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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) by Suzanne Collins Staff Pick Destined for widespread popularity and quite possibly a little controversy, this post-apocalyptic tale about teenagers who fight to the death to help feed their families is so riveting and heartbreaking, I ceased all essential functions until I finished... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4 by Robert A. Caro Publisher Comments Book Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as "one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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The Cove by Ron Rash Publisher Comments Here is a magnificent tale that captures the wondrous beauty of nature and love — and the darkness of superstition and fear — from one of America's most exciting contemporary novelists. With The Cove, Ron Rash, author of the acclaimed New... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez Publisher Comments Julia Alvarez has been called "a one-woman cultural collision" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and that has never been truer than in this story about three of her most personal relationships — with her parents, with her husband, and with a... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Swamplandia! (Vintage Contemporaries) by Karen Russell Staff Pick Russell's debut novel is in a literary class of its own. Swamplandia! is a mystical, fascinating coming-of-age story told from the perspective of the charming 13-year-old Ava. A shabby tourist attraction in Florida and unpredictable family members flavor... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden Publisher Comments A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Staff Pick This is an absolutely fascinating account of a line of cells that would proliferate to such a degree that they became immortal. Shaved from a tumor in a poor black woman in the 1950s, cultured without her knowledge, and grown to amazing proportions... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Staff Pick Do we really need another sweeping historical epic set in 16th-century England? One which possesses at its heart yet another subplot about Henry VIII and his volatile affections? We certainly do if the novel is written by Hilary Mantel. Written in a... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Staff Pick We didn't read this in high school. The assigned book was The Scarlet Letter, which was already a favorite of mine. Recently, however, I decided that I'd ignored To Kill a Mockingbird for too long. If you haven't read it, or if it's been awhile since you... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson Publisher Comments Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while "overturning the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick Staff Pick Come a day, you might get sick of hearing about A Reliable Wife — so many people will have read it and raved to you about it. Here's some preventative medicine: read it first. Seduction, marriage, money, sex, drugs, murder... when Catherine Land... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Staff Pick Julian Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for this lyrical little tome, and, in spite of the controversy surrounding the prize and the 2011 shortlist, I believe he deserved the award. It's the kind of book that one races through, stopping every now and then... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them by Wayne Pacelle Publisher Comments In countless fascinating ways, our relationship with animals is an essential part of the human experience. Now, one of the world's leading champions of animal welfare offers a dramatic examination of our age-old bond to all creatures. Wayne Pacelle... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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State of Wonder by Ann Patchett Staff Pick State of Wonder is Ann Patchett's best book yet (yes, even better than Bel Canto). Brimming with mystery, philosophy, intrigue, ethical questions, the flora and fauna of the Amazon jungle, and absolutely beautiful prose, Patchett's new novel should be at... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson Staff Pick Hailed by critics across the globe, showered with awards, Out Stealing Horses is a book that true lovers of the written word will hold close to their hearts. With its captivating prose and characters who burrow under your skin and refuse to come out, Per... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht Staff Pick The postwar chaos in the Balkans provides the backdrop for Obreht's superbly crafted debut. A young physician seeks to unravel the mystery that surrounds both her grandfather's death and the mystifying Deathless Man he encountered throughout his adult... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America by Bryan Sykes Publisher Comments The best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve now turns his sights on the United States, one of the most genetically variegated countries in the world. From the blue-blooded pockets of old-WASP New England to the vast tribal lands of the Navajo... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Ender's Game (Ender Wiggins Saga #1) by Orson Scott Card Publisher Comments When three unusually attractive young adults rent the summer cottage next door, Barney's boring vacation at the beach seemingly takes a turn for the better. However, after the neighbors unwittingly reveal their extraterrestrial identities, the board... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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White Noise by Don DeLillo Publisher Comments Jack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in "American magic and dread." Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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