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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: $8.50 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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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: $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: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Place of Execution by Val Mcdermid Publisher Comments Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezlng day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from her town... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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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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Oldman's Guide to Outsmarting Wine: 108 Ingenious Shortcuts to Navigate the World of Wine with Confidence and Style by Mark Oldman Publisher Comments For the thousands of people who know nothing about wine and want to rectify that swiftly and painlessly, Mark Oldman?the ?Naked Chef? of wine?is here to help with the kind of information readers can use right now: ? Australian Shiraz is the most... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Case Histories: A Novel by Kate Atkinson Publisher Comments A triumphant new novel from award-winner Kate Atkinson: a breathtaking story of families divided, love lost and found, and the mysteries of fate. Case One: Olivia Land, youngest and most beloved of the Land girls, goes missing in the night and is... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.50 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: $5.50 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: $2.50 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: $12.50 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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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 $6.50 Your price: $2.50 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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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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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: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Family Tree by Carole Cadwalladr Publisher Comments When Rebecca Monroe—married to Alistair, a scientist who doesn’t believe in fate, but rather genetic disposition—discovers that she is pregnant, she begins to question what makes us who we are and whether her own precarious family... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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