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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments “Nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly), The Glass Castle is the bestselling, critically acclaimed, highly publicized, and celebrated memoir by Jeannette Walls.Millions of readers have been transformed by Jeannette Walls’s... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer Staff Pick I absolutely loved Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close a most precious and delightful novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Oskar Schell made me laugh, smile, and just feel good. He is a charmer who's won my heart through the tears and the joy.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S C Gwynne Publisher Comments In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Staff Pick "Inspired by her grandparents' love story in which the grandmother outlived her husband by nearly three decades, Niffenegger has invented Henry and Clare, and their unique and complicated love story involving the ability to live in the past and future in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry by Rita Dove Publisher Comments Penguin proudly presents an unparalleled survey of the best poems of the past century. Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U .S. Poet Laureate, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Vegetable Gardener's Bible by Edward C. Smith Publisher Comments The invaluable resource for home food gardeners! Ed Smith's W-O-R-D system has helped countless gardeners grow an abundance of vegetables and herbs. And those tomatoes and zucchini and basil and cucumbers have nourished countless families, neighbors, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Staff Pick Waiting for a new Kingsolver novel has been like waiting for a favorite restaurant to reopen after renovations, only it's been nine years of anticipation. With the grand depth of The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna tells of historical and intercultural... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano Publisher Comments A stunning debut novel about the intertwined destinies of two friends brought together by childhood tragedy. A three-million-copy Italian bestseller and winner of that country's prestigious Premio Strega award. A prime number is inherently a solitary... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Slouching towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion Staff Pick Joan Didion's lucid, canny prose style is painstakingly situated around the art of the sentence. Slouching towards Bethlehem, her first collection of nonfiction, serves as a prime example of exactly how well she can wield one. Each of these essays... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett Publisher Comments Visit www.penguin.com for the latest news, tour information and more. Listen to an excerpt from the audiobook.The wildly popular New York Times bestseller and reading group favorite Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases by Michael Capuzzo Staff Pick The Murder Room is an absolutely riveting story about the history of the Vidocq Society, a group of forensic scientists, cops, FBI agents, etc., that come together to solve unsolvable crimes. I'm not usually a fan of true crime, but The Murder Room is... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger Staff Pick After six long years, Audrey Niffenegger gives us a gem of a ghost story. Based around two sets of twins, Highgate Cemetery in London, a haunted flat, and long-buried secrets, this story proves even better than The Time Traveler's Wife. With a shocking... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews by Geoff Dyer Publisher Comments *Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice**A New York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner* Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell Publisher Comments Since its first publication in 1945, Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit... (read more) Your price: $12.98 Sale - Book Club Hardcover
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler Publisher Comments When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power — vodka. You would too if you found out that your boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo or if you had to pretend to be honeymooning with your... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway Publisher Comments A spare and haunting, wise and beautiful novel about the endurance of the human spirit and the subtle ways individuals reclaim their humanity in a city ravaged by war. In a city under siege, four people whose lives have been upended are ultimately... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Publisher Comments Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of the Poetic Line by James Longenbach Publisher Comments James Longenbach is the author of three poetry collections, including Draft of a Letter; five works of criticism, including The Resistance to Poetry, as well as numerous essays and reviews. He is Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes and Edith Grossman Staff Pick Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote has quickly become a favorite, lauded by academics and common readers alike. Don't fail to check this out, the world's first modern novel.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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