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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--Gore's 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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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 $16.00 Your price: $7.98 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 Read Diane McEachern's posts on the Penguin Blog. 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... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $1.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara G Walker Staff Pick "One of my favorite ways of reading is to pull a book off the shelf and open it at random. That's the great thing about reference books like dictionaries or encyclopedias. These books are treasure troves dip in anywhere, let chance take you, lead... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $9.98 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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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for Americas ailing middle class what she did for the working poor. Barbara Ehrenreichs Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in BAIT AND SWITCH, she enters... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Control of Nature by John Mcphee Publisher Comments The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control nature.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tis: A Memoir by Frank Mccourt Publisher Comments Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $1.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen by Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry Publisher Comments In the past few years, organic food has moved out of the patchouli-scented aisles of hippie food co-ops and into three-quarters of conventional grocery stores. Concurrent with this growth has been increased consumer awareness of the social and health... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 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 $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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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: $1.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Knots by Nuruddin Farah Publisher Comments From the internationally revered author of Links comes "a beautiful, hopeful novel about one woman's return to war-ravaged Mogadishu" (Time) Called "one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction" (The New York Review of Books), Nuruddin Farah is... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $1.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Campfire Cuisine: Gourmet Recipes for the Great Outdoors by Robin Donovan Publisher Comments No more hot dogs and baked beans! Finally, a guide for lovers of both good food and the great outdoors. Campfire Cusine is a cookbook for the growing number of hikers, campers, and backpackers who are making healthy, tasty, and satisfying food a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Flexible
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The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen Publisher Comments Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how they make a difference to the environment. Inside The... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.27 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments From one of the world's most renowned scientists, conservationists, and animal rights activists comes a bestselling spiritual autobiography that explores her deepest beliefs about spirituality and moral evolution. NPR sponsorship.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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It's So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families by Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley Publisher Comments "An outstanding book. . . . Meets the needs of those in-between or curious kids who are not ready, developmentally or emotionally, for IT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL." — BOOKLIST (starred review) How does a baby begin? What makes a baby male... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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Making the Perfect Pitch: Advice from 35 Top Book Agents by Katharine Sands Publisher Comments A writer can have the wisdom of Frank McCourt, the imagination of J.K. Rowling, and the economy of Ernest Hemingway - but still needs to be able to pitch, query and propose before he or she can get published. This book will tell you. It offers sage... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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