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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris Staff Pick Sedaris diverges from his usual essays to give us a book of fables. Like all good fables and fairy tales, they're pretty gruesome and horrifying, and there's most always a moral to be found. These include a healthy dose of charm and wit, though. Ian... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Room by Emma Donoghue Staff Pick Emma Donoghue is a truly versatile writer. Although utterly unlike Slammerkin and her other books, Room earns a place of honor while distinguishing itself with a gripping subject that never sinks into gloom, but always floats on a current of Donoghue's... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Baked Explorations: Classic American Desserts Reinvented by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito Staff Pick Not only is this book gorgeous, it's incredibly accessible. Baked, the beloved Brooklyn-based bakery, puts an original twist on treasured favorites — the desserts your grandma used to make, only better. Yeah, I said it. Your grandma can deal.... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin Staff Pick In this story of race and youth, of tragedies that time alone cannot heal, and the ways we still need each other even when it seems too late, Franklin beautifully captures human relationships in both their simplicity and unutterable complexities.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Best American Mystery Stories (Best American Mystery Stories) by Lee Child Publisher Comments Best-selling novelist Harlan Coben, a master of suspense and creator of the critically-acclaimed Myron Bolitar series, edits this latest collection of the must-reads in mysteries from the past year.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best American Essays (Best American Essays) by Chistopher Hitchens Publisher Comments The provocative and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens takes the helm of the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this perennial favorite that is “reliable and yet still surprising—the best of the best” (Kirkus Reviews).... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Man in the Woods by Scott Spencer Publisher Comments One of the most acclaimed modern American novelists, Scott Spencer captures the intensity of human passion—and its capacity to both destroy and redeem—with unparalleled precision and insight. Now, in his most stunning novel yet, this wry... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Best American Science Writing 2010 (Best American Science Writing) by Jerome Groopman Publisher Comments Edited by outrageously curious science writer Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, Bonk,andPacking for Mars,this collection brings together the best and brightest writers on science and nature.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (the Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race by Jon Stewart Staff Pick You already know from the title whether you want this book. If you love The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, and their first book, America (the Book), then prepare yourself for a hilarious, tear-stained laugh-fest that will send neighbors running with alarm... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma (Mysterious Benedict Society #03) by Trenton L. Stewart Synopsis When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, Reynis, Kate, Sticky, and Constance must unravel clues relating to a nefarious new plot, while their search for answers brings them closer to danger than ever before. Illustrations.... (read more) Your price: $6.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Best American Short Stories 2010 by Richard Russo Publisher Comments Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this years collection boasts a satisfying “chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative” (Wall Street Journal). With the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer Staff Pick Neil Gaiman! Aimee Bender! Kelly Link! Michael Cunningham! It's impossible to list the contributors to this book without using exclamation points. This wickedly entertaining collection reclaims fairy tales from the children's library and reaffirms their... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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This Isn't What It Looks Like by Pseudonymous Bosch Publisher Comments The Secret Series continues in this dangerous and daring fourth adventure. Cass finds herself alone and disoriented, a stranger in a dream-like, medieval world. Where is she? Who is she? With the help of a long-lost relative, she begins to uncover clues... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Hardcover
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Behemoth (Leviathan #02) by Scott Westerfeld Publisher Comments At the end of Leviathan, our heroes Alek and Deryn were aboard a mighty air ship heading toward Constantinople to deliver a secret package. But their secrets—Alek’s family is responsible for starting World War I, and Deryn is a girl... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne Staff Pick Talking Heads fans will flock to this book. Bicycle enthusiasts will shove each other out of the way to get the first copy. But it's the cyclists who are also Talking Heads fans that you really have to watch out for, because they're going to be... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Next Queen of Heaven by Gregory Maguire Publisher Comments With the new millennium approaching, the eccentric town of Thebes grows even stranger. Mrs. Leontina Scales begins speaking in tongues after being clocked by a Catholic statuette. Her daughter, Tabitha, and her sons scheme to save their mother or... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Quest for Paradise (Geronimo Stilton) by Geronimo Stilton Publisher Comments Holey cheese! Join Geronimo as he returns to the Kingdom of Fantasy in this sequel to the very first Geronimo stilton hardcover adventure! In this 320-page, full-color hardcover adventure, the Queen of the Fairies invites Geronimo back to her fantastical... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Hardcover
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The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David Kessler Publisher Comments Dr. David A. Kessler, the dynamic and controversial former FDA commissioner known for his crusade against the tobacco industry, is taking on another business thats making Americans sick: the food industry. In The End of Overeating, Dr. Kessler shows us... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick Publisher Comments A dark and tender post-apocalyptic love story set in the aftermath of a bloody war In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-olds Ash Fisher, a... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The False Friend by Myla Goldberg Staff Pick Myla Goldberg's eagerly anticipated new novel is an eerie meditation on memory, friendship, and the nature of truth. Evocative and gorgeously written, The False Friend is an intelligent and intricate mystery.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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