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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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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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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 Awakening of Intelligence by Jiddu Krishnamurti Publisher Comments Chapter OneThe Role of the Teacher"Conversation between J. Krishnamurti and Professor J. NeedlemanNeedleman: * There is much talk of a spiritual revolution among young people, particularly here in California. Do you see in this very mixed phenomenon any... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 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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Manhattan Unfurled by Matteo Pericoli and Paul Goldberger Publisher Comments Matteo Pericoli trained as an architect in Milan and then came to work in New York in 1995. His arrival preceded by just a few days the arrival of the biggest snowstorm of the decade, and the sense of the city in its wake–especially its silence... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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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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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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The Mysteries of Harris Burdick: Portfolio by Chris Van Allsburg Publisher Comments Since its publication in 1984, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick has stimulated the minds of readers of all ages and backgrounds. Now the original fourteen drawings are available in a large portfolio edition of loose sheets. In addition, a newly discovered... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Portfolio
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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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