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Harpercollins Canada. 08/01/1997. Twin boys growing up in Winnepeg during the Depression struggle to deal with their eccentric American father and their past-haunted German mother. One twin goes to Germany to study and becomes a dedicated Nazi, while his brother tries to come to terms with the conflicting strains of his life. Originally published at $21.50 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 05/01/2002. 312 pgs. Terrence Cheng takes as the hero of his novel the young nameless man who, in an unforgettable news photograph, stood his ground against the army tanks in Tiananmen Square in the summer of 1989. Constructing a life for the man he calls Ziao-Di, Cheng sends him to Cornell as an exchange student, puts him through a troubled romance, and sends him jobless through the streets of Beijing, where he becomes increasingly politicized. Originally published at $24.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 09/01/1990. Reprint. This work of small-town realism is the story of Wade Whitehouse, a born-to-lose, middle-aged blue-collar resident of a bleak New Hampshire community like the one in which Russell Banks grew up. The story of Wade's abusive father, Wade's hopeless marriage and attempts to be a father to his daughter, and his obsession with the death in a hunting accident of a man he doesn't even know, followed by his almost willful downward slide, is told by his detached, educated younger brother as an American macho tragedy, steeped in pointless violence. AFFLICTION was made into a highly acclaimed film in 1998 by Paul Schrader, starring Nick Nolte. Originally published at $13.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 03/01/1996. 214 pgs. A novel about a pair of estranged twin brothers: the inaptly named Lucky, who contracts polio and disappoints his father's hopes; and Tom Ed, who enters politics, eventually running for governor of North Carolina. During the electoral race, the brothers reconnect. Originally published at $22.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Lightning Source Inc. 02/01/1998. The Scurvy clan must bury their mother, who died after giving birth to her fifth child, a daughter named Joy. Money must somehow be raised for the funeral, and the buck gets passed to the self-effacing Earl and his beloved, Loujean. Originally published at $12.95 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 04/01/1999. Reprint. 901 pgs. A 40-year-old housepainter named Dominick Birdsey, from a spectacularly dysfunctional family, is the narrator of this long novel about the search for self-acceptance. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. Originally published at $16.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 04/01/1991. Reissue. Two brothers discover gold in the mountains and are immediately beset by all manner of treachery and betrayal. Originally published at $3.99 You save 62% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 03/01/2001. A duke holds a woman prisoner in order to keep her from revealing a secret he is keeping. Captor and captive fall in love. Originally published at $5.99 You save 67% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 09/01/2001. 578 pgs. Following a hard-won peace agreement between the four races, a fraternal rivalry threatens to evolve into a full scale war, engulfing humans, orcs, elves, and dwarves. The first volume in a projected trilogy. Originally published at $7.99 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 02/01/2000. Originally published at $6.99 You save 79% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 10/01/1998. Reissue. Originally published at $7.99 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1976. Reprint. In a typical Murdochean situation, a large cast of characters pairs off, regroups, and pairs off again in this 1961 novel, in which moral blindness is finally vanquished by goodness, acceptance, and maturity. Originally published at $15.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 02/01/1979. A brief novel full of melodramatic sexual alliances, in which the hero falls in love with his dead mother's housekeeper. Originally published at $10.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/1988. Reprint. Hank and Leland Stamper are half-brothers in a family of loggers. When the loggers' union goes on strike, the Stampers refuse to go with them. In addition to their conflict with the community, Hank and Leland are in conflict with each other: Hank is head of the family business; Leland is an Ivy League graduate. Hank has had an affair with Leland's mother; Leland seduces Hank's wife in revenge. These complexities are illustrated using multiple points of view, film techniques, and other narrative innovations. Originally published at $14.95 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 10/01/1992. Reissue. 