Bleak House
by Charles Dickens


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Part romance, part melodrama, part detective story, the novel spreads out among a web of relationships in every level of society, from the simpleminded Sir Leicester Dedlock to Jo the street sweeper. A savage but often comic indictment of a society that... (read more)

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Sunlight Print Kit
by Paul Grivell


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Sun prints, also known as cyanotypes, are some of the earliest forms of photography, and are exquisitely detailed images created using just three basic ingredients: light-sensitive paper, water, and sunlight. This kit provides everything you need to make... (read more)

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The Modern Drunkard
by Frank Kelly Rich


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Attempting to deconstruct America's joyless obsession with sobriety, The Modern Drunkard offers today's befuddled drinkers a comprehensive and instructive manual on how to drink-and how to do it well. Through articles, anecdotes, cartoons, and... (read more)

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Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney (P.S.)
by Paul M Johnson


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Kingsley Amis described Paul Johnson's Intellectuals as “a valuable and entertaining Rogues' Gallery of Adventures of the Mind.” Now the celebrated journalist and historian offers Creators, a companion volume of essays that examines a host of... (read more)

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The Dud Avocado (New York Review Books Classics)
by Elaine Dundy




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The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy's Sally Jay Gorce who told... (read more)

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Child 44: A Novel
by Tom Rob Smith


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How do you solve an impossible crime? It is a society that is, officially, a haven for its citizens. Superior to the decadent West, Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs: education, health... (read more)

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The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Jack Kerouac


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Two ebullient young men search for truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and "yabyum" in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State.... (read more)

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Oh the Glory of It All
by Sean Wilsey




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Strangely compelling, Sean Wilsey's bare-all memoir about his terribly eccentric family is as disturbing as it is entertaining. You know those moments in life when you think "this can't be happening"? Wilsey's life seems composed entirely of those... (read more)

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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.)
by Peter Hessler


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A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China... (read more)

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Neither Here Nor There:: Travels in Europe
by Bill Bryson


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Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies -- in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. Twenty years later he decided to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth. The result is... (read more)

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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey Signed Limited Edition
by Chuck Palahniuk


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The Rant Limited Edition is specially packaged in a one-piece preprinted case, printed black, with the title created in spot gloss; a 4-color slipcase that matches the original jacket of the trade book; a 1/8" ribbon marker; a signed tip-in sheet... (read more)

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Seasonal Food: How to Enjoy Food at Its Best with More Than 200 Recipes (Cook's Bible)
by Susannah Blake


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Being ecologically smart has never tasted so good! Cooking seasonally makes sense for the environment and the palate: just picked, locally grown food simply has more flavor than vacuum-packed specimens that travel thousands of miles. Find out how to make... (read more)

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Who You Callin' Chicken?
by Thea Feldman


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Why did the chicken cross the road? To get its copy of Who You Callin' Chicken?, of course! Now these are funky chickens! Photographer Stephen Green-Armytage wowed adults with his chicken portraiture in Extraordinary Chickens. Now children will cock-a... (read more)

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McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
by Misha Glenny


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With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No... (read more)

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Napoleon Dynamite: The Complete Quote Book
by Jared Hess


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Pulled from the hit film that made a hero out of a tetherball-loving guy with glasses and stellar dance moves, the words, phrases, and speeches in Napoleon Dynamite: The Complete Quote Book capture the hilarious dialogue that worked its way into the... (read more)

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Creamy Bullets Signed Edition
by Kevin Sampsell


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Kevin Sampsell's largest and most ambitious collection to date, Creamy Bullets, captures the Portland author at the top of his game. Collecting everything from stunning flash fiction to his hilarious and intense longer stories, Sampsell's latest is a... (read more)

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Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
by Bernard Goldberg


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Enough of the leftist lunatics like Rosie O'Donnell who think "Radical Christians" are "as big a threat to America as Radical Muslims." Enough of the hyperbolic liberal rhetoric comparing Bush to Saddam and Mel Gibson to Hitler. Enough of the hyper... (read more)

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Beautiful People with Beautiful Feelings:
by Donny Miller


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Your whole life has been leading up to the point where you are looking at this. "Remember, you can have anything. You just have to think it. Just kidding, life isn't that simple."-Donny Miller Hip, edgy, and irreverently funny, the art of Donny Miller... (read more)

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