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Life after Life by Kate Atkinson Publisher Comments What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.59 Sale - Hardcover
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg Publisher Comments Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Vintage) by Cheryl Strayed Staff Pick I know this title is everywhere right now. I was very fortunate to get an advanced copy, and I immediately fell in love. Why? Well, like many, my favorite books are those that seem to have been written just for me. I deeply understood the raw ache of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki Publisher Comments A brilliant, unforgettable, and long-awaited novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki. “A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.” In Tokyo, sixteen-year-... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates Publisher Comments A major historical novel from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation) — an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss in early-twentieth-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powerful and the damned... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach Publisher Comments "America’s funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal that Gulp explores is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions inspired by our insides are as taboo, in their way, as the... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Crap Kingdom by DC Pierson Publisher Comments THE CHOSEN ONE MUST BE RETRIEVED FROM EARTH HE WILL BRING DOWN THE WALL AND RESTORE THE KINGDOM TO GLORY HIS NAME IS TOM PARKING With this mysterious yet oddly ordinary-looking prophecy, Tom's fate is sealed: he's been plucked from his life and whisked... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart Publisher Comments Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley, tequila from agave, rum from sugarcane, bourbon from corn. Thirsty yet? In The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer Publisher Comments From bestselling author Meg Wolitzer a dazzling, panoramic novel about what becomes of early talent, and the roles that art, money, and even envy can play in close friendships. The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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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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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill Publisher Comments In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside Americas new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $20.99 Sale - Hardcover
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The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language by Natalie Goldberg Publisher Comments Sit. Walk. Write. These are the barest bones of Natalie Goldberg's revolutionary writing and life practice, which she presents here in book form for the first time. A whole new slant on writing that she developed since the publication of her classic... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments Fire, water, air, earth — our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography by Richard Hell Publisher Comments The sharp, lyrical, and no-holds-barred autobiography of the iconoclastic writer and musician Richard Hell, charting the childhood, coming of age, and misadventures of an artist in an indelible era of rock and roll... From an early age, Richard Hell... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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Wool by Hugh Howey Publisher Comments In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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NOS4A2 by Joe Hill Publisher Comments Joe Hill, the acclaimed, award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Heart-Shaped Box and Horns, plunges you into the dark side of imagination with a thrilling novel of supernatural suspense that will have you flinching at shadows and checking... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $20.29 Sale - Hardcover
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In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters Publisher Comments In 1918, the world seems on the verge of apocalypse. Americans roam the streets in gauze masks to ward off the deadly Spanish influenza, and the government ships young men to the front lines of a brutal war, creating an atmosphere of fear and confusion... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Little Book of Sloth by Lucy Cooke Staff Pick Do you shriek or weep easily? Then be prepared to go into overload! These little bundles of SQUEE! will melt even the most curmudgeonly naysayers. You'll find yourself saying, "Kittens? What kittens?", or possibly becoming what I call "sloth-drunk." As... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.89 Sale - Hardcover
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The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout Publisher Comments Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout’s “magnificent gift for... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.20 Sale - Hardcover
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple Publisher Comments Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.49 Sale - Trade Paper
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