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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle Publisher Comments According to Tolle, accessing the deepest self, the true self, can be learned by freeing ourselves from the conflicting, unreasonable demands of the mind and living "present, fully and intensely, in the Now."... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Bark, George by Jules Feiffer Publisher Comments "Bark, George," says George's mother, and George goes: "Meow," which definitely isn't right, because George is a dog. And so is his mother, who repeats, "Bark, George." And George goes, "Quack, quack." What's going on with George? Find out in this... (read more) Your price: $17.99 New - Hardcover
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Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel Publisher Comments Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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River Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America by William Least Heat-Moon Publisher Comments In RIVER-HORSE, the preeminent chronicler of American back roads -- who has given us the classics BLUE HIGHWAYS and PRAIRYERTH -- recounts his singular voyage on American waters from sea to sea. Along the route, he offers a lyrical and ceaselessly... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury (Treasured Gifts for the Holidays) by Jack Prelutsky Publisher Comments Illustrated by brilliant watercolors, a collection of more than 200 poems are featured, written by such modern poets as Ted Hughes, Karla Kiskin, Eve Merriam and Shel Silverstein.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Asian Grocery Store Demystified: A Food Lover's Guide to All the Best Ingredients (Take It with You Guides) by Linda Bladholm Publisher Comments A food lover's guide to all the best ingredients. Do you want to prepare an Asian meal as delectable as those in restaurants? Are you too intimidated by the exotic ingredients to try? And what's inside those mysterious bottles, bags, and boxes in your... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain Publisher Comments This is the summer that Lewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending in Paris with his beautiful mother, Alice, who is translating the latest medieval romance by Valentina Gavrilovich, the bestselling and exotic Russian émigré. This... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris Publisher Comments A new holiday classic from the author of the bestselling Naked and Barrel Fever! Holidays On Ice collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice scraper. This... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $3.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Publisher Comments "Tell your story walking." St. Vincent's Home for Boys, Brooklyn, early 1970s. For Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. The Human Freakshow, a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach, rearrange objects),... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order by Marcelle Karp Publisher Comments Both a literary magazine and a chronicle of girl culture, Bust was born in 1993. With contributors who are funny, fierce, and too smart to be anything but feminist, Bust is the original grrrl zine, with a base of loyal female fans – all those women... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sector 7 by David Wiesner Publisher Comments Only the person who gave us Tuesday could have devised this fantastic tale, which begins with a school trip to the Empire State Building. There a boy makes friends with a mischievous little cloud, who whisks him away to the Cloud Dispatch Center for... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Women 1st Edition by Annie Leibovitz Publisher Comments The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters,... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $32.00 Used - Hardcover
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Fencing the Sky by James Galvin Publisher Comments From critically acclaimed author of The Meadow comes a haunting novel of the American West. Circumstances spiral out of control when an accidental murder springs from the best intentions. With one man dead and another on the run, this is a story about... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire by John N. Maclean Publisher Comments When, on the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded as taking place at South Canyon, it became the first of a series of seemingly small human errors that, three days later, led to the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lanterns by Marian Wrig Edelman Publisher Comments I am grateful beyond words for the example of the lanterns shared in this memoir whose lives I hope will illuminate my children's, your children's, and the paths of countless others coming behind.--Marian Wright Edelman, from the Preface Marian Wright... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $4.48 Used - Hardcover
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Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel by Ana Castillo Publisher Comments Peel My Love Like an Onion is the breakthrough novel from Ana Castillo, author of the wildly praised So Far from God--a lyrical, steamy, and moving story of a love triangle set in the colorful world of flamenco dancing. Carmen "La Coja" ("the cripple... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Plainsong by Kent Haruf Publisher Comments A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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King of Shadows by Susan Cooper Publisher Comments Nat Field's short life has been shadowed by loss and horror. His one escape is his talent for acting, and he has been picked by a dazzling international director to perform at Shakespeare's Globe, London's amazing new copy of the theater for which... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Weslandia by Paul Fleischman Publisher Comments WESLANDIA honors the misfitsand the creatorsamong us. School is over and Wesley needs a summer project. Having learned that every civilization has a staple food crop, he decides to plant a garden and start his owncivilization, that is. He turns over a... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The language of threads by Gail Tsukiyama Publisher Comments Readers of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined young woman whose life is subject to cruel twists of fate, including the loss of her closest... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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