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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges Staff Pick "The title might give the impression that this book would be at home on Patton's shelf, but a glance at the chapter headings shows the book's true heart and mind: 'The Myth of War,' 'The Plague of Nationalism,' 'The Highjacking and Recovery of Memory... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People by Jonathan Schell Publisher Comments "This book mounts perhaps the most impressive argument ever made that there exists a viable and desirable alternative to the continued reliance on war." -The New York Times At times of global crisis, Jonathan Schell's writings have offered important... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Publisher Comments Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story by Glen Duncan Publisher Comments Glen Duncan has been hailed by the Times Literary Supplement (London) as one of Britain's twenty best young novelists, alongside such writers as Hari Kunzru and Zadie Smith. His new novel, I, Lucifer — shortlisted for the Geoffrey Faber Award —... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Moneyball 1st Edition by Michael Lewis Publisher Comments The Oakland Athletics have a secret: a winning baseball team is made, not bought. A story about money, science, entertainment, egos, "Moneyball" traces the remarkable success of the Oakland Athletics, a major league team with a minor league budget.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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James Dean Died Here: The Locations of America's Pop Culture Landmarks by Chris Epting Publisher Comments Packed with historical information, this travel guide explores the sites where pop culture history was made. With hundreds of photographs, this encyclopedic resource covers approximately 600 sites of the most famous and infamous pop culture events. The... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers From Powells.com After the death of a close friend, Will and Hand, thoroughly American products of the late twentieth century, decide to travel around the world to distribute — as quickly and frenetically as possible — a whole lot of money. As they maniacally... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes Publisher Comments It is 1913. Elsa Pendleton travels from England to Easter Island with her husband, an anthropologist sent by the Royal Geographical Society to study the colossal moai statues, and her younger sister. What begins as familial duty for Elsa becomes a grand... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Dry—the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next. You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ashes by Kenzo Kitakata Publisher Comments Tanaka is a middle-aged yakuza. Once regarded as the heir to his gang's boss, he has fallen out of favor. Now he heads a small sub-branch and is probably stuck there for life. Though he has not given up all hope of becoming the big boss one day, he... (read more) Your price: $22.25 New - Hardcover
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Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood From Powells.com Margaret Atwood's eleventh novel, Oryx and Crake, is one of her most remarkable. Set in a not-too-distant future, many of the experiments with genetics and biotechnology that Atwood describes (think "pigoons," pig-like creatures designed to grow human... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier Publisher Comments Never before published in the United States, this first novel is released by the critically acclaimed author of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "Falling Angels." Readers meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin--two women born centuries apart, yet bound... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Game Time: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell and Steve Kettmann and Richard Ford Staff Pick In the spring of 1962, New Yorker editor William Shawn sent Roger Angell to Florida to write about spring training. Forty-one years later, Angell still covers baseball for the magazine. No one writes as well about the sport. (Few people write as well... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Whore's Child: And Other Stories by Richard Russo Publisher Comments To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins Publisher Comments This poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar, describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more promise than peril, but there was evidence of things unseen that would transfigure... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Scout's Honor: A Father's Unlikely Foray Into the Woods by Peter Applebome Publisher Comments Peter Applebome grew up obsessed by box scores and basketball, and happily assumed his son Ben would follow in his footsteps. But Ben had other ideas. He soon informed his dad that what he really liked was camping and hiking--and when he joined the local... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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My Father's Footprints by Colin Mcenroe Publisher Comments Starting with the death of his father and chronicling backwards, the author examines their relationship in order to understand his dad, not just as a father, but as a man.... (read more) Your price: $35.25 New - Hardcover
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The Water Dancers (Mysteries & Horror) by Terry Gamble Publisher Comments A stunning new voice in literary fiction makes her remarkable debut in a moving, lush, and brilliantly rendered tale of the walls between wealth and poverty, love and duty, and a rich evocation of the years following America's greatest trial and triumph.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.25 Used - Hardcover
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The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done by Sandra Newman Publisher Comments When Chrysalis Moffat and her brother Eddie inherit a mansion on the coast of California, Eddie hatches a plan to fleece credulous Californians of their cash by starting the fraudulent Tibetan School of Miracles. With Ralph as the would-be guru and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Photograph by Penelope Lively Publisher Comments Man Booker Prize–winning novelist Penelope Lively’s latest masterpiece opens with a snapshot: Kath, before her death, at an unknown gathering, holding hands with a man who is not her husband. The photograph is in an envelope marked &ldquo... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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