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The Children's Hospital
by Chris Adrian
Staff Pick
This book will make you think, laugh, cry. It is without question, the best book I've read in several years. The author, a doctor and theologian, gives delicate care toward his characters as I assume he would toward his patients. You won't put this down.... (read more)

List Price $22.25
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Used - Hardcover

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The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
by Gaetan Soucy
Staff Pick
Two siblings exist in a surreal reality, having grown up in a land of their father's own making, using a language of their own. This comes to a head when, after a traumatic morning, the two are faced with the outside world. The question raised is both... (read more)

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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Staff Pick
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Used - Hardcover

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Mercury
by Ariana Reines
Staff Pick
This book reads like a story petered out in clear unpretentious style between long works which weave together a sense of communication, as if with a lover, a friend, or oneself. Reines has an uncanny ability to make the mundane a powerful source of... (read more)

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