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The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.)
The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.)
by Edward Abbey
Staff Pick
He's often compared to Thoreau, and one of his mottos was taken from Emerson: "resist much, obey little." While Abbey has much in common with the forefathers of environmental conservation, he certainly took it a few giant steps further. Abbey and his... (read more)

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Bigfoot: I Not Dead
Bigfoot: I Not Dead
by Graham Roumieu
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In my many years of gallivanting through the forest with my dear friend Sasquatch, we've often discussed fictional portrayals of him in books and on film. Somehow, these depictions always miss the essential bigfootiness of my huge, hairy companion. But... (read more)

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Tales of the City, P. S. Edition (07 Edition)
Tales of the City, P. S. Edition (07 Edition)
by Armistead Maupin
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For more than three decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture—from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first... (read more)

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Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.)
Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.)
by Pete Jordan
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Dishwasher is Pete Jordan's amusing memoir of his itinerant dishwashing extravaganza. For 12 years, I was the most prolific dishlicker of them all. From 1989 - 2001, I dished my way around the country, unwittingly searching for direction. From a bagel... (read more)

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I Love You, Beth Cooper (P.S.)
I Love You, Beth Cooper (P.S.)
by Larry Doyle
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In the tradition ofPersepolisandAmerican Born Chinese, a wise and funny high school heroine comes of age.Tina M., sophomore, is a wry and endearing observer of the cliques and mores of Yarborough Academy. (andldquo;The name makes it sound fancier than... (read more)

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Grab on to Me Tightly as If I Knew the Way (P.S.)
Grab on to Me Tightly as If I Knew the Way (P.S.)
by Bryan Charles
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A wise, bighearted, and hilarious look at one teenager's life by a remarkable new voice in contemporary fiction. It's 1992, and as Vim Sweeney deals with the recent end of his high school career and the uncertainty of his future, America shares his... (read more)

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Lapham Rising (P.S.)
Lapham Rising (P.S.)
by Roger Rosenblatt
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Harry March is something of a wreck and more than half nuts. Up until now, he has lived peacefully on an island in the Hamptons with his talking dog, Hector, a born-again Evangelical and unapologetic capitalist. But March’s life starts to... (read more)

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Leave the Building Quickly: True Stories (P.S.)
Leave the Building Quickly: True Stories (P.S.)
by Cynthia Kaplan
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Cynthia Kaplan, acclaimed author of Why I'm Like This, once again casts her gimlet eye upon the current state of her affairs. Also of your affairs, and some other people's affairs as well. Journey with her as she humiliates herself in a variety of... (read more)

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Colors Insulting to Nature
Colors Insulting to Nature
by Cintra Wilson
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Look deep into your heart, Gentle Reader. Deep, deep, deep; past your desire for true love, for inexhaustible riches or uncontested sexual championship, for the ability to fight crime and restore peace to a weary world. Underneath all this, if you are a... (read more)

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Why I'm Like This: True Stories (P.S.)
Why I'm Like This: True Stories (P.S.)
by Cynthia Kaplan
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Cynthia Kaplan takes us on a hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking journey through her unique, uncensored world—her bungled romantic encounters and unsung theatrical experiences; her gadget-obsessed father, her pill-popping therapist, and her... (read more)

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Candy Everybody Wants (P.S.)
Candy Everybody Wants (P.S.)
by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
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From the critically acclaimed author of I Am Not Myself These Days comes the very odd adventures of a starry-eyed young man from the Midwest seeking fame and fortune in the flamboyant surreality of New York, Los Angeles...and everywhere in between... (read more)

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The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters (P.S.)
The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters (P.S.)
by Chip Kidd
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How can you not enjoy a book whose narrator declares on the second page, "Majoring in Art at the state university appealed to me because I have always hated Art, and I had a hunch if any school would treat the subject with the proper disdain, it would be... (read more)

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