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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics) by Pema Chodron Publisher Comments A stirring call to move beyond religion for the guidance to improve human life on individual, community, and global levelsincluding a guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values Ten years ago, in his best-sellingEthics for a New... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Pastoralia by George Saunders From Powells.com In an era that boasts Jerry Springer, Tammy Faye Baker, and "Survivor Africa," it's difficult to make it as a satirist. Any effort to exaggerate the world's ridiculous contractions — the satirist's stock in trade — falls flat... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Staff Pick The story of two young comic book artists in 1940s New York City, Jewish boys, one of whom fled the German steamroller heading toward his home in Czechoslovakia in a coffin, Chabon's third and best novel is utterly original, a generous fictional addition... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Good Owners, Great Dogs by Brian Kilcommons Publisher Comments A Training Manual for Humans and their Canine Companions. With two new chapters on Puppy Training and Dominance Aggression. Instead of going out of your mind, get into his. The only American to study and work with the renowned Barbara Woodhouse... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Hours by Michael Cunningham Publisher Comments A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin Publisher Comments No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh From Powells.com In the past decade writers such as A. L. Kennedy, Iain Banks, Alan Warner, Michel Faber, and Ian Rankin have made Scotland one of the most talked about literary communities in the world. No writer, though, has been more central to this "... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks Publisher Comments It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Battle For God by Karen Armstrong From Powells.com "In The Battle for God, Armstrong brilliantly traces the struggle between the burgeoning Western secularism and the religious fundamentalism that has dogged its heels for the past five hundred years, culminating in that greatest of all fundamentalist... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra Publisher Comments After a quarter of a century in print, Capra's groundbreaking work still challenges and inspires. This updated edition of The Tao of Physics includes a new preface and afterword in which the author reviews the developments of the twenty-five years since... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Staff Pick The narrator, Lionel Essrog, known as The Human Freakshow, suffers with Tourette's syndrome and though you might not want to know him in real life, he's got to be one of the most brilliant characters ever created. His quirky rants put me off at first... (read more) Your price: $15.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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