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Snow White by Brothers Grimm and Camille Rose Garcia Publisher Comments "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who's the fairest one of all?" Originating in seventeenth-century French folklore, the story of Snow White has long been one of the world's most memorable childhood tales. It is the story of an evil queen determined to do... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Hardcover 
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden Publisher Comments A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Enlightened Cyclist: Commuter Angst, Dangerous Drivers, and Other Obstacles on the Path to Two-Wheeled Trancendence by BikeSnobNYC Publisher Comments The joys of commuting by bike attract scores of new converts every year. But as fresh-faced cyclists fill the roads, they also encounter their share of frustrations: careless drivers, wide-flung car doors, zoned-out pedestrians, and aggressive fellow... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Hardcover
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The Cove by Ron Rash Publisher Comments Here is a magnificent tale that captures the wondrous beauty of nature and love — and the darkness of superstition and fear — from one of America's most exciting contemporary novelists. With The Cove, Ron Rash, author of the acclaimed New... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hot Pink Signed Edition by Adam Levin Synopsis Adam Levin's debut novel The Instructions was one of the most buzzed about books of 2010, a sprawling universe of "death-defying sentences, manic wit, exciting provocations and simple human warmth" (Rolling Stone). Now, in the stories of Hot Pink, Levin... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Hardcover
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A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez Publisher Comments Julia Alvarez has been called "a one-woman cultural collision" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and that has never been truer than in this story about three of her most personal relationships — with her parents, with her husband, and with a... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sometimes a Great Movie Signed Edition by Matt Love Publisher Comments In June 1970, the biggest movie star in the world traveled to the Oregon Coast to film an epic novel about a defiant family of loggers written by a home grown counterculture hero. The star was Paul Newman. The author was Ken Kesey. The story was... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Trade Paper
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By Blood by Ellen Ullman Publisher Comments The award-winning writer returns with a major, absorbing, atmospheric novel that takes on the most dramatic and profoundly personal subject matter San Francisco in the 1970s. Free love has given way to radical feminism, psychedelic ecstasy to hard... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Threats by Amelia Gray Publisher Comments Davids wife is dead. At least, he thinks shes dead. But he can't figure out what killed her or why she had to die, and his efforts to sort out whats happened have been interrupted by his discovery of a series of elaborate and escalating threats hidden... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J Sandel Publisher Comments Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers--And the Coming Cashless Society by David Wolman Publisher Comments For ages, money has meant little metal disks and rectangular slips of paper. Yet the usefulness of physical money—to say nothing of its value—is coming under fire as never before. Intrigued by the distinct possibility that cash will soon... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Unterzakhn by Leela Corman Publisher Comments A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths. For six-year-old Esther... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe (P.S.) by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Publisher Comments Kamila Sidiqi's life changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan. After her father and brother were forced to flee, she became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Banned from school, confined to her home, and armed only with... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ellington Century by David Schiff Publisher Comments Breaking down walls between genres that are usually discussed separately--classical, jazz, and popular--this highly engaging book offers a compelling new integrated view of twentieth-century music. Placing Duke Ellington (1899-1974) at the center of the... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Natural Woman: A Memoir by Carole King Publisher Comments A memoir by the iconic singer-songwriter chronicling her story from her beginnings in Brooklyn through her remarkable success as one of the world's most acclaimed musical talents, to her present day as a leading performer and activist. From her marriage... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Rain Dragon by Jon Raymond Publisher Comments Damon and his girlfriend Amy have had enough of Los Angeles. Fitful and tired and dreaming of a simpler life, they leave the city to go work on a community farm. But they've scarcely arrived when their vague hopes start to come unraveled: What are they... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper
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DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America by Bryan Sykes Publisher Comments The best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve now turns his sights on the United States, one of the most genetically variegated countries in the world. From the blue-blooded pockets of old-WASP New England to the vast tribal lands of the Navajo... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Build It Together to Win by Ralph Nader Publisher Comments The most powerful political force on the planet is the P.O. Factor: people getting so pissed off that they decide to do something about it. In this engaging book, Ralph Nader—long the F-5 tornado of effective pissed-offness—rallies all of us to... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Games Primates Play: An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships by Dario Maestripieri Publisher Comments Most humans don't realize that when they exchange emails with someone, anyone, they are actually exhibiting certain unspoken rules about dominance and hierarchy. The same rules regulate the exchange of grooming behavior in rhesus macaques or chimpanzees.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow Publisher Comments Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard's Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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