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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (P.S.) by Robert M. Pirsig Publisher Comments One of the most influential and provocative books of its generation, "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" continues to attract and inspire readers of all ages with its intriguing blend of ancient and Eastern philosophy, cultural criticism, and... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (P.S.) by Arthur Herman Publisher Comments To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Changed Man (P.S.) by Francine Prose Publisher Comments What is charismatic Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow to think when a rough-looking young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of Maslow's human rights foundation and declares that he wants to "save guys like me from becoming guys... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Zorro: A Novel by Isabel Allende Publisher Comments A child of two worlds the son of an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner and a Shoshone warrior woman young Diego de la Vega cannot silently bear the brutal injustices visited upon the helpless in late-eighteenth-century... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Electric Michelangelo (P.S.) by Sarah Hall Publisher Comments Cy Parks is the Electric Michelangelo, an artist of extraordinary gifts whose medium happens to be the pliant, shifting canvas of the human body. Fleeing his mother's legacy a consumptives' hotel in a fading English seaside resort Cy... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Art of Loving (P.S.) by Erich Fromm Publisher Comments Most people are unable to love on the only level that truly matters: love that is compounded of maturity, self-knowledge, and courage. As with every art, love demands practice and concentration, as well as genuine insight and understanding. In his... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Good Family (P.S.) by Terry Gamble Publisher Comments Drawing from her own experiences as a descendant of one of America's industrial families, Gamble wields an insider's observation with Wharton-esque charm to create a compassionate, funny, often heartbreaking portrait of a woman's search for home.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Master Butchers Singing Club (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Confusion (Baroque Cycle #02) (P.S.) by Neal Stephenson Publisher Comments In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Beet Queen (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt Fritzie and her husband, Pete; ordinary Mary, who will cause a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The System of the World: #03 Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson Staff Pick The concluding volume of the Baroque Cycle mixes swashbuckling adventure, historical romance, mathematics, and Isaac Newton into a frothy brew that's truly irresistible.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness (P.S.) by Paulo Coelho Publisher Comments By bestselling author and international sensation Paulo Coelho, a poetic and transcendent story that reflects the mysteries of love and life. Rarely does an adolescent love reach its full potential. What happens when, after eleven years, two lovers come... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (P.S.) by Michael Chabon Staff Pick Pulitzer Prize-winner Chabon's first novel (written for his master's thesis at UC Irvine) was published when he was twenty-five, and quickly became a bestseller. Set in the steel ciy, this hilarious coming-of-age story tells the tale of Art Bechstein's... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.) by Peter Hessler Publisher Comments In the tradition of "Iron & Silk" comes a powerful memoir about a young American teacher in the Peace Corps living in the small Chinese city of Fuling as it navigates increasing waves of cultural and social upheaval. Maps.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ahab's Wife (P.S.) by Sena Jeter Naslund Publisher Comments "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature along with "Call me Ishmael." Sena Jeter Naslund has created an entirely new universe with a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar (P.S.) by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wasted (P.S.) by Marya Hornbacher Publisher Comments Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Through five lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means to be "normal," Marya Hornbacher... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (P.S.) by John Kelly Publisher Comments La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hip: The History (P.S.) by John Leland Publisher Comments Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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