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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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller Staff Pick In her 2001 debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller recalled in vivid, often excruciating detail coming of age in Rhodesia as a long civil war raged in neighboring Mozambique and her own country slid down the violent path toward an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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White Teeth (Vintage International) by Zadie Smith Publisher Comments Zadie Smith was born in northwest London in 1975. The Autograph Man is her second novel. Her first, White Teeth, was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and the Commonweatlh Writers First Book... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 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: $6.95 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks Staff Pick Give me a mystery (one that is structured around an antiquarian book, no less!), a historical setting, and an exquisite writer like Geraldine Brooks, and I am suddenly avoiding daily rituals like sleep and food. Nothing could deter me from turning the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish by Richard Flanagan Staff Pick It doesn't really have that much to do with fish. They're just an excuse for William Gould to tell his life story as an inmate in a penal colony on Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). Shocking in its brutality and touching in its humanity, this is an... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres Publisher Comments Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, Corelli's Mandolin is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history. The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Success Principles: How To Get From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be by Jack Canfield Publisher Comments The Principles Always WorkIf You Work the Principles Get ready to transform yourself for success. Jack Canfield, cocreator of the phenomenal bestsellingChicken Soup for the Soul® series, turns to the principles he's studied, taught, and lived for... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Secret Knowledge of Water : Discovering the Essence of the American Desert (00 Edition) by Craig Childs Publisher Comments Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorers. As Craig Childs makes clear in this highly praised book, there are two easy ways to die in the desert: thirst or drowning. His... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande Publisher Comments In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orleans wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. From Floridas swamps to its courtrooms, the New Yorker writer follows one... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir (P.S.) by Josh Kilmer Purcell Publisher Comments I Am Not Myself These Days follows a glittering journey through Manhattan's dark underbelly — a shocking and surreal world where alter egos reign and subsist (barely) on dark wit and chemicals...a tragic romantic comedy where one begins by rooting... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Staff Pick I know you shouldn't recommend books that you are only halfway through, but this is such a lush tapestry of a book I can't resist. Like a moist rich chocolate torte, Strange and Norrell is the sort of book you ration out to avoid finishing it too soon... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Olivia by Ian Falconer Publisher Comments Ian Falconer is a painter and illustrator whose illustrations have graced many covers of The New Yorker magazine. In addition, he has designed sets and costumes for the New York City Ballet, the San Francisco Opera, and the Royal Opera House, Covent... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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