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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Staff Pick "Inspired by her grandparents' love story in which the grandmother outlived her husband by nearly three decades, Niffenegger has invented Henry and Clare, and their unique and complicated love story involving the ability to live in the past and future in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein Staff Pick After the umpteenth customer recommended this book to me, I made it my book club pick. The first few lines made me a bit nervous (because it could have gone so terribly wrong, you see), but I was laughing and crying within the first three pages. I... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery Publisher Comments The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Staff Pick "It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery..." Take your time reading this beautifully written book with an innovative... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Never Let Me Go: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro Staff Pick Set in a (barely?) alternate England in the late 1990s, Never Let Me Go is the sum of Kathy's memories. Kathy is one of many "donors" who have been brought into being for purposes that, while well-intended, can come to no good. Ishiguro's novel touches... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Publisher Comments Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Lesson Before Dying (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ernest J Gaines Publisher Comments A Lesson Before Dying, is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Elric: The Stealer of Souls (Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melnibone #01) by Michael Moorcock Publisher Comments “The stories here are the raw heart of Michael Moorcock. They are the spells that first drew me and all the numerous admirers of his work with whom I am acquainted into Moorcocks luminous and captivating web.” –from the Foreword by Alan... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami Staff Pick In this compact volume, Murakami has once again concocts a literary Mobius strip of life, longing and shifting realities. If you've been afraid to read Murakami, this is a golden oppurtunity. Sputnik Sweetheart is a perfect introduction for those new to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy by Wilson Rawls Publisher Comments This classic about a 10-year-old boy growing up in the Ozark mountains with his inseparable pair of coonhounds will warm the hearts of young and old alike. Great Stone Face Award.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison Publisher Comments Harlan Ellison's masterwork of myth and terror as he seduces all innocence on a mind-freezing odyssey into the darkest reaches of mortal terror and the most dazzling heights of Olympian hell in his finest collection. Deathbird Stories is a collection of... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Villette (04 Edition) by Charlotte Bronte Publisher Comments Based on Bront's own experiences in Brussels and her attachment to a brilliant teacher with an eccentric personality, this novel shows how a great writer transforms the ordinary events of her life into vivid art. Includes a new Afterword. Reissue.... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Happy: A Memoir by Alex Lemon Publisher Comments His freshman year of college, Alex Lemon was supposed to be the star catcher on the Macalester College baseball team. He was the boy getting every girl, the hard-partying kid who everyone called Happy, often without even knowing his real name. In the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Poems and Prose: A Bilingual Edition (European Poetry Classics) by Georg Trakl Publisher Comments A comprehensive English-language edition of verse by the Austrian poet An undeniable aura surrounds the name of Georg Trakl, a poet of intense inner vision and originality whose work stands alongside that of Yeats, Valéry, and T. S. Eliot. Besides... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dirty Work (06 Edition) by Larry Brown Staff Pick This is definitely an antiwar novel. It doesn't take long to know things will not turn out well. Over the course of a night and a day in a veterans hospital, Walter and Braiden meet and spend time talking about what they've gone through. It is impossible... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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