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The Next Best Thing by Jennifer Weiner Publisher Comments At three years old, Ruth Saunders miraculously survives the car crash that takes her parents’ lives on the icy Massachusetts Turnpike. Her eccentric grandmother, who comes out of Florida retirement to care for young Ruth, nurtures her through years... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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What on Earth?: 100 of Our Planet's Most Amazing New Species by Quentin Wheeler Publisher Comments A chameleon so tiny it can fit on your thumbnail? A spider named after David Bowie? A fungus that turns ants into zombies? What on Earth? What on Earth? is a compendium of the 100 coolest, weirdest, and most intriguing new species of this century as... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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Quiet Influence: The Introvert's Guide to Making a Difference by Jennifer Kahnweiler Publisher Comments Introverts Do It Quietly Introverts may feel powerless in a world where extroverts seem to rule, but theres more than one way to have some sway. Jennifer Kahnweiler proves introverts can be highly effective influencers when, instead of trying to act like... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter by Terrence W Deacon Publisher Comments As scientists study the minutiae of subatomic particles, neural connections, and molecular compounds, their attempts at a "theory of everything" harbor a glaring omission: they still cannot explain us, the thoughts and perceptions that truly make us what... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gardening for Geeks: DIY Tests, Gadgets, & Techniques That Utilize Microbiology, Mathematics, and Ecology to Exponentially Maximize the Yie by Christy Wilhelmi Publisher Comments Advice for working with Mother Nature to win in your garden! There is much more to gardening than what you've learned in school. With Gardening for Geeks, you'll examine your ecosystem and discover how you can create the right environment for your... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Dirt by David Vann Publisher Comments New York Times Editor's Choice Twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded house outside Sacramento, surviving on the family's trust fund—money that his aunt, Helen, and seventeen-year-old cousin... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Another Woman by Penny Vincenzi Publisher Comments Penny Vincenzi, with over one million copies sold and fifteen bestsellers, queen of the riveting family drama, delivers her most deliciously page-turning saga yet in this novel of intrigue, sure to please her legions of fans. "Satisfaction... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Truth about Luck: What I Learned on My Road Trip with Grandma by Iain Reid Synopsis In The Truth about Luck, Iain Reid, author of the highly popular coming-of-age memoir One Bird's Choice, accompanies his grandmother on a five-day vacation which turns out to be a "staycation" at his basement apartment in Kingston. While the... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Vegetables: A Biography by Evelyne Bloch-dano Publisher Comments From Michael Pollan to locavores, Whole Foods to farmers' markets, today cooks and foodies alike are paying more attention than ever before to the history of the food they bring into their kitchens—and especially to vegetables. Whether it... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Railsea by China Mieville Publisher Comments “Other names besides [Herman] Melville’s will surely come to mind as you read this thrilling tale—there’s Dune’s Frank Herbert. . . . But in this, as in all of his works, Miéville has that special knack for evoking... (read more) Your price: $10.99 New - Trade Paper
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Our Common Wealth: The Hidden Economy That Makes Everything Else Work (BK Currents) by Jonathan Rowe Publisher Comments Why We Need the Commons A huge part of our economy is invisible, invaluable, and under siege. This is “the commons,” a term that denotes everything we share. Some parts of the commons are gifts of nature: the air and oceans, the web of... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene by Stephen J. Pyne Publisher Comments An enthralling scientific and cultural exploration of the Ice Age—from the author of How the Canyon Became Grand From a remarkable father-daughter team comes a dramatic synthesis of science and environmental history—an exploration of the... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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One Bird, One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories by Sean Murphy Publisher Comments Drawn from the archives of major Zen centers in America and interviews with some of the most seminal figures of American Zen, including Philip Kapleau, Bernie Glassman, Gary Snyder, and Walter Nowick, One Bird, One Stone presents the notable encounters... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Owsley and Me: My LSD Family by Rhoney Gissen Stanley Publisher Comments Owsley and Me is a love story set against the background of the Psychedelic Revolution of the '60s. Owsley "Bear" Stanley met her in Berkeley in 1965, when LSD was still legal and he was the world's largest producer and distributor of LSD. Rhoney found... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead Publisher Comments Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly consumes him. But Mercy's family disapproves, and the two young lovers flee to New Orleans to play out their passionate affair, until Mercy's father hunts them down... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hunger Angel by Herta M. Ller Publisher Comments A masterful new novel from the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize, hailed for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose" (Nobel Prize Committee) It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States by Michael Lind Publisher Comments How did a weak collection of former British colonies become an industrial, financial, and military colossus? From the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the American economy has been transformed by wave after wave of emerging technology: the steam... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French Publisher Comments A riveting true-crime tale that presents the thrilling account of a murder in 1937 China that caused an international media sensation Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama (P.S.) by Rachel L. Swarns Publisher Comments Michelle Obama's family saga is a remarkable, quintessentially American story—a journey from slavery to the White House in five generations. In this prodigiously researched epic, New York Times correspondent Rachel L. Swarns traces that complex... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Prisoner of Heaven (P.S.) by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Publisher Comments Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julián, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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