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The Passionate Troubadour: A Medieval Novel about Francis of Assisi by Edward M Hays Publisher Comments More than simply picturing the patron saint of poverty, peace, ecology, and animals, this book depicts Francis of Assisi as a holy model for becoming fully oneself as a unique individual.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Visigoth by Gary Amdahl Publisher Comments The modern American male is center stage in this riveting collection of short stories. The characters in this powerful debut come from all walks of life — hockey players, middle managers, feckless bouncers, and wayward husbands — but all share... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag Synopsis In the Altai Mountains of northern Mongolia, the nomadic Tuvan peoples ancient way of life is colliding with the pervasive influence of modernity. For the young shepherd boy Dshurukuwaa, the confrontation comes in stages. First his older siblings leave... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky by Karen X. Tulchinsky Publisher Comments A family saga about a Jewish boy-cum-champion boxer, set against the Great Depression, race riots and WWII. Ocular Productions has purchased the film rights and secured funding (release date to come).... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma-Kola: A Manual of Etiquette for Ladies Crossing Canada by Train by Paulette Jiles Publisher Comments 'Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Cola'. An elegant, witty romp that combines an old-fashioned love story with period detective fiction.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Why Shakespeare by Gerald M Pinciss Publisher Comments Writing for a small troupe of men and boys who performed on an almost bare stage, William Shakespeare dramatized an unparalleled range of stories and emotions through his wizardry with words, his uncanny understanding of the human spirit, and his genius... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Sack of Teeth by Grant Buday Synopsis A dark, funny novel follows the adventures of an extremely dysfunctional family and the boy who seems to hover above it all as his relatives engage in every imaginable sin and foible of modern existence. Original.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $1.98 Used - Trade Paper
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The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa Synopsis At the dawn of the 20th century in Pakistan, Freddy Junglewalla moves his family — pregnant wife, baby daughter, and Jerbanoo, his rotund mother-in-law — from their ancestral forest home to cosmopolitan Lahore. He opens a store, and as his... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mount Appetite by Bill Gaston Publisher Comments This collection of twelve vibrant, intensely human tales of desire and alienation was a finalist for the prestigious Giller Award.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stay by Aislinn Hunter Publisher Comments A doomed yet tender love affair set against the backdrop of modern rural Ireland and the exhumation of a bog person.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $3.75 Used - Trade Paper
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An American Brat by Bapsi Sidhwa Synopsis Feroza Ginwalla, a pampered, protected 16-year-old Pakistani girl, is sent to America by her parents, who are alarmed by the fundamentalism overtaking Pakistan — and their daughter. Hoping that a few months with her uncle, an MIT grad student, will... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa Publisher Comments Eight-year-old Lenny, spirited daughter of an affluent Parsee family, narrates the story of the breaking of India as she witnesses Muslims, Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs fight for their land and their lives during the dividing of the country into Hindu... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tiger Dreams by Almeda Glenn Miller Publisher Comments Here is an absorbing, brilliant first novel set in India and Canada. It begins with Claire, a thirty-seven-year-old documentary film-maker who is mourning the recent loss of her Anglo-Indian father. Claire travels from Canada to India to meet her last... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Reckless Moon by Dianne Warren Publisher Comments Dianne Warren has crafted seven exquisite stories, each of them a novella in scope. Each of the stories features a casual violation that brings home the fragility of middle-class life in this suburban world of small accidents with enormous repercussions.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Montana 1948 by Larry Watson Synopsis “From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them… “ So begins David Haydens story of what happened in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Golden Mountain: Beyond the American Dream by Irene Kai Publisher Comments A journey back in time: this is the gripping tale of four generations of Chinese women who live and die under the restrictions of their culture. Except for one: the author. Read her story of growing up in Hong Kong and her transition to New York City... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil's General/ Germany: Jekyll and Hyde by Carl Zuckmayer Publisher Comments Both works in this volume ? a play by Carl Zuckmayer (1896-1977) and an unusual contemporary study of Nazi Germany by Sebastian Haffner (1907-99) ? bear testimony to the disturbing events that were to change German history in the aftermath of World War I.... (read more) Your price: $41.25 New - Trade Paper
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Aquaboogie by Susan Straight Publisher Comments Straight writes with tenderness and insight about the lives of people from the Westside, a black neighborhood in a large southern California city--but it isn't the California everyone knows or thinks they know.... (read more) Your price: $13.50 New - Trade Paper
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Luminous Fish (07 Edition) by Margulis Publisher Comments Renowned evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis exposes the passions of scientists (sexual and otherwise) in four provocative stories plus an intriguing real-life encounter with J. Robert Oppenheimer.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast by Edward Abbey Publisher Comments Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was a singular American writer and cult hero, as famous for books like Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang as he was infamous for the prickly persona of "Cactus Ed." Abbey's postcards and letters, legendary during his... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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