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The Diezmo by Rick Bass Publisher Comments The Diezmo tells the incredible story of the Mier Expedition, one of the most absurd and tragic military adventures in the history of Texas -- a country and a state, as Rick Bass writes, that was "born in blood." In the early days of the Republic of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Mama by Terry Mcmillan Publisher Comments With her phenomenal New York Times bestseller Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan became one of the most important American novelists writing today. Here, for the first time in mass market paperback, is her extraordinary first novel. It is the exhilarating... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Memory by Philippe Grimbert Publisher Comments Twenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths from a balcony, Philippe Grimbert has written a gripping novel about the hidden memories that dominated their lives. A colossal bestseller in Europe, Memory is the story of a family haunted... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers Publisher Comments This is a hugely ambitious - and brilliantly achieved - novel, as brilliantly clever as Powers' previous novels, but also deeply political and deeply moving.... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Staff Pick This is a book that still resonates more than 45 years after being published. After reading it again and again, I am still moved by the power and humanity of the story. Atticus Finch, a small-town lawyer, is one of those quiet heroes who fights for the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Staircase of a Thousand Steps by Masha Hamilton Publisher Comments In a remote desert village of storytellers and seers, the accidental revelation of long-held secrets, including a forbidden love affair, unravels a young girl's world. Staircase of a Thousand Steps lifts the veil from a mystical land, where jasmine... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Taming the Dragon by Dan Armstrong Synopsis The giant hydroelectric dam in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River has been controversial since construction began in the early 1990s; but now, as it nears completion some two decades later, a warm winter and a diminished Himalayan snowpack have cut... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chasing Shakespeares by Sarah Smith Publisher Comments From an author the San Francisco Chronicle hails as "daring and splendid" comes an exhilarating novel of passion and ideas that cuts to the heart of one of literature's most fascinating and enduring mysteries: the enigma of Shakespeare. Meet Joe Roper... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Weight of the Sun by Geronimo Tagatac Publisher Comments Weight of the Sun, a short story collection by Geronimo Tagatac, sparkles with an appeal that comes from a deep understanding of human nature. Here are the farm laborers, dancers, kitchen workers, and soldiers who make up a world that is wrought with... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Jew by Noah Gordon Publisher Comments In the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip. After centuries of pogrom-like riots encouraged by the Church, the Jews - who have been an important part of Spanish life since the days of the Romans - are expelled from the country by... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Stranger Like You by Elizabeth Brundage Publisher Comments After years of working a dead-end job at an insurance company in New Jersey, Hugh Waters finally sells his screenplay to a major Hollywood studio. But when the young, Ivy League hotshot Hedda Chase takes over as top executive, she finds his story violent,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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