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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 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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No Country for Old Men (Vintage International) by Cormac McCarthy Staff Pick No Country for Old Men includes both familiar and uncharted territory for Cormac McCarthy. His prose is lean and cadenced, but his formidable characters and intricate plot are as rich as ever. This is a novel of uncompromising beauty and power -- one of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Publisher Comments Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life by Jenna Woginrich Staff Pick Jenna Woginrich's Made from Scratch is charming, practical, eye-opening, and empowering. From beekeeping to butter churning, it's a wonderful primer, and Woginrich's enthusiasm and humor are inspiring. Plus, she's definitely convinced me to get some... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Vegetable Soups from Deborah Madison's Kitchen by Deborah Madison Staff Pick Thus far, I've only made a few of the soups in Deborah Madison's Vegetable Soups from Deborah Madison's Kitchen, and already my neighbors (literally) have asked me for the recipes. Organized by season as well as main ingredient, and including a welcome... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Staff Pick List Price $15.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Saturday: A Novel by Ian McEwan Staff Pick Ian McEwan's new novel is generous, contemplative, and moving — and in good company, joining classics like Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses that take place during a single day. McEwan intricately weaves characters and themes towards an eloquent and wrenching... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison Staff Pick Working at Catacombs warehouse, I run across many, many cookbooks, and more often than not take them home to try them out. This cookbook has quickly become one of my favorites. Every recipe — really, every one! — that I've tried so far has been... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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Averno: Poems by Louise Gluck Staff Pick Averno is one of the best new collections of poetry I've read in years. This is Glück at her most accomplished and haunting — her voice has absolute authority and conviction, yet the poems' themes ring with doubt and loss. Averno is centered around... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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I Could Tell You Stories by Patricia Hampl Staff Pick This book of essays, focusing on the idea of memoir and memory, fell into my hands rather by accident; I started reading somewhat casually and was very happily drawn in. Hampl's voice is lovely: elegant and clear, she works through the concepts of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Street of Crocodiles (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Bruno Schulz Staff Pick "Schulz is a master of metaphor, and his lush, poetic sentences burst with sensory detail. He transforms the pedestrian — salesgirls, brooms, bolts of cloth — into fantastic apparitions, lit with significance and color....Schulz's stories...are... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys Staff Pick "Jean Rhys is an extremely precise and careful writer who gives the impression, through the voices of her characters, of haphazard and ragged patterns of thought. Her style is marked with ellipses and dashes, with sentences and paragraphs trailing off or... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hopscotch (66 Edition) by Julio Cortazar Staff Pick "Cortazar is an elixir; Hopscotch is precise and brilliant and disturbing as hell. A balance of absurdity and beauty, literally and in each ready sense, a tightrope walk between the window and the pavement ? this is what Hopscotch injects within the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Spook Country by William Gibson Staff Pick Spook Country is Gibson at the top of his game, with gorgeous detail, page-turning suspense, and fascinating characters. If you've never read this author in the past because his work was categorized as science fiction, pick up this book, which is all too... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman Staff Pick Ackerman's bestselling books, including A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind, are illuminating windows into the human condition, and are distinguished not only by Ackerman's graceful and exuberant prose but by her inclusion of her own... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 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 $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem Staff Pick "After deciding to recommend this book, I recently reread it, and it's absolutely as funny, sweet, and unique as I remembered it. As She Climbed Across the Table takes place in the world of the academy; the main character researches the academy itself... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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