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Crapalachia: A Biography of Place by Scott McClanahan Publisher Comments Crapalachia is a portrait of Scott McClanahan's formative years, coming of age in rural West Virginia, during a stretch of time where he was deeply influenced by his Grandma Ruby and Uncle Nathan, who suffered from cerebral palsy. Peopled by colorful... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Orphan Train: Novel by Christina Baker Kline Publisher Comments Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopted by a kind and... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Portland Hill Walks: 24 Explorations in Parks and Neighborhoods, Completely Revised and Expanded by Laura O. Foster Publisher Comments Portland Hill Walks features twenty-four miniature adventures stocked with stunning views, hidden stairways, leafy byways, urban forests, and places to sit, eat, and soak in the local scene. The revised and updated edition offers five new walks in... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier by Neil deGrasse Tyson Staff Pick The great Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium, PBS/Nova host, and ambassador to all sorts of interstellar and cosmic awesomeness, is also the author of nearly a dozen books. His newest, Space Chronicles: Facing the... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Great Britain (DK Eyewitness Travel Guides) by DK Publishing Publisher Comments DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain is your indispensable guide to England, Scotland, and Wales. This fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of key cities and... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $24.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Social Conquest of Earth (13 Edition) by Edward O. Wilson Publisher Comments Sparking vigorous debate in the sciences, The Social Conquest of Earth upends “the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first” (Discover). Refashioning the story of human evolution, Wilson draws on his... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions by Susan Tive and Cami Ostman Publisher Comments Beyond Belief addresses what happens when women of extreme religions decide to walk away. Editors Susan Tive (a former Orthodox Jew) and Cami Ostman (a de-converted fundamentalist born-again Christian) have compiled a collection of powerful personal... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson Synopsis "Magnificent . . . A tour de force of literature and love."Vogue "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is raucous. It hums with a dark refulgence from its first pages. . . . Singular and electric . . . [Winterson's] life with her adoptive parents... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Price of Inequality by Joseph E. Stiglitz Publisher Comments America currently has the most inequality, and the least equality of opportunity, among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture, politics has shaped those market forces. In this best-selling book, Nobel Prize–... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them by Frank Langella Publisher Comments Captured forever in a unique memoir, Broadway and film star Frank Langella's myriad encounters with some of the past century's most famous human beings are profoundly affecting, funny, wicked, sometimes shocking, and utterly irresistible. With sharp wit... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Wedlocked: A Memoir by Jay Ponteri Publisher Comments Married writer Jay Ponteri finds himself infatuated with a woman other than his wife and writes a manuscript to explore his feelings. Discovery of this manuscript understandably strains his marriage. Wedlocked offers readers an intimate, idiosyncratic... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen Publisher Comments In this irresistible memoir, the New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen writes about looking back and ahead — and celebrating it all — as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss,... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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New Collected Poems by Wendell Berry Synopsis In New Collected Poems, the poet revisits for the first time his immensely popular Collected Poems, which The New York Times Book Review described as a straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament and family... (read more) Your price: $20.95 New - Trade Paper
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Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow Publisher Comments The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Crochet One-Skein Wonders: 101 Projects from Crocheters Around the World by Judith (edt) Durant Publisher Comments One Skein of Yarn -- 101 Ways to Get Hooked Discover the possibilities in a single skein! More than 100 crochet patterns -- organized by fiber weight so you can quickly find the best projects for your yarm -- turn your orphan skeins into charming... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service by Henry A. Crumpton Publisher Comments A legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career Revelatory and groundbreaking, The Art of Intelligence will change the way people view the CIA, American intelligence, and... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Judgment Call by J. A. Jance Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance's acclaimed sheriff Joanna Brady returns in a twisting mystery set against the beauty and isolation of the Arizona desert. When Joanna Brady's daughter, Jenny, stumbles across the body of her high-school... (read more) Your price: $9.99 New - Mass Market
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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller Publisher Comments For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life's necessities — not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a vital element of religious ritual. Today's researchers are continuing to confirm the remarkable, life-giving properties... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman Publisher Comments After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island where the supply boat comes once a... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Ecomind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want by Frances Moore Lappe Publisher Comments In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lappé a giant of the environmental movement confronts accepted wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research from anthropology to neuroscience and her own field experience, she argues that the... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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