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The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad Staff Pick In this remarkable portrait, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad recounts with brutal honesty the day to day lives of one Afghani family persevering through life in a country beset by chaos. With the assent of the Khan family with whom she lives... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Sea: A Novel by John Banville Staff Pick Banville's fluid prose glides over the pages of The Sea, a rich story filled with heart and bittersweet longing. I pored over the luminescent descriptions of time and place and the beautiful characters that make up this world. Clearly the Man Booker was... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester Staff Pick "If you liked Krakatoa, The Professor and the Madman, or any of Winchester's other works, you'll like this one. He explains geological ideas well, and is well on his way to being the new ambassador of geology's influence on human history. He places... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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River of Doubt Theodore Roosevelts Darke by Candice Millard Publisher Comments At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The River of Doubt—it is a... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Two Lives by Vikram Seth Publisher Comments A heartrending new book -- the story of a marriage and the story of two lives -- from the author of the international bestselling novel A Suitable Boy Shanti Behari Seth was born on the eighth day of the eighth month in the eighth year of the twentieth... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday Staff Pick Including previously unreleased details of Mao's relationship with Stalin, this astonishing look at the father of Communist China is engrossing as well as horrifying — truly an eye-opener.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence by Martin Meredith Synopsis An epic biography of postcolonial Africa illuminates its current devastating problems. What happened to this vast continent, so rich in resources and history, to bring it so close to destitution and despair in the span of two generations?... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Jack Plank Tells Tales by Natalie Babbitt Publisher Comments From the author of Tuck Everlasting, her first novel in 25 years... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe Publisher Comments A lively group portrait of the Impressionist artists traces how the movement's early leaders met in the studios of Paris and lived and worked together closely for several years, supporting one another through a series of emotional and financial... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Alternadad by Neal Pollack Publisher Comments A few years ago, Neal Pollack was probably the least likely father you've ever met: a pop-culture-obsessed writer and self-styled party guy known mostly for outrageous literary antics. In typical fashion, he responded to the birth of his son by forming a... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Finn: A Novel by Jon Clinch Publisher Comments In this masterful debut by a major new voice in fiction, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature's most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn's father. The result is a deeply original tour de... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Knots by Nuruddin Farah Publisher Comments A new novel from one of the world's great writers-an extraordinary work set in Mogadiscio, Somalia-that both breaks new ground and brings him back to his literary roots. A strong, self-reliant woman who was born in Somalia but brought up in North America,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Garden of the Finzi-continis (05 Edition) by Giorgio Bassani Publisher Comments From Chinua Achebe to Toni Morrison and Raymond Chandler to Joan Didion, the Everymans Library Contemporary Classics set is a collection of the finest literature of our time by award-winning and bestselling writers with new introductions and author... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Love Like No Other: Stories from Adoptive Parents by Pamela Kruger Publisher Comments Adoption now affects more American families than ever before-1.5 million adopted children live in the United States today, and 60 percent of Americans report some kind of personal connection to adoption. Happily, this surge has coincided with an... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz Publisher Comments As soon as The Beatles became famous, the spin machine began to construct a myth--one that has continued to this day. But the truth is much more interesting, much more exciting, and much more moving. In this masterpiece, Bob Spitz has written the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson Publisher Comments Inspired by a poem she read at school, Frannie begins to see her world in a new light and deals with her brother's deafness, her mother's fear, and her best friend's faith in a hopeful new way.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Love and Ghost Letters by Chantel Acevedo Publisher Comments On the day she is born, Josefina Navarro's nursemaid foretells misfortune. But for the young socialite in pre-Castro Cuba, her life in Havana with her Sergeant of police father is idyllic. That is, until she falls in love with Lorenzo, a penniless man... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War by Jimmie Briggs Publisher Comments Ida, a member of Sri Lankas Female Tamil Tigers, fought with one of the longest-surviving and successful guerilla movements in the world. She is sixteen. Francois, a fourteen-year-old Rwandan child of mixed ethnicity, was forced by Hutu militiamen to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Penelopiad by Margaret Eleanor Atwood Publisher Comments Telling the story of Homer's "Odyssey" from the point of view of Penelope and her 12 hanged maids, the bestselling author of "Oryx and Crake" draws on Greek mythology for Volume 2 in the Myths series.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement by Zaki Chehab Publisher Comments The radical Islamist movement Hamas shocked the world when it won a landslide election victory in January 2006 in the Palestinian occupied territories. One of the few journalists not to be surprised by this outcome was Zaki Chehab who has developed an... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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