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Bossypants by Tina Fey Publisher Comments Before Liz Lemon, before Weekend Update, before Sarah Palin, Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $11.19 Sale - Trade Paper 
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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 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: $18.17 Sale - Hardcover
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The Mirage by Matt Ruff Publisher Comments A mind-bending novel in which an alternate history of 9/11 and its aftermath uncovers startling truths about America and the Middle East 11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $18.19 Sale - Hardcover
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All There Is: Love Stories from Storycorps by Dave Isay Publisher Comments A celebration of love from StoryCorps. In All There Is, founder Dave Isay shares stories of love and marriage from the revolutionary oral history project, revealing the many and remarkable paths that relationships can take. From the excitement and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.47 Sale - 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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Crazy Enough: A Memoir by Storm Large Publisher Comments Yes, Storm Large is her real name, though shes been called many things. As a performer, the majority of descriptions have led with “Amazon,” “Powerhouse,” “a six-foot Vargas pinup come to life.” Playboy called her a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks Publisher Comments With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper
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Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton Staff Pick Hamilton is the chef-owner of acclaimed NYC restaurant Prune. Her memoir is compelling, harrowing, beautifully written, and utterly charming, whether she's invoking memories of fields of fireflies or gritty kitchen realities. Anthony Bourdain loves this... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics by Thomas Byrne Edsall Publisher Comments One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years — and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.47 Sale - Hardcover
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A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living by Luc Ferry Publisher Comments From the timeless wisdom of the ancient Greeks to Christianity, the Enlightenment, existentialism, and postmodernism, Luc Ferry’s instant classic brilliantly and accessibly explains the enduring teachings of philosophy—including its profound... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.49 Sale - Trade Paper
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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 Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt Staff Pick This entertaining and heartbreaking story is told by a fabulous narrator, Eli Sisters. Eli and his brother Charlie are hired killers in late 19th-century Oregon and California, and this is the tale of their final job.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.49 Sale - Trade Paper
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Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston Publisher Comments Stuck in a dead-end relationship, this fearless narrator leaves her metaphorical baggage behind and finds a comfort zone in the air, "feeling safest with one plane ticket in her hand and another in her underwear drawer." She flies around the world... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $18.17 Sale - Hardcover
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The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human by V. S. Ramachandran Publisher Comments In this landmark work, V. S. Ramachandran investigates strange, unforgettable cases -- from patients who believe they are dead to sufferers of phantom limb syndrome. With a storyteller's eye for compelling case studies and a researcher's flair for new... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.57 Sale - Trade Paper
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The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right by Arthur Goldwag Publisher Comments From "Birthers" who claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States to counter-jihadists who believe that the Constitution is in imminent danger of being replaced with Sharia law, conspiratorial beliefs have become an increasingly common... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.57 Sale - Hardcover
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Mr. G: A Novel about the Creation by Alan Lightman Publisher Comments "As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe." So begins Alan Lightman’s playful and profound new novel, Mr g, the story of Creation as told by God. Barraged by the constant advisements and bickerings of Aunt... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.47 Sale - Hardcover
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