Margie's Staff Picks

Queen of America (Hardcover)

By Luis Alberto Urrea
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780316154864
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Published: Little, Brown and Company, 12/2011
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Amazing, amazing, amazing. Signed copies will be available upon request. Check out Margie's commentary on our blog at http://justthebookstore.blogspot.com/.

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance (Paperback)

By Edmund de Waal
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780312569372
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Published: Picador, 8/2011
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What a wonderful surprise of a book. It's the true story about one family's art collection through the centuries, from Belle Epoque Paris to the Nazi era in Vienna and beyond. The Hare with Amber Eyes is one of the items in the collection.

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)

By Robert K. Massie
$35.00
ISBN-13: 9780679456728
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Published: Random House, 11/2011
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Catherine's story amazing and readable. Did you know that she wasn't even Russian, she kicked her own husband off the throne, and then had him killed to keep him from stirring up trouble? And then she proceeded to have a long list of lovers and "favorites" throughout her long rule. You go girl.

The Marriage Plot (Hardcover)

By Jeffrey Eugenides
$28.00
ISBN-13: 9780374203054
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 10/2011
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Check out my review on our blog: http://justthebookstore.blogspot.com/

Nightwoods (Hardcover)

By Charles Frazier
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781400067091
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Published: Random House, 10/2011
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Set in the same area as Cold Mountain, but this time it's a really different story set in the 1930's or 40's. It's a creepy gothic tale about a set of traumatized twins who come to live at a deserted old lodge with their young aunt. A real page-turner!

The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures (Hardcover)

By Caroline Preston
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780061966903
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Published: Ecco, 10/2011

The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb (Hardcover)

By Melanie Benjamin
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780385344159
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Published: Delacorte Press, 8/2011
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Another fascinating woman from history by Melanie Benjamin. Signed copies available.

The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation (Hardcover)

By Elizabeth Letts
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780345521088
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Published: Ballantine Books, 8/2011
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I absolutely loved this book. Like Seabiscuit but featuring an underdog jumper and his trainer, an Dutch immigrant with an eye for hidden talent.

Rules of Civility (Hardcover)

By Amor Towles
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780670022694
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Published: Viking Adult, 7/2011
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Love loved loved this book. Very Great Gatsby-ish with a brave, sympathetic heroine.

Maine (Hardcover)

By J. Courtney Sullivan
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780307595126
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Published: Knopf, 6/2011
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Wingshooters (Paperback)

By Nina Revoyr
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9781936070718
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Published: Akashic Books, 3/2011
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (Hardcover)

By David McCullough
$37.50
ISBN-13: 9781416571766
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 10/2011
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To Be Sung Underwater (Hardcover)

By Tom McNeal
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780316127394
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Published: Little, Brown and Company, 6/2011
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)

By Erik Larson
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780307408846
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Published: Crown, 5/2011
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The Fates Will Find Their Way (Hardcover)

By Hannah Pittard
$22.99
ISBN-13: 9780061996054
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Published: Ecco, 2/2011
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Faith (Hardcover)

By Jennifer Haigh
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780060755805
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Published: Harper, 5/2011
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The Tiger's Wife (Hardcover)

By Tea Obreht
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780385343831
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Published: Random House, 3/2011
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A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True (Paperback)

By Brigid Pasulka
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780547336282
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Published: Mariner Books, 5/2010
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A Good Hard Look (Hardcover)

By Ann Napolitano
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9781594202926
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Published: Penguin Press HC, The, 7/2011
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