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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley Publisher Comments The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Little, Big (P.S.) by John Crowley Publisher Comments John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood — not found on any map — to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Love Medicine (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments The stunning first novel in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, Love Medicine tells the story of two families the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. Written in Erdrich's uniquely poetic, powerful style, it is a multigenerational portrait of strong... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The System of the World: #03 Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson Staff Pick The concluding volume of the Baroque Cycle mixes swashbuckling adventure, historical romance, mathematics, and Isaac Newton into a frothy brew that's truly irresistible.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Quicksilver: Baroque Cycle #01 by Neal Stephenson Publisher Comments Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Brave New World (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley Publisher Comments Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—here humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Confusion (Baroque Cycle #02) (P.S.) by Neal Stephenson Publisher Comments In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho Publisher Comments Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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We Need to Talk about Kevin (P.S.) by Lionel Shriver Publisher Comments A stunning examination of how tragedy affects a town, a marriage, and a family, for readers of Rosellen Brown's Before and After and Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World. That neither nature nor nurture bears exclusive responsibility for a child's... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bell Jar (P.S.) by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pact: A Love Story (P.S.) by Jodi Picoult Publisher Comments The first book by "New York Times" bestselling author Picoult available in mass market paperback is a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Schopenhauer Cure (P.S.) by Irvin D Yalom Publisher Comments Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work -- and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier. Yet... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Brave New World Revisited (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley Publisher Comments When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith Staff Pick A book dealer came into Powell's rare book room one day while I was working and bought a beautiful first edition of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. She said it was her favorite book and a birthday present to herself. From the look in her eye and the way she... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness (P.S.) by Paulo Coelho Publisher Comments By bestselling author and international sensation Paulo Coelho, a poetic and transcendent story that reflects the mysteries of love and life. Rarely does an adolescent love reach its full potential. What happens when, after eleven years, two lovers come... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (P.S.) by Robert M. Pirsig Publisher Comments One of the most influential and provocative books of its generation, "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" continues to attract and inspire readers of all ages with its intriguing blend of ancient and Eastern philosophy, cultural criticism, and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Poisonwood Bible (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver Staff Pick In The Poisonwood Bible, a Baptist missionary takes his family to the Belgian Congo in the late '50s, endangering the lives of his wife and four daughters. Alternating between the voices of the mother and daughters, Kingsolver successfully paints the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Unless (P.S.) by Carol Shields Publisher Comments Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of light summertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out of college to become a panhandler on a Toronto street corner ... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Painted Drum (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts. After all, the family descends from an Indian... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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