$25.00
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Where the God of Love Hangs Out
by Amy Bloom
(Random House Inc)

Following her bestselling novel Away, Amy Bloom returns to the short story form with a collection that explores the boundaries of passion, family, and friendship. Where the God of Love Hangs Out looks at the changes that love and loss create. A young woman is haunted by her roommate's murder; a man and his daughter-in-law confess their sins in the unlikeliest of places. In one quartet of interlocking stories, two middle-aged friends, married to others, find themselves surprisingly drawn to each other, risking all while never underestimating the cost. In another linked set of stories, we follow mother and son for thirty years as their small and uncertain family becomes an irresistible tribe.

$13.95
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Want: Poems
by Rick Barot
(Sarabande Books)

"Often as vivid as it is grim, this second collection from Barot (The Darker Fall) offers unrhymed, hard-edged lines that strain with the weight of yearning, elegy, lust and frustration about the difficulty of knowing the self. Scenes from Washington, D.C., Italy and the sea evoke a persistant, if vague, pain. Against that pain Barot\'s stanzas and sequences promise only the reward of keen perception.... If the shadow of death falls over the whole collection, Barot at his best keeps up, as well, an accurate light from the visible, audible world." —Publishers Weekly

$27.95
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Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
(W W Norton & Co Inc)

Although the current financial crisis is global in reach, it has its roots in the mismanagement, on multiple levels, of the American economy. In Freefall, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behavior to the rest of the world, only to cobble together a haphazard and ineffective response when the markets finally seized up. Drawing on his academic expertise, his years spent shaping policy in the Clinton administration and at the World Bank, and his more recent role as head of a UN commission charged with reforming the global financial system, Stiglitz outlines a way forward building on ideas that he has championed his entire career.

$11.00
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Food Rules: An Eater\'s Manual
by Michael Pollan
(Penguin Group USA )

Michael Pollan\'s previous two books, The Omnivore\'s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, demonstrated unequivically the importance of making sustainable, healthy, and environmentally conscious decisions about the food that we eat. Food Rules is a set of memorable rules for eating wisely, many drawn from a variety of ethnic or cultural traditions. Whether at the supermarket or an all-you-can-eat buffet, this pocket-size resource is the perfect guide for anyone wanting to put Pollan\'s ideas into practice.

$27.99
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, Mccain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
by John Heilemann
(Harpercollins)

"[Heilemann and Halperin] not only tell the story of the 2008 campaign in an engaging and readable way, they come up with some real reporting. Much of that reporting, it must be said, is of the gossipy sort, such as Harry Reid\'s by-now famous comment about black speech. Still, although I had some sense of the dimensions of the Palin disaster before reading this book, the authors\' account of how she failed to prepare for her debate with Joe Biden is chilling…. I doubt that any other book about the 2008 election will top this one in narrative drive." —The Washington Post

$14.00
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer
by Tracy Kidder
(Random House)

This brilliant bestseller by Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder tells the remarkable story of Dr. Paul Farmer, the Harvard medical genius whose quest is to solve the world's health and social problems.

$26.00
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Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility
by David Walker
(Random House Inc)

"David Walker shows us how to regain fiscal sanity and why, if we don\'t, we\'re at risk of bequeathing a lower standard of living to our children and becoming a second rate power. Every American should read this book because Walker gives us specific solutions, and shows there is still hope." —Senator Bill Bradley

$14.95
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
(Vintage)

“Cases rarely come much colder than the decades-old disappearance of teen heiress Harriet Vanger from her family’s remote island retreat north of Stockholm, nor do fiction debuts hotter than this European bestseller....  At once a strikingly original thriller and a vivisection of Sweden’s dirty not-so-little secrets, this first of a trilogy introduces a provocatively odd couple.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)

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Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage
by Elizabeth Gilbert
(Viking Press)

At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore never, ever, under any circumstances to get legally married. But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government, which—after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing—gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again.

Committed attempts to "turn on all the lights" when it comes to matrimony, frankly examining questions of compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, family tradition, social expectations, divorce risks and humbling responsibilities. 

