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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: $4.50 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 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: $5.95 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: $8.98 Sale - 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: $4.95 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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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace Publisher Comments Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in This Is Water. How does one keep from going through... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower Publisher Comments The story of a father and son who search for life's meaning in very different ways. "In the tradition of Carl Sagan and John McPhee, a bracing cerebral voyage past intergalactic hoopla and backwoods retreats."--Kirkus... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sacred Journey : a Memoir of Early Days (91 Edition) by Frederick Buechner Publisher Comments Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived by Ralph Helfer Publisher Comments Raised together in a small German circus town, Modoc, the elephant, and Bram, his faithful boyhood companion and later trainer, formed a bond that lasted their entire lives. It was an extraordinary friendship that was tested time and again until, in the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 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 moment From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison Publisher Comments New York Times Bestseller “As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could find.” —from the foreword by Augusten Burroughs Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 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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Washington Papers #68: America Is in the Heart: A Personal History by Carlos Bulosan Publisher Comments First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well-known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 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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Eminent Victorians (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Lytton Strachey Synopsis In this biography, Strachey exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale; and in his essays on Dr Arnold and General Gordon, he looks at the public-school system and the whole structure of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Classical Music by Phil G. Goulding Publisher Comments MAKE A SOUND INVESTMENT IN CLASSICAL MUSIC Who are the ten most important classical composers? Who in the world was Palestrina? Why did Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" cause a riot? Which five of each important composer's works should you buy... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Garcia: An American Life by Blair Jackson Publisher Comments He was there when Dylan went electric, when a generation danced naked at Woodstock, and when Ken Kesey started experimenting with acid. Jerry Garcia was one of the most gifted musicians of all time, and he was a member of one of the most worshiped rock... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Henry Thoreau : Life of the Mind (86 Edition) by Robert D. Richardson Publisher Comments In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievement in their full nineteenth century context.... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Autobiography of a Yogi (46 Edition) by Paramahansa Yogananda Publisher Comments Designated One of the 100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the 20th century, here is a verbatim reprinting of the 1946 first edition, with all its inherent power intact.Read about real-life saints and masters, how yogis perform miracles, the science of... (read more) List Price $12.50 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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