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Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words by Jay Rubin Publisher Comments As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his Tokyo Jazz club, Peter Cat, then wrote at the kitchen table until the sun came up. He loves music of all kinds—jazz, classical, folk, rock—and has more than six thousand... (read more) Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover 
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The Afghan Campaign by Steven Pressfield Publisher Comments In words that might have been ripped from today's combat dispatches, Steven Pressfield, the bestselling novelist of ancient warfare, returns with a riveting historical novel that re-creates Alexander the Great's invasion of the Afghan kingdoms in 330 B.C.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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By the Light of My Father's Smile by Alice Walker Publisher Comments By the Light of My Father's Smile is Alice Walker's first novel in six years--a stunning, original, and important book by "one of the best American writers of today" (The Washington Post). A family from the United States goes to the remote... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Collector by John Fowles Publisher Comments Heralded as the first modern psychological thriller, The Collector is the riveting story of Frederick Clegg, an obscure little clerk with a penchant for butterfly collecting who nets his finest specimen in the form of the soft, lovely, twenty-year-old... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Northrup Frye Unbuttoned by Robert D. Denham Publisher Comments Prose. "In this book of wit and wisdom readers are allowed to enter the private study and smithy of one of the most penetrating thinkers of the twentieth century, to delight in his shaping of aphorisms unfettered by what anyone else might think, even by... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Million Little Mistakes by Heather Mcelhatton Publisher Comments Congratulations—You just won $22 million in the Lottery! So what happens next? In Heather McElhatton's second do-over novel, Million Little Mistakes, you win $22 million in the lottery. Given the chance to live like a millionaire, you could realize... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Leaving Cecil Street (P.S.) by Diane McKinney-Whetstone Publisher Comments In one West Philadelphia neighborhood, families come together in celebration of unity and togetherness. Their block parties provide a union that serves as a backdrop for discovering the truth about themselves and the people they think they know. Best... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $1.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Wilde the Irishman by Jerusha Mccormack Publisher Comments For nearly a century, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) has been seen primarily as a "British" writer -- a description that ignores his Irish parentage and the experience of the first twenty years of his life. In this vigorous study, seventeen leading Irish... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Mothers and Other Liars by Amy Bourret Publisher Comments How far will a mother go to save her child? Ten years ago, Ruby Leander was a drifting nineteen-year-old who made a split-second decision at an Oklahoma rest stop. Fast forward nine years: Ruby and her daughter Lark live in New Mexico. Lark is a... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The American (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry James Publisher Comments During a trip to Europe, Christopher Newman, a wealthy American businessman, asks the charming Claire de Cintr� to be his wife. To his dismay, he receives an icy reception from the heads of her family, who find Newman to be a vulgar example of the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Electric God by Catherine Ryan Hyde Publisher Comments Hayden Reese once believed he could have it all -- and once, he almost did: a wife and a daughter he adored, and a child on the way. But little by little, a chain of heartaches stripped him of all he loved -- and a flash of violence changed his destiny... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Caribou Island (P.S.) by David Vann Publisher Comments On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, Gary and Irene’s marriage is unraveling. Following the outline of Gary’s old dream and trying to rebuild their life together, they are finally constructing the kind of... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost Book of Mala R. by Rose Macdowell Publisher Comments Three very different women, each trying to reconcile her dreams with reality, are drawn together by a hypnotic voice from the past. In a once-grand Southern California neighborhood, Linda, a New York City transplant, is panicking over the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Come Sunday by Isla Morley Publisher Comments WINNER OF THE JANET HEIDINGER KAFKA PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR THE COMMONWEALTH PRIZE Abbe is a restless young mother living on the outskirts of Honolulu with her husband, Greg, the pastor at a small church. Their lives are suddenly riven by tragedy... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys Publisher Comments This word-perfect, heartbreaking novel is set in early 1941 in Britain when the war seems endless and, perhaps, hopeless. London is on fire from the Blitz, and a young woman gardener named Gwen Davis flees from the burning city for the Devon countryside.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cycle of Violence by Colin Bateman Publisher Comments Colin Bateman follows the hilarious and deservedly successful >Divorcing Jack< with this, the story of a Belfast journalist banished to the fictional backwater of Crossmaheart. By turns dark, romantic and funny, this is another testament to Bateman'... (read more) Your price: $2.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Flann O'Brien: The Complete Novels (Everyman's Library) by Flann O'Brien Publisher Comments (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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East Wind, Rain by Caroline Paul Publisher Comments December, 1941 Off the lush coast of Kauai sits the almost unknown island of Niihau. Its inhabitants -- mostly Hawaiian natives -- lead a quiet, simple life. They work the ranch of the island's owner, Aylmer Robinson, an eccentric haole who insists that... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Old Friends by Stephen Dixon Publisher Comments In a literary scene gone dull with novel after novel about young up-scale New Yorkers with drug/sex/alcohol/attitude problems, leave it to the old master of the American avant-garde, two-time National Book Award-nominee Stephen Dixon, to write the most... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Falling Man by Don Delillo Staff Pick Falling Man is Don DeLillo's exquisite, memorable take on 9/11. Somewhat more stylistically spare than his earlier books, Falling Man nonetheless feels like the book DeLillo was meant to write; themes he has addressed throughout his body of work —... (read more) Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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