602 pgs. John Steinbeck's last significant work of fiction (1952), a huge family saga based on the book of Genesis, is set in the Salinas Valley of the author's youth. Beginning with the purchase of a parcel of rich California farmland by Samuel Hamilton, who comes from Ireland with his wife, EAST OF EDEN traces the turbulent lives of the Hamilton and Trask families from the Civil War to the end of World War I. Adam Trask marries a prostitute who bears him twin sons--the Cain and Abel figures--and their rivalry shadows the second half of the novel, culminating in tragedy. Steinbeck had hoped to revive his failing career with this epic work, but though a best-seller, EAST OF EDEN was not well received by critics. However, because of its epic sweep and dramatic story, as well as its function as a virtual history of the Salinas Valley, the book has endured as an American classic. It was made into a memorable movie in 1955, directed by Elia Kazan and starring James Dean. Originally published at $15.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1994. Reprint. 248 pgs. A chronicle of the odd and compelling lives of a pair of elderly, inseparable identical twins, Lewis and Benjamin Jones, who are sheep-farmers in rural Wales. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 05/01/1989. Reprint. In this coming-of-age story set in a small Louisiana town, John Girlie, an all-American football player, returns home after his grandfather's death to confront his possessive mother, the absence of his father and his brother, the dissipations of his old friend, Charlie--and the love of a strange, grieving woman he meets in a cemetery. Originally published at $6.95 You save 74% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 12/01/1994. Reprint. Del and Bud Tribute are brothers who have never grown up. Now middle-aged, Bud moves to Hollywood to pursue fame and fortune, and Del moves to Biloxi to pursue Bud's wife. Selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the best books of 1993. Originally published at $10.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 04/01/1993. Originally published at $15.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/1995. Reprint. The pivotal characters in this novel are two brothers, Lucas and Clement. Lucas attempts to kill Clement, but is thwarted by the intervention of a passerby, whom Lucas assaults, pretending he has been mugged. The man refuses to leave Lucas alone, and after the incident, demands that Lucas compensate him for the attack. As in so many of Murdoch's novels, this one act reverberates in the lives of a large cast of characters, and, also like many of her works, the novel is essentially is about guilt, atonement, and the difficulty of redemption. Originally published at $16.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 05/01/1998. 667 pgs. A novel about two rivalrous brothers--one a mule thief and bootlegger, the other a blacksmith whose daughter has a visionary gift. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/1997. Reprint. 249 pgs. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 08/01/1976. Reprint. 339 pgs. Originally published at $15.00 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/1979. Although Maupassant's own introduction to his novel proclaims a general distaste for the so-called psychological novel, "Pierre and Jean" (1888) emerged as a very intimate and internal study of jealousy, suspicion, and love within families. Pierre, a doctor, and Jean, a lawyer, are the sons of a retired jeweler who live with his wife in Le Havre. Pierre is jealous of his brother's relationship with Madame Rosémilly, and he becomes suspicious about his mother's fidelity when his brother inherits the fortune of an old family friend. These emotions conflict with an abiding respect for his mother and genuine affection for Jean, so Pierre turns inward and escapes by accepting a job as a doctor on a transatlantic liner. Originally published at $12.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/2003. Reissue. 304 pgs. This novel provides a controversial reappraisal of Israeli politics. When the son of an Israeli statesman sets out to find his estranged brother, he finds himself embroiled in a criminal and murderous world in which the truth of his father's wartime past challenges his deepest assumptions about Israeli righteousness and German guilt. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 09/01/1997. 244 pgs. Andrew Cowan's second novel is about a young couple expecting a baby and living in a decaying neighborhood. Jay, the girlfriend, becomes an activist, protesting a proposed highway that will destroy a nearby ancient woodland. Her partner, Ashley, ponders whether to remain entrenched in what he finds to be an increasingly repellent modern society--or to escape it all as his backpacking brother has done. Originally published at $22.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 08/01/1999. 214 pgs. Set in the western Massachusetts hilltown of Cummington, this poignant debut novel is the story of Philip Shumway, who recalls the summer when he was 13 and his adored, musically talented older brother, Ethan, disappeared, never to be seen again. The tragedy forever alters the family, and the events of that year ultimately inspire Philip to become a writer as he seeks to understand the significance of what happened. Originally published at $13.00 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 03/01/2001. 