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Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology (Paperback)

By David Abram
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9780375713699
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Published: Vintage, 9/2011
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In this heart-felt and engaging treatise Abram gets deep inside the reality of the human animal and our true relationships with all things in nature.

Tyrant Memory (Paperback)

By Horacio Castellanos Moya, Katherine Silver, Katherine Silver
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780811219174
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Published: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 6/2011
At turns funny and frightening, this novel set in 1940s El Salvador questions the lust for power and depicts the human-scale resistance that fights back.

All the Names (Paperback)

By Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780156010597
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Published: Mariner Books, 10/2001
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The master novelist of the psyche gives us a low-level bureaucrat who plumbs the depths of that simple question, why are we here?

The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel (Paperback)

By Hermann Hesse, Richard Winston, Clara Winston
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780312278496
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Published: Picador, 12/2002
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What has become my favorite Hesse novel imagines a future society that strives to understand their world through the intense application of the intellect.

Perlmann's Silence (Hardcover)

By Pascal Mercier, Shaun Whiteside
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780802119575
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Published: Grove Press, 1/2012
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From the author of the wonderful 'Night Train to Lisbon' comes a philosophical novel that essays questions of memory, communication and the emotions behind the human will to action.

The Third Reich (Hardcover)

By Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780374275624
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 11/2011
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An earlier, unpublished during his life, novel that centers on those who play a World War II fantasy board game. All the wit and insight of later Bolaño novels is present here.

March (Paperback)

By Geraldine Brooks
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780143036661
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 2/2006
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An inventive imagining of the travels and trials of Mr. March, father of the family in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" during the American Civil War.

A Moment in the Sun (Hardcover)

By John Sayles
$29.00
ISBN-13: 9781936365180
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Published: McSweeney's, 5/2011
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An epic of storytelling excellence, this novel entertains and informs. U.S. history at the demise of Reconstruction and the advent of world domination. Signed copies available.

1Q84 (Hardcover)

By Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel
$30.50
ISBN-13: 9780307593313
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Published: Knopf, 10/2011
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First, it is Murakami - get to know this author before he wins the Nobel. And it is a look at what is called 'internationalized' lit, writing for a globalized reality.

People of the Book (Paperback)

By Geraldine Brooks
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780143115007
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 1/2009
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A beautifully imagined 'biography' of the Sarajevo Haggadah tracing its history back in time through the lives of those who come in contact with this treasure of human expression.

2666 (Paperback)

By Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer
$18.00
ISBN-13: 9780312429218
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Published: Picador, 9/2009
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Truly a masterpiece of writing, Bolano's novel roams the worlds of literature and of human foibles.

Quiet Chaos (Paperback)

By Sandro Veronesi
$13.99
ISBN-13: 9780061572944
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Published: Ecco, 4/2011
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The deceptively straightforward narrative style belies the philosophical depth of this novel. And including a mention of metempsychosis is always a plus.

The Eagle's Throne (Paperback)

By Kristina Cordero, Carlos Fuentes
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780812972559
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 3/2007
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Nobel Prize candidate Fuentes is at his best in this humorous and insightful look at presidential politics in Mexico. And look for his 2020 Novel Lit Prize Prediction.

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Paperback)

By Timothy Egan
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780618773473
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Published: Mariner Books, 9/2006
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Sad but true individual stories all woven through this compelling history of the Dust Bowl era . . a very human-made natural disaster.

West of Here (Hardcover)

By Jonathan Evison
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781565129528
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2/2011
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A sprawling epic of Pacific Northwest history - fictionalized in the lives of several fascinating characters.

Kamchatka (Paperback)

By Marcelo Figueras, Frank Wynne
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ISBN-13: 9780802170873
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Published: Grove Press, Black Cat, 5/2011
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A young boy learns life lessons from family and friends during the time of Argentina's 'Dirty Wars.'

Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (Paperback)

By Eduardo Galeano
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9781568586120
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Published: Nation Books, 9/2010
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History you may not know - Galeano creates a mosaic of the human journey - the good, the bad and the transcendent.

Blindness (Paperback)

By Jose Saramago
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780156007757
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Published: Mariner Books, 10/1999
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These witty allegories challenge the reader to reasses what one knows about the world and oneself, click here for Seeing.

The Brothers K (Paperback)

By David James Duncan
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ISBN-13: 9780553378498
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Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 6/1996
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Baseball, life and all that. It's a really good book!
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