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The Hour I First Believed
by Wally Lamb

The Hour I First Believed by New Times Bestselling author Wally Lamb is a profound and heart-rending work of fiction by a virtuoso storyteller--the story of high school teacher and his wife, a school nurse, whose lives are forever changed by the Columbine High School tragedy. In an attempt to heal, the couple moves to the safety of their family farm where they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right. Lamb's new novel is at its heart a personal, yet mythic quest for meaning and faith.

Price:$15.99

A Lion Among Men
by Gregory Maguire

Since Wicked was first published in 1995, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire's reimagined version of Oz. Now in A Lion Among Men, the third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion—the once tiny cub defended by Elphaba in Wicked.

Price:$16.00

Hope for Animals and Their World
by Jane Goodall

At a time when animal species are becoming extinct on every continent , Jane Goodall, renowned scientist and author of Hope for Animals and Their World, delivers inspiring news about the future. Goodall shares survival stories about the American Crocodile, the California Condor,and other endangered species whose populations are now being regenerated.due to the heroic efforts of environmentalists.

Price:$27.99

Lace Reader
by Brunonia Barry

In The Lace Reader, a new captivating mystery by Brunonia Barry, we follow a young woman who descends from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers. Her safe retreat to modern day Salem, Massachusetts unravels when her great aunt mysteriously drowns and she attempts to discover why. Along the way, versions of truth are shattered.

Price:$14.99

Story of Edward Sawtelle
by David Wroblewski

David Wroblewski is a master storyteller, and his breathtaking scenes in The Story of Edgar Sawtelle --create a riveting family saga. Edgar is born mute in a remote farm in Wisconsin. With his father's sudden death, his idyllic life explodes and he is forced to come of age in the wild before he can come home again.

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Traveling with Pomegranates
by Sue Monk Kidd

Traveling with Pomegranates is a beautiful and introspective memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter, Ann. Each woman offers her distinct generational perspective as they travel in Europe together, trying to redefine themselves and their mother-daughter relationship.

Price:$25.95

South of Broad
by Pat Conroy

In Conroy's first novel in 14 years, South of Broad readers follow a group of teens as they form a friendship in 1969 that weathers the social and political changes born in that decade. As Conroy's cast of characters lives unfold over the next two decades, Conroy offers truths about love, friendship, racism, classism, and religion. Conroy fans prepare yourselves to be delighted with this epic story.

Price:$29.95

True Compass
by Edward M. Kennedy

True Compass, the landmark autobiography of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. He tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family and his 50 years in politics. His life has been marked by tragedy and perseverance, a love of family, and an abiding faith. There have been controversies, too, which Kennedy addresses with unprecedented candor. True Compass is a deeply moving story of a life like no other.

Price:$35.00

Where Men Win Glory
by Jon Krakauer

In Where Men Meet Glory, the bestselling author of Into the Wild captures the life of Pat Tillman. Tillman was the outspoken intellectual and maverick who walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the U.S. Army. His accidental death, the cover-up that followed, and the impact of war has been unsparingly captured by Krakauer.

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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
by Allison Bartlett

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much tells the true story of the infamous book thief John Charles Gilkey and the man who was driven to capture him. Journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett explores the passion for rare books and book theft through the ages in a story sure to appeal to book-lovers everywhere.

Price:$24.95

You Were always Mom's Favorite
by Deborah Tannen

In You Were Always Mom's Favorite, the acclaimed author of You Just Don’t Understand illuminates one of the most powerful and perplexing relationships--- that of sisters. Witty and wise, Deborah Tannen shares stories from over a hundred women, along with recollections of her own two sisters. She offers effective techniques to improve this unique and precious relationship.

Price:$26.00

The Lost Symbol
by Dan Brown

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown is here! In the eagerly awaited follow-up to the #1 international phenomenon and bestselling hardcover novel of all time, The Da Vinci Code, nothing is at it seems! Readers are reunited with Robert Langdon in an entirely new landscape where surprises lurk behind every page.

Price:$29.95

Greatest Show on Earth
by Richard Dawkins

The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins offers a fascinating summary of evolutionary biology. Even if you already believes in the survival of the fittest, there is something thrilling about learning that the hoof of a horse is homologous to the fingernail of the human middle finger. As Darwin said, There is grandeur in this view of life.

Price:$30.00

The Year of the Flood
by Margaret Atwood

Brilliant and hilarious, The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood presents a far-out natural disaster that leaves two unfortunate survivors: Ren, a trapeze dancer locked inside a high-end sex club, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa. Outside, the new world crawls with gene-spliced life forms...