216 pgs. Mycroft Holmes, acknowledged by all to be a slightly mad genius, was Sherlock's brother. Was he also the uncle of young Damien, the hero of Marcel Theroux's second novel? When Uncle Patrick dies, Damien's discoveries about his uncle lead him to believe that his relative's life contained more than the family knew. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. Originally published at $23.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 09/01/1995. Kiddo, half-American and half-Dutch, goes to live with his father and brother in Amsterdam. His older brother Morton is a genius, an inventor. In Amsterdam, the two brothers grow close--so close, in fact, that when Kiddo loses his virginity, it is in a menage-a-trois with his brother and the girl Pietje. But Morton moves back to the States and discovers he has cancer. Through Pietje (and a letter from his brother), Kiddo comes to realize that he and his brother, rather than loving each other intensely, "hate each other's guts." Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 08/01/1996. 242 pgs. A novel about two brothers: Paul, who works in a used bookshop, and Henry, an auto mechanic. When Paul becomes involved with Judith, a former heroin addict, he encounters a crooked cop, with whom his brother seems to be involved in some criminal activity. Paul's search for the truth tells him things he would rather not know, and he flees--only to return and participate in the novel's violent ending. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 05/01/1996. 234 pgs. Sonia, Lady Dunton, lives her enviable life--great kids, nice dogs, lovable housekeeper, successful career as an artist, decent husband Archie--in the crumbling ancestral home. The only problem is that Archie refuses to cooperate with Sonia's plan to restore the place and is having an affair with a neighbor. Eventually, Sonia herself falls in love--with the head of a restoration organization that supports her plans for the old house. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 09/01/1997. This novel about two brothers and their offbeat B&B establishment won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humor in Canada, where it was a bestseller. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 12/01/1996. 279 pgs. Detective Lou Bek of the Chicago police department receives a midnight call from his schizophrenic brother who mumbles something about "the whistler" and a dead body. In the morning, a corpse is discovered, and Lou must figure out whether his brother was a witness or the killer. Originally published at $22.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 01/01/1998. 296 pgs. New York attorney Michael Ashmore finds himself in hot water when he allows his brother Charlie, a recovering barbiturate addict, to fly a commercial jet loaded with passengers to Washington. The plane goes down in a fiery crash, killing Charlie and all his passengers. As Michael faces criminal charges, his firm turns its back on him and he is left alone to defend himself and his brother's memory. Originally published at $23.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 02/01/1998. 308 pgs. A debut novel of grief and homecoming, set in the backwoods of Ireland. It describes the return of Paul Kelly to his native village of Rathbawn after the mysterious murder of his younger brother. Still in mourning over his wife's recent death in England, Paul sets out to track down his brother's murderers and finds himself increasingly ensnared in a murky plot involving the IRA, organized crime, and his own private demons. Originally published at $23.00 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. 06/01/2001. 277 pgs. In this satire of L.A. of the early 2000s, Perry and Tim Newman, twin brothers, struggle with their problems, which include women, deals, blind ambition, and the inevitable cutthroat competition. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 11/01/2001. 225 pgs. Private detectives Roger and Phil Knight, who are brothers, investigate the theft of priceless rare books from a Minneapolis museum. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 03/01/2001. 309 pgs. In this sleek procedural, DCI Neil Paget investigates the murder of a contractor, James Bolen, who is found dead in a hotel room. At first, the murderer appears to have been a prostitute, but Paget quickly turns his attention to the victim's friends and family, several of whom have credible motives. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 09/01/2001. 244 pgs. Set in the Mexican circus world, this novel tells the tale of a group of two-bit performers who take over an abandoned town as the ideal place to turn their lives around. Originally published at $23.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 02/01/2001. A novel that involves a young man's quest for the cause of his brother's suicide. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 05/01/2002. Teddy's mother dies, his father is a remote and eccentric intellectual, and his younger brother Tommy is no help at all. Then they win $190 million in the lottery, and their sudden wealth forces a shattered family to regroup and reexamine what's really important in their lives. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 11/01/2002. 