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April 2010 Picks:

 

 

The Lonely Polygamist (Hardcover)

By Brady Udall
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780393062625
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 05/01/2010

The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott (Hardcover)

By Kelly O'Connor McNees
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780399156526
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Published: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 04/01/2010

Beatrice and Virgil (Hardcover)

By Yann Martel
$24.00
ISBN-13: 9781400069262
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Published: Spiegel & Grau, 04/01/2010

Dead End Gene Pool (Hardcover)

By Wendy Burden
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781592405268
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Published: Gotham, 04/01/2010

Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction (Hardcover)

By Jake Silverstein
$23.95
ISBN-13: 9780393076462
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 04/01/2010

Anthill (Hardcover)

By Edward Osborne Wilson, E. O. Wilson
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780393071191
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 04/01/2010

13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown (Hardcover)

By James Kwak, Simon Johnson
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780307379054
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Published: Pantheon, 03/01/2010

Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West (Hardcover)

By Stephen Fried
$27.00
ISBN-13: 9780553804379
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Published: Bantam, 03/01/2010

The Food of a Younger Land (Paperback)

By Mark Kurlansky
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781594484575
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Published: Riverhead Trade, 04/01/2010

Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace (Paperback)

By David Lipsky
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780307592439
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Published: Broadway, 04/01/2010

The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee (Hardcover)

By Sarah Silverman
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780061856433
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Published: Harper, 04/01/2010

The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes: A Mother's Story (Hardcover)

By Randi Davenport
$23.95
ISBN-13: 9781565126114
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 03/01/2010

Falling Apart in One Piece: One Optimist's Journey Through the Hell of Divorce (Hardcover)

By Stacy Morrison
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781416595564
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 03/01/2010

Eddie Signwriter (Hardcover)

By Adam Schwartzman
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780307378736
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Published: Pantheon, 03/01/2010

Dimiter (Hardcover)

By William Peter Blatty
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780765325129
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Published: Forge Books, 03/01/2010

Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds (Hardcover)

By Robin Olds, Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus
$26.99
ISBN-13: 9780312560232
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Published: St. Martin's Press, 04/01/2010

The Eastern Stars (Hardcover)

By Mark Kurlansky
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9781594487507
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Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 04/01/2010

Donatella Cooks: Simple Food Made Glamorous (Hardcover)

By Donatella Arpaia, Kathleen Hackett
$32.50
ISBN-13: 9781605296425
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Published: Rodale Books, 04/01/2010

Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet (Hardcover)

By Stephanie Cowell
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780307463210
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Published: Crown, 04/01/2010

In the Shadow of the Cypress (Hardcover)

By Thomas Steinbeck
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781439168257
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Published: Gallery, 04/01/2010

The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors (Hardcover)

By Michele Young-Stone
$24.00
ISBN-13: 9780307464477
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Published: Crown, 04/01/2010

If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This: Stories (Hardcover)

By Robin Black
$24.00
ISBN-13: 9781400068579
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Published: Random House, 03/01/2010

The Hand That First Held Mine (Hardcover)

By Maggie O'Farrell
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780547330792
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/01/2010

I Am Not A Serial Killer (Hardcover)

By Dan Wells
$21.99
ISBN-13: 9780765322470
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Published: Tor Books, 03/01/2010

How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly (Hardcover)

By Connie May Fowler
$23.99
ISBN-13: 9780446540681
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Published: Grand Central Publishing, 04/01/2010

Hello Kitty Must Die (Paperback)

By Angela S. Choi
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781935562023
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Published: Tyrus Books, 04/01/2010

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Paperback)

By Stieg Larsson
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780307454553
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Published: Vintage, 03/01/2010

The Lake Shore Limited (Hardcover)

By Sue Miller
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780307264213
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Published: Knopf, 04/01/2010

Dog Boy (Hardcover)

By Eva Hornung
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780670021499
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Published: Viking Adult, 03/01/2010

In the Company of Angels (Hardcover)

By Thomas E. Kennedy
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781608190164
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Published: Bloomsbury USA, 03/01/2010

Get Lucky (Paperback)

By Katherine Center
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780345507914
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Published: Ballantine Books, 04/01/2010

The Language of Secrets (Hardcover)

By Dianne Dixon
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780385530637
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Published: Doubleday, 03/01/2010

Imperfect Birds (Hardcover)

By Anne Lamott
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9781594487514
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Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 04/01/2010

The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion (Hardcover)

By Herman Wouk
$23.99
ISBN-13: 9780316078450
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Published: Little, Brown and Company, 04/01/2010

In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart (Hardcover)

By Alice Waters
$28.00
ISBN-13: 9780307336804
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Published: Clarkson Potter, 04/01/2010

Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain (Hardcover)

By Roy Jr. Morris
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781416598664
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 04/01/2010

Lost (Hardcover)

By Alice Lichtenstein
$24.00
ISBN-13: 9781439159828
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Published: Scribner, 03/01/2010

The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War (Hardcover)

By David Laskin
$26.99
ISBN-13: 9780061233333
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Published: Harper, 03/01/2010

Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (Hardcover)

By Bill McKibben
$24.00
ISBN-13: 9780805090567
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Published: Times Books, 03/01/2010

