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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 Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Publisher Comments Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, a heartwarming coming of age tale set in 1960s South Carolina, a multi-million copy New York Times bestseller, now an award-winning film starring Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson and Alicia... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Essential Rumi by Rumi From Powells.com "I don't mean to claim a special relationship with Rumi...but a poet of such astonishing range and depth needs many translators and interpreters. Mystical poetry tries to reveal the apple orchard within the mist of language (Rumi's image). I hope these... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kindred by Octavia E Butler Publisher Comments Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. With more than 100,000 copies in print, Kindred is a classic... (read more) List Price $13.00 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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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire Publisher Comments Is this new land a place where magics really happen? From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. In the lives of children, pumpkins... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn Publisher Comments "Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 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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Snow by Orhan Pamuk Publisher Comments Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism-these are the elements that Orhan Pamuk anneals in this masterful, disquieting novel. An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Host by Stephenie Meyer Staff Pick You may know Stephenie Meyer's name due to her wildly successful young adult vampire series, The Twilight Saga. She takes a break from that with her latest, The Host; touted as her first book for "adults," it's a fun science fiction novel, with just a... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (Liberation Trilogy) by Rick Atkinson Publisher Comments In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Olive Kitteridge: Fiction 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 $26.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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White Teeth (Vintage International) by Zadie Smith Publisher Comments Zadie Smiths dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smiths voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Series of Unfortunate Events #01: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket Publisher Comments Alexander Baddenfield is a horrible boya really horrible boywho is the last in a long line of lying, thieving scoundrels. One day, Alexander has an astonishing idea. Why not transplant the nine lives from his cat into himself... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Blindness by Jose Saramago Publisher Comments The late Nobel laureates final novel, a radical retelling of the Old Testament "Reading the Portuguese writer José Saramago, one quickly senses the presence of a master." Christian Science Monitor "Saramago is the most tender of writers...with a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell Staff Pick While it was hard to narrow down my list to just five "best of" picks, I didn't have to think twice about what would be my favorite book of the year. In Cloud Atlas Mitchell again uses the format of connecting short stories with recurring motifs into a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Clearing In the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century by Witold Rybczynski From Powells.com Rarely are biographer and subject so well-matched as in Witold Rybczynski's seminal biography of the great nineteenth century landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted. In such classic works as Home: The Short History of an Idea and City... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Archer's Tale by Bernard Cornwell Publisher Comments From master storyteller Bernard Cornwell comes a spellbinding epic of duty, love, and valor forged in the fires of the hundred years war. A brutal raid on the quiet coastal English village of Hookton in 1342 leaves but one survivor: a young archer named... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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