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Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell Staff Pick While it was hard to narrow down my list to just five "best of" picks, I didn't have to think twice about what would be my favorite book of the year. In Cloud Atlas Mitchell again uses the format of connecting short stories with recurring motifs into a... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Shopgirl by Steve Martin Publisher Comments From the actor, comedian, and New York Times bestselling author comes a bittersweet story of modern day love and romance. One of our country's most acclaimed and beloved entertainers, Steve Martin is quickly becoming recognized as "a gorgeous writer... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Case Histories: A Novel by Kate Atkinson Publisher Comments A triumphant new novel from award-winner Kate Atkinson: a breathtaking story of families divided, love lost and found, and the mysteries of fate. Case One: Olivia Land, youngest and most beloved of the Land girls, goes missing in the night and is... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Arthur and George: A Novel by Julian Barnes Staff Pick Can I already announce the best book of 2006 in January? If so, here it is! With his customary elegant prose and intricate and wry observational skill, Julian Barnes narrates the true story of the relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and George... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure: Stories by Jack Pendarvis Staff Pick Pendarvis devises small worlds inhabited by the strangest people: A teenager reveals his ingenious idea for a revenge comic book series called "Sex Devil"; the mercilessly redundant owner of a "High, Squeaky Voice" dreams of his audio book career; and... (read more) List Price $19.75 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Train 1st Edition by Pete Dexter Publisher Comments Los Angeles, 1953. Lionel Walk is a young black caddy at Brookline, the oldest, most exclusive country club in the city, where he is known by the nickname “Train.” A troubled, keenly intelligent kid with no particular interest in his own... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Book of Revelation: A Novel by Rupert Thomson Publisher Comments In an edgy psychological thriller that is as mesmerizing as it is profound, Rupert Thomson fearlessly delves into the darkest realm of the human spirit to reveal the sinister connection between sexuality and power. Stepping out of his Amsterdam studio... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls by Matt Ruff Staff Pick Seattle author Matt Ruff presents one of the most inventive and addictive novels of recent memory. Protagonist Andrew Gage suffers from multiple personality disorder. When he meets a young woman suffering from the same affliction, the fragile coexistence... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Family Tree by Carole Cadwalladr Publisher Comments "The very cleverness of its central motif--a dissertation on the expression of genetic traits, mostly through the evidence of prime-time soap opera--makes The Family Tree a notable debut. Carole Cadwalladr takes the reader deep under the skin of one... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Bride Stripped Bare by Anonymous Publisher Comments A woman disappears, leaving behind an incendiary diary chronicling a journey of sexual awakening. To all who knew her, she was the Good Wife: happy, devoted, content. But the diary reveals a secret self, one who's discovered that her new marriage... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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Any Human Heart by William Boyd Publisher Comments The author of Armadillo, The Blue Afternoon and Brazzaville Beach—the novelist who has been called a “master storyteller” (Chicago Tribune) and “a gutsy writer who is good company to keep” (Time)—now gives us his most... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe Publisher Comments Like a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill, Jonathan Coe's new novel follows four students who knew each other in college in the eighties. Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events. Robert has... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey Publisher Comments "Easily the most brilliant fiction I've seen this year -- it proves the potential brilliance of the novel form." -- John Fowles,... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Big Cats: Stories by Holiday Reinhorn Publisher Comments Big Cats opens with "Charlotte," in which a young girl with a broken pelvis spies on her voluptuous neighbor during a long, hot summer night, setting the tone of irrepressible curiosity and yearning that is evident throughout the collection. In "Get Away... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff Publisher Comments "Every war has turning points and every person too." Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Martin Sloane by Michael Redhill Publisher Comments What does it really mean to love another person? The question hovers like a persistent wisp of fog over the story of Martin Sloane, an Irish-born artist who creates intricate, object-filled boxes, and Jolene Iolas, the young American woman who finds... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Staff Pick Ishiguro takes a meditative look at childhood, loss of innocence, and human deception and the drive for survival. This is a haunting narrative that is joyous and sad at once — reminiscent of Philip K. Dick, but with a very literary and poignant eye for... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Winshaw Legacy: Or, What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe Publisher Comments If Charles Dickens and Agatha Christie had ever managed to collaborate, they might have produced this shamelessly entertaining novel, which introduces readers to what may be the most powerful family in England — and is certainly the vilest. A tour... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey Publisher Comments Following the triumph of his Booker Prize–winning True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey ventures into the Far East with a novel shot through with mysteries at once historical, literary, and personal. Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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When We Were Orphans (Vintage International) by Kazuo Ishiguro Publisher Comments From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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