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New Arrivals Browse more New Arrivals in Biography $18.50 Used Hardcover add to wish list Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales Clarence Clemons and Don Reo $45.75 New Trade Paper add to wish list Galbert of Bruges and the Historiography of Medieval Flanders Jeff Rider $16.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife Francine Prose $16.00 New Trade Paper add to wish list The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners David Fromkin $35.00 New Hardcover add to wish list Tom and Jack: The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock Henry Adams $20.50 Sale Hardcover add to wish list Lit: A Memoir Mary Karr Browse more New Arrivals in Biography Religious Browse more titles in Biography-Religious I Loved a Girl: A Private Correspondence by Walter Trobisch Publisher Comments The spiritual vision of Trobisch's classic answers to love's questions is reproduced here in a new edition.... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper add to wish list Recently Arrived Used Browse recently arrived used titles in Biography $5.00 Used Hardcover add to wish list Skylark Howard Mansfield Browse recently arrived used titles in Biography 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 Historical Browse more titles in Biography-Historical The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World by Lucette Lagnado Publisher Comments In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list 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: $10.50 Used - 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: $2.24 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list 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 General Browse more titles in Biography-General The Glass Castle: a Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list Ethnic Cultures Browse more titles in Biography-Ethnic Cultures Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas Publisher Comments In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list Sale Books Browse more titles in Biography-Sale Books Hardy Cross: American Engineer by Leonard K Eaton Publisher Comments In this close study of a key figure in the history of technology, Leonard K. Eaton examines Hardy Cross's training, his work, his teaching, and his ideas, demonstrating how his achievements represent a pivotal moment in the history of structural... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $25.00 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list Used Books Browse more titles in Biography-Used Books Paula Deen: It Ain't All about the Cookin' by Paula Deen Publisher Comments Do you know the real Paula Deen? You may think you know the butter-loving, finger-licking, joke-cracking queen of melt-in-your-mouth Southern cuisine. You may have even visited The LadyandSons to taste for yourself the down-home delicacies that made her... 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Bestsellers Tuesday, November 24, 2009 I Loved a Girl: A Private Correspondence by Walter Trobisch Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World by Lucette Lagnado West with the Night by Beryl Markham Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin 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 Hardcover 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 Original Essays | September 26, 2009 Rediscovering Africa through a Boy and His Windmill 0 comments By Bryan Mealer One of the chief pleasures in writing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind with William Kamkwamba was knowing that such an inspiring story was coming from a most unlikely place. With the daily news from Africa so traditionally grim, it's no wonder most people have given up on the place. As one of those reporters who... Continue » $17.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba

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