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The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer Staff Pick When faced with tragedy, have you ever wished you could escape to another time — one that you imagine to be kinder, simpler somehow? What if you woke up one morning and FDR was president? Or Woodrow Wilson? In this moving book, we walk with Greta... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Omnivore's Dilemma Young Readers Edition The Secrets Behind What You Eat by Michael Pollan Staff Pick Have you ever wondered why Twinkies never go bad? Are you eating food, or are you eating "edible food-like substances"? This book will help you answer those questions, and help you eat and cook in ways that are healthier for your body and better for the... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Necessary Errors by Caleb Crain Staff Pick Set in 1990, this remarkable first novel follows Jacob Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate, through a year teaching English in Prague. While most of his friends have moved on to graduate school or more traditional jobs, Jacob spends the year trying on a... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (C. Ad 2009) in a Large City by Choire Sicha Staff Pick In Very Recent History, Choire Sicha, two-time editor of Gawker and cofounder of The Awl, manages to do three seemingly disparate things at once. First, he's written a kind of guide to our times for a visitor from far in the future. Our everyday life has... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan Staff Pick I love collections of essays. I almost always have one (or two or three) in a pile on my bedside table. But not since I first read A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace have I loved a book of essays as much as I loved... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Building Stories by Chris Ware Staff Pick I've been waiting for this book to come out for at least five years, and this magnificent edition exceeded all my expectations (and they were big ones)! I can't even begin to imagine a book more intricately constructed than Building Stories. I show it to... (read more) Your price: $50.00 New - Hardcover
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The 13 Clocks by James Thurber Staff Pick Like so many other fairy tales, The 13 Clocks has a wicked duke, a beautiful princess, and a prince in disguise. But I've never read another book that has a Golux. In fact, I've never read another book like this one. Adults will laugh at the wordplay... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Engdahl Staff Pick This book by Portland author Sylvia Engdahl was forgotten for nearly 20 years, but was rescued in a new edition a few years ago. It tells the story of Elana, a girl on a mission to save a planet from destruction. It explores how science and magic can co... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Let It Snow (08 Edition) by John Green Staff Pick Let It Snow is a collection of short stories by three of today's most popular authors of young adult fiction. These winter stories are interconnected main characters from one story have cameo appearances in the others. It's a great way to read... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry and Marc Simont Staff Pick A Tree Is Nice is a perfect little book about all the wonderful things that trees can do for people, like keep us cool, protect us from storms, and give us something beautiful to look at. First published in 1956, this book's environmental theme was far... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My by Tove Jansson Staff Pick Some of my favorite stories as a child were the Moomin books by Tove Jansson. A couple of years ago, I discovered that she also did a comic strip for the Evening News, a London newspaper, and I fell in love all over again. This year, I found out that... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Hardcover
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Varmints by Helen Ward Staff Pick This darkly beautiful book tells the story of one creature's rebellion against a dull and mechanized world. In a world where thoughtless beings have destroyed all traces of wilderness, the varmint hero, along with a few others, struggles to find a place... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci Staff Pick Gamers, band geeks, science nerds, and Trekkies — this one's for you! Waiting impatiently for the new ? Have you finished Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and Paper Towns by John Green, but you still want more? Inside Geektastic, you... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Totally Joe by James Howe Staff Pick This book continues the story of Joe Bunch, a character from The Misfits, an earlier book by James Howe. Joe is your average seventh-grade homosexual. He's funny and smart and excited about the future. That future may or may not include starting a gay... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw Staff Pick With just two colors, blue and white, and one repeating phrase, Charles B. Shaw created a picture book that has inspired imaginations for over 60 years. Its two-color illustrations are perfect for babies whose eyes are still developing, but are also... (read more) Your price: $6.99 New - Trade Paper
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Guess Again! by Mac Barnett and Adam Rex Staff Pick Guess Again! makes me laugh out loud every time I read it, and I've read it 10 or 20 times. Adam Rex's illustrations are perfectly suited to the goofy, silly rhymes of Mac Barnett. See if you can guess the answers to any of the riddles. I was surprised... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dark Back of Time (Vintage International) by Javier Marias Staff Pick In 1989, Javier Marias published a novel titled All Souls. Many readers assumed it to be a fictionalized account of his time as a professor at Oxford. In Dark Back of Time, Marias describes his return to Oxford, and his attempts to reclaim his previous... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Toby Alone by Timothee de Fombelle Staff Pick Toby Lolness is less than 2 millimeters tall. (That's smaller than a pea!) His father has discovered the inconvenient truth about the health of the giant tree they all live in. If they don't change their ways, the tree will die, leaving them homeless... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly Staff Pick This is one of my favorite books of the year! It is bursting with over 300 pages of full-color goofy, silly, weird, and wacky comic strips for kids, from the 1930s through the 1960s. Rediscover Pogo, Uncle Wiggly, Donald Duck, Dennis the Menace, and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Yam by Corey Barba Staff Pick Yam can fly! He likes to eat cupcakes and cheeseburgers, but not squid. Sometimes his television crawls into bed with him for a little snuggle. He has magic powers! He can make flowers grow out of your head! But, be careful! Don't leave him in the sun —... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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