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Harpercollins. 06/01/2002. 276 pgs. In Miami, a happily married expatriate Cuban lawyer named Margarita struggles with the choice between continuing her high-powered job or staying home with her small son. Trying out the domestic life, she gets bored and begins an affair with an old beau--and now faces another dilemma that is only complicated further when she becomes pregnant. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 07/01/1999. 309 pgs. Peter Saxon is a nondescript American--a Vietnam veteran and lawyer for a prominent media conglomerate. But a return visit to Tokyo, the site of his wartime tour of duty and his first love affair, finds him in the spotlight. Sent to Japan to negotiate a major international communications merger with Kuribayashi Electronics, Peter instead discovers the enormous depth of the cultural divide between the U.S. and Japan. His lost love, now the wife of the Japanese negotiator, is bent on hiding her past life as a courtier to American servicemen. Meanwhile, members of the Japanese mafia, hired by Kuribayashi, are attempting to frame and murder him as a representative of a country that not only destroyed but deculturalized Japan through the seduction of its women. Peter learns that the past doesn't die easily in this ancient, foreign land. The question is, will he? Originally published at $24.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 06/01/2001. 393 pgs. Hope, a harried modern mother who lives in the Hamptons, hires Annabel Quick to be a nanny for her children. Annabel turns out to be short on experience but long on child-raising wisdom. The victim of a failed romance and a family tragedy, she also learns to love again. Originally published at $25.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 02/01/2000. 286 pgs. Ex-convict, auto mechanic, and now entrepreneur Miranda "Munch" Mancini is on a wild goose chase to track down her new employee, her new limousine, and a serial killer in this suspense thriller. Originally published at $24.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins Childrens Books. 10/01/2001. Illustrated. 60 pgs. A CHRISTMAS CAROL is Dickens's tender and comic tale of the Cratchit family, Tiny Tim, and Ebenezer Scrooge--a favorite since it was written in 1843. Badly in need of money, Dickens produced A CHRISTMAS CAROL in six weeks; the first printing of 6,000 copies sold out instantly. In Dickens's original version, Tiny Tim was Tiny Fred, and Scrooge said "Bah!" but not "Humbug!" Originally published at $17.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 08/01/2004. Reprint. 437 pgs. Heartsdale medical examiner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, probe what looks like the suicide of a local college student. Other deaths follow at the college. The key to the investigation seems to be campus security guard Lena Adams, an ex-cop with a murky past and an axe to grind. Originally published at $7.99 You save 81% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 06/01/2003. Originally published at $6.99 You save 79% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 04/01/1995. Reissue. While most contemporary mysteries kick off with a dead body, and gallop along at a headlong pace, GAUDY NIGHT, first published in 1935, is a far more mannered work. Rather than focus on violence, this classic novel uses both the mystery and the personal lives of the characters to debate whether it's possible for a woman to balance the demands of the intellectual life and of a successful marriage. The detective novelist Harriet Vane returns to Shrewsbury, her Oxford alma mater. The Dean has asked her to track down a "Poison Pen," a perpetrator of a series of venomous notes and acts of petty vandalism. The "Poison Pen" seems to be trying to ruin the reputation of Shrewsbury, and, by extension, that of women's education as a whole. The evidence suggests that the guilty party must be someone at the college: a maid, a student, or possibly even one of the professors. Harriet can't identify the culprit and is obliged to summon Lord Peter Wimsey, the aristocratic amateur sleuth who, despite Harriet's many rejections, still wants to marry her. The central issue of the book--the tension between a woman's personal and professional life--remains relevant today. Originally published at $7.99 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 06/01/2000. Reissue. 253 pgs. Laurie Colwin's moving and funny tale of a woman's search for happiness as the only white singer in the band Ruby Shakely and the Shakettes. Originally published at $12.95 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 07/01/1999. This collection of three novellas by up-and-coming African-American authors Anita Bunkley, Sandra Kitt, and Eva Rutland reveal the rewarding and at times heartbreaking experiences of a diverse mix of African-American women. Originally published at $6.99 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 04/01/2001. Peter Saxon is a nondescript American--a Vietnam veteran and lawyer for a prominent media conglomerate. But a return visit to Tokyo, the site of his wartime tour of duty and his first love affair, finds him in the spotlight. Sent to Japan to negotiate a major international communications merger with Kuribayashi Electronics, Peter instead discovers the enormous depth of the cultural divide between the U.S. and Japan. His lost love, now the wife of the Japanese negotiator, is bent on hiding her past life as a courtier to American servicemen. Meanwhile, members of the Japanese mafia, hired by Kuribayashi, are attempting to frame and murder him as a representative of a country that not only destroyed but deculturalized Japan through the seduction of its women. Peter learns that the past doesn't die easily in this ancient, foreign land. The question is, will he? Originally published at $6.99 You save 72% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1990. Reprint. 