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by Barbara Kingsolver  
Publisher Comments The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but... (read more)  Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Michael Chabon
Powells.com Staff Pick Pulitzer Prize-winner Chabon's first novel (written for his master's thesis at UC Irvine) was published when he was twenty-five, and quickly became a bestseller. Set in the steel ciy, this hilarious coming-of-age story tells the tale of Art Bechstein's... (read more) Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Howard Zinn
Powells.com Staff Pick For anyone who sat in a high school history class feeling like there was something more going on than you were being told, this book is a revelation. As engaging as a white-knuckled novel, Zinn's astonishing record of U.S. history from the perspective of... (read more) Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth... (read more) Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Neal Stephenson
Powells.com Staff Pick The concluding volume of the Baroque Cycle mixes swashbuckling adventure, historical romance, mathematics, and Isaac Newton into a frothy brew that's truly irresistible. Recommended by Rico... (read more) Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol Shields Publisher Comments Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of light summertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out of college to become a panhandler on a Toronto street corner —... (read more) Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity... (read more) Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Kelly Publisher Comments La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the... (read more) Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Crowley Publisher Comments John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood — not found on any map — to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is... (read more) Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt Fritzie and her husband, Pete; ordinary Mary, who will cause a... (read more) Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Betty Smith Publisher Comments The American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.... (read more) Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Powells.com Staff Pick Ann-Marie MacDonald writes beautifully; her words wrap around you and envelop you. The Way the Crow Flies is engaging and evocative. She captures the pure joy and pain of childhood better than anyone since Margaret Atwood. That would be enough but then... (read more) Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Neal Stephenson Publisher Comments Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where... (read more) Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Brende
Publisher Comments What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "... (read more) Your price $13.95 (Used - Audio Cassette) check for new and sale copies
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by Neal Stephenson
Publisher Comments In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of... (read more) Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sena Jeter Naslund
Publisher Comments From the opening line — "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last" — you will know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena... (read more) Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paulo Coelho Publisher Comments A new, international bestseller by the author of The Alchemist tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find... (read more) Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sarah Hall Publisher Comments Cy Parks is the Electric Michelangelo, an artist of extraordinary gifts whose medium happens to be the pliant, shifting canvas of the human body. Fleeing his mother's legacy — a consumptives' hotel in a fading English seaside resort — Cy... (read more) Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Aldous Huxley Publisher Comments Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has... (read more) Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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