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One Shot: A Jack Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher Novels) by Lee Child Staff Pick Everybody remembers their first roller coaster ride. The train turns a corner, there are no tracks ahead, and the contents of your stomach are making their way towards your mouth. Miraculously, tracks appear, your stomach settles, and the ride is over... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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One Step Behind (Kurt Wallander Mysteries # 7 ) by Henning Mankell Staff Pick Discover Europe's favorite mystery writer. Sweden's Henning Mankell writes a first-rate police procedural that also serves as an indictment of contemporary society. His characters are fully drawn, full of frailties, unexpected courage, and are utterly... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Motley Crue Publisher Comments Whiskey and porn stars, hot reds and car crashes, black leather and high heels, overdoses and death. This is the life of MÖtley CrÜe, the heaviest drinking, hardest fighting, most oversexed and arrogant band in the world. Their unbelievable... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin Publisher Comments Moscow, May 1876: What would cause a talented young student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public in the Alexander Gardens? Decadence and boredom, most likely, is what the commander of the Criminal Investigation Division... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Who's Your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf by Rick Reilly Publisher Comments The funniest and most popular sportswriter in America abandons his desk at Sports Illustrated to caddy for some of the worlds most famous golfers, and some celebrity duffers, recounting it all in this hilarious and revealing look at the world of golf... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Everybody Dies (Matthew Scudder Mysteries) by Lawrence Block Publisher Comments Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. The crime rate's down and the stock market's up. Gentrification's prettying-up the old neighborhood. The New York streets don't look so mean anymore. Then all hell breaks loose. Scudder quickly... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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With No One as Witness (Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers Novels) by Elizabeth George Publisher Comments Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley takes on the case of his career. When it comes to spellbinding suspense and page-turning excitement, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George always delivers. As the Wall Street Journal raves, "Ms. George... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Before I Say Goodbye: Recollections and Observations from One Woman's Final Year by Ruth Picardie Publisher Comments By turns humorous and heart-rending, an unforgettable account of a young woman's spiritual triumphs over breast cancer in the last year of her life Ruth Picardie was only thirty-three when she died, a month after her twins' second birthday and just under... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory Publisher Comments A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor?s examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she?s tall, skinny, and weak. It?s four o?clock, and she hasn?t been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen: Recipes for the Passionate Cook by Paula Wolfert Publisher Comments From a slow-simmered stew to a loaf of bread left overnight to crisp for crostini, Wolfert has arranged a collection of recipes--all Mediterranean in origin--which are perfect for people who like to cook on weekends, with all the warmth and aromas that... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge by Eleanor Herman Publisher Comments Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They set the fashions, encouraged the arts, and, in some cases, ruled nations. Eleanor Herman's Sex with Kings takes us into the throne rooms and bedrooms of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Ice House by Minette Walters Publisher Comments With this stunning debut--a marvelous marriage of classic convention and contemporary sophistication--Minette Walters sets a new standard of excellence for the mystery novel. The three women living in seclusion at an elegant Hampshire country house have... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Marcella Says...: Italian Cooking Wisdom from the Legendary Teacher's Master Classes, with 120 of Her Irresistible New Recipes by Marcella Hazan Publisher Comments Marcella Hazan is acclaimed for her trailblazing cookbooks, but first and foremost she is a teacher. From cooking classes held in her small New York City apartment kitchen in the 1960s to the avidly sought after Master Classes she led in her beautiful... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Om Yoga Today: Your Yoga Practice in 5, 15, 30, 60, and 90 Minutes by Cyndi Lee Publisher Comments Never been busier? Take heart. In OM Yoga Today, renowned yoga teacher Cyndi Lee offers a simple and realistic approach to integrating a daily yoga session into even the most hectic day with a yoga sequence for any schedule and tailored to meet specific... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hell Hath No Fury: Women's Letters from the End of the Affair by Anna Holmes Publisher Comments In this extensively researched collection, editor Anna Holmes has amassed an inspirational, historical, and highly entertaining collection of letters from women across the centuries (both known and unknown, fictional and real). From Heloise (of Abelard... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $2.48 Used - Hardcover
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On This Earth: Photographs from East Africa by Nick Brandt Publisher Comments Nick Brandt depicts the animals of East Africa with an intimacy and artistry unmatched by other photographers who choose wildlife as their subject. He creates these majestic sepia and blue-tone photos contrasting moments of quintessential stillness with... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman Publisher Comments For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock 'n' roll all the way. Within the span of twenty... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Garnethill: A Novel of Crime (Garnethill Trilogy #01) by Denise Mina Publisher Comments At once wry and shocking, humane and raw, ironic and visceral, Denise Mina brings a distinctive new voice to crime fiction in this gritty, award-winning debut novel set in the grim precincts of Glasgow's Garnethill. There the unlucky Maureen O'Donnell... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls by Matt Ruff Staff Pick Seattle author Matt Ruff presents one of the most inventive and addictive novels of recent memory. Protagonist Andrew Gage suffers from multiple personality disorder. When he meets a young woman suffering from the same affliction, the fragile coexistence... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Family Tree by Carole Cadwalladr Publisher Comments "The very cleverness of its central motif--a dissertation on the expression of genetic traits, mostly through the evidence of prime-time soap opera--makes The Family Tree a notable debut. Carole Cadwalladr takes the reader deep under the skin of one... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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