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The Orchardist (P.S.) by Amanda Coplin Publisher Comments A Best Book of the Year Washington Post • Seattle Times • The Oregonian National Public Radio • Amazon • Kirkus Reviews Publishers Weekly • The Daily Beast An Indie Next Pick A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick At the turn... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Staff Pick Touted as an adult's version of Harry Potter, The Night Circus actually lives up to its hype. It's the story of a couple of magicians, a circus, and a duel. And, of course, it's so much more. Morgenstern's creation is astounding and intricate, delicate... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ghostman by Roger Hobbs Publisher Comments Stunningly dark, hugely intelligent and thoroughly addictive, Ghostman announces the arrival of an exciting and highly distinctive novelist. When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry, the man who orchestrated it is obliged to call in a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers Publisher Comments A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.49 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi Publisher Comments Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku's death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before. Ghana Must Go is... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra Staff Pick Marra's debut novel is fantastic. His beautifully written story so eloquently expresses the intricacies of human behavior involving love and sacrifice during a brutal war. It's hands down my favorite book of the year and one you must read!... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Dreams and Shadows by C. Robert Cargill Staff Pick Beautiful! Dreams and Shadows starts with a tight little horror story, follows with a dreamy fairy tale, and ends with a gritty urban fantasy. It's a multi-genre meditation on the power of love, revenge, and innocent wishes with great big consequences. I... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey Staff Pick In the 1920s, married couple Jack and Mabel leave their home in Pennsylvania and travel to Alaska to homestead a farm. Still grieving the loss of their stillborn child years before, Jack and Mabel are faced with the inhospitable land and deadly weather... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Dog Stars (Vintage Contemporaries) by Peter Heller Staff Pick A post-apocalyptic story with an open, elegant heart, Heller's debut novel follows a pilot, Hig, and an ex-military man, Bangley, in their fight for survival. Although stuck together in an uneasy partnership, they each flawlessly compensate for the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker Staff Pick As if facing the everyday insecurities and turmoil of adolescence isn't enough, 11-year-old Julia lives within the reality of a post-apocalyptic situation as the earth's rotation begins slowing by measurable degrees each day. Relationships, personal and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce Publisher Comments National Bestseller • Longlisted For the Man Booker Prize • Named One of the Best Books of the Year By The Washington Post Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson Staff Pick Religion, metaphor, rebellion. The Quran and the Internet. Hackers, effrit, and sheikhs. Douglas Hofstadter shout-outs. Holy moly. Otherworldly elements swirl into the modern-day Middle East in this sandstorm of magic and mortals. The environments are... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell Staff Pick This is a book surrounded by a lot of hype, but fortunately, it is also one that lives up to it. O'Donnell tells the story of two young sisters forced to grow up long before their actual childhood ends. Though each handles it differently, their... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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City of Women by David R. Gillham Publisher Comments One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of the Year It is 1943 the height of the Second World War. With the men away at the front, Berlin has become a city of women. On the surface, Sigrid Schröder is the model German soldiers wife: She goes... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories by Ethan Rutherford Publisher Comments Alternately funny, menacing, and deeply empathetic, the wildly inventive stories in Ethan Rutherford's The Peripatetic Coffin mark the debut of a powerful new voice in contemporary fiction Worried about waning enrollment, the head counselor of the... (read more) Your price: $13.99 New - Trade Paper
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Falling to Earth by Kate Southwood Publisher Comments March 18, 1925. The day begins as any other rainy, spring day in the small settlement of Marah, Illinois. But the town lies directly in the path of the worst tornado in US history, which will descend without warning midday and leave the community in... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Finding Camlann by Sean Pidgeon Publisher Comments Despite the wealth of scholarship that pretends to offer proof, archaeologist Donald Gladstone knows there is no solid evidence that a real King Arthur ever existed. Still, the great popular tales spun by medieval historian Geoffrey of Monmouth, and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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I Want to Show You More by Jamie Quatro Synopsis A brilliant new voice in American fiction has arrived. Bright, sharp, startling, utterly distinctive, passionate, and secretive, Quatros stories are missives from deep within the landscape of American womanhood. . . . She has earned a place... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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We Need New Names Signed Edition by NoViolet Bulawayo Publisher Comments Darling is only 10 years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by... (read more) Available June 19, 2013 Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Wilderness by Lance Weller Publisher Comments Thirty years after the Civil War's Battle of the Wilderness left him maimed, Abel Truman has found his way to the edge of the continent, the rugged, majestic coast of Washington State, where he lives alone in a driftwood shack with his beloved dog... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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