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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Staff Pick If your only experience with Catch-22 was reading it for a class in high school — or if you haven't even read it at all — you owe it to yourself to revisit this book. It's a comic masterpiece, yes, but more than that: Catch-22 is a blast of anarchic... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Thinking in Pictures : Making of Matewan (87 Edition) by John Sayles Staff Pick Before you even begin to write your screenplay you need to know how to visualize it. Thinking in Pictures is more than just John Sayles's account of what it took to make his intellectually satisfying film Matewan — it is also a primer for the would-be... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy : An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Corporate Cons, Globalization, and High-Finance Fraudsters by Greg Palast Publisher Comments Investigative journalist Greg Palast has uncovered scandal, fraud, corruption, and lies in the highest seats of power — from the White House to corporate America. Known in Britain as "the greatest investigative reporter of our time" (Tribune... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Silver City and Other Screenplays by John Sayles Publisher Comments Filmmaker legend John Sayles has been called the "conscience of the independent film world" and the screenwriter's screenwriter. Silver City and Other Screenplays is a collection of his greatest work, including Sunshine State, the Oscar-nominated Passion... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken Publisher Comments Al Franken, one of our "savviest satirists" (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of "slander," "bias," and even "treason." He has examined the Bush administration's policies of squandering our surplus... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore Publisher Comments The government has been seized by a ne'er-do-well rich boy and his elderly henchmen . . . Our great economic expansion is unraveling faster than a set of Firestones . . . Our water is poisoned, the ozone's in shreds, and the SUVs are advancing like a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich -- And Cheat Everybody Else by David Cay Johnston Publisher Comments A bestselling author's shocking analysis of the many ways everyday people are systemically victimized by powerful corporations. David Cay Johnston has made a name for himself as the defender of the common man, calling out the rich and powerful for... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore Publisher Comments When the powers-that-be succeeded in ignoring and then silencing the nation's widespread dissent over war, one man stood on an Oscar stage and, in front of a billion people, outed the commander in chief for his fictitious presidency and his fictitious... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dillinger in Hollywood: New and Selected Short Stories by John Sayles Publisher Comments Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and celebrated independent filmmaker, he was a National Book Award-nominated writer of fiction. Now John Sayles has written his first short story collection in twenty-five years. The keynote... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Buying of the President 2004: Who's Really Bankrolling Bush and His Democratic Challengers -- and What They Expect in Return by Charles Lewis Staff Pick In a refreshingly non-partisan style, Lewis examines the financial entanglements that mire the political process. You'll be shocked at how little your vote may count. This book is like having a smoke-filled room in the palm of your hand.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Thirteen Albatrosses: Or, Falling Off the Mountain by Donald Harington Publisher Comments Welcome to the strange, quixotic quest of Vernon Ingledew: to win the governorship of Arkansas. Ingledew, a self-taught genius, is soon hampered by what his opponents refer to as his "Thirteen Albatrosses." Among them: he is an atheist; lives in sin with... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips Publisher Comments The contrarian historian and analyst upends the conventional reading of the American Revolution In 1775, iconoclastic historian and bestselling author Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker Publisher Comments From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most audacious novel yet. Meet Jay. Meet Ben. Jay has summoned his old friend Ben to a hotel room not far from the nation's capitol. During the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sayles on Sayles by John Sayles Publisher Comments John Sayles is a filmmaker of many faces: the writer/director of authentically independent films rooted in good talk, character study and social reflection (The Return of the Secaucus Seven, Baby, It's You, Brother from Another Planet, Matewan, and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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