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Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey Staff Pick Reading Sometimes a Great Notion (I finally made it past the first 100 labyrinthine pages after many failed attempts) had such a profound impact on me; it spoke so directly to my core and to what brought me to the land of big trees and ocean breeze (I'm... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Big Fish (12 Edition) by Wallace Publisher Comments "A talented and fascinating writer. Daniel Wallace has created a jewel in Big Fish." --Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump "I have a feeling that Big Fish is going to make a very big splash." --Lee Smith, author of News of the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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My Ishmael : a Sequel (97 Edition) by Daniel Quinn Publisher Comments The telepathic lowland gorilla featured in Quinn's award-winning book "Ishmael" returns in an extraordinary sequel, telling the story of 12-year-old Julie Gerchak, whose concerns about the future present a challenge that Ishmael is not quite sure he is... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy Publisher Comments Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton. The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford Publisher Comments In the opening pages of Jamie Ford's stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Postsecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives by Frank Warren Staff Pick In the movie, In the Mood for Love, Tony Leung whispers his most secret thoughts into a hole in the ruined temple of Angkor Wat. In Bethlehem, pilgrims write out their prayers and wishes and stuff them into tiny cracks between the bricks at the Western... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $1.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments Introducing a breathtakingly inventive futuristic suspense novel about one woman who rebels against everything she is told to believe. Emma wakes in a hospital, with no memory of what came before. Her husband, Declan, a powerful, seductive man, provides... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) by N K Sandars Publisher Comments ‘I am Gilgamesh who seized and killed the Bull of Heaven, I killed the watchman of the cedar forest, I overthrew Humbaba who lived in the forest’ Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Publisher Comments In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Peony in Love by Lisa See Staff Pick Lisa See aptly follows her blockbuster novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, with a lovely book that immerses the reader deep into 17th-century Chinese culture. Part love story, part ghost story, part historical fiction; See hangs the bones of her story... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stoner (New York Review Books Classics) by John Edwar Williams Publisher Comments The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure; The "Good Parts" Version by William Goldman Publisher Comments A tale of true love and high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing, and a frightening assortment of wild beasts--The Princess Bride is a modern storytelling classic.As Florin and Guilder teeter on the verge of war, the reluctant... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Publisher Comments Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in the New... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival by Velma Wallis Publisher Comments Chapter One Hunger and cold take their toll The air stretched tight, quiet and cold over the vast land Tall spruce branches bung heavily laden with snow, awaiting distant spring winds. The frosted willows seemed to tremble in the freezing temperatures... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver From Powells.com Very rarely does a novel have as significant an impact as has The Poisonwood Bible. Though it has received a great deal of critical recognition it was, after all, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize what has really distinguished... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Round House by Louise Erdrich Staff Pick Exploring themes of crime, justice, and revenge, Erdrich spins a tale of the brutal rape of a Native American woman who lives on a reservation in North Dakota. When 13-year-old Joe's mother is raped and very nearly murdered, he watches as his family... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Publisher Comments When a true genius appears in the world, You may know him by this sign, that the dunces Are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting" "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri Publisher Comments Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo Publisher Comments Beseeched by his dying mother to locate his father, Pedro Paramo, whom they fled from years ago, Juan Preciado sets out for Comala. Comala is a town alive with whispers and shadows — a place seemingly populated only by memory and hallucinations... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt Staff Pick This entertaining and heartbreaking story is told by a fabulous narrator, Eli Sisters. Eli and his brother Charlie are hired killers in late 19th-century Oregon and California, and this is the tale of their final job.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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