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The Help by Kathryn Stockett Staff Pick Kathryn Stockett's characters aren't just memorable — they're the kind you start to miss the minute you turn the last page. Set in Mississippi in 1962, they speak from a world careening toward great and long-overdue change, in voices resonating with... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls Staff Pick Lily Casey Smith is a woman who won't take no for an answer if there's any way around it. She embarks on journeys and has experiences that only someone with iron-willed character could survive: As a child, she gets her young siblings up a cottonwood tree... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett Staff Pick Kathryn Stockett's characters aren't just memorable — they're the kind you start to miss the minute you turn the last page. Set in Mississippi in 1962, they speak from a world careening toward great and long-overdue change, in voices resonating with... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Company of Angels by Thomas E. Kennedy Staff Pick It's a rare book that can both haunt and inspire. The lead characters' efforts to recover from shattering events are traced with compassion, deep intelligence, and an almost miraculous hope. As if that weren't enough, the home life of the psychotherapist... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $8.32 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Bird Cloud: A Memoir by Annie Proulx Staff Pick Annie Proulx's love of research transforms this tale of home-building into a chronicle of its Wyoming locale — the wildlife, weather, Native American history, and present-day ranchers. Seasoned with stories from Proulx's own French Canadian roots, Bird... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin Staff Pick In this story of race and youth, of tragedies that time alone cannot heal, and the ways we still need each other even when it seems too late, Franklin beautifully captures human relationships in both their simplicity and unutterable complexities.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls Staff Pick Lily Casey Smith is a woman who won't take no for an answer if there's any way around it. She embarks on journeys and has experiences that only someone with iron-willed character could survive: As a child, she gets her young siblings up a cottonwood tree... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester Staff Pick This biography of the Atlantic Ocean encompasses myth and geology, trade and war and discovery — proving once again that Winchester knows how to dig deep and sift out the story. An engrossing tale from a master storyteller.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow Staff Pick Ancient thinkers asked why nature operates as it does; modern scientists inquire how. Hawking and Mlodinow argue that M-theory explains both, and they make great use of gorgeous illustrations, for some of these ideas come across most powerfully in... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Nobody Move by Denis Johnson Staff Pick Denis Johnson never ceases to amaze, going from a National Book Award to this quick and dirty pulp novel — a transition that would seem strained if not for the evident ease with which he executes this diction switch. Must be read to be believed.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Work Song by Ivan Doig Staff Pick From the moment Morgan steps off the train and discovers that the trunk holding all his worldly possessions is missing — and that the stationmaster thinks it's just a ruse — this story, about a man who can't escape his past yet longs for a chance at... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong by Jen Yates Staff Pick In this day and age, any book that can make me laugh out loud earns top o' the list. Some of the pictures in this book are hilarious in themselves, but Yates adds captions with humor ranging from subtle to over-the-top. Keep Cake Wrecks handy for when... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Nobody Move by Denis Johnson Staff Pick Jimmy Luntz has a knack for survival, if not for much else. Despite the trouble his gambler's instincts keep getting him into, he's a character with heart — which keeps getting in the way when it's time to pull the trigger. A smokin' good story.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain by Words Without Borders Staff Pick This valuable collection of stories, memoir, poems, images, and reportage from former Soviet Bloc countries gives an intimate glimpse of how life has changed — for better and for worse — since 1989. The texts are visually anchored with images of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Staff Pick Ali's memoir Infidel reveals an extraordinary woman who survived a harrowing early life, fled to the Netherlands to escape an arranged marriage, and was elected to that country's Parliament before death threats landed her under 24-hour guard. Not every... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Staff Pick Ali's memoir Infidel reveals an extraordinary woman who survived a harrowing early life, fled to the Netherlands to escape an arranged marriage, and was elected to that country's Parliament before death threats landed her under 24-hour guard. Not every... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nobody Move by Denis Johnson Staff Pick Jimmy Luntz has a knack for survival, if not for much else. Despite the trouble his gambler's instincts keep getting him into, he's a character with heart — which keeps getting in the way when it's time to pull the trigger. A smokin' good story.... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Work Song by Ivan Doig Staff Pick From the moment Morgan steps off the train and discovers that the trunk holding all his worldly possessions is missing — and that the stationmaster thinks it's just a ruse — this story, about a man who can't escape his past yet longs for a chance at... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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In the Conpany of Angels (10 Edition) by Thomas E. Kennedy Staff Pick It's a rare book that can both haunt and inspire. The lead characters' efforts to recover from shattering events are traced with compassion, deep intelligence, and an almost miraculous hope. As if that weren't enough, the home life of the psychotherapist... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ask Me about My Divorce: Women Open Up about Moving On by Candace Walsh Staff Pick How refreshing! The women who tell these stories about their divorces, while not denying the inevitable grief and new challenges they must face, celebrate the selves they discover — or rediscover — as they embark on a new chapter of life. One of the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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