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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 $25.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover 
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The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper Staff Pick Capturing the sensitivity felt for one's home town and the repercussions of the callow time warp known as "high school," this little novel is the kind of book you just want to put into the hands of every male you grew up with and a few you know now.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt Staff Pick Siri Hustvedt is one of the best writers that you've probably never heard of, and What I Loved is an extraordinary novel. Hustvedt's writing is agile and revelatory: now breathless, now cool, it's a story wound around the hollows left by love and memory.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos Staff Pick A beautiful story about a pair of damaged women with a forty-two-year age difference coming to a juncture in their lives that causes them to form an ageless alliance. Like pieces of opposite jigsaw puzzles they file the pieces and make them fit.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Out (03 Edition) 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 $22.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones Staff Pick Judith Jones has lived an amazing life, and she shares it with the reader in a straightforward and almost matter-of-fact way. Jones has been in all of our kitchens, whether it was through her own recipes or the many cookbooks she has edited and helped... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001 by Joy Harjo Staff Pick Joy Harjo's poems call to her sisters, her brothers, and the earth collectively and invite them to reveal and release a woven energy. This collection offers a twenty-six-year glimpse into an amazing span of achievements.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese Staff Pick Coal generates over half of the electricity we consume yet we know little about this charred material save a few mining songs and horror stories about canaries and black lungs. In this sumptuous book we follow the black rock through time and discover its... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How I Left the Great State of Tennessee and Went On to Better Things by Joe Jackson Staff Pick From Appalachia to the Everglades, a humorous romp underlying history, perseverance, and sometimes enchantment of Southern alimentation.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Old School by Tobias Wolff Staff Pick In this novel we see vulnerable and clumsy youth parallel to the polished and comfortable status which class and money provide. We meet determination, impersonation, and observation as the future opens and closes with perennial flair.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Dog Fighter by Marc Bojanowski Staff Pick I loved The Dog Fighter in the way one loves roadkill or highway accidents — you can't look away to save yourself. Sex and death have always played a central role in fiction, and never more so than in this passionate novel. If Bojanowski continues... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Brick Lane 1st Edition by Monica Ali Staff Pick A phenomenally original novel that entwines Bangladeshi traditional beginnings with a gradual transformation into modern, multicultural life in contemporary London. Ali's narrator, Nazneen, holds all of her experiences close at hand and maintains a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Half-Mammals of Dixie: Stories by George Singleton Staff Pick In Forty Five, South Carolina, the stories are half-cocked but fully loaded. In my hometown there's a tombstone with the epitaph 'gone to be an angle.' Now I finally know what that means.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing a 180 by Mike Magnuson Staff Pick Be fascinated with the cessation of bad habits. Revel in the sound of clicking gears and the whoosh of skinny tires on asphalt. This is a crash and burn, lose your mind with your fat, die or get fit way to becoming a bicycle geek.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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Harrison by Rolling Stone Staff Pick Over time Harrison revealed himself the deepest and most private Beatle. His death at 58 robbed the music world of a distinguished guitarist, whose singular influence was responsible for bringing Eastern religion and thought to a wider Western audience... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Red Water by Judith Freeman Staff Pick This eerie historical novel provides an insightful glimpse into a brutal chapter of pioneer history told through three of the nineteen devoted wives of John D. Lee. Needing closure of the event that took place on September 11, 1857 — when Mormon... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms by Amy Stewart Staff Pick A blind, lungless little plow that sifts our soil a teaspoon at a time is responsible for engineering our entire ecosystem. Amy Stewart has uncovered the earthworm's purposeful cycle into a delightful read that also serves as a reminder to savor our... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese Staff Pick Coal generates over half of the electricity we consume yet we know little about this charred material save a few mining songs and horror stories about canaries and black lungs. In this sumptuous book we follow the black rock through time and discover its... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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I, the Divine by Rabih Alameddine Staff Pick List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Town That Forgot How to Breathe by Kenneth J Harvey List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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