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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch Staff Pick "I urge everyone to read this book. The cover shows a picture of serenity, a scene from the beach of Lake Kivu in Rwanda. The landscape is devoid of human beings and an empty chair sits on the sand. The title in red stands out starkly from this backdrop.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Brothers K by David James Duncan Staff Pick As a Northwesterner (or recovering Southerner) and a baseball fanatic, I highly recommend The Brothers K. From laugh out loud funny to tear in your eye sad, this book does everything you hope a novel will. It's a love letter to everything that's great... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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House of Leaves: A Novel by Mark Z. Danielewski Staff Pick "Saints be praised, this is the best book of the new millennium. A veritable tour de force. Pynchon meets Stephen King meets Robert Hughes meets Borges meets Dante. Joycian. Jungian. Mythic. Any clich used by fawning literary critics applies. Yadda Yadda... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Libra by Don DeLillo Staff Pick The Kennedy assassination is front and center in Libra, Don DeLillo's fictionalized biography of Lee Harvey Oswald. There isn't a German loan word big enough to fully describe DeLillo's talent. Using basically the same cast of characters that James... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Staff Pick For a while it seemed that novels set in India were all the rage. My favorite is A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. His massive tome ranges across the vast chasms of that giant subcontinent, all from the cramped apartment of Dina Dalal. Through her eyes,... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ball Four by Jim Bouton Staff Pick Baseball Season is upon us. I-CHI-RO! I-CHI-RO! Youngsters, you really need to read Ball Four by Jim Bouton. A season in the bigs with the expansion Seattle Pilots (Milwaukee Brewers for those that don't know.) Joe Schultz, Sal "The Barber" Maglie and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Tabloid by James Ellroy Staff Pick J. Edgar Hoover, the Ku Klux Klan, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa and dozens of I-talian "businessmen" do battle with "Martin Lucifer Coon," Jack and Bobby Kennedy, and other "Communists" in James Ellroy's latest tomes. Ellroy's tommy-gun prose and morally... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Swan Green (06 Edition) by David Mitchell Publisher Comments From the author of Cloud Atlas, now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived by Daniel H. Wilson and Richard Horne Staff Pick If you are like me, the Roomba just does not cut it when what I expect is the domestic help of the robot maid featured on The Jetsons. In this highly entertaining look at futuristic inventions once envisioned, but never fully realized, Daniel Wilson... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Staff Pick For a while it seemed that novels set in India were all the rage. My favorite is A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. His massive tome ranges across the vast chasms of that giant subcontinent, all from the cramped apartment of Dina Dalal. Through her eyes,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future by Sheldon Rampton Staff Pick Trust Us, We're Experts! blows the lid off so-called "third party" experts, hirelings of the corporate elite's who do transnationals' bidding under the guise of independence. Every time you hear "W" say "I want to make policy based on 'sound science... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil and Sonny Liston by Nick Tosches Staff Pick I just finished rereading We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families because after reading Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning I thought that the atrocities committed in Rwanda might make more sense to me. There are eerie... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Breakpoint by Richard A Clarke Staff Pick An intriguing futuristic thriller from former presidential advisor and terrorist specialist Richard A. Clarke, Breakpoint centers on the vulnerability of the global computer networks. Clarke details the potential for real terror in this fast-paced work... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future by Sheldon Rampton List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Betrayal of Local 14 (98 Edition) by Julius Getman List Price $30.50 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography by Jackie Robinson List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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