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Night by Elie Wiesel Publisher Comments Night -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary Of... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories by Karen Russell Publisher Comments From the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia! — a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize — a magical new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell’s gifts at their inimitable best. A dejected teenager discovers that... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Good Earth: Oprah Book Club #6 by Pearl S. Buck Publisher Comments Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Publisher Comments An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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City of Thieves by David Benioff Staff Pick Set during the Germans' brutal siege of Leningrad in World War II, City of Thieves is a harrowing, surreal, and surprisingly funny odyssey through a land ravaged by war, where two young soldiers on an impossible mission encounter the best and worst of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Stud Book by Monica Drake Publisher Comments A sharp-edged satire of contemporary motherhood from a comic novelist on the rise. In the hip haven of Portland, Oregon, a pack of unsteady but loyal friends asks what it means to bring babies into an already crowded world. Sarah studies animal behavior... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Staff Pick Okay, never mind that The Shadow of the Wind starts off in a wonderfully mysterious bookstore and that there's a romantic element that is not schmaltzy, but "timeless" in the best sense of the word. What I loved was how I thought I knew where the author... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Staff Pick I know this title is everywhere right now. I was very fortunate to get an advanced copy, and I immediately fell in love. Why? Well, like many, my favorite books are those that seem to have been written just for me. I deeply understood the raw ache of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Publisher Comments One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay Publisher Comments “The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.” -The New York Times “Unabashedly uplifting . . . asserts forcefully what all of us would like to believe... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Publisher Comments This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway's preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately managed to... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Publisher Comments Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, a heartwarming coming of age tale set in 1960s South Carolina, a multi-million copy New York Times bestseller, now an award-winning film starring Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson and Alicia... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Staff Pick What is it that Frank has hidden up in the attic that could possibly tell the future? What does his father keep locked away in his private study? And when will his mentally disturbed brother, who escaped from the asylum, get home? Iain Banks's first... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Staff Pick This coming-of-age story absolutely shines. Charlie is your average teenager trying to navigate the treacherous waters of adolescence, yet he's so much more than that. Recognizing something special in Charlie, a teacher feeds him literature and tries to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mink River by Brian Doyle Staff Pick I haven't enjoyed a book this much in so long! Set in a tiny coastal Oregon town, this story is populated with characters who seem to leap off the page and speak their lines into your ear. They are that real. Brian Doyle breaks all the so-called "rules... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Publisher Comments It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cutting for Stone (Vintage) by Abraham Verghese Staff Pick I'm used to reading good authors, but Verghese is so good, he blew me away. He writes with such detached compassion that Ethiopia becomes your homeland, and Matron, Ghosh, Marion and Shiva Stone, and all the rest become your friends, your neighbors, and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders Publisher Comments One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet. In the taut opener, “Victory... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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East of Eden by John Steinbeck Staff Pick I was once told a good novel will set its tenor by the end of its first page, so lately I've been skimming the first page of prospective reads to test this theory. When I did this with Steinbeck's East of Eden, I couldn't stop; the assault of great... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko Staff Pick Ceremony cast a spell on me; I read it over the course of a day, reluctantly putting it down only to eat and walk with the dog. It is the story of Tayo, whose soul has been horribly broken, and of his perilous journey back to wholeness. How rare it is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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