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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 $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson Staff Pick An amazing history that recounts the inconceivable events surrounding the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Larson's tale captures a time and place that vividly come to life. The central characters in this tale are Daniel H. Burnham, the architect... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Staff Pick Set on the coast of Maine, this fantastic Pulitzer Prize winner (2009) is a terrific character study. Olive is an irascible, crabby old lady who is difficult to like. Yet, as her life, marriage, and story play out, her character changes in ways that... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn Publisher Comments “Its a wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future.” —Howard Fast, author of Spartacus and... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #01) by Jasper Fforde Staff Pick The Eyre Affair took me a little time to really get into, but once Thursday Next a literary detective from the future enters Charlotte Bronte's novel and tries to save Jane and the story, the book is thoroughly fun, with all the digs at the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Staff Pick In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, corporate intrigue, subtle psychology, explosive content, and a sensational heroine make for a high-caliber novel.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy Publisher Comments NATIONAL BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE WINNER National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $15.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.) by Peter Hessler Staff Pick From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery Publisher Comments The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau Publisher Comments Medford lives on a neat, orderly island calledsimplyIsland. Islanders like names that say exactly what a thing (or a person) is or does. Medford Runyuin is different. A foundling, he has a meaningless name that is just one of... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Known World by Edward P. Jones Publisher Comments In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of Loving (P.S.) by Erich Fromm Publisher Comments Most people are unable to love on the only level that truly matters: love that is compounded of maturity, self-knowledge, and courage. As with every art, love demands practice and concentration, as well as genuine insight and understanding. In his... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis Signature Classics) by C S Lewis Publisher Comments In 1941 England, when all hope was threatened by the inhumanity of war, C. S. Lewis was invited to give a series of radio lectures addressing the central issues of Christianity. More than half a century later, these talks continue to retain their... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gathering by Anne Enright Publisher Comments The new novel from one of Ireland's most prominent voices, The Gathering is an extraordinary anatomization of a family confronting the ghosts of its history. A dazzling writer of international stature, Anne Enright is one of Ireland's most singular... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Woods by Tana French Staff Pick The only thing more exciting than a great thriller is a terrific debut by a great thriller writer! Tana French makes a tremendous splash with In the Woods, a harrowing mystery in the vein of Mystic River that wholly earns the comparison. I dare you to... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Motel Life: A Novel (P.S.) by Willy Vlautin Staff Pick Vlautin is a natural. He's managed to craft a debut novel that is funny, sad, uplifting, and honest, in a voice that seems effortless and yet leaves room for both the imagination of the reader and the growth of the writer. Vlautin is the kind of author... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Out Backward (P.S.) by Ross Raisin Publisher Comments Sam Marsdyke is a lonely young man, dogged by an incident in his past and forced to work his family farm instead of attending school in his Yorkshire village. He methodically fills his life with daily routines and adheres to strict boundaries that keep... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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