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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson Staff Pick The Warmth of Other Suns is a fascinating epic narrative of the Great Migration by the brilliant and beautiful Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan Staff Pick What an epic! Riotous writing sprawls through years and incarnations. Infamous characters, including Mo Yan himself! Incredibly imaginative, honest, and filled with beautiful emotion.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (The Millennium Trilogy #1) by Stieg Larsson Staff Pick In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, corporate intrigue, subtle psychology, explosive content, and a sensational heroine make for a high-caliber novel.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Delirium (Vintage International) by Laura Restrepo Staff Pick Delirium's interwoven voices spun me into its web; from the first pages, I fell into its spell. Seductive and exciting!... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Staff Pick One of the best works of contemporary literature. This rare work of fiction by Roy is a gem. Her intensity and intellect are felt in both her nonfiction and in her fiction.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Staff Pick In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, corporate intrigue, subtle psychology, explosive content, and a sensational heroine make for a high-caliber novel.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Outlander (P.S.) by Gil Adamson Staff Pick The Outlander by Gil Adamson is a wondrous vacation for your mind. With its eccentric characters and luminous prose, this novel is a romping escapade of big fun.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes Staff Pick Karl Marlantes's Matterhorn is visceral, raw, and gripping; an exceptionally moving and insightful novel of young men at war. If you love Bao Ninh and Tim O'Brien, you can't fail to be moved by this immensely compelling foray into the leech- and tiger... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Out by Natsuo Kirino Staff Pick I ventured into Out having gone on a detective murder mystery kick the great Raymond Chandler, the invincible Dorothy L. Sayers... So it was no surprise that I next turned to Japan's queen of crime writing. Out is a can't-stop-reading, classy... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Vintage Departures) by David Grann Staff Pick Grann's riveting book, The Lost City of Z, delves into the intrepid life and mysterious disappearance of legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett. Armchair travelers will be whisked away to the Amazon on a wild ride with a surprising finish.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage) by Stieg Larsson Staff Pick In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, corporate intrigue, subtle psychology, explosive content, and a sensational heroine make for a high-caliber novel.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Arcanum by Thomas Wheeler Staff Pick A whirlwind. Fabulous characters Arthur Conan Doyle, Houdini, voodoo priestess Marie Laveau, and H. P. Lovecraft are brought to life in this perfectly executed tale.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan of Cimmeria, Book 1) by Robert E. Howard Staff Pick Robert E. Howard's Coming of Conan was recommended to me by a friend who knows my love for H. P. Lovecraft. And though Lovecraft is in a class by himself, Howard's writing, which is both escapist and literary, is comparable. I especially love that the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Poisonwood Bible (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver Staff Pick In The Poisonwood Bible, a Baptist missionary takes his family to the Belgian Congo in the late '50s, endangering the lives of his wife and four daughters. Alternating between the voices of the mother and daughters, Kingsolver successfully paints the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot Staff Pick The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot is one of my favorite books. Fascinating. Amazing! Physics, swamis, waves, and particles. Extremely readable.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann Staff Pick Grann's riveting book, The Lost City of Z, delves into the intrepid life and mysterious disappearance of legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett. Armchair travelers will be whisked away to the Amazon on a wild ride with a surprising finish.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $6.75 Used - Hardcover
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The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club) by Barbara Kingsolver Staff Pick In The Poisonwood Bible, a Baptist missionary takes his family to the Belgian Congo in the late '50s, endangering the lives of his wife and four daughters. Alternating between the voices of the mother and daughters, Kingsolver successfully paints the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea Staff Pick Beautiful! This immensely enjoyable epic vividly brings to life the wonderful, endearing characters of Don Tomas and Teresita. Don't wait to read this!... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Pearl Diver by Jeff Talarigo Staff Pick Jeff Talarigo paints eloquently this sad page of forgotten history.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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