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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, Krakauer searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled 24-year-old Chris McCandless to leave civilization behind and head into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Four months later, McCandless'... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer Publisher Comments This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Into the Wild (96 Edition) by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Publisher Comments FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell Publisher Comments Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to be very close to Bin Laden with a small... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family by Dave Pelzer Publisher Comments Imagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possesions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag. The only world he knows is one of isolation and fear. Although others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C G Jung Publisher Comments US... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Season (P.S.) by Eric Blehm Publisher Comments In the spirit of Jon Krakauer's bestselling Into the Wild, Eric Blehm's The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada. The... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer Staff Pick My to-read list is long as it is, so I usually put off reading bestsellers until (a) the hype dies down and used copies start to become available or (b) someone chastises me for not having read something that came out forever ago. And so it was that 10... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cooked: My Journey from the Streets to the Stove by Jeff Henderson Publisher Comments By twenty-one, Jeff Henderson was making up to $35,000 a week cooking and selling crack cocaine. By twenty-four, he had been sentenced to nineteen and a half years in prison on federal drug trafficking charges. It was an all-too-familiar story for a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Don't Shoot (12 Edition) by David M. Kennedy Publisher Comments "Part jeremiad, part gripping crime thriller,"* Don't Shoot is David M. Kennedy's chronicle of his decades-long crusade to solve one of America's most pressing and shameful social problems. Kennedy, who engineered the "Boston Miracle" in the 1990s... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Worldly Philosophers 7TH Edition by Robert L Heilbroner Publisher Comments The Worldly Philosophers is a bestselling classic that not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester From Powells.com Erudite noir. "A tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary," as the book's subtitle explains, The Professor and the Madman tells the true story of Dr. W. C. Minor, a convicted murderer who from his book-lined cell at... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wallington's World : a Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-century London (85 Edition) by Paul S. Seaver Publisher Comments Seventeenth-century England has been richly documented by th lives of kings and their great ministers, the nobility and gentry, and bishops and preachers, but we have very little firsthand information on ordinary citizens. This unique portrait of the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $20.00 Used - Trade Paper
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No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden by Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer Publisher Comments For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Augustine of Hippo : a Biography ((Rev)00 Edition) by Peter Brown Publisher Comments A new expanded edition of Peter Brown's classic study of the life, times and ever-changing thought of one of the founders of Latin Christianity, Augustine of Hippo.... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $24.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Life of P. T. Barnum : Written By Himself (00 Edition) by Phineas Barnum Publisher Comments Embodying all that was grand and fraudulent in American mass culture, P. T. Barnum skillfully crafted his public image through a series of progressively tamer autobiographies. This is the first paperback edition of Barnum's original, outrageous... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt Publisher Comments Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about [Shakespeare] than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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River of Shadows (04 Edition) by Rebecca Solnit Publisher Comments This personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy from award winner Rebecca Solnit is a fitting companion to her beloved A Field Guide for Getting Lost In this exquisitely written new book by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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Thomas Merton : Spiritual Master (92 Edition) by Thomas Merton Publisher Comments A one-volume anthology of the spiritual writings of the greatest spiritual master the American Catholic church has produced in this century.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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