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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown Publisher Comments For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics. Daniel James Brown’s robust book tells the story of the University of Washington... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Hardcover
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments Fire, water, air, earth — our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education. In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From the Sopranos and the Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad by Brett Martin Publisher Comments A riveting and revealing look at the shows that helped cable television drama emerge as the signature art form of the twenty-first century. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the landscape of television began an unprecedented transformation... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw Publisher Comments Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. In Cat Sense, renowned... (read more) Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson and James Harkin Publisher Comments Did you know? • Cows moo in regional accents. • The international dialing code for Russia is 007. • The water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than its body. • Pants are responsible for twice as many accidents as chain saws. • Saddam... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Hardcover
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The Importance of Being Ernest by Ernest Cline Publisher Comments The New York Times best selling author of Ready Player One returns to his roots in this poetic celebration of all things nerd-core. Cline's latest collection takes readers into a private landscape of science fiction, pop culture, and 80′s nostalgia.... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein Publisher Comments In high school, I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny island. In college, I ran against Kenyans, and wondered whether endurance genes might have traveled with... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It by David M. Ewalt Publisher Comments HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS. Ancient red dragons with 527 hit points, +44 to attack, and a 20d10 breath weapon, to be specific. In the world of fantasy role-playing, those numbers describe a winged serpent with immense strength and the ability to spit fire... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.20 Sale - Hardcover
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Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps by Kelly Williams Brown PW Review "A young journo mines a brief life and years of advice from friends and professionals counselors, social workers, her car mechanic Shane in order to create this how-to guide to becoming (or simply being) a 'grown-up.' The 468 steps are more... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston Publisher Comments A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography. Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger (... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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Signifying Rappers by David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello Publisher Comments Finally back in print — David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture. Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Big Appetites: Tiny People in a World of Big Food by Christopher Boffoli Publisher Comments Welcome to a world where little people have big personalities. A world that's upside down and yet weirdly, wonderfully real. A world where Lilliputian thieves poach strawberry seeds. Where it takes a guy with a jackhammer to pop open pistachios. Where... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How Music Works by David Byrne Publisher Comments How Music Works is David Byrne's buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and myriad collaborators along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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A Thousand Mornings: Poems by Mary Oliver Publisher Comments The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her lifes work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of "Unadoptables" Taught Me about Service, Hope, and Healing by Susannah Charleson Publisher Comments An inspiring story that shows how dogs can be rescued, and can rescue in return. With her critically acclaimed, bestselling first book, Scent of the Missing, Susannah Charleson was widely praised for her unique insight into the kinship between humans and... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile by Nate Jackson Publisher Comments One man's odyssey into the brutal hive of the national football league This is not a celebrity tell-all of professional sports. Slow Getting Up is a survivor's real-time account of playing six seasons (twice as long as the average NFL career) for... (read more) Your price: $26.99 New - Hardcover
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Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim. Parks Publisher Comments Tim Parks’s books on Italy have been hailed as "so vivid, so packed with delectable details, [they] serve as a more than decent substitute for the real thing" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, in his first Italian travelogue in a decade, he... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.39 New - Hardcover
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The Trolley Problem, or Would You Throw the Fat Guy Off the Bridge?: A Philosophical Conundrum by Thomas Cathcart Publisher Comments A trolley is careering out of control. Up ahead are five workers. On a spur to the right stands a single individual. And you're a bystander holding a switch that could divert the trolley. Should you let events unfold and watch as the trolley plows into... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Hardcover
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A Million Little Bricks: The Unofficial Illustrated History of the Lego Phenomenon by Sarah Herman Publisher Comments There aren’t many titles that haven’t been bestowed on LEGO toys, and it’s not hard to see why. From its inception in the early 1930s right up until today, the LEGO Group’s history is as colorful as the toys it makes. Few other... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti by Rafael Schacter Publisher Comments Painted murals first appeared in Latin America in the early 20th century; in the 1950s, spray-can graffiti associated with Latino gangs followed, notably the cholo” graffiti of Los Angeles. Today, street art has traveled to nearly every... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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