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Shadow of the Silk Road (P.S.) by Colin Thubron Publisher Comments To travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart, and camel, Colin Thubron covered some... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Forgery of Venus: A Novel by Michael Gruber Publisher Comments Chaz Wilmot is a painter born outside his time. He possesses a virtuosic command of the techniques of the old masters. He can paint like Leonardo, Goya, Gainsborough—artists whose works sell for millions — but this style of painting is no longer... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Mercy (Vintage International) by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments National BestsellerOne of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lullabies for Little Criminals (P.S.) by Heather Oneill Staff Pick Baby (her given name) is thirteen with no mother and a heroin-addicted father — not a feel-good kind of storyline. Lullabies for Little Criminals is a humorous and nerve-racking story. I disliked every character in the novel at some point, but O... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Staff Pick A remarkable first novel, ingeniously written in the form of a letter to the Chinese premier soon to visit India, Adiga's dark yet witty debut brings to Western readers the tense drama of a developing country and a character caught up in corruption and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Little Bitty Lies by Mary Kay Andrews Publisher Comments In a suburban Atlanta neighborhood where divorce is as rampant as kudzu, Mary Bliss McGowan doesn't notice that her own marriage is in trouble until the summer night she finds a note from her husband, Parker, telling her he's gone — and has taken... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski Publisher Comments A down-and-out writer, Henry Chinaski reminisces about his childhood, adolescence, schooling, love affair with alcohol during the Depression, and the years leading up to World War II, in an evocative portrait of mid-twentieth-century, inner-city Los... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition) by Anthony Bourdain Publisher Comments When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded that appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectable... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Maytrees by Annie Dillard Staff Pick This stunningly crafted novel of love and loss will not disappoint fans of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Erudite observations of nature show off Dillard's skill as a poetic and lyrical writer, while the astute observations of love and life resonate.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness (P.S.) by Paulo Coelho Publisher Comments By bestselling author and international sensation Paulo Coelho, a poetic and transcendent story that reflects the mysteries of love and life. Rarely does an adolescent love reach its full potential. What happens when, after eleven years, two lovers come... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind -- and Almost Found Myself -- on the Pacific Crest Trail (P.S.) by Dan White Publisher Comments The Pacific Crest Trail stretches from Mexico to Canada, a distance of 2,650 grueling, sun-scorched, bear-infested miles. When Dan White and his girlfriend announced their intention to hike it, Dan's parents — among others — thought they were... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Confusion (Baroque Cycle #02) (P.S.) by Neal Stephenson Publisher Comments In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories (P.S.) by Ben Fountain Publisher Comments The well-meaning protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught—to both disastrous and hilarious effect—in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. Ben Fountain's prize-winning debut speaks to the... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (P.S.) by Arthur Herman Publisher Comments To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.) by David Laskin Publisher Comments Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered "land, freedom, and hope." The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Odyssey by Homer and Robert Fagles Publisher Comments If The Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption (P.S.) by Paulo Coelho Publisher Comments Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything — youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. But something is missing in her life. So, one cold November morning, she takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 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: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Outlander (P.S.) by Gil Adamson Staff Pick The Outlander by Gil Adamson is a wondrous vacation for your mind. With its eccentric characters and luminous prose, this novel is a romping escapade of big fun.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith Staff Pick A book dealer came into Powell's rare book room one day while I was working and bought a beautiful first edition of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. She said it was her favorite book and a birthday present to herself. From the look in her eye and the way she... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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