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New Arrivals Browse more New Arrivals in Biography $40.00 New Hardcover add to wish list The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith Joan Schenkar $30.00 New Hardcover add to wish list A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent Robert W. Merry $25.99 New Hardcover add to wish list Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed Robert Sellers $26.99 New Hardcover add to wish list Last Words George Carlin $28.95 New Hardcover add to wish list Open: An Autobiography Andre Agassi $17.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich Daniel Ammann Browse more New Arrivals in Biography Military Browse more titles in Biography-Military Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer Staff Pick Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild knows he was born to write about quirky, iconoclastic characters who travel their own road, ultimately leading to a tragic demise. Where Men Win Glory is every bit as captivating and even more timely than... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.56 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list Recently Arrived Used Browse recently arrived used titles in Biography $14.50 Used Hardcover add to wish list Appetite for life :the biography of Julia Child Noel Riley Fitch Browse recently arrived used titles in Biography Humanitarians Browse more titles in Biography-Humanitarians Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Publisher Comments In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list Political Browse more titles in Biography-Political Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin Publisher Comments One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is. On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin delivered a speech at the... (read more) Your price: $28.99 New - Hardcover add to wish list General Browse more titles in Biography-General Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Tracy Kidder's incredibly moving and vivid new book follows and accompanies Deo, a survivor of the genocide in Burundi, through his remarkable journey to America and back home again. Kidder makes the abstract achingly personal and showcases a genuine... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.20 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list Medical Browse more titles in Biography-Medical Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list Women Browse more titles in Biography-Women West with the Night by Beryl Markham Publisher Comments "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night? I knew her fairly well in Africa and never would have suspected that she could and would put pen to paper except to write in her flyer's log book. As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list Historical Browse more titles in Biography-Historical The Night Trilogy: Night/Dawn/Day by Elie Wiesel Publisher Comments Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1960, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel writes of their battle for survival, and of his battle with God for a way... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list Cooking Browse more titles in Biography-Cooking My Life in France by Julia Child Synopsis Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of good cooking with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn't know the first thing... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.00 Used - Mass Market add to wish list Sale Books Browse more titles in Biography-Sale Books Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles (Eminent Lives) by Francine Prose Publisher Comments Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed—street boys... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list Used Books Browse more titles in Biography-Used Books The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen by P Publisher Comments From the moment of its publication, The Apprentice established itself as an “instant classic” (Anthony Bourdain). With sparkling wit and occasional pathos, the man whom Julia Child has called “the best chef in America” tells the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list

Bestsellers Friday, December 11, 2009 Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder West with the Night by Beryl Markham Interviews | December 1, 2009 A Meaty Tale: The Powells.com Interview with Julie Powell 0 comments By Megan Julie Powell charmed readers with Julie and Julia, in which she chronicled her quest to cook, in one year, every recipe out of Julia Child's... Continue » $10.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously Julie Powell Interviews | November 3, 2009 On Storytelling: The Powells.com Interview with Donald Miller 2 comments By Sheila A. Donald Miller is a Christian writer, but the question that Miller asks with his latest memoir, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, is applicable to... Continue » $13.99 Sale Hardcover add to wish list A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life Donald Miller Guests | October 28, 2009 Top Five Worst Dates 8 comments By Elna Baker Hi friends, I just got home from a bad date. And while it's always reassuring to consult books like The Big Book of Bad Dates, by Jo Renfro, or my... Continue » $18.16 Sale Hardcover add to wish list The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance Elna Baker Guests | October 27, 2009 Sylvia Plath's Advice from Beyond the Grave 0 comments By Elna Baker First off, thank you for the costume suggestions. They were all marvelous. I'm leaning towards the clever-yet-sexy Freudian slip. On the other hand,... Continue » $9.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list The Story of a Marriage Andrew Sean Greer Guests | October 26, 2009 The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance 10 comments By Elna Baker Hello readers, My name is Elna Baker and I will be your guest blogger for the next week. Whazzzup? For those of you unfamiliar with my work, or me... Continue » $18.16 Sale Hardcover add to wish list The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance Elna Baker

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