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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: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Publisher Comments Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Underworld by Don DeLillo Publisher Comments Our lives, our half century. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Staff Pick The story of two young comic book artists in 1940s New York City, Jewish boys, one of whom fled the German steamroller heading toward his home in Czechoslovakia in a coffin, Chabon's third and best novel is utterly original, a generous fictional addition... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks Staff Pick In her follow-up to Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks has taken historical fiction to another dimension altogether. Using America's Civil War as her frame, she plants a famous (but deeply mysterious) literary figure at its center: Mr. March, the absent... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Staff Pick Magic green pills spill, accidentally, onto the ground beneath a peach tree. A peach appears overnight, the only fruit the tree has ever produced; by morning, it's swollen to the size of a houseboat, and soon enough James Henry Trotter is climbing aboard... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Staff Pick On one list are the books you like to recommend. You want to turn on someone to your favorite unknown author or introduce them to the season's latest, greatest novel. If you've read widely enough over the years, you'll match reader to occasion. The list... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Publisher Comments When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from this strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a fourteen-year-old girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. In the weeks following... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments The bestselling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century. "What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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White Noise by Don DeLillo Publisher Comments Jack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in "American magic and dread." Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller Staff Pick In her 2001 debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller recalled in vivid, often excruciating detail coming of age in Rhodesia as a long civil war raged in neighboring Mozambique and her own country slid down the violent path toward an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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U and I: A True Story by Nicholson Baker Publisher Comments Baker muses on the creative process via his obsession with John Updike.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wild Life by Molly Gloss Staff Pick At the turn of the century, in the primeval forest of the Pacific Northwest, a fiery feminist becomes lost. Struggling to survive, night after terrifying night, she is finally rescued by... Bigfoot!? Huh? No, really — this incredible story works. Gloss... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer Publisher Comments In Geoff Dyer's deft hands, what seems like an abstract idea — the search for the essence of experience — becomes an opportunity for storytelling: for a bracing, riotous, and addictive (to writer and reader) chronicling of anticipation and... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories by Aimee Bender Staff Pick When friends tell me to pick a book for them to read that I really like, this is the one I give most often. Brilliant, wacko, kooky, sharp short stories from one of my favorite writers.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Beasts of No Nation: A Novel by Uzodinma Iweala Staff Pick See Africa through the words of a gifted young writer named Uzodinma Iweala, whose debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, exposes the genocide plaguing that continent in a car-crash voice that won't let you turn away.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Hundred Brothers (Vintage Contemporaries) by Donald Antrim Publisher Comments With this satanically funny novel Donald Antrim establishes himself as a literary provocateur of the first order as well as a grandmaster of the subject of sibling rivalry as he bring together 11 eccentric brothers in the decaying library of their family... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie Publisher Comments Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, and The Wizard... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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