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Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris Publisher Comments A new holiday classic from the author of the bestselling Naked and Barrel Fever! Holidays On Ice collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice scraper. This... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Moon by Maryam Sachs Book News Annotation A compendium of information, legends, lore, superstition, and other approaches to understanding Earth's natural satellite. Color photographs and reproductions and quotations from literature comprise the core of the treatment, with the text filling in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott From Powells.com In 1998, Alice McDermott's fourth novel, Charming Billy, surprised the literary world by capturing the National Book Award. Few doubted that McDermott deserved the prize and the readership it would deliver — she'd also been nominated for... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter Publisher Comments Douglas Hofstadters book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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College Cooking: Feed Yourself and Your Friends by Megan Carle Publisher Comments You have a midterm tomorrow and a fierce growl in your stomach. Your roommate just nabbed your last cup o' ramen. Do you: (A) Ignore your stomach and brew another pot of coffee? (B) Break out the PB&J? (C) Order pizza—again? (D) Make a quick... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Uncle Shelby's Abz Book by Shel Silverstein Publisher Comments The notorious early Silverstein classic you WON'T want your children to read. I is for Ink Ink is black and wet. Ink is fun. What can you do with ink? What rhymes with ink? "D - R - __ - __ - __ ."... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Top 10 Wines France (Top 10 Wines) by Vincent Gasnier Publisher Comments Both an invaluable resource for travelers in France and a fascinating celebration of the best of French food and wine, this handbook is illustrated with specially commissioned color photography. Includes detailed listings for 3,200 of the best places to... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Flexible
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Puffin Classics) by Lewis Carroll Publisher Comments Alice lives an ordinary life, until the day she follows the White Rabbit down, down, down a rabbit hole. She suddenly finds herself in an enchanted world, surrounded by zany creatures like the Mad Hatter, the Duchess, and the Cheshire Cat. Alice is... (read more) List Price $4.99 Your price: $2.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder by David Quammen Publisher Comments In 1981 David Quammen began what might be every freelance writer's dream: a monthly column for Outside magazine in which he was given free rein to write about anything that interested him in the natural world. His column was called "Natural Acts," and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sunset Western Garden Book 7TH Edition by Sunset From Powells.com The sun is (here and there) peeking out from behind the clouds, the daffodils are bursting out of the hard winter earth, and the days are getting noticeably longer: spring is just around the corner. Which makes this a perfect time for picking up... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche Publisher Comments This acclaimed spiritual masterpiece is widely regarded as one of the most complete and authoritative presentations of the Tibetan Buddhist teachings ever written. A manual for life and death and a magnificent source of sacred inspiration from the heart... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.98 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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Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg Publisher Comments On the last page of the Caldecott-winning book Jumanji, young Danny Budwing is seen running after his brother, Walter, with a game tucked under his arm. Now after twenty years, Chris Van Allsburg is ready to reveal what happens when Danny and Walter roll... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Islam in America by Jane I Smith Publisher Comments Most Americans are only vaguely aware of the Muslim community in the United States and know little about the religion itself, despite Islam's increasing importance in international affairs and the rapid growth in the number of Americans who call... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $12.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Octopus Porcelain Mug by Accoutrements Description Our team of scientists have just recently discovered a new species of cephalopod, the mug-dwelling octopus. This tentacled, porcelain mollusk prefers the cozy confines of a simple coffee mug to the vast depths of the ocean. Each 3-1/4" (8.3 cm) tall... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.97 Sale - Miscellaneous
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