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The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace Publisher Comments A sumptuous, scintillating stew of sixty four short fictions about appetite, food, and the objects of our desire All great meals, it has been said, lead to discussions of either sex or death, and The Devil's Larder, in typical Cracean fashion, leads to... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford From Powells.com War is one of the few great literary topics. Since Homer immortalized the Trojan War 3,000 years ago, legions of writers have been glorifying, lamenting, dissecting, and parodying the soldier's life. So, can the world really bear yet another... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $2.98 Used - Hardcover
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The Prisoner Pear: Stories from the Lake by Elissa Minor Rust Staff Pick I don't often read short stories, but Elissa Minor Rust's debut arrived on my desk last week with a yellow sticky note proclaiming, "Local author!" Why not, I figured — and what do you know, I've been returning for another story or two almost every day... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Almost Moon: A Novel by Alice Sebold Publisher Comments When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily. So begins The Almost Moon, Alice Sebold's astonishing, brilliant, and daring new novel. A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this unforgettable work by the author of The Lovely... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Safety of Objects by A M Homes Publisher Comments Published to overwhelming critical acclaim, this remarkable collection of short stories established A.M. Homes as one of the most provacative and daring writers of her generation.Here you'll find the cult classic."A Real Doll," the tale of a teenage boy... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Star Called Henry (Last Roundup #01) by Roddy Doyle From Powells.com Roddy Doyle writes like nobody?s business. Each of his titles, from The Commitments (Doyle?s debut) to The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, has earned both critical and popular acclaim. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, his funny, pitch-perfect... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman Publisher Comments ALLEGRA GOODMAN has delighted readers with her critically acclaimed collections Total Immersion and The Family Markowitz, and her celebrated first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, which was a national bestseller and a National Book Award finalist. Now, in her... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin Publisher Comments Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. She re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Woman's Education by Jill Ker Conway Review "These are engaging scenes from the most public chapter of an accomplished feminist's life." Kirkus Reviews... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Underworld by Don DeLillo Staff Pick DeLillo's eleventh novel is a masterwork of language, character, vision, and story. Rarely does a book of this proportion succeed completely on every level, but from the cinematic opening in Ebbets Field on the afternoon of Bobby Thomson's legendary... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer Publisher Comments In Geoff Dyer's deft hands, what seems like an abstract idea — the search for the essence of experience — becomes an opportunity for storytelling: for a bracing, riotous, and addictive (to writer and reader) chronicling of anticipation and... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Animal Husbandry by Laura Zigman Publisher Comments A hilariously funny and wonderfully wise debut. In her spare time, late-night TV producer Jane Goodall--not "the" Jane Goodall--studies animal behavior to try to understand how and why the man she loves has so suddenly, inexplicably jilted her.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Scribbling the Cat 1st Edition by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments Best-selling memoirist Alexandra Fuller travels with a strangely charismatic Rhodesian war veteran into a modern-day heart of darkness. When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy Staff Pick "Koufax spans two distinct eras in baseball and in America," Jane Leavy notes. "In virtually ever way that matters, ethnically and economically, medically and journalistically, he offers a way to measure where we've been, what we've come to, what we've... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Hundred Brothers (Vintage Contemporaries) by Donald Antrim Publisher Comments With this satanically funny novel Donald Antrim establishes himself as a literary provocateur of the first order as well as a grandmaster of the subject of sibling rivalry as he bring together 11 eccentric brothers in the decaying library of their family... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! by Art Spiegelman Staff Pick "I'm glad to see Breakdowns get a new spin around the block, now that comics are thriving while the rest of America turns to shit," Spiegelman writes in the fascinating afterword to this new edition. Thirty years after its initial small-run publication... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Effect of Living Backwards by Heidi Julavits Staff Pick Julavits's second novel manages the neat trick of entertaining while relating the story of a hijacking. The Effect of Living Backwards is a book about sisters. About identity. About choices. "A wonderfully absurdist game of chess," Aimee Bender called it.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster Publisher Comments This is the 35th anniversary edition of Juster's ingenious fantasy that introduces young readers to Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room. Milo drives through the tollbooth's gates and begins a... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Publisher Comments When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from this strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a fourteen-year-old girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. In the weeks following... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem Publisher Comments This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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