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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3) by Suzanne Collins Publisher Comments The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss Everdeen. The final book in The Hunger... (read more) Your price: $17.99 New - Hardcover 
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Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Staff Pick Do we really need another sweeping historical epic set in 16th-century England? One which possesses at its heart yet another subplot about Henry VIII and his volatile affections? We certainly do if the novel is written by Hilary Mantel. Written in a... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Lacuna (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver Publisher Comments In this powerfully imagined, provocative novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is the poignant story of a man... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ratio: The Simple Codes behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman Staff Pick Behold the awesome power of the ratio (also known as a "fraction," but don't let that stop you). But beware: this book may lead to a life of recipe-free cooking, of culinary experimentation, and of actually using (careful, now) a kitchen scale!... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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This Book Is Not Good for You by Pseudonymous Bosch Publisher Comments Between the pages of this book lies the secret to the best-tasting chocolate in all the world. I promise, your taste buds will tingle. Your palette will sing Oh no, have I accidentally tempted you to read this book? I will warn you, however, the most... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen Staff Pick In his new novel, Jonathan Franzen surpasses the achievements of his National Book Award-winner, The Corrections. Freedom examines every major theme in American life — politics, class, work, culture, and sex, to name a few — through the lens of one... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell Publisher Comments In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Sword of the Lady: A Novel of the Change by S M Stirling Publisher Comments Rudi Mackenzie's quest to find the source of the world-altering event known as The Change ends in Nantucket, an island overrun with forest and inhabited by a mere 200 people who claim to have been transported there from out of time. Only one odd stone... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Mass Market
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Zero History by William Gibson Staff Pick Zero History reads like a Graham Greene novel penned by The Magnificent Bastard. This is the third entry in Gibson's Blue Ant cycle. His Bigend trope has all the pushes and pops of Zero History's contemporary at the cinema, Inception. Hubertus returns as... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Financial Lives of the Poets (P.S.) by Jess Walter Publisher Comments Meet Matt Prior. He's about to lose his job, his wife, his house, maybe his mind. Unless . . . In the winning and utterly original novels Citizen Vince and The Zero, Jess Walter ("a ridiculously talented writer", New York Times) painted an America... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Eating Animals (09 Edition) by Jonathan Safran Foer Publisher Comments Like many young Americans, Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. As he became a husband, and then a father, the moral dimensions of eating became... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby Publisher Comments Now in paperback — the New York Times-bestselling novel of rock 'n roll, super fandom, and love, by the beloved author of About a Boy and High Fidelity. Nick Hornby returns to his roots — music and messy relationships — in this... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant Staff Pick A fascinating attempt to see through the eyes of another creature, John Vaillant's The Tiger is an intelligent and beautifully written blend of history, anthropology, zoology, ecology, and adventure. Compelling and resonant, The Tiger is a rare work of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest by Jack Nisbet Publisher Comments Jack Nisbet first told the story of British explorer David Thompson, who mapped the Columbia River, in his acclaimed book Sources of the River, which set the standard for research and narrative biography for the region. Now Nisbet turns his attention to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mr. Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett Publisher Comments It is the time of the Great Depression. Thousands have left their homes looking for a better life, a new life. But Marcus Connelly is not one of them. He searches for one thing, and one thing only: Revenge. Because out there, riding the rails, stalking... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Professional (Spenser Mysteries) by Robert B Parker Publisher Comments The wives of Boston's wealthiest men have a mutual secret: they all had an affair with the same cad who's blackmailing them, and Spenser's been hired to stop him. But when the wives start dying one by one, Spenser's new case becomes murder.... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Bright-sided (09 Edition) by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Americans are a "positive" people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: This is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive is the key to getting success and prosperity. Or so we are... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology by David Abram Staff Pick In Becoming Animal, Abram suggests that our disconnection from the natural world is what enables us to damage it. To re-engage our "animal" senses is to make even a walk in the park an exquisite sensory experience, and to fully inhabit our bodies is to... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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The Elephant's Journey by Jose Saramago Staff Pick One doesn't ordinarily associate José Saramago (Blindness) with fun, engaging romps — but that's just what the great author delivers in this charming tale of an elephant named Solomon who was gifted to the Austrian Archduke Maximilian by Portugal's... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies) by Pittacus Lore Publisher Comments Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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