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Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists by A. V. Club Staff Pick The Onion can do little wrong, in my eyes, and this hilarious collection of pop-culture lists from the writers of the A. V. Club proves it once again. This book is perfect for anyone with a sense of humor who's ingested any pop culture in the last 30... (read more) List Price $20.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth about the "Real" America by Dante Chinni Publisher Comments A provocative counterargument to the blue/red divide that illuminates our country's multidimensional political spectrum. In a climate of culture wars and economic uncertainty, the media have often reduced America to a simplistic schism between red and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism--The New York Times Book Review Americans' working lives are growing more precarious every day. Corporations slash... (read more) Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Chuck Klosterman IV a Decade of Curious People & Dangerous Ideas Uk by Chuck Klosterman Publisher Comments NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SEX, DRUGS, AND COCOA PUFFS CHUCK KLOSTERMAN IV CONSISTS OF THREE PARTS: THINGS THAT ARE TRUE Profiles and trend stories: Britney Spears, Radiohead, Billy Joel, Metallica, Val Kilmer, Bono, Wilco, the White Stripes... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias by Andrew D Blechman Synopsis Blechman delves into life in a gated retirement community and offers a hilarious, first-hand report on all its peculiarities. He also takes a serious look at the consequences of such instant cities and examines the implications of millions of Americans... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government by Glenn Beck Publisher Comments FUNNY. FRIGHTENING. TRUE. The #1 New York Times bestseller that gives you the right answers when idiots leave you speechless! It happens to all of us: Youre minding your own business, when some idiot* informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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United States of Americana: Backyard Chickens, Burlesque Beauties, and Handmade Bitters: A Field Guide to the New American Roots Movement by Kurt B. Reighley Staff Pick If you make your own bitters, dream of owning some chickens, and know what it means to "put up" food, odds are you'll fall in love with Kurt B. Reighley's field guide to the new American roots movement. Covering music, fashion, grooming (welcome back... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Business of Holidays by Maud Lavin Publisher Comments Holiday celebrations in the United States are a major force driving the nation's approximately $3 trillion retail economy. The commercial culture of holidays extends from the traditional -- decorations, costumes, and cards -- to the immaterial and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman Staff Pick Klosterman understands your life. Intimately. Through this seemingly meandering and always hilarious critique of modern pop culture, he exposes how unlikely cultural minutiae make our society tick and dictate how we live our lives.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader by Tom Hayden Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. Essays. "His journey is our journey through the tumultuous and disillusioning decades. He is our Everyman, he is us"--Seattle Post-Intelligencer. From his earliest days as a Freedom Rider and leader of Students for a Democratic Society,... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers by Andrea Tone Publisher Comments Anxious Americans have increasingly pursued peace of mind through pills and prescriptions. In 2006, the National Institute of Mental Health estimated that 40 million adult Americans suffer from an anxiety disorder in any given year: more than double the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf Staff Pick 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) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life by Robert Goolrick Publisher Comments It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemed possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal. For one little boy, however, life had become anything but "normal." To... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $15.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman Publisher Comments Q: What is this book about? A: Well, thats difficult to say. I havent read it yet—Ive just picked it up and casually glanced at the back cover. There clearly isnt a plot. Ive heard theres a lot of stuff about time travel in this book, and quite... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen by Susan Griffin Publisher Comments What does is it mean to be a citizen of the United States? Susan Griffins provocative investigation of that question takes us from the Declaration of Independence to the Iraq War, with many stops in between. Her conclusion: democracy is nothing less than... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges Publisher Comments The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Americas black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments Take the Cannoli is a moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense landscape of the American scene. Vowell tackles subjects such as identity, politics, religion, art, and history with a biting humor. She... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments In this New York Times bestseller, the author of Assassination Vacation brings the [Puritan] era wickedly to life (Washington Post). To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Sarah Vowell investigates what that means — and what it... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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