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Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

Beth Hoffman

$25.95

"Steel Magnolias" meets "The Help" in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom. Laugh-out-loud funny, Hoffman's charming work offers the story of a young girl who loses one mother and finds many others.

A Single Man

Christopher Isherwood

$15.95

When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life: the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the texture of life itself.

Then We Came to the End

Joshua Ferris

$13.99

Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is a family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

David Wroblewski

$16.99

A riveting family saga, "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" explores the deep and ancient alliance between humans and dogs, and the power of fate through one boy's epic journey into the wild.

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Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

$15.95

A stunning debut novel from the author of "My Own Country, Cutting for Stone" offers an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, fathers and sons, doctors and patients, exile and home.

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery

$15.00

In this enthralling international bestseller, two girls live inconspicuous lives in the center of an elegant Paris apartment building. It is only when a stranger moves into their building--and sees through the girls' disguises--that Paloma and Rene discover their kindred spirits.

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Alan Bradley

$23.00

Fans of Louise Fitzhugh's iconic Harriet the Spy will welcome 11-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce, the heroine of Canadian journalist Bradley's rollicking debut. In an early 1950s English village, Flavia is preoccupied with retaliating against her lofty older sisters when a rude, redheaded stranger arrives to confront her eccentric father, a philatelic devotee. Equally adept at quoting 18th-century works, listening at keyholes and picking locks, Flavia learns that her father, Colonel de Luce, may be involved in the suicide of his long-ago schoolmaster and the theft of a priceless stamp. The sudden expiration of the stranger in a cucumber bed, wacky village characters with ties to the schoolmaster, and a sharp inspector with doubts about the colonel and his enterprising young detective daughter mean complications for Flavia and enormous fun for the reader. Tantalizing hints about a gardener with a shady past and the mysterious death of Flavia's adventurous mother promise further intrigues ahead.

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Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Elizabeth Gilbert

$26.95

Picking up where her bestselling memoir "Eat, Pray, Love" left off, Gilbert details the extraordinary circumstances that surround her love with Felipe, the man she swore never to marry. Told with Gilbert's trademark wit, "Committed" is a celebration of love with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.

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Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis - And the People Who Pay the Price

Jonathan Cohn

$14.95

A penetrating work of reporting about the failure of America's medical system, as examined through the stories of the people who engineered the current health care revolution and those who have suffered from it.

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Dorthea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

Linda Gordon

$35.00

Dorothea Lange's photographs define how people remember the Depression generation. Now, acclaimed historian Gordon provides an evocative biography that defines Lange's creative struggles and enduring legacy.

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Angel of Death Row

Andrea D. Lyon

$24.95

Courtroom tales from a DePaul University law professor passionately committed to defending those accused of capital crimes.

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In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles

Chris Welles Feder

$24.95

The daughter of Hollywood icon Orson Welles presents a moving and insightful look at life in the shadow of a legendary figure. Illustrations throughout.

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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon

Neil Sheehan

$32.00

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Bright Shining Lie" comes this behind-the-scenes story of the nuclear arms race--and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the effort to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority.

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Defining Conservatism: The Principles That Will Bring Our Country Back

Jonathan Krohn

$19.95

From a 14-year-old columnist, author, and political analyst comes a clarion call and reasoned argument to Conservatives. Krohn offers a passionate appeal to a political movement reexamining its identity as Republicans set their sights on 2010.

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Catching Fire ( Hunger Games #02 )

Suzanne Collins

$17.99

Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with Peeta Mellark. But it had been a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion.

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Alex Rider Adventures: Crocodile Tears

Anthony Horowitz

$17.99

A charity broker/con artist raises millions of dollars in donations and invests them in a form of genetically modified corn that has the power to release an airborne strain of a virus so powerful it can knock out an entire country on one windy day. The antidote? Alex Rider.  This is the eighth adventure in the series about a British teenaged spy ready and willing to infiltrate and stop the bad guys.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Roald Dahl

$5.99

There's no outfoxing Mr. Fox!

Fantastic Mr. Fox is as clever as they come. It's a good thing, too -- he'll need all his wits about him when he and his fine, furry family find their home threatened by a terrible trio of farmers. Can Mr. Fox muster the cunning necessary to turn the tables on the odious farmers Boggis, Bunce, and Bean?

Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak

$8.95

In this Caldecott Medal winner. Max, a wild and naughty boy, is sent to bed without his supper by his exhausted mother. In his room, he imagines sailing far away to a land of Wild Things. Instead of eating him, the Wild Things make Max their king.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie

$8.99

Alexie's National Book Award winner chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he thought he was destined to live. Includes poignant drawings that reflect the character's art.

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