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The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger Publisher Comments A powerful, funny, richly observed tour de force by one of America’s most acclaimed young writers: a story of love and marriage, secrets and betrayals, that takes us from the backyards of America to the back alleys and villages of Bangladesh. In... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Swim Back to Me (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ann Packer Publisher Comments Ann Packer is one of our most talented observers of family life, with its hidden crevasses and unforeseeable perils. In these unforgettable, emotionally searing stories, she explores the moral predicaments that define our lives, the frailty of ordinary... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Calico Joe by John Grisham Publisher Comments A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball… Whatever happened to Calico Joe? It began quietly enough with a pulled... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Farther Away: Essays by Jonathan Franzen Publisher Comments Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it “a masterpiece of... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Canada by Richard Ford Publisher Comments "First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later." Then fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.59 Sale - Hardcover
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A Very Minor Prophet by James Bernard Frost Publisher Comments A Very Minor Prophet is the story of how Barth Flynn, a barista swimming upstream against purposelessness in Portland, Oregon, becomes the faithful scribe of Joseph Patrick Booker. Booker is a dwarf preacher who serves Voodoo donuts, Stumptown coffee... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman Publisher Comments The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman’s most ambitious and mesmerizing novel: “striking….Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose&rdquo... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon Publisher Comments Maybe it was those extra five pounds I'd gained. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was because after almost twenty years of marriage my husband and I seemed to be running out of things to say to... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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11th Hour (Women's Murder Club) by James Patterson Publisher Comments Your best friend Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last But her work doesn't slow for a second. When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, she discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable... (read more) Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation by Tom Bissell Synopsis In Magic Hours, award-winning essayist Tom Bissell explores the highs and lows of the creative process. He takes us from the set of The Big Bang Theory to the first novel of Ernest Hemingway to the final work of David Foster Wallace; from the films of... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Scottish Prisoner (Lord John) by Diana Gabaldon Publisher Comments Includes a preview of the new novel in the Outlander series. “This could be the worthy Lord John Grey’s breakout novel, as readers are treated to large dollops of Outlander hero Jamie Fraser. . . . The strong chemistry between these two... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Very Picture of You by Isabel Wolff Publisher Comments Where the eye sees the brushstroke, the heart sees the truth. At thirty-five, Gabriella “Ella” Graham is a successful portrait artist in London. She captures the essential truth in each of her subjects’ faces—a tilt of the... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Silver Boat by Luanne Rice Publisher Comments From New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice, a moving family story that "will strike a chord in every mother, daughter, or sister" (Marie Claire) In The Silver Boat, New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice has written a heart... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh by Jeff Shaara Publisher Comments In the first novel of a spellbinding new trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows best. A Blaze of Glory takes us to the action-packed Western Theater for a vivid re-creation of one of the war’... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh Publisher Comments NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Lovers by Daniel Arsand Synopsis Sébastien is fifteen years old and already versed in the medicinal arts when he meets the young nobleman Balthazar de Créon, whose life he saves after the latter is thrown from a horse. De Créon, struck by the boy’s beauty as... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Alice Bliss Signed Edition by Laura Harrington Publisher Comments Outside the back window Alice can see the outlines of the garden, some of the furrows visible under the snow, stretching away in long thin rows. She can't imagine doing the garden without her dad. It's his thing; she's always thought of herself as his... (read more) Available June 13, 2012 Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper 
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The English Monster: Or, the Melancholy Transactions of William Ablass by Lloyd Shepherd Publisher Comments Two moments in Englands rise to empire, separated by centuries, yet connected by a crime that cannot be forgiven . . . London, 1811. Along the twisting streets of Wapping, bounded by the ancient Ratcliffe Highway and the modern wonder of the London Dock,... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Lower River by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments “Hypnotically compelling fiction . . . A gripping and vital novel that reads like Conrad or Greene—in short, a classic.”—Booklist, starred review From The Lower River To make the moment last, Hock peeled one banana... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Poet's Pub by Eric Linklater Publisher Comments A literary Cheers—filled with British charm and wit Comprised of an entertaining series of vignettes that occur at the Pelican Pub in Downish, England, Poet's Pub is a humor-filled collection of stories by award winner Eric Linklater—one of... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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