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Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald Publisher Comments A "Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine" and "Entertainment Weekly" Best Book of 2001, "Austerlitz"--now in paperback--is the last and greatest work of fiction from one of the masters of world literature. Photos throughout.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Publisher Comments Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Empire Falls by Richard Russo Publisher Comments In this droll, unsentimental, and occasionally hilarious novel, Richard Russo tells the story of a big-hearted man who becomes the unlikely hero of a small town with a glorious past but a dubious future.<P>The one (barely) viable business in Empire... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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Complications : a Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (02 Edition) 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: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson Staff Pick A story about faith, love, history and growing old, this book is poignant and lovely. It is a long letter from a father who thinks he is soon to die, to his seven-year-old son. Robinson's command of language, her deep understanding of humanity, and her... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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You Are Being Lied to: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths by Russell Kick Publisher Comments You Are Being Lied Tois a massive collection of articles that ruthlessly destroy the distortions, myths, and outright lies that are fed to us by the government, the media, corporations, history books, organized religion, science and medicine, and society... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Roberto, Insect Architect (00 Edition) by Nina Laden Publisher Comments Ever since he was a wee mite (termite that is), Roberto wanted to be an architect. He longed to follow in the footsteps-all twelve of them-of such architectural greats as Hank Floyd Mite and Fleas van der Rohe. Discouraged by comments from family and... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Hardcover
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf Staff Pick The End of America should be required reading for every American. Rather than giving us a partisan 600-page tome on the crimes of the Bush administration, Naomi Wolf lays out clearly and concisely how we as a people have allowed our government to move... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Publisher Comments Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women 1st Edition by Annie Leibovitz Publisher Comments The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters,... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $32.00 Used - Hardcover
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer Staff Pick I absolutely loved Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close a most precious and delightful novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Oskar Schell made me laugh, smile, and just feel good. He is a charmer who's won my heart through the tears and the joy.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure by Don Kladstrup Publisher Comments In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, winemakers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, but the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter Publisher Comments Five Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul and Patsy meant to end up. Both from the East Coast, they met in college, fell in love, and settled down to married life in the Midwest. Saul is Jewish and a compulsively inventive worrier; Patsy is gentile... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Publisher Comments This special edition of A Wrinkle in Time includes a new essay that explores the science behind the fantasy. Rediscover one of the most beloved children's books of all time: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle: Meg Murray, her little brother Charles... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Remainder (Vintage Originals) by Tom McCarthy Staff Pick Would you trade memories for money? What if you didn't have a choice? If you didn't remember what caused your memory loss, how would you spend the settlement that resulted? In Tom McCarthy's Remainder, the unnamed man chooses to recapture imagined... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Against the Day: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon Staff Pick Against the Day switches as smoothly from Tom Swift-style "boys adventure" to a Gothic prairie tale in the vein of Cormac McCarthy, as it does from reverence for historical figures and events to explosive iconoclasm. Its world is filled with dirigibles... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bowling Alone: Civic Disengagement in America by Robert D Putnam Publisher Comments Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified and describes in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone. Drawing on vast new data from... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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