$15.00
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Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann
(Random House Inc)

“With Philippe Petit’s breathless 1974 tightrope walk between the uncompleted WTC towers at its axis, Colum McCann offers us a lyrical cycloramic high-low portrait of New York City in its days of burning; Park Avenue matrons, Bronx junkies, Center Street judges, downtown artists and their uptown subway-tagging brethren, street priests, weary cops, wearier hookers, grieving mothers of an Asian war freshly put to bed; a masterful chorus of voices all obliviously connected by the most ephemeral vision; a pin-dot of a man walking on air 110 stories above their heads.” —Richard Price (Lush Life)

$24.99
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The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Four Visionaries Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
by Don Lattin
(Harperone)

"Will we ever really understand that state of mind and decade we call 'the sixties'? It left permanent marks on our society including changes in psychology, politics, the food we eat, how we think about mental and physical health, and much more. Lattin has crafted a riveting account of four of the personalities who deeply influenced those cultural shifts...for good or for ill. A skillfully woven group biography, it is thoroughly researched, wonderfully readable and sparkles with keen insights." —Harvey Cox, professor at Harvard Divinity School and author of The Future of Faith

$13.99
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When Will There Be Good News?
by Kate Atkinson
(Back Bay Books)

"Thank God, in these hard times, for a cheerful, ghoulish, gory book like this.... This is a grand mystery, with plenty of misdeeds and overwrought coincidences, as well as quotes from Scots ballads, old nursery rhymes, and the classics, so you can feel edified while being creeped out—as you wait for that happy ending we all long for, and think we deserve." —The Washington Post

$26.00
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Strength in What Remains
by Tracy Kidder
(Random House Inc )

While writing Mountains Beyond Mountains Tracy Kidder met Deogratias, an African refugee who had signed on to help Paul Farmer's organization, Partners in Health, in any way that he could. In his marginal story Kidder saw a life that deserved to be explored and shared. From his beginnings in war-torn Burundi to his life struggling on the streets of New York, Deo's continuing commitment to provide medical care for some of the most victimized is evidence of his incredible resilience.

"The reporting is impeccable, but it's Kidder's great feat of sympathetic imagination that dazzles. Walk a mile in Deo's shows; your world will be larger and darker for it." —William Finnegan (Cold New World) 

$14.95
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How We Decide
by Jonah Lehrer
(Mariner Books )

Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we "blink" and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, they’re discovering that this is not how the mind works.Our best decisions are a finely tuned blend of both feeling and reason—and the precise mix depends on the situation. The trick is to determine when to lean on which part of the brain, and to do this, we need to think harder (and smarter) about how we think.

$24.95
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The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
by R. Crumb
(W W Norton & Co Inc)

"Far removed from the satirical reimagining some might expect from the father of underground comix, Crumb's long-awaited take on the first book of the Bible presents the artist's own sensitive, visually intense reflections. Where most visual adaptations edit down their prose sources, Crumb has, strikingly, included every word of the Book of Genesis within his first major book-length work. His humanistic visual response to this religious text imbues even briefly mentioned biblical characters with unique faces and attitudes, and his renderings of the book's more storied personalities draw out momentous emotions inspired by the book's inherent drama. Throughout, Genesis is a virtual portfolio of Crumb's career-long effort to instill fluid cartoon drawing with carefully rendered lifelike detail." —Publishers Weekly

$15.00
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
(Penguin)

Paloma and Renée hide both their true talents and their finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will not appreciate them. They discover their kindred souls when a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building where they live, an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families in the center of Paris. Only he is able to gain Paloma’s trust and to see through Renée’s timeworn disguise to the secret that haunts her. This is a moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.“The formula that made more than half a million readers in France fall in love with this book has, among other ingredients: intelligent humor, fine sentiments, an excellent literary and philosophical backdrop, good taste, sophistication and substance.” —La Repubblica

$24.50
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande
(Metropolitan Books)

We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies‚ neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third.

$16.00
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded
by Thomas L. Friedman
(Picador USA)

"After painting a frightening picture of where the world is headed, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman says he remains a \'sober optimist.\'...[He] says America has time, if it begins immediately, to lead a green revolution based on advances in energy efficiency, conservation, and research to discover new energy sources to replace fossil fuels.... Hot, Flat, and Crowded is a compelling manifesto that deserves a wide reading, especially by members of Congress." —The Boston Globe

$24.95
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The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Reaction in the American University
by Louis Menand
(W W Norton & Co Inc)

Why do professors all tend to think alike? What makes it so hard for colleges to decide which subjects should be required? Why do teachers and scholars find it so difficult to transcend the limits of their disciplines? Why, in short, are problems that should be easy for universities to solve so intractable? The answer, Louis Menand argues, is that the institutional structure and the educational philosophy of higher education have remained the same for one hundred years, while faculties and student bodies have radically changed and technology has drastically transformed the way people produce and disseminate knowledge.

