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Learning to Play with a Lion's Testicles: Unexpected Gifts from the Animals of Africa by Melissa J. Haynes Publisher Comments Playing with a lions testicles: An African saying that means to take foolhardy chances. Melissa, an exhausted executive from the city seeks meaning and purpose from her work volunteers for a Big Five conservation project in South Africa. Her boss, an... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag: A Memoir of a Life Through Events--The Ones You Plan and the Ones You Don't by Jennifer Gilbert Publisher Comments I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag is a warm, wise, and wholly original memoir of survival, renewal, and transformation, by one of New York Citys most successful and respected special events coordinators. With her top-level events company, Save the Date... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Asylum: Hollywood Tales from My Great Depression: Brain Dis-Ease, Recovery, and Being My Mother's Son by Joe Pantoliano Publisher Comments Most people know Joe Pantoliano from his memorable roles in The Sopranos, The Goonies, The Matrix, The Fugitive, and Risky Business, but the Emmy-winning artist has another important role—as an outspoken advocate for smashing the stigma of mental... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Milestones of Art: Keith Haring: Next Stop: Art: Graphic Novel by Willi Bl Publisher Comments At the end of the 1970 years Keith Haring decorates the walls of the subway tunnels in New York with simple, two-dimensional characters. His tag is The Radiant Child. In contrast to the graffiti scene, which consists of little more than repetitions of... (read more) Your price: $7.99 New - Trade Paper
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Liberace Extravaganza! by Connie Furr Soloman Publisher Comments Known for his spectacular performances, the magnificent Wladziu Valentino Liberace was a world-renowned star in the entertainment industry for more than four decades, and his dazzling, often outrageous costumes are what made him most memorable. In... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall Publisher Comments From an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New Englands intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed womens sense of how they could think and live; her editorship of the Transcendentalist literary journal the Dial shaped American... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Jane Austen: An Obstinate Heart by Valerie Grosvenor Myer Publisher Comments Jane Austen’s world-famous novels give readers a small glimpse into the author’s real life, which was filled with as many ups and downs as those of Emma Woodhouse or Elizabeth Bennet. She too had to navigate her way through a stratified... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate by Wendy Moore Publisher Comments Thomas Day, an 18th-century British writer and radical, knew exactly the sort of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal like an English country maid yet tough and hardy like a Spartan heroine, she would live with him in an isolated cottage... (read more) Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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The Laws of the Ring by Urijah Faber Publisher Comments As one of the most exciting, charismatic fighters in MMA, Urijah "The California Kid" Faber is well known for his inventive style and cutting-edge approach to fitness. Outside the ring, his passion has motivated him to open his own fitness center,... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Boy 30529: A Memoir by Felix Weinberg Publisher Comments “Anyone who survived the exterminations camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of the millions ended in death ... We, the few who survived the war and the majority who perished in the camps, did not use and would not... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Hardcover
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Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams by Tina Cassidy Publisher Comments Former Boston Globe reporter Tina Cassidy delivers a remarkable account of one year in the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Americas favorite first lady and an international icon. 1975 was a year of monumental changes for Jackie: it was the year she... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters (Musicians in Their Own Words) by Jeff (edt) Burger Publisher Comments Offering fans an extensive look at the artists own words throughout the past four decades, Springsteen on Springsteen brings together Q&A-formatted articles, speeches, and features that incorporate significant interview material. No one is... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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The Vast Unknown Signed Edition by Broughton Coburn Publisher Comments By the author of the New York Times bestselling Everest: Mountain Without Mercy, this chronicle of the iconic first American expedition to Mt. Everest in May 1963 — published to coincide with the climb's 50th anniversary — combines riveting... (read more) Available May 7, 2013 Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes by Steven M. Nadler Publisher Comments "The famous painting of Descartes by Frans Hals that hangs in the Louvre is, in fact, not by Frans Hals. And a similar things-are-not-what-they-seem quality applies to this clever little book. For behind the telling of the story of a clutch of paintings... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life #14: Jane's Window: Stories Beyond the Texas Roadside Markers by Jane Dunn Sibley Publisher Comments On the southern portion of what was known as the Sibley’s Pezuna del Caballo (Horse’s Hoof) Ranch in West Texas’ Culberson County are two mountains that nearly meet, forming a gap that frames a salt flat where Indians and later... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Front Burner: Al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole by Kirk S. Lippold Publisher Comments On October 12, 2000, eleven months before the 9/11 attacks, the USS Cole docked in the port of Aden in Yemen for a routine fueling stop. At 1118, on a hot, sunny morning, the 8,400-ton destroyer was rocked by an enormous explosion. The ship’s... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom by Sara Benincasa Publisher Comments In Boston, a college student fears leaving her own room, even to use the toilet. In Pennsylvania, a meek personal assistant finally confronts a perpetually enraged gay spiritual guru. In Texas, a rookie high school teacher deals with her male student's... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Nailed!: The Improbable Rise and Spectacular Fall of Lenny Dykstra by Christopher Frankie Publisher Comments Nailed! is a dramatic biography of Lenny Dykstrathe heroic center fielder for the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies in the 80s and 90s whose gritty play earned him the nickname Nails.” Dykstras unlikely post-baseball rise in the... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Rebels at the Bar: The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America S First Women Lawyers by Jill Norgren Publisher Comments "I read these stories of the first generation of women lawyers with awe and gratitude. We are all in their debt—and in Jill Norgren's, too, for recovering this forgotten history." —Linda Greenhouse, Knight Distinguished Journalist in... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Country of Ash: A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945 by Edward Reicher Publisher Comments Stirring” Jewish Daily Forward Its the rough texture of Reichers talelike grainy celluloid from a bygone erathat gives such a powerful, deeply disturbing immediacy to the ghetto inhabitants he remembers. Reicher tells... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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