Solar (Hardcover)

By Ian Mcewan
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780385533416
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Published: Nan A. Talese, 03/01/2010

Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things (Hardcover)

By Gail Steketee, Randy Frost
$27.00
ISBN-13: 9780151014231
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/01/2010

A Murderous Procession (Hardcover)

By Ariana Franklin
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780399156281
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Published: Putnam Adult, 04/01/2010

1001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die (Hardcover)

By Adrian Tierney-Jones (Editor)
$36.95
ISBN-13: 9780789320254
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Published: Universe, 03/01/2010

Love in Mid Air (Hardcover)

By Kim Wright
$23.99
ISBN-13: 9780446540445
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Published: Grand Central Publishing, 03/01/2010

One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World (Hardcover)

By Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781416559085
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Free Press, 03/01/2009

Once A Spy (Hardcover)

By Keith Thomson
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780385530781
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Published: Doubleday, 03/01/2010

The Secret Miracle: The Novelist's Handbook (Paperback)

By Daniel Alarcon
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780805087147
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Published: Holt Paperbacks, 04/01/2010

Purge (Paperback)

By Sofi Oksanen
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780802170774
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Published: Grove Press, Black Cat, 04/01/2010

Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris (Hardcover)

By Graham Robb
$28.95
ISBN-13: 9780393067248
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 04/01/2010

The Scent of Rain and Lightning (Hardcover)

By Nancy Pickard
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780345471017
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Published: Ballantine Books, 04/01/2010

Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival (Hardcover)

By Dean King
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780316167086
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Published: Little, Brown and Company, 03/01/2010

The Lotus Eaters (Hardcover)

By Tatjana Soli
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780312611576
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Published: St. Martin's Press, 03/01/2010

A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe (Hardcover)

By Marcelo Gleiser
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781439108321
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Published: Free Press, 04/01/2010

The Tale of Halcyon Crane (Paperback)

By Wendy Webb
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780805091403
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Published: Holt Paperbacks, 03/01/2010

This Is Not The Story You Think It Is... (Hardcover)

By Laura Munson
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780399156656
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Published: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 04/01/2010

Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid & Beyond the American Dream (Paperback)

By William Powers
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781577318972
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Published: New World Library, 05/01/2010

Losing Charlotte (Hardcover)

By Heather Clay
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780375415388
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Published: Knopf, 03/01/2010

The Solitude of Prime Numbers (Hardcover)

By Paolo Giordano
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780670021482
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Published: Pamela Dorman Books, 03/01/2010

The Line (Hardcover)

By Olga Grushin
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780399156168
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Published: Putnam Adult, 04/01/2010

This is Just Exactly Like You (Hardcover)

By Drew Perry
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780670021543
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Published: Viking Adult, 04/01/2010

An Unfinished Score (Hardcover)

By Elise Blackwell
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781936071661
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Published: Unbridled Books, 04/01/2010

The Swimming Pool (Hardcover)

By Holly Lecraw
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780385531931
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Published: Doubleday, 04/01/2010

Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience (Hardcover)

By Stephen S. Hall
$27.95
ISBN-13: 9780307269102
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Published: Knopf, 03/01/2010

What's New, Cupcake?: Ingeniously Simple Designs for Every Occasion (Paperback)

By Karen Tack, Alan Richardson
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9780547241814
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/01/2010

This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection (Hardcover)

By Carol Burnett
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780307461186
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Published: Crown Archetype, 04/01/2010

Whiter Than Snow (Hardcover)

By Sandra Dallas
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780312600150
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Published: St. Martin's Press, 03/01/2010

A Thread of Sky (Hardcover)

By Deanna Fei
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781594202490
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Published: Penguin Press HC, The, 04/01/2010

You Are My Wish (Hardcover)

By Maryann Cusimano Love, Satomi Ichikawa (Illustrator)
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780399247521
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Published: Philomel, 03/01/2010

Shark vs. Train (Hardcover)

By Chris Barton, Tom Lichtenheld (Illustrator)
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780316007627
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 04/01/2010

Rivals: A Baseball Great Novel (Hardcover)

By Tim Green
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780061626920
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Published: HarperCollins, 04/01/2010

We the Children (Hardcover)

By Andrew Clements, Adam Stower (Illustrator)
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9781416938866
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Published: Atheneum, 04/01/2010

Roberto & Me (Hardcover)

By Dan Gutman
$15.99
ISBN-13: 9780061234842
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Published: HarperCollins, 03/01/2010

LMNO Peas (Hardcover)

By Keith Baker, Keith Baker (Illustrator)
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9781416991410
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Published: Beach Lane Books, 04/01/2010

The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (Paperback)

By Jeanne Birdsall
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780440422037
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Published: Yearling, 03/01/2010

Alchemy and Meggy Swann (Hardcover)

By Karen Cushman
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780547231846
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Published: Clarion Books, 04/01/2010

The Quiet Book (Hardcover)

By Deborah Underwood, Renata Liwska (Illustrator)
$12.95
ISBN-13: 9780547215679
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 04/12/2010

The Dreamer (Hardcover)

By Pam Munoz Ryan, Peter Sis (Illustrator)
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780439269704
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Scholastic Press, 04/01/2010
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