138 pgs. A CHRISTMAS CAROL is Dickens's tender and comic tale of the Cratchit family, Tiny Tim, and Ebenezer Scrooge--a favorite since it was written in 1843. Badly in need of money, Dickens produced A CHRISTMAS CAROL in six weeks; the first printing of 6,000 copies sold out instantly. In Dickens's original version, Tiny Tim was Tiny Fred, and Scrooge said "Bah!" but not "Humbug!" Originally published at $10.00 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 05/01/1995. Reprint. Respected scholar Richard Vaisey's affair with a Russian poet threatens his marriage and compromises his integrity, particularly after his wife initiates a plan of revenge in this satire by the Booker Prize-winning author of LUCKY JIM. Originally published at $11.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 08/01/1997. 225 pgs. A darkly comic novel that traces the lives and misadventures of the workers and managers of a Scottish automobile factory. Originally published at $23.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library Classics. 06/01/1998. Revised. Martin Arrowsmith fulfills a lifelong dream of becoming a physician with a passion for research. Combatting the forces of ignorance and greed, he relentlessly pursues scientific truth, even in the face of his own personal tragedy. ARROWSMITH (1925) was Sinclair Lewis's most praised novel and won him the Pulitzer Prize, which he refused. Originally published at $7.95 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 03/01/2003. 373 pgs. George is an apprentice in his uncle's chemist shop, where his uncle has invented "tono-bungay." George, to his uncle's disdain, wants to be a man of science and integrity. However, George accepts his offer to promote "tono-bungay" before going on to develop aeronautical navigation experiments. His marriage begins to fail and his frustration with his life begins to increase. Nevertheless, his vision of science as the guiding principle through a murky and chaotic world remains constant. Originally published at $13.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Univ of Wisconsin Pr. 11/01/1980. 259 pgs. Unlike the movie, the Cain novel features no murder. Spanning the Depression era, it is the story of a suburban California wife and mother. At the beginning of the book, Mildred turns out her husband Bert, who is jobless and philandering. In order to support her two children and herself, she begins working as a waitress, which she finds abhorrent. Eventually, after different profitable liaisons, she starts a restaurant chain. She is subsumed in her work, obsessed by it, defined by it--as she is by her relationship to her daughter Veda. She draws Veda's heightened resentment, because the girl loves her father deeply, and Veda ultimately betrays Mildred. Originally published at $24.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 09/01/1984. When Berkeley detective Jill Smith receives a call for help from her ex-husband, she's not sure she wants to get involved with his case, or with him. When he reports that his friend Anne has disappeared, Jill must sift through the clues--all of which point to his guilt--and search the town's backstreets to solve this personally painful mystery. Originally published at $12.95 You save 85% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 10/01/1995. Angie is a lesbian in a successful relationship, mother to an adopted daughter, and an attorney specializing in lesbian legal issues. She is also struggling to make sense of her difficult childhood, her love-hate relationship with her mother, and her multiplicity of roles. Angie's identity crisis reaches a boiling point when she must defend both a lesbian mother accused of killing her child, and herself, against a charge of sexual harassment. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 10/01/1995. Reprint. The sequel to Ricci's acclaimed first novel, "The Book of Saints," this continues the story of young Vittorio from Italy to the New World, a country whose every aspect feels alien to him. Originally published at $22.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 01/01/1996. 391 pgs. Jessica Kernow and Cornwallis Trelawney are engaged. This arrangement turns out to be a sham since both have aspirations other than marriage. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 02/01/1996. 230 pgs. A novel about a young priest who is commissioned by the Vatican to investigate three very dubious modern miracles: a weeping statue, a field with mysterious auras, and a sighting of the Virgin. His discoveries threaten his faith and his life. Originally published at $22.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 07/01/1996. 266 pgs. A fascinating stranger shakes up the lives of three women in a rural English village, and changes them forever. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 01/01/2000. 468 pgs. Originally published at $6.99 You save 76% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 08/01/1999. 370 pgs. Forensic photographer Alexandra Rafferty's past catches up with her when a series of rapes and murders uncovers a dark incident from her childhood. The killer, who seems to know about her past, leaves Alexandra ambiguous messages that she must decipher before she becomes his next victim. Originally published at $6.99 You save 79% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 02/01/1999. 