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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer Publisher Comments The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory. An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil's Star: A Harry Hole Novel by Jo Nesbo Publisher Comments In the heat of a sweltering Oslo summer, a young woman is found murdered in her flat — with one of her fingers cut off and a tiny red star-shaped diamond placed under her eyelid. An off-the-rails alcoholic barely holding on to his job, Detective... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Publisher Comments The most talked about — and praised — first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who, from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture, Revised and Expanded by Elizabeth Henderson and Robyn Van En and Joan Dye Gussow Publisher Comments In Sharing the Harvest, the authors lay out the basic tenets of CSA, provide useful information for both farmers and consumers on starting and running a successful community farm project, and describe hundreds of useful strategies that have worked (or... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Truth Like the Sun by Jim Lynch Publisher Comments A classic and hugely entertaining political novel, the cat-and-mouse story of urban intrigue in Seattle both in 1962, when Seattle hosted the World's Fair, and in 2001, after its transformation in the Microsoft gold rush. Larger than life, Roger Morgan... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan Staff Pick I love collections of essays. I almost always have one (or two or three) in a pile on my bedside table. But not since I first read A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace have I loved a book of essays as much as I loved... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French Publisher Comments In the last days of old Peking, where anything goes, can a murderer escape justice? Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superstition. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Livability: Stories by Jon Raymond Publisher Comments A collection of rich, powerfully human stories from the author of The Half-Life and the movies Old Joy (“one of the finest American films of the year”New York Times) and Wendy and Lucy. A grieving man embarks on a long-imagined affair in the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson Publisher Comments "He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one…" Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Known World by Edward P. Jones Publisher Comments In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Lit: A Memoir (P.S.) by Mary Karr Staff Pick The best way I can describe this work is to say that it's absolutely delicious. More than a mere memoir, this fascinating jewel contains universal truths, with delicate and elegant phrasing, and, despite the subject matter, there's no sense of frivolous... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Stranger by Albert Camus Publisher Comments Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (L'Etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Staff Pick "It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery..." Take your time reading this beautifully written book with an innovative... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lucky Bastard by S. G. Browne Publisher Comments Meet Nick Monday: a private detective who's more Columbo than Sam Spade, more Magnum P.I. than Philip Marlowe. As San Francisco's infamous luck poacher, Nick doesn't know whether his ability to swipe other peoples fortunes with a simple handshake is a... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Submission by Amy Waldman Publisher Comments Ten years after 9/11, a dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel reimagines its aftermath A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Zeitoun (Vintage) by Dave Eggers Publisher Comments When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Alchemist (Insight) by Paulo Coelho Staff Pick Whether you want to take a journey or to be reassured that life is filled with wonder and magic, this beautifully optimistic book is for you. Follow Santiago, a shepherd who follows a dream to find treasure hidden under the pyramids, but ends up finding... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt Publisher Comments One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Staff Pick This is one of the few books I have read that has made me actively slow down my reading pace. Every sentence, every word feels purely distilled into its most emotionally resonant core. Robinson's prose conjures up that curious feeling you get sometimes... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Staff Pick Waiting for a new Kingsolver novel has been like waiting for a favorite restaurant to reopen after renovations, only it's been nine years of anticipation. With the grand depth of The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna tells of historical and intercultural... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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