Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb
by Nick Schou


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Kill the Messenger tells the story of the tragic death of Gary Webb, the controversial newspaper reporter who committed suicide in December 2004. Webb is the former San Jose Mercury News reporter whose 1996 "Dark Alliance" series on the so-called CIA... (read more)

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Official Scrabble Players Dictionary 4TH Edition
by Merriam Webster


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New edition! The book that millions of SCRABBLE? players consider the only necessary resource. Ideal for recreational and school use. More than 100,000 playable two- to eight-letter words including 4,000 new entries. Includes British variant spellings... (read more)

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Black Hole
by Charles Burns




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Winner of the comics industry's trifecta -- the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards -- Black Hole is a riveting, nightmarish, sometimes ghoulishly funny allegory for the horror of adolescence and our collective terror of sexuality and our own bodies... (read more)

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The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
by Naomi Wolf




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The End of America should be required reading for every American. Rather than giving us a partisan 600-page tome on the crimes of the Bush administration, Naomi Wolf lays out clearly and concisely how we as a people have allowed our government to move... (read more)

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Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America
by Lisa Gray-garcia


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Eleven-year-old Lisa becomes her mother's primary support when they face the prospect of homelessness. As Dee, a single mother, struggles with the demons of her own childhood of neglect and abuse, Lisa has to quickly assume the role of an adult in an... (read more)

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The Monsters of Templeton
by Lauren Groff




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Read it in hardcover. Honest. You're surfing the website of an independent bookseller in Portland, Oregon -- undoubtedly, you care about books, and likely you appreciate discovering the best ones before the masses catch on. Do yourself the favor of... (read more)

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Urban Dictonary: Fularious Street Slang Defined
by Aaron Peckham


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Urbandictionary.com is a wildly successful site that encourages users to define the world with their own unique terms. In Urban Dictionary, site founder Aaron Peckham culls his more than 170,000 definitions for the funniest, wittiest, and most... (read more)

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X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
by Jeff Gordinier




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I was very skeptical about this book when I first picked it up — and became even more so when Gordinier predicted my exact reaction. But X Saves the World is impossible to resist: a well-written, extremely funny, and, I have to say, unnervingly... (read more)

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