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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Glass Castle: a Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell Staff Pick Finally, someone willing to admit just how dirty a kitchen can get! Powell's story is at once a comic tale of struggling to find one's balance in the adult world, and a witty exploration of why — and how — we cook. Gastronomes, as well as those... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Staff Pick Okay, never mind that The Shadow of the Wind starts off in a wonderfully mysterious bookstore and that there's a romantic element that is not schmaltzy, but "timeless" in the best sense of the word. What I loved was how I thought I knew where the author... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 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: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Staff Pick "What makes this book fascinating is the way that Levitt uses advanced economic techniques — the kind that would knock me unconscious quicker than chloroform if I had to read them in a textbook — and applies them to seemingly unexplainable phenomena... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire Publisher Comments When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore Staff Pick Christopher Moore's Lamb is an utterly hilarious take on the story of Jesus. Told from the perspective of Jesus' smart-ass best friend, Biff, it is irreverent without being disrespectful. Lamb, or any of Moore's books, would be perfect for someone who... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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High Wind in Jamaica (99 Edition) by Richard Hughes Publisher Comments Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Publisher Comments Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.75 Used - Trade Paper
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A Series of Unfortunate Events #01: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket Publisher Comments After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $3.25 Used - Hardcover
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Blindness by Jose Saramago Publisher Comments A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell Staff Pick "For readers who enjoy good stories wrapped around an inventive structure. Each tale is obliquely connected to another moving forward through time. And each has a totally different voice and style."... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris Publisher Comments A new holiday classic from the author of the bestselling Naked and Barrel Fever! Holidays On Ice collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice scraper. This... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk Publisher Comments At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Publisher Comments This special edition of A Wrinkle in Time includes a new essay that explores the science behind the fantasy. Rediscover one of the most beloved children's books of all time: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle: Meg Murray, her little brother Charles... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Heal the World by John Robbins Publisher Comments The Food Revolution has arrived in the nick of time to lead us toward healthy diets and healthy farms. Readable, poignant, brilliant, and amazingathis is the book to consult for the health of your family. aBrent Blackwelder, President, Friends of the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stardust: Being a Romance Within The Realms of Faerie by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, there is a town that has stood on a jut of granite for six hundred years. And immediately to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the village is named. Here in the town of Wall, Tristran Thorn... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui by Karen Kingston Publisher Comments The author of the international bestseller "Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui" presents a concise guide to clearing clutter from the home--as well as from the body, mind, and spirit. Line drawings.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld Publisher Comments In this ingenious, suspenseful historical thriller, Sigmund Freud is drawn into the mind of a sadistic killer who is savagely attacking Manhattan's wealthiest heiresses. Inspired by Sigmund Freud's only visit to America, The Interpretation of Murder... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.25 Used - Hardcover
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