$13.95
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
by Daniyal Mueenuddin
(W W Norton & Co Inc)

"The pangs of individuals and cultures subject to established inequality and radical change are expertly analyzed in Pakistani author Mueenuddin's impressive debut collection. The eight stories explore relationships among scions of the super-rich Harouni farming family, living near Lahore, those who serve it and those who marry (often unhappily) into it. The stories are Chekhovian in their grasp of indigenous detail and subtle understanding of their characters' complex experiences and destinies." —Kirkus Reviews

$12.95
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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
by Matthew Frederick
(MIT Press)

These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy, making concrete what too often is left nebulous or open-ended in the architecture curriculum. "How to draw a line, the meaning of figure-ground theory, hand-lettering and the fact that windows look dark in the daytime—each item has resonance beyond architecture. Books like this are brief tutorials in the art of seeing, a skill useful in every aspect of life on the planet." —Susan Salter Reynolds, latimes.com

$12.95
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Master Harold... and the Boys
by Athol Fugard
(Vintage Books)

This play about a young white boy and two African servants is at once a compelling drama of South African apartheid and a universal coming-of-age story. Originally produced in 1982, it is now an acknowledged classic of the stage, whose themes of injustice, racism, friendship, and reconciliation traverse borders and time.

$15.99
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When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
(Wendy Lamb Books)

2010 Newbery Medal Winner

"When all the sidewalk characters from Miranda\'s Manhattan world converge amid mind-blowing revelations and cunning details, teen readers will circle back to the beginning and say,\'Wow ... cool.\'"

$18.00
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
by Liaquat Ahamed
(Penguin Group USA )

It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that begain in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person\'s or government\'s control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions taken by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated for decades.

$24.95
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The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
(Putnam Pub Group)

"Southern whites' guilt for not expressing gratitude to the black maids who raised them threatens to become a familiar refrain. But don't tell Kathryn Stockett because her first novel is a nuanced variation on the theme that strikes every note with authenticity. In a page-turner that brings new resonance to the moral issues involved, she spins a story of social awakening as seen from both sides of the American racial divide." —The Washington Post

$15.00
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
(Penguin (Non-Classics))

"Gilbert (The Last American Man) grafts the structure of romantic fiction upon the inquiries of reporting in this sprawling yet methodical travelogue of soul-searching and self-discovery. Plagued with despair after a nasty divorce, the author, in her early 30s, divides a year equally among three dissimilar countries, exploring her competing urges for earthly delights and divine transcendence.... Sustaining a chatty, conspiratorial tone, Gilbert fully engages readers in the year's cultural and emotional tapestry--conveying rapture with infectious brio, recalling anguish with touching candor--as she details her exotic tableau with history, anecdote and impression." -Publishers Weekly (starred)

$25.95
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Noah\'s Compass
by Anne Tyler
(Alfred A. Knopf Inc )

Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a phlosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn\'t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged.

$16.99
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Our Choice: How We Can Solve the Climate Crisis
by Al Gore
(Puffin)

"Gore follows up his eye-opening An Inconvenient Truth by presenting to young people the many possible solutions that might prevent future catastrophic climate changes. This very personal plea introduces the concept of choice on an individual, national, and global level.... The book itself is a carbon-neutral publication, printed on post-consumer waste streams, thus adding little to the waste cycle. This is a vital addition to environmental science collections and will prove useful in classroom and science programs." —School Library Journal

$14.99
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Malice
by Chris Wooding
(Scholastic Pr )

Everyone has heard the rumors. Call Tall Jake and he will take you to Malice, a world that exists inside a horrifying comic book. A place most kids never leave. Seth and Kady think it is all a silly myth. But then their friend disappears, and suddenly the rumors don\'t seem so silly.... Malice is a novel that is half fact, half comic—and all thrills.

$15.95
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Boston Noir
by Dennis Lehane
(Akashic Books)

Dennis Lehane has proven himself to be a master of both crime fiction and literary fiction. Here, he extends his literary prowess to that of master curator. In keeping with the Akashic Noir series tradition, each story in Boston Noir is set in a different neighborhood of the city—the impressively diverse collection extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to  Boston Harbor, and all stops in between.