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Push by Sapphire Publisher Comments Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, directed by Lee Daniels and written by Damien Paul GRAND JURY PRIZE and AUDIENCE AWARD winner at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this horrific, hope-filled story (Newsday... (read more) Your price: $13.00 New - Trade Paper 
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Publisher Comments The most talked about — and praised — first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who, from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister,... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Loving Frank by Nancy Horan Publisher Comments I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin Publisher Comments In The Aeneid, Vergil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Precious (Push Movie Tie-In Edition) (Random House Movie Tie-In Books) by Sapphire Synopsis NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Includes a Reading Group Guide Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more... (read more) Your price: $13.00 New - Trade Paper
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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs Publisher Comments - An Indie Next List selection - Although fiction, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks's provide a unique look at a group of friends living in New York City in the forties that parallels the lives of Burroughs, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, and... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Sand Fish: A Novel from Dubai by Maha Gargash Publisher Comments A fascinating window into a different culture--and an inspiring and unforgettable universal story of strength and self-reliance--from an extraordinarily wise and lyrical new literary voice Coming of age in the 1950s, seventeen-year-old Noora is unlike... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Museum of Human Beings by Colin Sargent Synopsis From deprivation in the wilderness to the lavish courts of European nobility, this poignant historical novel explores the life and quest of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea. After the famed Lewis and Clark expedition and the death of his... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Thug Lovin' by Wahida Clark Publisher Comments Tasha and Trae, the hood's favorite couple, are still together following the events of Thug Matrimony. Even with their relocation to sunny Los Angeles, the drama of New York cannot be escaped. From running a nightclub to dealing with models, shady... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blessed Trinity by Vanessa Davis Griggs Synopsis Part Terry MacMillan, part Jan Karon, "Blessed Trinity" is the first book in a suspenseful and inspiring new trilogy about three sisters who are living with a secret. The author offers an incisive and affecting look at the inner-workings of mega churches... (read more) Your price: $6.99 New - Mass Market
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Power of One (89 Edition) by Bryce Courtenay Publisher Comments In this magical novel, an irresistible boy tells the story of his survival and coming of age against the background of South Africa during and just after World War II.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Farther Than I Meant to Go, Longer Than I Meant to Stay by Tiffany L Warren Publisher Comments As President of Grace Savings and Loans, Charmayne Ellis is an established, polished professional. Although she has reached great success, her ridiculing mother and wise cracking younger sister won't let her forget that she is a 36-year-old, overweight... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Emigrants by W G Sebald Staff Pick This unique book is a visionary rendering of documentary-quality clarity and fictional skill. The Emigrants is strangely haunting, and bewitchingly beautiful. As you turn the pages you'll find yourself losing any sense of what is real and what is... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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River Runs Through It (89 Edition) by Norman Maclean Publisher Comments From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing", to the last, "I am haunted by waters", A River Runs Through It is an American classic. Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, A... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett Publisher Comments An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Soldier to Soldier by Edd Mcnair Synopsis McNair offers a compelling tale of the hardships soldiers face--whether they're going to war to fight for their country or going to war on the inner-city streets.... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Hinds' Feet on High Places (Deluxe Christian Classics) by Hannah Hurnard Publisher Comments Hannah Hurnard created the story of Much Afraid, a young girl hoping to travel from the Valley of Humiliation to the High Places. Along the way, she meets a number of memorable characters - including the Family of Fearings, Cousin Pride, Mrs. Valiant... (read more) Your price: $9.97 New - Hardcover
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Lies Will Take You Somewhere by Sheila Schwartz Publisher Comments In a voice reminiscent of Cynthia Ozick, this Jewish/Gothic novel renders the fracture and healing of the Rosen family. Jane Rosen leaves her three daughters and husband Saul, a rabbi, to care for her mother in Florida. In Jane's absence, Saul discovers... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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God Don't Like Ugly by Mary Monroe Publisher Comments Monroe brings to life the bond between two girls from opposite sides of the tracks--and the shattering event that changes their world forever--in this coming-of-age tale about a sexually abused young black woman and the beautiful and diabolical best... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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