264 pgs. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 07/01/1999. 260 pgs. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 07/01/1999. 219 pgs. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 03/01/2001. 323 pgs. Originally published at $6.99 You save 83% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 01/01/2000. 307 pgs. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 06/01/2001. 331 pgs. Three women in London, friends since childhood, seek to understand and transcend the constricting customs of their Indian families. One is a filmmaker, one a failed law student with a bad marriage, and the third--and most traditional--is married to a wealthy man. The filmmaker creates a documentary in which her two friends are featured, and their old friendship is destroyed, but each woman learns something important about her life, and finds strength in new ideas. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Little Brown & Co. 04/01/1991. An old flame enters Kit Masters life when she returns home to settle affairs after her father's death, forcing the successful actress to choose between the work she loves and the man she loves. Originally published at $19.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 08/01/2000. Large Print. 527 pgs. When a mysterious Belgian cargo ship arrives at Richmond's Deep Water Terminal carrying the horrifically decomposed body of a stowaway, forensic expert Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called upon to solve the mystery. Suspense builds when initial tests fail to determine the identity of the corpse or the cause of death. Using the victim's personal belongings and puzzling tattoo as her guides, Scarpetta begins an international hunt for information that takes her to Lyon, Paris, and finally back to Virginia, where she must decide if she will take on a mission likely to not only ruin her career but put those she loves in mortal danger. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Little Brown & Co. 04/01/1992. Reprint. Wouk's first novel was heavily influenced by the style of his favorite author, Cervantes. Andrew Reale is tilting at the windmills of success and fame as he builds a radio career in Manhattan in the early 1940s. He is forced to choose between true love or a marriage that will put him on the high road towards his fortune. Originally published at $14.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 01/02/2007. Reprint. 1200 pgs. With the layers of intrigue and deception, machismo, and complex sexual and political relationships, the CIA is a made-for-Mailer milieu. Harry Hubbard, son of a CIA hero, craves his father's approval. He follows his father's career in the CIA, with his father's friend and colleague Hugh Tremont Montague ("Harlot") as his mentor. The novel chronicles the growth of Harry's personality as he pursues his own intelligence career. Populated with historical and fictional characters alike, HARLOT'S GHOST offers a portrait of the day-to-day workings of the CIA. Originally published at $16.95 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 08/01/1996. 469 pgs. Set in the artistic and literary haven of 1910 Paris, this novel of crime and capers creates characters who resemble Picasso, Gertrude Stein, and Colette, and follows their plot to steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Originally published at $23.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 08/01/2000. 427 pgs. Assistant prosecutor Stella Marz (aka The Dark Lady) is caught in a vicious web of political corruption and personal turmoil when two prominent citizens--one, Tommy Fielding, a baseball stadium construction supervisor, the other, Jack Novack, a private practice attorney and Stella's former lover--are found dead. Originally published at $7.99 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 06/01/2003. Reprint. A translator named Dominique, fluent in seven languages, is at a medical conference when she overhears the news of a possible cure for HIV--a discovery that is supposed to remain a secret. Dominique, whose best friend is dying of AIDS, is unsure whether or not to reveal what she knows--and at the same time, she becomes involved with the doctor who is behind the cure. Questions of loyalty and ethics arise in this literary novel of romantic suspense. Originally published at $13.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 03/01/2004. A landscape architect named Linc Menner and his wife, Jo, decide that Linc will stay home with their 3-year-old when Jo gets a great job as a hospital administrator. Linc is incredibly good at the job, even providing his best recipes for the reader at the end of each chapter. And, though tempted by the housewife next door, he doesn't give in--and only partly because he doesn't approve of the way she's raising her children. Originally published at $13.95 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Harlequin Books. 02/01/2004. Reprint. Corinne Fremont has learned from past experience to protect her heart first and resist the desire to become venerable again. But when the cocky Corey Haraden enters her life, she must reconsider her preconceptions. Originally published at $6.99 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Harlequin Books. 09/01/1998. NYPD Lieutenant Marian Larch is investigating an attempted kidnapping in a vicious child custody case. When the custody battle leads to a string of murders, Marian follows every lead she has but ends up stumped. This case in particular is emotionally harrowing for Marian, and she's not sure she can crack the case before it cracks her. Originally published at $4.99 You save 76% off the cover price!

