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The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss by Claire Nouvian Staff Pick The Deep is one of the most beautiful and bizarre books I've ever seen. You will not be able to put it down, and none of your friends will be able to resist picking it up.... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover 
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The God of Animals: A Novel by Aryn Kyle Staff Pick Alice Winston is one of the most likable characters I've come across in a long time; smart, tough, and intuitive beyond her years, her voice is both utterly realistic and absolutely captivating. Aryn Kyle's extraordinary debut novel treats the reader to... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Unaccustomed Earth 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 $25.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Saturday 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... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon Staff Pick Great literary style. Expressive, deeply moving, and insightful. Perceptively intertwines past and present.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Iodine by Haven Kimmel Staff Pick Haven Kimmel's gorgeous fourth novel is disturbing and brilliant in equal measure. Iodine is unlike any book I've ever read; woven through with psychoanalyses, dreams, hallucinations, and mythology, you are never sure which version of our narrator's... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.75 Sale - Hardcover
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The Echo Maker: A Novel by Richard Powers Staff Pick The Echo Maker is the story of Mark Schluter, a 27-year-old man who has a mysterious accident in his hometown in Nebraska, the site of the magnificent Sandhill Crane migration along the river. When he comes to, he has developed Capgras syndrome, a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $6.95 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 $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Highest Tide: A Novel 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 $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Prep: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld Staff Pick "The best thing about this novel, and there are many very good things, is its strikingly intelligent voice. Sittenfeld nails the neurosis of adolescence with an unusual and appropriate tone....Sittenfeld's depiction of complex relationships is welcome... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Evolution of God 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 $25.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Oprah's Book Club Summer 2005: A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying; The Sound and the Fury; Light in August by William Faulkner Staff Pick Oprah's right: Faulkner, believe it or not, is perfect summer reading. His prose — which includes some of the most disturbing and gorgeous sentences written in the twentieth century — demands to be savored, preferably with a mint julep or a glass of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The View from Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro Staff Pick Munro's prose shines in this new collection inspired by her Scottish family history. With stories as subtle and lucid as always, this is her most personal fiction to date.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer Staff Pick In The Life You Can Save, Singer challenges and inspires readers to step up and play a part in ending world poverty. Absolutely logical and rational, yet passionate about the effect our choices can have, Singer lays out our shared global responsibility... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Oxford Book of American Poetry by David Lehman Staff Pick The Oxford Book of American Poetry is a landmark event in publishing — it's been thirty years since the last edition, and David Lehman has shown Oxford's customary care in selecting poets of the highest caliber. Going back as far as Anne Bradstreet and... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Louise in Love (01 Edition) by Mary Jo Bang Staff Pick "Mary Jo Bang (her name, perfect for a poet, must be envied) won the prestigious 1996 Bread Loaf Bakeless Literary prize for Apology for Want, her previous book of poems. Louise in Love employs the same elegant, intelligent language and extends it... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt Staff Pick Siri Hustevdt's new novel shines; she is writing at the peak of her powers. The Sorrows of American is intelligent, witty, and plumbs unusual depths. It is also very difficult to put down. With this work, Hustvedt should finally be recognized as one of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Half Life by Shelley Jackson Staff Pick Lots of books over the years have been compared to Katherine Dunn's classic Geek Love, but Half Life is the first I've read that even comes close to its mix of bleak, black humor and eerie, fable-like storytelling. Shelley Jackson's prose, though, is a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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