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Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck Staff Pick Knowing he was dying, John Steinbeck customized a camper-truck and dubbed it Rocinante after Don Quixote's horse. With his dog Charley (Steinbeck's own Sancho Panza) riding along, the melancholic writer circumnavigates the country. This travelogue... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Lush Life by Richard Price Staff Pick It's a given that fans of Price's earlier novels will rush to read Lush Life. In addition, fans of the HBO series The Wire — or anyone who enjoys a gripping read, period — won't want to miss this fantastic novel, which peels back the shiny surface of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers. Xiaolu Guo by Xiaolu Guo Publisher Comments Language and love collide in this inventive novel of a young Chinese woman's journey to the West and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores.Zhuang - or Z, to tongue-tied foreigners - has come to London to study English, but... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Mass Market
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Up in the Old Hotel: and Other Stories by Joseph Mitchell Staff Pick Joseph Mitchell wrote these stories and more for the New Yorker. Technically, they are nonfiction pieces Mitchell's books are shelved mostly in literature and journalism. But his prose reads like some of the finest fiction the magazine's published.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Travels With Charley : in Search of America (97 Edition) by John Steinbeck Staff Pick Knowing he was dying, John Steinbeck customized a camper-truck and dubbed it Rocinante after Don Quixote's horse. With his dog Charley (Steinbeck's own Sancho Panza) riding along, the melancholic writer circumnavigates the country. This travelogue... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Joke by Milan Kundera Staff Pick Whether or not Milan Kundera squealed on anyone during the communist rule of his home country of Czechoslovakia is beside the point: the man was and is a good writer. Though this tale is often overlooked when one considers Kundera's more famous work, The... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Travels With Charley (62 Edition) by John Steinbeck Staff Pick Knowing he was dying, John Steinbeck customized a camper-truck and dubbed it Rocinante after Don Quixote's horse. With his dog Charley (Steinbeck's own Sancho Panza) riding along, the melancholic writer circumnavigates the country. This travelogue... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fires : Essays, Poems, Stories (89 Edition) by Raymond Carver Staff Pick This wonderful collection of Carver's starts out with a bang: a personal essay that explains so much about man. Fantastic poems and a few classic short stories make Fires a great book to take to the bar.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Dear American Airlines: A Novel by Jonathan Miles Staff Pick Creatively constructed, this novel-in-a-letter has more to do with the main character's complaints about his own life than his missed flight. Dear American Airlines, the first novel by the New York Times cocktail columnist Jonathan Miles was surely... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Library of America #170: John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley and Later Novels by John Steinbeck Staff Pick Knowing he was dying, John Steinbeck customized a camper-truck and dubbed it Rocinante after Don Quixote's horse. With his dog Charley (Steinbeck's own Sancho Panza) riding along, the melancholic writer circumnavigates the country. This travelogue... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo Staff Pick The voice in this melancholy novel is that of an honest Chinese girl who is trying to learn English and who happens to be seeking the meaning of love. Written from the first-person perspective in an English-as-her-second-language vernacular, A Concise... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles Staff Pick Creatively constructed, this novel-in-a-letter has more to do with the main character's complaints about his own life than his missed flight. Dear American Airlines, the first novel by the New York Times cocktail columnist Jonathan Miles was surely... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Remainder (Vintage Originals) by Tom McCarthy Staff Pick Would you trade memories for money? What if you didn't have a choice? If you didn't remember what caused your memory loss, how would you spend the settlement that resulted? In Tom McCarthy's Remainder, the unnamed man chooses to recapture imagined... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth Staff Pick On this magical mystery tour, curious characters find out more about each other than they want to know. Bizarre but believable scenes send readers into cracks or entire bodies of water. Daring prose tweaks new narrative understanding in Unferth's debut... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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