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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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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Staff Pick Best book of 2005, favorite book of the year...Slice the question any number of ways, but the book published last year that I'm most grateful for having read is The Year of Magical Thinking, a devastating affirmation of love and commitment, hope and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Swann's Way (Classics Deluxe Edition): In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 by Marcel Proust and Lydia Davis Publisher Comments Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J. R. Moehringer Publisher Comments A moving, vividly told memoir full of heart, drama, and exquisite comic timing, about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar J.R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: It was the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Beautiful Blemish by Kevin Sampsell Publisher Comments Kevin Sampsell likes secrets. In the short story collection Beautiful Blemish, Sampsell dives deep into the human psyche to reveal the layers of secret desire, loneliness and hope buried in our hearts. The stories in Beautiful Blemish display an American... (read more) Your price: $9.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Rotters' Club (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jonathan Coe Publisher Comments Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescent angst, IRA bombings. Four friends: a class clown who stoops very low for a laugh; a confused artist enthralled by guitar rock; an earnest radical with... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders Staff Pick TBaFRoP has garnered many a comparison to Animal Farm. Fair enough: they're both novella-length, political fables written by men named George. But Saunders is so much funnier — and more playful. If you haven't read his work, here's a perfect place to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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I Am No One You Know: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates Publisher Comments I Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling tales that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In "Curly Red," a... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships That Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell Publisher Comments Losing a friend can be as painful and agonizing as a divorce or the end of a love affair, yet it is rarely written about or even discussed. The Friend Who Got Away is the first book to address this near-universal experience, bringing together the brave... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Poems of Nazim Hikmet (Karen and Michael Braziller Books) by Nazim Hikmet Staff Pick Nazim Hikmet is one of the truly great individual voices of the 20th century. His eminently readable poems speak of the tragedies of his life — political repression, prison, the loss of love, poor health, and exile — in the voices of the people... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Diviners: A Novel by Rick Moody Publisher Comments In his first novel in seven years, Rick Moody gives us a generous, hilarious, and brilliant look at contemporary America, from coast to coast. In the month after Election Day 2000, scores of movie-business strivers are focused on one goal: getting in on... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Dog of the Marriage: Stories by Amy Hempel Publisher Comments Amy Hempel's compassion, intensity, and illuminating observations have made her one of the most distinctive and admired modern writers. In three stunning books of stories, she has established a voice as unique and recognizable as the photographs of Cindy... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories by David Sedaris Publisher Comments A bestseller in its own right and a must-have for fans of the #1 bestselling author David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction. David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Painted Drum 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 $25.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories by Ben Marcus Publisher Comments “In twenty-nine separate but ingenious ways, these stories seek permanent residence within a reader. They strive to become an emotional or intellectual cargo that might accompany us wherever, or however, we go....If we are made by what we read, if... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel Publisher Comments Benjamin Kunkel's brilliantly comic debut novel concerns one of the central maladies of our time — a pathological indecision that turns abundance into an affliction and opportunity into a curse. Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Going Down by David Markson Synopsis Unlike David Markson's most recent works in experimental writing, Going Down is a more traditional effort, a dark and masterfully plotted narrative of passion and violence set in Mexico in the 1960s. Three Americans, a man and two women, are living... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper 
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