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The Likeness by Tana French Staff Pick The Likeness is another masterpiece of suspense by Tana French. Reminiscent of The Secret History, this psychological thriller is wonderfully written and impeccably paced a perfect summer read.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Staff Pick Jennifer Egan's new novel is a fantastically inventive, intelligent, and fully realized exploration of music, art, and life. It even includes a chapter written in PowerPoint, which is actually a pleasure to read. A Visit from the Goon Squad is Egan's... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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State of Wonder (P.S.) by Ann Patchett Staff Pick State of Wonder is Ann Patchett's best book yet (yes, even better than Bel Canto). Brimming with mystery, philosophy, intrigue, ethical questions, the flora and fauna of the Amazon jungle, and absolutely beautiful prose, Patchett's new novel should be at... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to some... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K Shipler Staff Pick The Working Poor is a deeply impressive book, a thorough and balanced study of the millions of Americans living at or around the poverty line. Shipler's varied portraits and interviews are insightful and moving, and his analysis of causes and suggestions... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit Staff Pick "Rebecca Solnit's marvelous new book of essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, is about the spaces between stability and risk, solitude, and the occasional claustrophobia of ordinary life. She explores the mysterious without puncturing the mystery, and... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood Staff Pick A companion novel to Atwood's magnificent Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood conveys a very different perspective of the coming dystopian catastrophe. Darkly funny, incredibly believable, and surprisingly hopeful, Atwood's new novel is one of her very... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Staff Pick List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Independent People by Halldor Laxness Staff Pick "Independent People is epic and thorough, covering the sweep of generations as well as detailed hours ticking by during sleepless nights, ambling walks around the plains. It is a novel of contrasts, especially in its nuanced exploration of character... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen Staff Pick In his new novel, Jonathan Franzen surpasses the achievements of his National Book Award-winner, The Corrections. Freedom examines every major theme in American life — politics, class, work, culture, and sex, to name a few — through the lens of one... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault Staff Pick When I was immersed in a sea of literary criticism a few years ago, Foucault, more than anyone else, caught my attention. Looking deeply at the roots of our behavior and our cultural attitudes, his examination of different kinds of power and control is... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Unaccustomed Earth (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jhumpa Lahiri Staff Pick Unaccustomed Earth is in many ways a deeply and authentically sad book. I would not advise reading the stories too quickly; they will each haunt you for days afterward (and, unusually in a collection like this, they are all equally strong). But Lahiri's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker Staff Pick The Anthologist is the one of the funniest books I read this year, and one of Baker's best in a long time. Baker creates an incredibly winning main character in Paul Chowder, a minor poet trying (and repeatedly failing) to write the introduction to an... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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State of Wonder by Ann Patchett Staff Pick State of Wonder is Ann Patchett's best book yet (yes, even better than Bel Canto). Brimming with mystery, philosophy, intrigue, ethical questions, the flora and fauna of the Amazon jungle, and absolutely beautiful prose, Patchett's new novel should be at... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis Staff Pick Rich in symbolism, page-turning action, and lovely prose, these classic coming-of-age tales of good versus evil have lost none of their magic.... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Run (P.S.) by Ann Patchett Staff Pick Run, a worthy successor to Bel Canto, shows off Patchett's trademark gorgeous prose and emotional depth. Her characters are believably flawed, but ultimately good and decent human beings who you want to spend time with.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson Staff Pick Exploring politics, philosophy, the nature of love, and the question of how to live a good life, Petterson's latest is melancholy, beautiful, and at times darkly funny — another extraordinary novel from a master of the form.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Evolution of God (Back Bay Readers' Pick) by Robert Wright Staff Pick Robert Wright's The Evolution of God is a fascinating history of religion in all its forms, from the beginning stirrings of theology to the conflicting faiths we live with today. This intelligent, accessible, and thorough book gives us new insight into... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Listeners by Leni Zumas Staff Pick Leni Zumas's writing crackles. Her books are sharp, bleak, funny, and possibly dangerous. Her profoundly disquieting debut novel, The Listeners, portrays a world twisted on its axis by loss. Quinn is a musician and a survivor of a fractured and eccentric... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch Staff Pick "Jim Lynch's fictional debut explores what's so remarkable about the squid and its unusual ocean brethren, as well as what it's like growing up by the edge of sea. The Highest Tide has much to recommend it, including the narrator himself....[A] classic... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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