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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore Publisher Comments An Inconvenient Truth—Gores groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance—is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $4.97 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World by Diane Maceachern Publisher Comments Protecting our environment is one of the biggest issues facing our planet today. But how do we solve a problem that can seem overwhelming — even hopeless? As Diane MacEachern argues in Big Green Purse, the best way to fight the industries that... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Little Children by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms of the playground; Sarah, a lapsed feminist with a bisexual past, who seems to have... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Knots by Nuruddin Farah Publisher Comments A new novel from one of the world's great writers-an extraordinary work set in Mogadiscio, Somalia-that both breaks new ground and brings him back to his literary roots. A strong, self-reliant woman who was born in Somalia but brought up in North America,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.25 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 Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings by Rob Brezsny Publisher Comments Human beings are selfish, small-minded, violence-prone savages, civilization is a blight on the earth, and the rising tide of chaos ensures that everything's going to fall apart any day now. Right? Wrong, says Rob Brezsny. In Pronoia is the Antidote to... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Death by Leisure: A Cautionary Tale by Chris Ayres Publisher Comments For Chris Ayres, the young British journalist whose first book, War Reporting for Cowards, was celebrated as gripping (People), blushingly honest (Los Angeles Times), and hysterically funny (CNN), life in Hollywood is no celebrity junket--it's a full... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks by Lyanda Lynn Haupt Publisher Comments Charles Darwin was a bumbling neophyte naturalist when he boarded the Beagle in 1831. Through the five years that followed, as the ship hugged the coastline of South America, Darwin found himself wading through waist-deep mud, climbing towerlike trees... (read more) List Price $33.25 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman Staff Pick Friedman doesn't just have the world's greatest moustache — he's also a sharp writer and keen thinker. The world needs this book — and we can consider ourselves fortunate that someone as clever as Friedman has written it.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Hey Mr. Green: Sierra Magazine's Answer Guy Tackles Your Toughest Green Living Questions by Bob Schildgen Publisher Comments When is the right time to replace an old refrigerator? Is it okay to knit a sweater with acrylic yarn? Is it more environmentally correct to buy beer in bottles or cans? For the last several years, Bob Schildgen’s popular “Hey Mr. Green... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Encounters with the Archdruid by John Mcphee Publisher Comments The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Quentin Tarantino: The Cinema of Cool by Jeff Dawson Publisher Comments At the beginning of 1992, no one had heard of Quentin Tarantino. By mid-1995, Quentinmania was in high gear, and he was being hailed as the hip new Oscar-toting messiah of film making. In this irreverant personal biography and in-depth study, Jeff Dawson... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories by David Sedaris Publisher Comments A bestseller in its own right and a must-have for fans of the #1 bestselling author David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction. David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It by Michael Ableman Publisher Comments Illustrated with evocative color photographs of the land and the people who work it organically, and accompanied by a bountiful selection of recipes, this beautifully written memoir reveals the power of food as a personal and cultural force.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew by Samuel Fromartz Publisher Comments Business writer Fromartz traces organic food back to its anti-industrial origins more than a century ago. Then he follows it forward again, casting a spotlight on the innovators who created an alternative way of producing food that took root and grew... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende Publisher Comments What happens when a graduate of MIT, the bastion of technological advancement, and his bride move to a community so primitive in its technology that even Amish groups consider it antiquated? Eric Brende conceives a real-life experiment: to see if, in... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis by Greg Pahl Publisher Comments National Tour, Radio Satellite Tour, Off-the-Book-Page Coverage, On-line Advertising, Consumer Mail Campaign, Green Living Organization Outreach. $20,000 promotional budget.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger Publisher Comments Current tactics can't solve today's complex global crises. The "bad boys of environmentalism" call for a bold and empowering new vision. Environmental insiders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus triggered a firestorm of controversy with their... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Underworld by Don DeLillo Publisher Comments “DeLillo’s most affecting novel yet...A dazzling, phosphorescent work of art.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “The clearest vision yet of what it felt like to live through that day.” —Malcolm Jones,... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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