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A Saint on Death Row
Written by Thomas Cahill
Trade Paperback
2010-03-09, $14.00

Bestselling author Thomas Cahill tells the absorbing, heartbreaking tale of the hard life and tragic death of Dominique Green–wrongly accused, then executed in Huntsville, Texas–and shines a light on our racist…
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Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Written by Alexander Mccall Smith
Trade Paperback
2010-03-09, $14.00

Mma Ramotswe’s ever-ready tiny white van has recently developed a rather disturbing noise.  Of course, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni—her estimable husband and one of Botswana’s most talented mechanics—is the man to turn…
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The Wild Things
Written by Dave Eggers
Trade Paperback
2010-03-09, $14.95

In The Wild Things, Dave Eggers takes the imaginative seeds planted in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and brings them to fruition in a rollicking full-length novel. While Sendak’s…
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Whitethorn Woods
Written by Maeve Binchy
Trade Paperback
2010-03-09, $14.95

For generations, people have flocked to St. Ann’s Well, a grotto in Whitethorn Woods near the town of Rossmore. Gathering at the old chipped statue of St. Ann, they pray for…
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Pictures at an Exhibition
Written by Sara Houghteling
Trade Paperback
2010-02-09, $15.00

Set in Paris during the chaos of World War II, Pictures at an Exhibition is narrated by Max Berenzon, who from the vantage of a quiet old age looks back at…
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The Glister
Written by John Burnside
Trade Paperback
2010-02-09, $15.95

Acclaimed author John Burnside delivers a profound, page-turning novel about innocence, evil, morality, and the dark corners of the human psyche.

Mysterious illnesses affect the inhabitants of the post-industrial village of Innertown,…
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
Written by Stieg Larsson
Trade Paperback
2010-03-23, $15.95

Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known…
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The Woman Behind the New Deal
Written by Kirstin Downey
Trade Paperback
2010-02-23, $16.95

One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s closest friends and the first female secretary of labor, Perkins capitalized on the president’s political savvy and popularity to enact most of the Depression-era programs that…
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The Northern Clemency
Written by Philip Hensher
Trade Paperback
2010-02-09, $16.95

The award-winning author of The Mulberry Empire brings us a sweeping chronicle of ordinary lives profoundly shaped by both the subtleties of everyday experience and the larger forces of history.

In 1974,…
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
Written by Stieg Larsson
Paperback
2010-03-23, $7.99

Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known…
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