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Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell Staff Pick While it was hard to narrow down my list to just five "best of" picks, I didn't have to think twice about what would be my favorite book of the year. In Cloud Atlas Mitchell again uses the format of connecting short stories with recurring motifs into a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Arthur and George: A Novel by Julian Barnes Staff Pick Can I already announce the best book of 2006 in January? If so, here it is! With his customary elegant prose and intricate and wry observational skill, Julian Barnes narrates the true story of the relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and George... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Motley Crue Publisher Comments Celebrate thirty years of the worlds most notorious rockband with the deluxe collectors edition of The Dirt—the outrageous, legendary,no-holds-barred autobiography of Mötley Crüe. Fans have gotten glimpses into the bands crazy... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch Staff Pick "I urge everyone to read this book. The cover shows a picture of serenity, a scene from the beach of Lake Kivu in Rwanda. The landscape is devoid of human beings and an empty chair sits on the sand. The title in red stands out starkly from this backdrop.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ape in the Corner Office: Understanding the Workplace Beast in All of Us by Richard Conniff Publisher Comments Tired of swimming with the sharks? Fed up with that big ape down the hall? Real animals can teach us better ways to thrive in the workplace jungle. You’re ambitious and want to get ahead, but what’s the best way to do it? Become the biggest... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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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: $14.95 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: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh Staff Pick Wow! A first novel with an intriguing plot and totally believable characters. An excellent writer who allows you to empathize with a protagonist who is not always deserving.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Seventy-eight Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and Fourteen Reasons Why It Just Might by Pat Walsh Publisher Comments For the hundreds of thousands who buy writers’ guides every year, at last there’s one that tells the ugly truth: writers who can’t get published are usually making a lot of mistakes. This honest, often funny, book shows them how... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 Torment of Others: a Novel by Val Mcdermid Publisher Comments THE VOICE SEEPS LIKE BLOOD... Two years ago, Derek Tyler confessed to a sickening quartet of murders. Now the convicted perpetrator remains locked away, as do the gruesome, inimitable details of his crimes, which is precisely why this cant possibly be... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $5.50 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 $6.50 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: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Big Cats: Stories by Holiday Reinhorn Publisher Comments Big Cats opens with "Charlotte," in which a young girl with a broken pelvis spies on her voluptuous neighbor during a long, hot summer night, setting the tone of irrepressible curiosity and yearning that is evident throughout the collection. In "Get Away... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure: Stories by Jack Pendarvis Staff Pick Pendarvis devises small worlds inhabited by the strangest people: A teenager reveals his ingenious idea for a revenge comic book series called "Sex Devil"; the mercilessly redundant owner of a "High, Squeaky Voice" dreams of his audio book career; and... (read more) List Price $19.75 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman Publisher Comments From irrational exuberance to corporate scandals, from the war in Iraq to the looting of California to the false pretenses used to sell an economic policy that benefits only a small elite, Krugman tells the uncomfortable truth like no one else. The... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Speak for England by James Hawes Publisher Comments MacAdam/Cage is thrilled to publish James Hawes, a brilliant satirist from the UK. His wonderful new novel begins with its protagonist Brian Marley, a divorced, ineffectual teacher, all alone in a jungle about to die on live television. A reluctant... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $1.25 Used - Hardcover
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