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A Series of Unfortunate Events #01: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket Publisher Comments Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. In the first two books alone, the three youngsters... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $2.50 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments “Nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly), The Glass Castle is the bestselling, critically acclaimed, highly publicized, and celebrated memoir by Jeannette Walls.Millions of readers have been transformed by Jeannette Walls’s... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie Staff Pick The Gun Seller reminds me of a well-made gin and tonic — crisp, hip, and refreshing, with a droll twist of lime.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers Publisher Comments The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cloudstreet (91 Edition) by Tim Winton Publisher Comments From separate catastrophes, two rural Australian families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves from... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle Publisher Comments According to Tolle, accessing the deepest self, the true self, can be learned by freeing ourselves from the conflicting, unreasonable demands of the mind and living "present, fully and intensely, in the Now."... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Asian Grocery Store Demystified: A Food Lover's Guide to All the Best Ingredients (Take It with You Guides) by Linda Bladholm Publisher Comments A food lover's guide to all the best ingredients. Do you want to prepare an Asian meal as delectable as those in restaurants? Are you too intimidated by the exotic ingredients to try? And what's inside those mysterious bottles, bags, and boxes in your... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Short Stories 1999 by A Tan Publisher Comments In choosing this year's best American short stories, guest editor Amy Tan found herself drawn to fiction that satisfied her appetite for the magic and mystery she once loved as a child, when she was addicted to fairy tales. The result is a vibrant... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides From Powells.com In 1993, Jeffrey Eugenides published The Virgin Suicides, a spellbinding novel about five mysterious sisters in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and the boys whose lives they would forever change. Middlesex, the author's long awaited follow-up, introduces... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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One Step Behind (Kurt Wallander Mysteries # 7 ) by Henning Mankell Staff Pick Discover Europe's favorite mystery writer. Sweden's Henning Mankell writes a first-rate police procedural that also serves as an indictment of contemporary society. His characters are fully drawn, full of frailties, unexpected courage, and are utterly... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson) by Louise Rennison Publisher Comments Angus:My mixed-breed cat, half domestic tabby, half Scottish wildcat. The size of a small Labrador, only mad. Likes to stalk Mr. and Mrs. Next Door's poodle. I used to drag him around on a lead, but, as I explained to Mrs. Next Door, he ate it. Thongs... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Love in a Fallen City (New York Review Books Classics) by Eileen Chang Publisher Comments 'The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Staff Pick List Price $15.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Publisher Comments Set along a bloody frontier in our own time, this is Cormac McCarthy's first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling "Border Trilogy." Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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