Price:$26.95

Blood's A Rover
by James Ellroy

Blood's A Rover by James Ellroy delivers an action-packed conclusion to the Underworld USA trilogy. Our recent past has been fully reconstructed in this novel of corruption and retribution, of ideals at war and the extremity of love. It's the largest and greatest work of fiction from an American master.

Price:$28.95

The Case for God
by Karen Armstrong

Why has God become unbelievable? Why do atheists and theists alike now view God so differently from how our ancestors did? In A Case for God, bestselling author Karen Armstrong makes a powerful argument for drawing on the wisdom of the past to build a faith that serves our dangerously polarized age.

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Her Fearful Symmetry
by Audrey Niffenegger

Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Niffenegger has returned with a compelling and haunting novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London. In Her Fearful Symmetry, two twin American girls inhabit their aunt's apartment upon her death where they also discover that much is still alive in Highgate.

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The Children's Book
by A.S. Byatt

The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt is a spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize–winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children’s book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves.

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Half Broke Horses
by Jeanette Walls

In Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls, Walls tells the story of her grandmother. Lily Casey Smith survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds -- against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn't fit the mold. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night.

Price:$26.00

The Art of Happiness In a Troubled World
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

The Art of Happiness In a Troubled World by the Dalai Lama is an exploration of the nature of work and how work fits in the overall quest for happiness. The Dalai Lama’s belief in the basic human values of kindness tolerance, compassion , honesty, and forgiveness as the source of human happiness find their place in the world of work as well.

Price:$26.00

The Museum of Innocence
by Orhan Pamuk

A stirring exploration of the nature of romantic attachment and of the mysterious allure of collecting, The Museum of Innocence also plumbs the depths of an Istanbul half Western and half traditional—its emergent modernity and its vast cultural history. The Museum of Innocence is Nobel Prize winning author Orhan Pamuk’s greatest achievement.

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What the Dog Saw
by Malcolm Gladwell

In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw, he brings together the best of his writing from The New Yorker, addressing such topics as: What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers?

Price:$27.99

Look at the Birdie
by Kurt Vonnegut

Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post—World War II America–a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence.

Price:$27.00

Chronic City
by Jonathan Lethem

The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies. Like Manhattan itself, Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and antic, a stand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique.

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Ford Country: Stories
by John Grisham

In Ford Country: Stories, Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his immensely popular first novel, A Time to Kill. This wholly surprising collection of stories reminds us once again why Grisham is America’s favorite storyteller.

Price:$24.00

The Private Patient
by PD James

P. D. James has gained an enviable reputation for creating detective stories of uncommon depth and intricacy, combined with the sort of humanity and perceptiveness found only in the finest novels. The Private Patient ranks among her very best. Investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrives at a private clinic to have a disfiguring facial scar removed and ends up dead. That’s when Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to investigate.

Price:$15.00

The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. Kingsolver has created an unforgettable portrait of the artist pulled between two nations—and of art itself. A rich and daring work of literature, The Lacuna establishes its author as one of the most provocative and important of her time.

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Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel
by John Irving

John Irving's novel, Last Night in Twisted River begins in 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging settlement in northern New Hampshire, when an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as Irving’s breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp.

Price:$28.00

And Another Thing
by Eoin Colfer

And Another Thing is the rather unexpected, but very welcome, sixth installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. It features a pantheon of unemployed gods, everyone's favorite renegade Galactic President, a lovestruck green alien, an irritating computer, and at least one very large slab of cheese. And Another Thing is bestselling author Eoin Colfer’s first book for adults.

Price:$25.99

Under the Dome
by Stephen King

In Stephen King’s new novel Under the Dome , the town of Chester's Mill, Maine is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as 'the dome' comes down, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away.

Price:$35.00

Superfreakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics, and readers will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. Mixing smart thinking and great storytelling, the authors show how people respond to incentives and in so doing reveal the world for what it really is – good, bad, ugly, and, super freaky.

Price:$29.99

Lit
by Mary Karr

In Lit: A Memoir, the long-awaited sequel to her New York Times bestselling memoirs The Liars’ Club and Cherry, Mary Karr chronicles her descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness, and her astonishing resurrection. A recollection of her struggle to come to terms with her Christian faith after years as an agnostic that explores the relationship between spirituality and substance abuse and depression, Lit is also about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; and learning to write by learning to live.

Price:$25.99