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The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje Publisher Comments In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a ship bound for England, and at mealtimes is seated at the "cat's table" with a ragtag group of "Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, "bursting all over the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.20 Sale - Hardcover 
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Glaciers (Tin House New Voice) by Alexis Smith Publisher Comments Isabel is a single, twenty-something thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.67 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel of North Korea by Adam Johnson Publisher Comments An epic novel that elevates its acclaimed author to a whole new level, The Orphan Master’s Son is a stunning work of fiction that follows a young man’s undercover journey in the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.20 Sale - Hardcover
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The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories by Don DeLillo Publisher Comments Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo's iconic voice, from the rich, startling, jazz-infused rhythms of his early work to the spare, distilled... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus Publisher Comments In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families. A terrible epidemic has struck... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst Publisher Comments From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.57 Sale - Hardcover
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Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron Publisher Comments Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Born a Tutsi, he... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.47 Sale - Hardcover
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Zone One by Colson Whitehead Publisher Comments In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Nightwoods by Charles Frazier Publisher Comments The extraordinary author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons returns with a dazzling new novel of suspense and love set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s. Charles Frazier puts his remarkable gifts in the service of a lean, taut... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco Publisher Comments THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLER, UMBERTO ECO’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL AND BEST-SELLING NOVEL SINCE THE NAME OF THE ROSE "Erudite and pop, sinister and passionate . . . A work destined to become a classic." — La Repubblica (Italy)... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Blueprints of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot Publisher Comments From the "wickedly talented" (Boston Globe) and "darkly funny" (New York Times Book Review) Ryan Boudinot, Blueprints of the Afterlife is a tour de force. It is the Afterlife. The end of the world is a distant, distorted memory called “the Age... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.80 Sale - Trade Paper
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Queen of America by Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher Comments After the bloody Tomochic rebellion, Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and Saint of Cabora, flees with her father to Arizona. But their plans are derailed when she once again is claimed as the spiritual leader of the Mexican Revolution. Besieged by pilgrims... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Train Dreams: A Novella by Denis Johnson Publisher Comments Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century — an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Hardcover
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Smut: Stories by Alan Bennett Publisher Comments One of Englands finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between peoples public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J. Shields Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011 The first authoritative biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who changed the conversation of American literature. In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven returns with a breathtaking, skillfully wrought story of four women and the unbreakable ties they share. As university students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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What We Talk About When We Talk about Anne Frank: Stories by Nathan Englander Publisher Comments These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.47 Sale - Hardcover
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The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman Publisher Comments Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffmans most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel. In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Defending Jacob by William Landay Publisher Comments Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey Publisher Comments When her widower father drowns at sea, Gemma Hardy is taken from her native Iceland to Scotland to live with her kind uncle and his family. But the death of her doting guardian leaves Gemma under the care of her resentful aunt, and it soon becomes clear... (read more) Your price: $26.99 New - Hardcover
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