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And the Mountains Echoed: a novel by the bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)

By Khaled Hosseini
$28.95
ISBN-13: 9781594631764
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Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 5/2013
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The Silver Star (Hardcover)

By Jeannette Walls
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781451661507
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Published: Scribner, 6/2013
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The Art Forger (Paperback)

By B. A. Shapiro
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781616203160
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 5/2013
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Paperback)

By Cheryl Strayed
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780307476074
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Published: Vintage, 4/2013
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The Art Forger (Hardcover)

By Barbara Shapiro, B. A. Shapiro
$23.95
ISBN-13: 9781616201326
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 10/2012
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Paperback)

By Maria Semple
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780316204262
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Published: Back Bay Books, 4/2013
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Hardcover)

By Michael Pollan
$27.95
ISBN-13: 9781594204210
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Published: Penguin Press HC, The, 4/2013
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Y (Hardcover)

By Marjorie Celona
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9781451674385
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Published: Free Press, 1/2013
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Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend (Paperback)

By Matthew Dicks
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9781250031853
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin, 6/2013
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