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Harlequin Books. 06/01/2000. The fourth book in Bill Moody's Evan Horne mystery series finds the jazz piano-playing sleuth back on the tour circuit after a year's recovery from a hand injury. His rekindled stardom turns deadly, however, when a Kenny G-like saxophone player is found dead with the words "Bird Lives!" scrawled on the wall overhead. Evan's search for the Charlie Parker-loving killer takes him to jazz clubs and dives from Los Angeles to San Francisco, and finally to Las Vegas, where sparks fly at the sight of a beautiful FBI agent. Can Evan find the killer and still resuscitate his jazz career? Originally published at $5.99 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Harlequin Books. 05/01/1993. Reprint. Originally published at $4.50 You save 78% off the cover price!

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Harlequin Books. 04/01/1998. Originally published at $4.50 You save 78% off the cover price!

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Harlequin Books. 09/01/1992. Reprint. Public relations expert Liz Jerome knows how to deal with her clients in a professional setting, but she keeps her personal life well hidden after having been hurt before.When she's hired by Donovan Grant to help work on his company's public image, Liz must decide if she will ever risk her heart again. Originally published at $4.50 You save 78% off the cover price!

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Harlequin Books. 08/01/1998. Originally published at $4.50 You save 56% off the cover price!

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Farrar Straus & Giroux. 02/01/1996. 373 pgs. A novel about three women: Judy, who goes from a humiliating divorce settlement to the world of international finance; Barbara, who deserts her traditional wifely role to become a best-selling novelist; and Dede, who helps her husband on his upward political climb. When these three wildly successful women meet at a luxurious Italian spa, they must confront the price they have paid for their achievements. Originally published at $22.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Random House. 10/01/1999. Abridged. This installment in the famous Kinsey Millhone mystery series finds the no-nonsense private eye trudging through her well-guarded personal history to find her ex-husband's killer. A 1999 Publishers Weekly Best Book. Originally published at $25.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Bantam Books. 10/01/2000. 718 pgs. Bestselling mystery author Elizabeth George's 10th engrossing book about New Scotland Yard detectives Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers centers on the corpses of two seemingly unconnected people found near Nine Sisters Henge, a dark, forbidding circle of prehistoric stones on the English moors. Each victim met death under bizarrely different circumstances, and suspense erupts when the investigators realize that neither the victims nor the suspects are who they appear to be. At the same time, tension between Lynley and Havers is at an all-time high, causing continual difficulties. An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 1999. Originally published at $7.99 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Bantam Books. 09/01/2000. Reprint. The ninth book in Sara Paretsky's popular V.I. Warshawski series has the tough, street-savvy private investigator doing time in a women's maximum security prison for the alleged kidnapping of a security magnate's neglected son. She makes the most of her sentence, investigating the death of an ex-housekeeper-turned-convict, who, last seen in the prison's infirmary, was brutally beaten and mysteriously left to die on the streets of her old neighborhood. Originally published at $7.99 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 08/01/2000. Large Print. 615 pgs. Determined to become Charleston's next district attorney, southern gentleman Hammond Cross jumps when he is called upon to prosecute the highly publicized murder of local real estate tycoon Lute Pettijohn. Little does Hammond know, however, that his ticket to the top may come at an impossible price. While a host of people, including his best friend, are busily plotting his downfall, the woman he loves happens to be his prime suspect in the murder trial. Hammond must now choose between love and justice--and then cope with the murderous consequences. Originally published at $14.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 09/01/2003. 451 pgs. Gwen Lewis and Gideon Wolkowitz live in New York, have careers they love, and adore each other. But when Gwen becomes accidentally pregnant they get married. Their attempts to balance work, child care, their life together, and the daily demands of living create problems neither could anticipate. Eberstadt's impassioned novel takes the two of them into hell, and back. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. Originally published at $26.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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