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Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships (P.S.) by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha Staff Pick Sex at Dawn is nonfiction at its best. Writing across a range of disciplines, from anthropology to philosophy, the authors explore and challenge everything we thought we knew about human sexuality in this provocative and profound book.... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper 
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Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (2nd Edition) by Toby Hemenway Staff Pick Gaia's Garden has been an indispensable reference for gardeners who want to turn their yards into ecosystems that work with nature to create gardens that are beautiful, beneficial (to insects, birds, and people), and self-sustaining. This second edition... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Under the Dome by Stephen King Staff Pick Well-written, compelling, and intelligent on ethical questions, this epic is worth its daunting page count. Reminiscent of his earlier work, particularly The Stand and It, Under the Dome is Stephen King's best book in years.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Appetite for Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low-Fat Vegan Recipes by Isa Chandra Moskowitz Staff Pick Favorite (and now local!) vegan chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz, of Vegan with a Vengeance and Veganomicon fame, brings us an antidote to a season of indulgence: incredibly delicious vegan recipes, with a focus on low fat and high fiber to make them even... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War by Joe Bageant Staff Pick Deer Hunting with Jesus is a hilarious, depressing, and painfully honest chronicle of an America often cited but rarely listened to: rural lower-class whites. With brilliant, spot-on detail, Joe Bageant reports on the historical, economic, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore Staff Pick The Other Wes Moore is the fascinating tale of two men who shared a name and a birthplace; their lives started out in similar circumstances and ended up very differently (one a Rhodes Scholar, the other serving a life sentence in jail). A moving... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Son of a Witch: A Novel by Gregory Maguire Staff Pick Son of a Witch is a pitch-perfect sequel to Wicked — as though Maguire hadn't written several other books in dramatically varied voices in the meantime. But his new novel is more meditative, symbolic, and unexpectedly relevant than its predecessor. Son... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante Staff Pick Alice LaPlante's remarkable debut novel is a page-turning mystery written with spellbinding language. But even more than that, it's an incredibly intimate portrait of a deteriorating mind. Heartbreaking, intelligent, and lyrical, Turn of Mind introduces... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Pictorial Webster's: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities by John M. Carrera Staff Pick This "visual dictionary of curiosities" is charming, quirky, and endlessly entertaining. (It's also very hard to put down.) Fascinating images reproduced from wood engravings illustrate words from albatross and abracadabra to zibeth and zodiac."... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Flies (Lannan Literary Selections) by Michael Dickman Staff Pick Flies, Michael Dickman's second poetry collection, does not disappoint. The much acclaimed author of The End of the West startles and disturbs with beautiful, violent, honest poems that will be some of the finest you read this year.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Saving Fish from Drowning (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Amy Tan Staff Pick Saving Fish from Drowning is a funny, almost magical look at group dynamics, altruism, and self-interest set against the beauty and repressive politics of Myanmar. Impressive and surprisingly moving.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant Staff Pick A fascinating attempt to see through the eyes of another creature, John Vaillant's The Tiger is an intelligent and beautifully written blend of history, anthropology, zoology, ecology, and adventure. Compelling and resonant, The Tiger is a rare work of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King Staff Pick Stephen King has done much of his best writing in the long-story form (including the novellas The Body, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, and The Langoliers), and Full Dark, No Stars proves no exception. These four tales are sinister, violent... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman Staff Pick The Cookbook Collector is the lovely, unusual story of two very different sisters creating their lives at the end of the 20th century. Allegra Goodman has outdone herself with this funny, complex, rich, and rewarding new novel. Readers who enjoy fiction... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl Staff Pick What begins as an innocent (if quirky) adolescent tale swiftly transforms into an absorbing high school whodunit. If I had to compare it to a few recent films, it manages to come across both as gritty as Brick and as refreshing as Juno, but with a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson Staff Pick Kevin Wilson's debut novel is one of the smartest and strangest books you'll read all year. Hilarious and dark, ironic and empathetic, The Family Fang is a weird and wonderful novel that should not be missed.... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Away by Amy Bloom Staff Pick Lyrical and moving, terribly sad but funny, too, Away is a major accomplishment and a pleasure to read. Amy Bloom's language is precise and graceful, and her characters and their journeys make America in the 1920s shine with life.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley Staff Pick Funny, charming, and self-effacing, Sloane Crosley's essays will resonate with you, whether or not you grew up playing Oregon Trail on the computer or have ever locked yourself out of your house — twice in the same day. Crosley's voice is uniquely... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pale King by David Foster Wallace Staff Pick The Pale King, David Foster Wallace's posthumously published novel, is an awe-inspiring tornado of a book. Even unfinished, it's worlds above what most writers can do: mesmerizing readers with a novel about IRS agents and boredom is a transcendent feat... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Mind's Eye (Vintage) by Oliver Sacks Staff Pick Oliver Sacks, as fascinating, empathetic, and formidably talented as always, focuses on six individuals who've lost what we think of as essential abilities, including reading, face recognition, and speech. The Mind's Eye is a mesmerizing and exhilarating... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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