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by Cormac McCarthy  
Powells.com Staff Pick Strike-me-dead beautiful and bleak — this is the book I put into every customer's hands. Absolutely the best thing out of 2006, and perhaps many years preceding, The Road reminds me of McCarthy's early novels, only matured to perfection. Recommended... (read more)  List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Dr Seuss Publisher Comments Illus. in color. The Cat in the Hat came to play one rainy, nothing-to-do afternoon. His hilarious antics are "recommended for all libraries."--(starred) School Library Journal.... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price $3.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by J. K. Rowling
Powells.com Staff Pick The seeds planted throughout the series bear fruit in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. How did Dumbledore's nose get broken? Or his hand burned to a crisp? You will find all the answers here. This is the finest book in the series; the writing is... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Khaled Hosseini
Powells.com Staff Pick Never mind the sophomore slump — this book devours that cliché. As well as illuminating the rich history and familial culture behind war-torn Afghanistan, A Thousand Splendid Suns is filled with authentic relationships and characters that are... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sarah Vowell
Powells.com Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dr Seuss Publisher Comments Illus. in full color. "The big, colorful pictures and the fun images, word plays and rhymes make this an amusing exposition of the ecology crisis."--School Library Journal.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments In the late 1800s, in a Caribbean port city, a young telegraph operator named Florentino Ariza falls deliriously in love with Fermina Daza, a beautiful student. She is so sheltered that they carry on their romance secretly, through letters and telegrams.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher Comments "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cormac McCarthy
Powells.com Staff Pick This may not be Cormac McCarthy's best book, or even one of the best books of the year (in fact, its construction is a bit incoherent), yet I remain a sucker for the peculiar blend of melancholy and savagery that permeates all of McCarthy's work... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lee Child
Powells.com Staff Pick If you don't read Reacher, you don't know Jack. So, dive headfirst into this taut and brutal tale of hero Jack Reacher — a lone drifter, a trained killer, a man of justice — as he rights wrongs and defends the helpless. It's author Lee... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $3.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Khaled Hosseini
Publisher Comments An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John le Carré Publisher Comments An absolutely triumphant bestseller — everywhere hailed as the masterpiece toward which John le Carré has been building since the fall of communism. This epic tale of loyalty, betrayal, and international espionage spans the lives of two friends... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Greg Rucka Publisher Comments Her name is Tara Chace. Within hours she can convince you that she's the woman of your dreams. Or she can kill you with her bare hands. Head of Special Operations for the British Secret Intelligence Service, she no longer has to take the field... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $4.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan Stroud Publisher Comments Presenting a thrilling voice in children's literature — a witty, gripping adventure story featuring a boy and his not-so-tame djinni. Nathaniel is a young magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin Publisher Comments Another biting satire from Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Nanny Diaries. Working in a world where a college degree qualifies her to make photocopies and color-coordinate file folders, twenty-four... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cormac Mccarthy
Publisher Comments Cormac McCarthy's masterwork, Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sue Monk Kidd
Publisher Comments Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ernest Hemingway
Publisher Comments The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Yann Martel
Publisher Comments The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by J.K. Rowling Publisher Comments The war against Voldemort is not going well; even the Muggles have been affected. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet... As with all wars, life goes on... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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