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Blankets: An Illustrated Novel by Craig Thompson Publisher Comments From the author of the critically-acclaimed and best-selling graphic novel, Good-Bye, Chunky Rice, comes Craig Thompson's all-new masterpiece. Blankets the most anticipated graphic novel of the year is already being regarded as THE defining... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Life of Pi by Yann Martel Staff Pick I admit it; before reading Life of Pi, I thought, There's just no way that Yann Martel can write a whole book about a teenage boy and a tiger stranded together in a lifeboat for 277 days. But, I was so wrong; he pulls it off beautifully. You will love... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott Publisher Comments The New York Times Bestseller from the beloved author of Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies. Mattie Ryder is marvelously neurotic, well-intentioned, funny, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke. Her life at the moment is a wreck: her marriage... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan Publisher Comments "I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else." So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume One, his remarkable book exploring... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Little Children by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms of the playground; Sarah, a lapsed feminist with a bisexual past, who seems to have... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 by Dave Eggers and Zadie Smith Publisher Comments Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by an editor who is widely recognized as a leading... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Finding Her Voice : Women in Country Music, 1800-2000 (03 Edition) by Mary A. Bufwack Publisher Comments After its initial publication in 1993, Mary A. Bufwack and Robert K. Oermann's Finding Her Voice: The Saga of Women in Country Music quickly became an essential book for country music scholars and fans. Now back in print, with updated material, an... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race by Maureen Mahon Publisher Comments The original architects of rock ?n? roll were black musicians including Little Richard, Etta James, and Chuck Berry. Jimi Hendrix electrified rock with his explosive guitar in the late 1960s. Yet by the 1980s, rock music produced by African Americans no... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend by Steve Turner Publisher Comments Johnny Cash is one of the most influential figures in music and American popular culture today. While he was an icon to people of all ages during his life, Cash's legacy continues after his death. His remarkable story is captured in this exclusive... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene Publisher Comments In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Graceland by Chris Abani Publisher Comments "A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new."--T. Coraghessan Boyle The sprawling, swampy... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall Ofamerican Soul by Craig Hansen Werner Publisher Comments In Higher Ground, one of our most insightful music writers brilliantly reinterprets the lives of three pop geniuses and the soul revolution they launched. Soul music is one of America's greatest cultural achievements, and Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Darling by Russell Banks Publisher Comments Russell Banks has exhibited an astonishingly imaginative range throughout his distinguished career as a novelist, and his uniquely realistic American voice, on display in such modern classics as Rule of the Bone and Continental Drift, continues to shine... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting by Brett Milano Publisher Comments A lively study of the subculture of record collectors.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris Staff Pick One of these days I'll find the time to construct an actual review of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, but until I do let these words stand as my pledge: You will not regret purchasing this book. Further: You're unlikely to find more pure... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sensual Orthodoxy by Debbie Blue Publisher Comments Sensual Orthodoxy is collection of Debbie Blue's writings concerning the life and teachings of Christ. Debbie approaches scripture like ?a farm wife handles a chicken, carefully but not delicately, thoroughly but not exactly cautiously.? Approaching the... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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