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Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson Publisher Comments A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Staff Pick Waiting for a new Kingsolver novel has been like waiting for a favorite restaurant to reopen after renovations, only it's been nine years of anticipation. With the grand depth of The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna tells of historical and intercultural... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano Publisher Comments A stunning debut novel about the intertwined destinies of two friends brought together by childhood tragedy. A three-million-copy Italian bestseller and winner of that country's prestigious Premio Strega award. A prime number is inherently a solitary... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger Staff Pick After six long years, Audrey Niffenegger gives us a gem of a ghost story. Based around two sets of twins, Highgate Cemetery in London, a haunted flat, and long-buried secrets, this story proves even better than The Time Traveler's Wife. With a shocking... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews by Geoff Dyer Publisher Comments *Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice**A New York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner* Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes and Edith Grossman Staff Pick Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote has quickly become a favorite, lauded by academics and common readers alike. Don't fail to check this out, the world's first modern novel.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett Staff Pick Ann Patchett's writing delves into a new world with each successive novel. This time she takes us on a captivatingly American journey of love, loss, and redemption. Patchett uses a delightfully modern story to explore timeless questions that will... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Passage to India by E M Forster Staff Pick Ezra Pound said, "Fundamental accuracy of statement is the one sole morality of writing." I think this might be the best novel of cross-cultural misunderstanding written in the English language. On one level, it is pure sensual delight. On another, it's... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Separate Peace by John Knowles Publisher Comments It would be inconceivable for an American author to write a coming-of-age novel in a comedic vein without reckoning with J.D. Salinger's A Catcher in the Rye; and it would be equally impossible to explore the genre in a tragic vein without taking account... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzens tale of growing up, squirming in his own über-sensitive skin, from a “small and fundamentally ridiculous person,” into an adult with strong... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Essays (Best American Essays) by Mary Oliver Publisher Comments Edited by the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Edwidge Danticat, author ofBrother, I Am Dying,this classic collection of essays showcases the year's best.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Case Histories: A Novel by Kate Atkinson Publisher Comments This new novel from award-winner Atkinson is a breathtaking story of families divided, love lost and found, and the mysteries of fate. As Private Detective Jackson Brodie investigates three cases, startling connections and discoveries emerge.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa Publisher Comments Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Pelican at Blandings by P G Wodehouse Publisher Comments Crisis, wearing a variety of habits, saunters in to Castle Blandings and upsets the hard-won applecart of the peace-loving thirteenth earl.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A Clockwork Orange (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Anthony Burgess Publisher Comments A vicious fifteen-year-old "droog" is the central character of this 1963 classic, whose stark terror was captured in Stanley Kubrick's magnificent film of the same title. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx Publisher Comments From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short-story collections of our time. Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems by Charles Bukowski Publisher Comments from "neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillane" young young young, only wanting the Word, going mad in the streets and in the bars, brutal fights, broken glass, crazy women screaming in your cheap room, you a familiar guest at the drunk tank, North Avenue... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Blind Your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West Publisher Comments Hope is hard to come by in the hard-luck town of Willow Creek. Sam Pickett and five young men are about to change that. Sam Pickett never expected to settle in this dried-up shell of a town on the western edge of the world. He's come here to hide from... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds. by Lyndall Gordon by Lyndall Gordon Publisher Comments A startling portrayal of one of America's most significant literary figures that will change the way we view her life and legacy In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd, a young Amherst faculty wife... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine Publisher Comments A New York Times Best Seller A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Betty Weissmann has just been dumped by her husband of forty-eight years. Exiled from her elegant New York apartment by her husbands mistress, she and her two middle-aged... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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