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Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey Staff Pick Reading Sometimes a Great Notion (I finally made it past the first 100 labyrinthine pages after many failed attempts) had such a profound impact on me; it spoke so directly to my core and to what brought me to the land of big trees and ocean breeze (I'm... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco Staff Pick Chris Hedges's writing and reportage is consistently trenchant and unequivocal, notable for its discerning examinations and penetrating insights. Joe Sacco's award-winning work as a cartoonist is as distinctive as it is compassionate. Combining the... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon Staff Pick Since winning the Pulitzer Prize for his spectacular 2000 novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon has gone on to write a diverse array of books restrained by neither style nor genre. Of the distinctive qualities to be found... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Death and the Maiden: Tie-In Edition by Ariel Dorfman Staff Pick Reminiscent of the moral perplexities that became the distinctive feature of Greek drama, Death and the Maiden is an unabashed examination of the sometimes unexpected repercussions inherent in reconciliation with the past. Set in post-Pinochet Chile, or... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan Staff Pick Michael Pollan may be incapable of uninteresting writing. Discerning and lucid, his works tend to provoke the reader to engage themselves (at least in thought, if not deed) well beyond the final page. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education is Pollan's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove by Ahmir Thompson Staff Pick "When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life." Drummer, DJ, producer, and cofounder of the legendary Roots crew, Ahmir "Questlove" (a.k.a. "?uestlove" and "Questo") Thompson is one of the music world's most virtuosic... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin Staff Pick Too often rock biographies seek to canonize their subjects, offering up for consecration the revelatory details of sexual conquests, pharmacological overindulgences, and distended egos. In an art awash with tragic figures and truncated careers, perhaps... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cain by Jose Saramago Staff Pick The late José Saramago was quite the prolific writer, having composed over 30 books, including an array of acclaimed novels, poetry, and journals. Actively writing until his death at the age of 87 in 2010, the Portuguese Nobel laureate's international... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss and Richard Dawkins Staff Pick Lawrence Krauss's new book, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing, summarizes the continuing developments in the field of cosmology. In addition to championing these new insights in the study of modern physics, Krauss also... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Traveler of the Century by Andres Neuman Staff Pick Traveler of the Century is an exquisite, dazzling work of fiction. Its author, Andrés Neuman, is a young Argentinian writer, born in 1977, whose relative youth is belied by a remarkably prodigious literary output. Neuman has written nearly 20... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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The Unknown University by Roberto Bolano Staff Pick The late Roberto Bolaño envisaged himself a poet above all else. Despite being accomplished as both a novelist and short story writer, Bolaño only ever took to fiction following the birth of his son Lautaro — and only then to secure... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover
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Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano Staff Pick When he died in 2003, at the age of 50, Roberto Bolaño was all but unknown anywhere north of the Rio Grande, yet he is now acclaimed internationally and considered among the most eminent figures in Latin American letters. Chilean by... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics) by Ken Kesey Staff Pick Often called the "quintessential Oregon novel," Sometimes a Great Notion bears remarkable similarity to our fabled Beaver State winters: seemingly sprawling and unending at first, characterized by incessant rain, somewhat disorienting until you become... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History by Eduardo Galeano Staff Pick The great Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer and journalist, has spent some five decades in literary pursuit of restoring memory, veracity, and justice to their once-exalted heights. Resounding throughout his works are the amplified echoes of the... (read more) Your price: $26.99 New - Hardcover
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Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson Staff Pick An inspiring work aimed primarily at those interested in pursuing a career in the sciences, Edward O. Wilson's Letters to a Young Scientist is an autobiographical glimpse into the personal life and background of one of our most eminent biologists. One... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Hardcover
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings Staff Pick Ken Jennings's Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks is an intriguing (dare I say, captivating?) look into the realm of maps, geography, and cartophiles. Jennings writes remarkably well, infusing his engrossing subject with a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Second Nature : a Gardener's Education (91 Edition) by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments Eight years ago, Harper's Magazine editor Michael Pollan bought an old Connecticut dairy farm. He planted a garden and attempted to follow Thoreau's example: do not impose your will upon the wilderness, the woodchucks, or the weeds. That ethic did not... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago Staff Pick Widely considered to be one of the most accomplished works from Portugal's only Nobel laureate, Baltasar and Blimunda is a heart-wrenching epic of prodigious scope. Set in the early years of the eighteenth century, the story seamlessly intertwines... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin Staff Pick For as arduous as Mikhail Shishkin's Maidenhair may have been to get into through the first hundred pages, its symphonic rewards are many. The Russian writer's 2005 epic is as unique as it is beautiful, and as elegantly composed as it is breathtakingly... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Common Pornography: A Memoir by Kevin Sampsell Staff Pick I loved Kevin Sampsell's A Common Pornography. Though by "loved" I mean "was impressed and cringed a lot." This collection of short "memory experiments" runs the gamut from hilarious to heartbreaking, and Sampsell has an incredible knack for illuminating... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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