480 pgs. This epic novel begins in Australia in the 1930s, when Ellie is 14. Her father is killed in a dust storm, and she passes herself off as a boy and takes up with two brothers--gentle and quiet Joe, wild and impetuous Charlie. Ellie eventually makes her way to an aunt, who raises her, but she never loses contact with Joe and Charlie, both of whom serve in World War II--and both of whom have a claim on Ellie. Originally published at $26.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 02/01/2003. Reprint. 192 pgs. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, young Gracian Sofka is forced to work in a coal mine. His only escape is watching the stars at night in dangerous forays to the forest. When Gracian's older brother Pawel gives him a telescope, the boy spies on Pawel's secret meetings with his girlfriend and also with the Polish underground, and eventually is witness to the climactic events that spiral into tragedy. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Workman Pub Co. 05/01/2002. 308 pgs. Gary Solomon left town--Alexander City, Tennessee--10 years ago. When he returns, he finds his father dying, his brother a violent prison escapee, and his abandoned son involved with a profoundly unsavory young girl. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Tor Books. 12/01/1995. Reprint. 566 pgs. The 10th book in Childe Cycle series follows Bleys Ahrens as he battles a government he sees as corrupt and detrimental to the further development of humanity. Originally published at $6.99 You save 86% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 05/01/1996. 383 pgs. A 19th-century sea adventure about the struggle for control of the family shipping business. Originally published at $24.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Tor Books. 07/01/2003. 352 pgs. The swashbuckling Mageworlds series continues. Arekhon sus-Khalgath sus-Peledaen, having abandoned his planet for the tranquility of Entibor, reunites with his old love and sheds his past of the shattered Mage-Circle, the brother who tried to kill him, and settles into a peaceful life. But what he has left behind beckons him back to right what is still wrong. Originally published at $6.99 You save 72% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 02/01/1998. 303 pgs. A historical romance, this sequel to "The Magnificent Savages" spans several continents over several decades in the late 19th century. In 1882 the wealthy and beautiful Julie Savage leaves New York after finding herself shunned by polite society on account of her Chinese ancestry. She sets off for China aboard a boat on which she meet a young Chinese revolutionary who plans to assassinate her friend, the Dowager Empress. Julie's brother Johnny, in the meantime, is exploring the western frontier with the young Teddy Roosevelt, while her father Justin is trying to keep his unfaithful Italian wife with him in New York. Originally published at $23.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 03/01/1998. 301 pgs. Nick Bertolucci (the good cop) is Chicago's superintendent of police, and his brother Aldo (the bad cop) has uncovered some evidence that links Nick to the death of a Black Panther in a questionable raid in 1969. Aldo wastes no time making use of his knowledge, and brings Nick, along with the entire department, under fire. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Tor Books. 01/01/2001. After developing a special camera, a physicist soon finds the invention taken out of his hands by a government determined to use the device to effectively eliminate personal privacy in the name of "security." Before people forget the notion of freedom completely, he desperately tries to adapt the device to allow "sight" into the past, but with an asteroid hurtling towards the planet, it might all be nothing more than an intellectual exercise. Originally published at $7.99 You save 82% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 03/01/2001. 319 pgs. In this, the second volume of Gerrold's young adult series (it is the sequel to JUMPING OFF THE PLANET), the three Dingillian brothers wind up tangling with robots, a sinister monkey, an untrustworthy boyfriend, and an ex-Russian with a whole deck of ulterior motives. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 01/01/1994. Reissue. "Gold had been discovered in California! Gil Austen rode out of San Antonio, bound for the Bandera Range and the vast Box AA ranch he shared with his brother." Originally published at $6.50 You save 85% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 01/01/1999. 403 pgs. Originally published at $6.50 You save 75% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 04/01/1999. Wild child and daughter of the town prostitute, Angel Devlin is no stranger to trouble. When Wallace Daltry, an older man with a heart of gold, saves her life and selflessly offers her his ranch, Angel thinks her problems are over. But when Daltry is mysteriously murdered in his sleep, conflict arrives in the form of Jack Daltry, Wallace's embittered son. Now Angel must battle against Jack's spite--and her growing love for him--on her quest to catch the killer. Originally published at $5.99 You save 75% off the cover price!

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