and when to harvest are unique decisions based on climate, weather, and first and last frost. The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening: Pacific... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers Publisher Comments A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.49 Sale - Trade Paper
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Middle C by William H. Gass Publisher Comments A literary event — the long-awaited novel, almost two decades in work, by the acclaimed author of The Tunnel (“The most beautiful, most complex, most disturbing novel to be published in my lifetime.” — Michael Silverblatt, Los... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Hardcover
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The Pacific Northwest's Best Trips by Lonely Planet Publisher Comments What's the Pacific Northwest got that other regions don't? Plenty. Start with hundreds of miles of coastline and throw in a stunning natural landscape: thousands of years of geological events have dramatically shaped this region, leaving behind snow... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $16.09 Sale - Trade Paper
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