by Richard Reynolds  Part manual, part manifesto, On Guerrilla Gardening gives you everything you need to join the revolution. Drawing on the venerable origins of the movement to reclaim our public land, from victory gardens to New York's Green Guerrillas, the book takes us to sites of illicit cultivation from San Francisco to Singapore, London to Libya. Packed with photos, stories of battles won and lost, and practical advice — such as how to plan an attack, what plants to have in your arsenal, how to evade the authorities, and how to use propaganda effectively — On Guerrilla Gardening is an irresistible invitation to shoulder your shovel and strike out beyond your picket fence. (read more) Your Price $25.99 (New - Hardcover) 
by Junot Diaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a coming of age tale, about a young, nerdy, overweight Dominican-American named Oscar and his plight to conquer a family curse and find love. We are thrilled to have his signed book in our library collection and when asked what he thought of the Heathman Hotel Library, Junot Diaz (who the New Yorker lists as one of the top 20 writers of the 21st century) replied, "The Heathman Library is one of the most unique autonomous libraries that I have heard about". (read more) Your Price $24.95 (New - Hardcover) 
by Jared Diamond Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and a cautionary tale of our increasingly overtaxed resources. Tessa, Powells.com (read more) Your Price $17.00 (New - Trade Paper)
by Jane Austen Jane Austen began writing in her early teens, and filled three notebooks with her fiction. This collection of her earliest work reflects her interest in the novel as a genre and also presents many of her poems, written to console or amuse friends and rarely reprinted. (read more) Your Price $9.95 (New - Trade Paper)
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by EPIC and Privacy International This annual report by EPIC and Privacy International provides an overview of key privacy topics and reviews the state of privacy in over 75 countries around the world. The report outlines legal protections, new challenges, and important issues and events relating to privacy. Privacy and Human Rights 2006 is the most comprehensive report on privacy and data protection ever published. (read more) Your Price $75.00 (New - Trade Paper)
by Katherine Atwell Herbert They say in L.A. everybody is writing a screenplay. With The Perfect Screenplay, everybody everywhere will be writing well-presented, saleable screenplays. Packed with tips from an insider on how Hollywood operates, testing script ideas, building structure, and marketing the final screenplay, this book is the key to getting work read and sold. A resource list gives Web sites, agents, and more. Writers will be thanking the little people — and The Perfect Screenplay. (read more) Your Price $16.95 (New - Trade Paper)
by Roger Angell "[A] selective, meditative, bittersweet collection....Wistful, full of rich details of life in the 1930s and 1940s, and of midcentury times at the magazine....The quality of his prose and the tone of his voice make Angell a pleasure to read even when the material seems dutifully rather than passionately offered. And he remains a delightful raconteur..." Floyd Skloot, The Virginia Quarterly Review (read more) Your Price $17.50 (Sale - Hardcover)
by Rick Moody From Tin House contributing editor Rick Moody comes a sprawling, wildly entertaining satire of LA, revolving around the making of a thirteen-part miniseries about the history of water-seekers. More fun than you can shake a stick at. Tin House magazine (read more) Your Price $25.95 (New - Hardcover)
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