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Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships (P.S.) by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha Staff Pick Sex at Dawn is nonfiction at its best. Writing across a range of disciplines, from anthropology to philosophy, the authors explore and challenge everything we thought we knew about human sexuality in this provocative and profound book.... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore Staff Pick The Other Wes Moore is the fascinating tale of two men who shared a name and a birthplace; their lives started out in similar circumstances and ended up very differently (one a Rhodes Scholar, the other serving a life sentence in jail). A moving... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Appetite for Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low-Fat Vegan Recipes by Isa Chandra Moskowitz Staff Pick Favorite (and now local!) vegan chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz, of Vegan with a Vengeance and Veganomicon fame, brings us an antidote to a season of indulgence: incredibly delicious vegan recipes, with a focus on low fat and high fiber to make them even... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (2nd Edition) by Toby Hemenway Staff Pick Gaia's Garden has been an indispensable reference for gardeners who want to turn their yards into ecosystems that work with nature to create gardens that are beautiful, beneficial (to insects, birds, and people), and self-sustaining. This second edition... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $20.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Under the Dome by Stephen King Staff Pick Well-written, compelling, and intelligent on ethical questions, this epic is worth its daunting page count. Reminiscent of his earlier work, particularly The Stand and It, Under the Dome is Stephen King's best book in years.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Photographic Card Deck of the Elements: With Big Beautiful Photographs of All 118 Elements in the Periodic Table by Theodore Gray Staff Pick This gorgeous photographic card deck is a more portable version of Theodore Gray's bestselling book The Elements, and it's just as impossible to stop flipping through. With a beautifully represented element on every card, this deck is a wonderful... (read more) Your price: $24.95 Gifts - Miscellaneous
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War by Joe Bageant Staff Pick Deer Hunting with Jesus is a hilarious, depressing, and painfully honest chronicle of an America often cited but rarely listened to: rural lower-class whites. With brilliant, spot-on detail, Joe Bageant reports on the historical, economic, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante Staff Pick Alice LaPlante's remarkable debut novel is a page-turning mystery written with spellbinding language. But even more than that, it's an incredibly intimate portrait of a deteriorating mind. Heartbreaking, intelligent, and lyrical, Turn of Mind introduces... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Son of a Witch: A Novel by Gregory Maguire Staff Pick Son of a Witch is a pitch-perfect sequel to Wicked — as though Maguire hadn't written several other books in dramatically varied voices in the meantime. But his new novel is more meditative, symbolic, and unexpectedly relevant than its predecessor. Son... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud Staff Pick Absolutely brilliant. The best novel I've read in months, if not years, The Emperor's Children has left me powerfully moved; Claire Messud's knowledge of the human psyche is uncanny, and her characters became, in one afternoon, more important to me than... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha Staff Pick Sex at Dawn is nonfiction at its best. Writing across a range of disciplines, from anthropology to philosophy, the authors explore and challenge everything we thought we knew about human sexuality in this provocative and profound book.... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Saving Fish from Drowning (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Amy Tan Staff Pick Saving Fish from Drowning is a funny, almost magical look at group dynamics, altruism, and self-interest set against the beauty and repressive politics of Myanmar. Impressive and surprisingly moving.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Solar by Ian McEwan Staff Pick Solar is a fascinating look at one man's hubris in both his personal life — with five wives and many more lovers — and his professional life as a Nobel Prize-winning physicist working on the problems of global warming. With engaging science and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer Staff Pick Mayer offers a riveting account of the Bush administration's reaction to 9/11 and its war on terrorism and civil liberties. Gripping and appalling in equal measure, The Dark Side details how and why our country stooped to torture and unlawful wiretapping... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer Staff Pick A fascinating look at the science and psychology behind our beliefs (from conspiracy theories to religion to the paranormal), The Believing Brain is a comprehensive and compulsively readable book. Michael Shermer is the publisher of Skeptic magazine, and... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore Gray Staff Pick Beautiful and informative, surprising and smart, The Elements will appeal to your inner geek (even if you didn't know you had one). With unique stories, bizarre facts, and dazzling photographs of the 118 elements in the periodic table, this book will... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl Staff Pick What begins as an innocent (if quirky) adolescent tale swiftly transforms into an absorbing high school whodunit. If I had to compare it to a few recent films, it manages to come across both as gritty as Brick and as refreshing as Juno, but with a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron Staff Pick Colin Thubron's Shadow of the Silk Road is a beautiful, important book; part travel writing, part sociology, part history, and part politics, it is hard to pin down to any one genre. But the book's warmth and genuine love for humanity and our... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson Staff Pick Kevin Wilson's debut novel is one of the smartest and strangest books you'll read all year. Hilarious and dark, ironic and empathetic, The Family Fang is a weird and wonderful novel that should not be missed.... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley Staff Pick Funny, charming, and self-effacing, Sloane Crosley's essays will resonate with you, whether or not you grew up playing Oregon Trail on the computer or have ever locked yourself out of your house — twice in the same day. Crosley's voice is uniquely... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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