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When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead Staff Pick My first thought when I closed the covers of this book was, Wow. My second thought was, I want to read this again. My third thought was, How can I possibly describe this book to anyone else? When You Reach Me is like one of those great books/movies... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover 
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee Publisher Comments The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted. The novel's narrator, a down-on-his-luck writer, escapes to Waikiki and soon finds himself the manager of the Hotel Honolulu, a low-rent... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa Publisher Comments Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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War Dances by Sherman Alexie Synopsis In his first new fiction since winning the National Book Award for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, best-selling author Sherman Alexie delivers a virtuoso collection of tender, witty, and soulful stories that expertly capture modern... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Staff Pick A remarkable first novel, ingeniously written in the form of a letter to the Chinese premier soon to visit India, Adiga's dark yet witty debut brings to Western readers the tense drama of a developing country and a character caught up in corruption and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Good Soldiers by David Finkel Publisher Comments A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE NEW YORK TIMES CHICAGO TRIBUNE SLATE.COM THE BOSTON GLOBE THE KANSAS CITY STAR THE PLAIN DEALER (CLEVELAND) THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITORWINNER OF THE HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM It was the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren Publisher Comments The Man with the Golden Arm is Nelson Algren's most powerful and enduring work. On the 50th anniversary of its publication in November 1949, for which Algren was honored with the first National Book Award (which he received from none other than Eleanor... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson Publisher Comments A novel of soldiers and spies in the Highlands of Vietnam Army cop Erik Rider is enjoying his war until hes sent to disrupt Vietcong opium fields in a remote Highland province. Rider lands in Cheo Reo, home to hard-pressed soldiers, intelligence... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Collected Novellas (Perennial Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments "I've seen a corpse for the first time. It's Wednesday but I feel as if it" was Sunday because I didn't go to school and they dressed me up in a green corduroy suit that's tight in some places. Holding Mama's hand, following my grandfather, who feels his... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee Publisher Comments An ingenious new work of fiction from the Nobel Prize? winning author of Disgrace J . M. Coetzee once again breaks literary ground with Diary of a Bad Year, a book that is, in the words of its protagonist, ?a response to the present in which I find... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Old Filth by Jane Gardam Publisher Comments Jane Gardam's beautiful, vivid and defiantly funny novel is a must.The Times Gardam's superb new novel is surely her masterpiece . . . one of the most moving fictions I have read in years . . . This is the rare novel that drives its readers forward while... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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News of the World by Philip Levine Publisher Comments A superb new collection from “a great American poet . . . still at work on his almost-song of himself” (The New York Times Book Review). In both lively prose poems and more formal verse, Philip Levine brings us news from everywhere: from... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Empress (P.S.) by Shan Sa Publisher Comments One of China's most controversial figures, Empress Wu was its first and only female emperor, emerging in the seventh century during the great Tang Dynasty to usher in a golden age. Throughout history, her name has been defamed and her story distorted... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson Publisher Comments 'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass Publisher Comments The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentieth century, was published in Ralph Manheims outstanding translation in 1959. It became a runaway bestseller and catapulted its young author to the forefront of world literature. This fiftieth... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa Publisher Comments Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Incendiary: A Novel by Chris Cleave Staff Pick You really have to give some giant props to a novel that starts out, "Dear Osama." What follows is a searing portrait of a woman riven by grief, pain, guilt, and horror at the (particularly gruesome) death of her husband and child due to a terrorist... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bearing the Body by Ehud Havazelet Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of the Year At the start of Bearing the Body, Nathan Mirsky learns that his older brother has died in San Francisco, apparently murdered after years of aimlessness. On the spur of the moment, Nathan leaves his job as a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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