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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Modern Classics) (P.S.) by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher Comments “A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who dont know how to live properly.” —Zadie Smith One of the most... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust (P.S.) by Josip Novakovich Publisher Comments Tragicomedy of the highest order, this stellar collection is Croatian writer Novakovich's best ever. Hailed as one of the best short story writers of the 1990s, Josip Novakovich was praised by the New York Times for writing fiction that has "the crackle... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost Girls and Love Hotels (P.S.) by Catherine Hanrahan Publisher Comments Margaret is doing everything in her power to forget home. And Tokyo's exotic nightlife -- teeming with intoxicants, pornography, and three-hour love hotels -- enables her to keep her demons at bay. Working as an English specialist at Air-Pro Stewardess... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Wall of Light (P.S.) by Edeet Ravel Publisher Comments Following on the heels of the critically acclaimed "Ten Thousand Lovers" and "Look for Me," this last book of the Tel Aviv trilogy tells the poignant, humorous, and heartbreaking story of three generations of an Israeli family.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Schopenhauer Cure (P.S.) by Irvin D Yalom Publisher Comments Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work -- and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier. Yet Philip... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Grab on to Me Tightly as If I Knew the Way (P.S.) by Bryan Charles Publisher Comments A wise, bighearted, and hilarious look at one teenager's life by a remarkable new voice in contemporary fiction. It's 1992, and as Vim Sweeney deals with the recent end of his high school career and the uncertainty of his future, America shares his... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power (P.S.) by John Steele Gordon Publisher Comments Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated the world in a new, peaceful, and pervasive way... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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It's All Right Now (P.S.) by Charles Chadwick Publisher Comments This novel spans three decades in the life of its narrator, beginning with his complicated relationships with his wife and children, his neighbors, his parents, girlfriends, colleagues and friends, and his ongoing search for moral and practical... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life by Steve Fraser Publisher Comments Americans have experienced a love-hate relationship with Wall Street for two hundred years. Long an object of suspicion, fear, and even revulsion, the Street eventually came to be seen as an alluring pathway to wealth and freedom. Steve Fraser tells the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Giant's House: A Romance (P.S.) by Elizabeth Mccracken Publisher Comments The year is 1950 and, at 26, librarian Peggy Cort feels as though love and life have passed her by. Until the day James Carlson Sweatt, the "over-tall" 11-year-old who's the talk of the town, walks into the library and changes her life forever. A 1996... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land (P.S.) by John Crowley Publisher Comments Crowley delivers a stunning act of literary impersonation: imagining the novel the haunted, enigmatic Romantic poet Lord Byron never penned but very well might have--a story of two women from different centuries bound together by love, loss, and a need... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Testing of Luther Albright (P.S.) by Mackenzie Bezos Publisher Comments Luther Albright is a devoted father and a designer of dams, a self-controlled man who believes he can engineer happiness for his family by sheltering them from his own emotions. But when an earthquake shakes his Sacramento home, the world Luther has... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $2.98 Used - Trade Paper
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1812: The War That Forged a Nation (P.S.) by Walter R Borneman Publisher Comments < p> Although frequently overlooked between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 tested a rising generation of American leaders; unified the United States with a renewed sense of national purpose; and set the stage for... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Taming the Beast (P.S.) by Emily Maguire Publisher Comments At the tender age of fourteen, Sarah Clark is seduced by her thirty-eight-year-old English teacher, Daniel Carr, and becomes entangled in an illegal, erotic, passionate, and dangerous affair—a vicious meeting of minds and bodies that ends badly... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Autumn of the Patriarch (P.S.) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments One of Gabriel García Márquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant andthe corruption of power. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Leeway Cottage (P.S.) by Beth Gutcheon Publisher Comments In April 1940, as the Nazis march into Denmark, Sydney Brant, a wealthy girl of the Dundee summer colony, marries a gifted Danish pianist, Laurus Moss. They believe they are well matched, as young lovers do, but Laurus's beloved family is in Copenhagen... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury (P.S.) by Sam Weller Publisher Comments Accomplished journalist Sam Weller met the Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and longtime friends. With unprecedented access to... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mrs. Kimble (P.S.) by Jennifer Haigh Publisher Comments “Beautiful, devastating and complex.” —Chicago TribuneThe award-winning debut novel from Jennifer Haigh, author of BakerTowers, The Condition, and Faith, tells the story of Birdie, Joan,and Dinah, three women who marry the same... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (P.S.) by Loung Ung Publisher Comments After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sleep, Pale Sister (P.S.) by Joanne Harris Publisher Comments Before the sweet delight of Chocolat, before the heady concoction that is Blackberry Wine, and before the tart pleasures of Five Quarters of the Orange, bestselling author Joanne Harris wrote Sleep, Pale Sister a gothic tourde-force that recalls... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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