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Michael
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780143118596
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Published: Penguin Books, 3/2011
This coming-of-age novel is about two misfits--the 'prime numbers' of the title--who struggle to overcome damaged childhoods and find a way to connect with each other. It is a haunting, compelling, beautifully written and translated first novel by an Italian physicist.

$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781400052189
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Published: Broadway, 3/2011
In this little-known but vastly important slice of science history, Skloot opens a door on the world of biological research and finds an incredible story filled with joy and anger and tragedy. It is a book where reader and author make a journey of discover together.

The German Woman (Paperback)

$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780547336060
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Published: Mariner Books, 6/2010
A great World War II novel. Atmospheric, romantic, full of plot twists and mystery. A little bit of The English Patient mixed with Alan Furst. A first rate novel by a hometown boy.

The Ganja Coast (Paperback)

$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781933397290
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Published: Felony & Mayhem, 3/2006
For fans of John Burdett's "Bangkok" mysteries. Paul Mann's George Sansi is a half-English, half-Indian Bombay cop. These gripping noir thrillers teem with the grit of daily life in a nightmare city.

Boone: A Biography (Paperback)

$18.95
ISBN-13: 9781565126152
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 9/2008
This biography reads like a novel - the author is a respected novelist - because Daniel Boone is a larger-than-life character whose adventures and exploits live up to the legend.

$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780060744915
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Published: Harper Perennial, 4/2007
A fun and fascinating slice of history--two of the world's great philosophers--Hume and Rousseau--are thrown together like the odd couple. Highly entertaining.

$16.95
ISBN-13: 9781844672943
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Published: Verso, 9/2008
Mike Davis is a truly amazing writer--this history of "the poor man's Air Force" is filled with some astonishing surprises. The story of the car bomb is complicated and ongoing.

Bangkok Haunts (Paperback)

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ISBN-13: 9781400097067
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Published: Vintage, 6/2008
Third in Burdett's series featuring Thai policeman Sonchai Jitpleecheep--devout Buddhist and first-rate cop. Dark, funny and fast-paced.

Kockroach (Paperback)

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ISBN-13: 9780061143342
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Published: Harper Perennial, 3/2008
In this comical and creepy twist on Kafka, a cockcroach wakes up one morning and finds he's a human. It turns out that cockcroach qualities are perfect for achieving great humnan success.

$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780547085777
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Published: Mariner Books, 3/2009
A lyrical and wonderful novel about the legendary "MAD" scientist Nikola Tesla and a strange collection of lost souls in 1940's New York City.

The Spies of Warsaw (Paperback)

$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780812977370
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 6/2009
There is no writer quite like Alan Furst. His novels are packed with atmosphere and romance, but also history and all the drive and plot twists of a traditional thriller. Furst never disappoints.