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A Christmas Carol (Dover Thrift Editions) by Charles Dickens Publisher Comments This engrossing tale relates Ebenezer Scrooge's ghostly journeys through Christmases past, present, and future and his ultimate transformation from a harsh and grasping old miser to a charitable and compassionate human being. A perennial classic that has... (read more) Your price: $0.75 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood Staff Pick A companion novel to Atwood's magnificent Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood conveys a very different perspective of the coming dystopian catastrophe. Darkly funny, incredibly believable, and surprisingly hopeful, Atwood's new novel is one of her very... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Chocolat (Tie-In) by Joanne Harris Staff Pick An enchanting novel about a small French village turned upside down by the arrival of a bewitching chocolatier, Vianne, and her daughter. Insistent upon opening a chocolate shop just before Lent, Vianne turns the local priest into her archenemy. As Lent... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Staff Pick Perfect for book groups, a charming series of letters make up this short novel set in post-WWII Europe. The correspondents, drawn together by their love of books and affection for each other, collectively tell a moving tale of endurance and friendship in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt Publisher Comments A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children's book author and the passions, betrayals, and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Wolf Hall Publisher Comments In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the... (read more) add to wish list |
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West with the Night by Beryl Markham Publisher Comments "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night? I knew her fairly well in Africa and never would have suspected that she could and would put pen to paper except to write in her flyer's log book. As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.24 Used - Trade Paper
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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Staff Pick "Inspired by her grandparents' love story in which the grandmother outlived her husband by nearly three decades, Niffenegger has invented Henry and Clare, and their unique and complicated love story involving the ability to live in the past and future in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Pevear & Volokhonsky) Publisher Comments Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880), is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons — the atheist intellectual... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson Staff Pick Hailed by critics across the globe, showered with awards, Out Stealing Horses is a book that true lovers of the written word will hold close to their hearts. With its captivating prose and characters who burrow under your skin and refuse to come out, Per... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger Publisher Comments Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore Staff Pick Lorrie Moore has long been one of my favorite writers, and her first novel in years does not disappoint. With unique, full characters, an incredible level of emotional detail, and her trademark psychological wit, A Gate at the Stairs is a graceful, funny,... (read more) add to wish list |
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Publisher Comments Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a bestseller for more than four decades as well as an intellectual landmark. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world — and did. Was he a destroyer or the... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance -- Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen Staff Pick In Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith has paired Austen’s sublime language with the visceral, flesh-eating menace of the "dreadfuls." England was never this lively. We get sword fights, romance, a zombie plague, and, as a bonus... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gathering of Old Men (83 Edition) by Ernest J. Gaines Publisher Comments Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man. "Poignant, powerful, earthy...a novel of Southern racial... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Jungle (06 Edition) by Upton Beall Sinclair Publisher Comments The classic 1906 novel, a political commentary on the conditions endured by factory laborers in Chicago that eventually led to the national reform of the meat packing industry and passage of pure food laws, presents the story of an immigrant family who... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $4.00 Used - 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: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey Signed Limited Edition by Chuck Palahniuk Publisher Comments The Rant Limited Edition is specially packaged in a one-piece preprinted case, printed black, with the title created in spot gloss; a 4-color slipcase that matches the original jacket of the trade book; a 1/8" ribbon marker; a signed tip-in sheet... (read more) List Price $150.00 Your price: $105.00 Used - Slipcase
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