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Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga #4) by Stephenie Meyer Staff Pick I can't remember a more highly anticipated book that doesn't begin with "Harry Potter and the...." Far from just a young adult horror book, this last volume in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga is an old-fashioned romance of the highest order, with legions... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Staff Pick Perfect for book groups, a charming series of letters make up this short novel set in post-WWII Europe. The correspondents, drawn together by their love of books and affection for each other, collectively tell a moving tale of endurance and friendship in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Staff Pick Well, first, I am a sucker for any book set at the circus. But throw in the massive talent that Sara Gruen has and then tell me a love story? Far from the cliché book club pick, Water for Elephants will be read for your next club meeting and then you'll... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brisingr (Inheritance Cycle #3) by Christopher Paolini Staff Pick Brilliant! This, the third book in the Inheritance Cycle, was well worth the wait. There are dragons, thrills, and action aplenty — enough to satisfy any reader.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Novel by Khaled Hosseini Staff Pick Never mind the sophomore slump — this book devours that cliché. As well as illuminating the rich history and familial culture behind war-torn Afghanistan, A Thousand Splendid Suns is filled with authentic relationships and characters that are... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Host by Stephenie Meyer Staff Pick You may know Stephenie Meyer's name due to her wildly successful young adult vampire series, The Twilight Saga. She takes a break from that with her latest, The Host; touted as her first book for "adults," it's a fun science fiction novel, with just a... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Peony in Love by Lisa See Staff Pick Lisa See aptly follows her blockbuster novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, with a lovely book that immerses the reader deep into 17th-century Chinese culture. Part love story, part ghost story, part historical fiction; See hangs the bones of her story... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier Staff Pick List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Promise Not to Tell by Jennifer Mcmahon Staff Pick A semi-spooky modern day ghost story. But the real allure of this book is the amazingly drawn character, Del. An outcast in her grammar school, dubbed "The Potato Girl" because of her dirty, worn clothes and her scent reminiscent of moist earth, Del is... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier Staff Pick The story of a dependable, rather boring classic-languages professor at a Swiss lycée. Mundus, as he is called, seems to thrive on predictability. One rainy morning on his way to the school he encounters a woman possibly considering suicide. He... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine Staff Pick Although initially turned off by the title, The Female Brain was one the most revealing gender studies I have ever read. More a case for feminism than a case for gender superiority, Brizendine explores the physiological reasons behind the differences in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey D. Sachs Staff Pick Rather than a grim manifesto on the world's problems, Jeffrey Sachs offers readers what he calls the four key goals of a global society — prosperity for all, the end of extreme poverty, stabilization of the global population, and environmental... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Pravda by Edward Docx Staff Pick Sharp, compelling, and dark. Edward Docx is fantastically gifted with prose and weaves a complex family saga and literary thriller. With descriptive powers rivaling Le Carre, and a setting that hops between Russia, London and New York, I devoured this... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer Staff Pick Great essays like these give you an opportunity to look at the world through another person's eyes and re-examine your own experiences. The 26 included here take you on a journey through the a myriad women's lives. I laughed, I cried, I felt better about... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Digging to America by Anne Tyler Staff Pick Anne Tyler put her skilled pen to paper and wrote a powerful novel of America's melting pot. Brought together by international adoptions, two family's lives intertwine and illuminate America's cultural spectrum and all its universalities of human nature.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't by Stephen Prothero Staff Pick Having called us a nation of "religious illiterates" on the first page, Steven Prothero had me intrigued and ready to read Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. Prothero contends that while contemporary America values its position as a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner Staff Pick Eric Weiner takes an entertaining romp around the world in search of geographical happiness, and I was willingly taken along for the ride. His self-professed Eeyore-centric take on the world and his grumpy wit made his discourse all the more fun. Highly... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson Staff Pick This book is a knock-out. But what a gentle punch. In the face of their personal losses, a friendship slowly and intimately develops between two women on a quiet plot of land near a small town in Sweden. This is a truly absorbing read that is sure to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Staff Pick Never mind the sophomore slump — this book devours that cliché. As well as illuminating the rich history and familial culture behind war-torn Afghanistan, A Thousand Splendid Suns is filled with authentic relationships and characters that are... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo Staff Pick Told as a modern-day fairy tale, Troll haunted me long after I finished. It has all the elements, including some of the disturbing ones, found in so many of Grimm's stories, but is nonetheless a truly original novel. If you like fiction in the style of... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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