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Wild Signed 1st Edition by Cheryl Strayed Publisher Comments A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe — and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake... (read more) Your price: $75.00 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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The Outlander (P.S.) by Gil Adamson Staff Pick The Outlander by Gil Adamson is a wondrous vacation for your mind. With its eccentric characters and luminous prose, this novel is a romping escapade of big fun.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market add to wish list |
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Publisher Comments Make this your next book club selection and everyone saves. Get 15% off when you order 5 or more of this title for your book club. Simply enter the coupon code HOSSEINIKITE at checkout. This offer does not apply to eBook purchases. This offer applies to... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Staff Pick If your only experience with Catch-22 was reading it for a class in high school — or if you haven't even read it at all — you owe it to yourself to revisit this book. It's a comic masterpiece, yes, but more than that: Catch-22 is a blast of anarchic... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexi Publisher Comments In this "compelling and impressive collection" (Washington Times), Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly paints a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These interlinked tales are... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The World without You by Joshua Henkin Publisher Comments From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Matrimony ["Beautiful . . . Brilliant." Michael Cunningham], a moving, mesmerizing new novel about love, loss, and the aftermath of a family tragedy. It's July 4, 2005, and the Frankel family is... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein Staff Pick After the umpteenth customer recommended this book to me, I made it my book club pick. The first few lines made me a bit nervous (because it could have gone so terribly wrong, you see), but I was laughing and crying within the first three pages. I... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding Publisher Comments Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market add to wish list |
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Lit: A Memoir (P.S.) by Mary Karr Staff Pick The best way I can describe this work is to say that it's absolutely delicious. More than a mere memoir, this fascinating jewel contains universal truths, with delicate and elegant phrasing, and, despite the subject matter, there's no sense of frivolous... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy Publisher Comments Rebecca is young, lost, and beautiful. A gifted artist, she seeks solace and inspiration in the Mediterranean heat of Athens — trying to understand who she is and how she can love without fear. George has come to Athens to learn ancient... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Staff Pick We didn't read this in high school. The assigned book was The Scarlet Letter, which was already a favorite of mine. Recently, however, I decided that I'd ignored To Kill a Mockingbird for too long. If you haven't read it, or if it's been awhile since you... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market add to wish list |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher Comments One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Publisher Comments Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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In the Kingdom of Men by Kim Barnes Publisher Comments From the PEN USA Award-winning author of A Country Called Home, a richly imagined new novel about a young woman who leaves the dusty farmland of 1960s Oklahoma to follow her husband to the oil fields of Saudi Arabia and finds a world of wealth, glamour... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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The Alchemist (Insight) by Paulo Coelho Staff Pick Whether you want to take a journey or to be reassured that life is filled with wonder and magic, this beautifully optimistic book is for you. Follow Santiago, a shepherd who follows a dream to find treasure hidden under the pyramids, but ends up finding... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore Staff Pick Christopher Moore's Lamb is an utterly hilarious take on the story of Jesus. Told from the perspective of Jesus' smart-ass best friend, Biff, it is irreverent without being disrespectful. Lamb, or any of Moore's books, would be perfect for someone who... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Lacuna (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver Publisher Comments In this powerfully imagined, provocative novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is the poignant story of a man... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire Publisher Comments When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Bring Up the Bodies (John MacRae Books) by Hilary Mantel Publisher Comments The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht Staff Pick The postwar chaos in the Balkans provides the backdrop for Obreht's superbly crafted debut. A young physician seeks to unravel the mystery that surrounds both her grandfather's death and the mystifying Deathless Man he encountered throughout his adult... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |