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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee Publisher Comments 18 Academy Awards...107 Emmy Awards...19 Writers Guild of America Awards...16 Directors Guild of America Awards...Plus, hundreds of nominations... For the first time in book form, Robert McKee's Story reveals the award-winning methods of the man... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orleans wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. From Floridas swamps to its courtrooms, the New Yorker writer follows one... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz Publisher Comments When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Adaptation: The Shooting Script by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman Staff Pick I don't even know how to begin writing anything in relation to the work of Charlie Kaufman. Is he really the most original voice working in Hollywood — or, just an escaped mental patient who has gone undetected amidst the denizens of LA? In either... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Magnolia : Shooting Script (00 Edition) by Paul Thomas Anderson Publisher Comments The only companion book to the much-anticipated follow-up to Paul Thomas Anderson's critically hailed Boogie Nights that "leaves you no doubt you are in the presence of a natural-born filmmaker."—David Ansen, Newsweek. The much-heralded writer... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused by Mike Dash Publisher Comments In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn't help but notice that thousands of normally sober, hardworking Dutch citizens from every walk of life were caught up in an extraordinary frenzy of buying and selling. The... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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About a Boy: The Shooting Script by Peter Hedges and Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz Publisher Comments New in the acclaimed series—the new film starring Hugh Grant and Toni Collette, adapted from the acclaimed novel by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity). Coming from Universal Pictures in April 2002, produced by Tribeca Productions and Working Title Films... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Punch-Drunk Love: The Shooting Script by Paul Thomas Anderson Publisher Comments Writer/director Anderson follows up his acclaimed Academy Award-nominated Magnolia with Punch-Drunk Love, winner of the Best Director Award in the 2002 Cannes Film Festival—a film starring Adam Sandler and Emily Watson. 25 photos.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Orchid Fever by Eric Hansen Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of Motoring with Mohammed brings us a compelling adventure into the remarkable world of the orchid and the impossibly bizarre array of international characters who dedicte their lives to it. The orchid is used for everything from... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup by Susan Orlean Publisher Comments Now in paperback comes the wonderfully entertaining, bestselling collection of the "New Yorker" writer's brightest profiles. "A voyeur's delight: expertly framed windows into the cosmology of the human experience . . . (these profiles) reintroduce... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shawshank Redemption (96 Edition) by Frank Darabont Publisher Comments Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay, The Shawshank Redemption, starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, is an extraordinary tale of hope and survival inside a maximum security prison. Based on a Stephen King novella,... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert Publisher Comments In The Last American Man, acclaimed journalist and fiction writer Elizabeth Gilbert offers a fresh cultural examination of contemporary American male identity and the uniquely American desire to return to the wilderness. Gilbert explores what pushed men... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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magnolia (Newmarket Shooting Script) by Paul Thoma Anderson Publisher Comments The complete Oscar "RM" -nominated screenplay by the writer/director of Boogie Nights, featuring an exclusive introduction by Anderson, and never-before-published interview in which he discusses the themes and relationships explored in Magnolia, plus a... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players by Stefan Fatsis Publisher Comments In 2001, Stefan Fatsis introduced readers to the underground world of competitive SCRABBLE, and the colorful characters for whom the game is life. Now, in a brand new preface and afterword, the author returns to this fascinating and diverse subculture... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Being John Malkovich (Faber and Faber Screenplays) by Charlie Kaufman Staff Pick I don't even know how to begin writing anything in relation to the work of Charlie Kaufman. Is he really the most original voice working in Hollywood — or, just an escaped mental patient who has gone undetected amidst the denizens of LA? In either case... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson Publisher Comments AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY THROUGH THE WORLD OF FRINGE-DWELLERS Islamic fundamentalists, Ku Klux Klansmen, Christian separatists, and certain members of British Parliament would seem to have very little in common, but they do in fact share one crucial... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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