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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: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $30.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Tent by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments One of the world’s most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, punctuated with wonderful illustrations by the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley Publisher Comments Over an extraordinary twenty-year career, Jane Smiley has written all kinds of novels: mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. "Is there anything Jane Smiley cannot do?" raves Time magazine. But in the wake of 9/11, Smiley faltered in her hitherto... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet Publisher Comments Oh Pure and Radiant Heart plucks the three scientists who were key to the invention of the atom bombOppenheimer, Leo Szilard and Enrico Fermias they watch history's first mushroom cloud rise over the desert on July 16th, 1945...and places... (read more) List Price $23.25 Your price: $6.95 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: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Cross Staff Pick Published to coincide with the thirty-fifth anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death, Room Full of Mirrors gives full voice to the music that continues to enthrall each successive generation of rock fans. Hendrix's colorful, tumultuous life is brilliantly... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler Publisher Comments The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. Yet the history of the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954 by Hilary Spurling Publisher Comments "If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone," wrote Henri Matisse. It is hard to believe today that Matisse, whose exhibitions draw huge crowds worldwide, was once almost universally reviled and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Knots by Nuruddin Farah Publisher Comments From the internationally revered author of Links comes "a beautiful, hopeful novel about one woman's return to war-ravaged Mogadishu" (Time) Called "one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction" (The New York Review of Books), Nuruddin Farah is... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.25 Sale - Hardcover
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A Love Like No Other: Stories from Adoptive Parents by Pamela Kruger Publisher Comments Drawn from personal experience, these stories offer vivid and beautifully rendered snapshots of the adoptive parenting experience. Featuring: Marcelle Clements, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Christina Frank, Jesse Green, Melissa Fay Greene, Doug Hood, Pamela... (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: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafes, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour by Joan Dejean Publisher Comments What makes fashionistas willing to pay a small fortune for a particular designer accessory -- a luxe handbag, for example? Why is it that people all over the world share the conviction that a special occasion only becomes really special when a champagne... (read more) List Price $25.00 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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Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson Publisher Comments View our feature on Jacqueline Woodson's Feathers. “Hope is the thing with feathers” starts the poem Frannie is reading in school. Frannie hasn’t thought much about hope. There are so many other things to think about. Each day, her... (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: $1.25 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: $8.50 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 $26.00 Your price: $14.95 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: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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