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Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King Staff Pick Stephen King has done much of his best writing in the long-story form (including the novellas The Body, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, and The Langoliers), and Full Dark, No Stars proves no exception. These four tales are sinister, violent... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic add to wish list |
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris Staff Pick Sedaris diverges from his usual essays to give us a book of fables. Like all good fables and fairy tales, they're pretty gruesome and horrifying, and there's most always a moral to be found. These include a healthy dose of charm and wit, though. Ian... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic add to wish list |
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Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Staff Pick In Freedom, Jonathan Franzen bulldozes through the façade of the progressive, modern American family. His characters are intelligent, analytical, selfish, needy, and full of regret. They come off as unlikable, but are instead complex, realistic... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic add to wish list |
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Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life by Carol Sklenicka Staff Pick Carver's concerns with the consequences and consolations of human frailty were deeply rooted in his own life, as revealed in Sklenicka's captivating and very human portrait. Her insights into his stories inspired me to reread old favorites and discover... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic add to wish list |
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Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue Publisher Comments A 5-year-old narrates a riveting story about his life growing up in a single room where his mother aims to protect him from the man who has held her prisoner for seven years since she was a teenager. 125,000 first printing.... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic add to wish list |
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Innocent Secretary...Accidentally Pregnant by Carol Marinelli Publisher Comments Plain and prim Emma Stephenson might not look like a tycoon's assistant, but for Luca D'Amato—a playboy who likes to play— breaking through her no-nonsense exterior is his favorite new game! Sensible Emma thought all they'd be sharing was an office—... (read more) List Price $4.25 Your price: $3.77 Google eBooks - Electronic add to wish list |
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Cross Fire by James Patterson Publisher Comments As Alex Cross tries to plan his wedding, an elusive gunman is killing crooked D.C. politicians, and Cross must battle with FBI agent Max Siegel over jurisdiction as he tries to crack the case--until Cross finds out the his arch enemy Kyle Craig is in... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic add to wish list |
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The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt Publisher Comments Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic add to wish list |
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Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr Publisher Comments The author describes the year he spent in Rome after winning the Rome Prize, including his adventures around the city, life in a foreign but welcoming country, and parenthood as it applies to his newborn twins.... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic add to wish list |
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The Unnamed: A Novel by Joshua Ferris Staff Pick The Unnamed is a very different (and much darker) book than Then We Came to the End, but Ferris's clarity of voice, urgency of purpose, fascinating characters, and even hints of humor remain. A marvelous and heartbreaking meditation on the mind and body... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic add to wish list |
BestsellersSunday,June 24, 2012 |
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