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Lost Lore: A Celebration of Traditional Wisdom from Foraging and Festivals to Seafaring and Smoke Signals by Una McGovern and Paul Jenner Staff Pick Drawing on folklore, tradition, and superstition, this amusing collection is packed with the wisdom you wish your grandparents had passed down to you. It includes methods to cure drunkenness, predict the sex of a baby, and make antidotes to poison ... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.46 Sale - Hardcover 
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ABC for Book Collectors 8th Edition by John Carter Publisher Comments Eighth edition, completely revised and re-set, with additional information and an Introduction by Nicolas Barker. Shaken, Unsophisticated, Harleian Style, Fingerprint, E-book, Dentelle. Can you define these terms? If not, this is the book for you... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The Zinester's Guide to Portland (2007): A Low/No Budget Guide to Visiting and Living in Portland, Oregon by Shawn Granton and Nate Beaty Publisher Comments Shawn Granton (Ten Foot Rule) and Nate Beaty (Brainfag Comics) edited a really comprehensive guide of things to do in Portland, OR. Features tons of information on various neighborhoods, bridges, eateries, hangouts, bars, places that sell zines, and how... (read more) List Price $5.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers by Anne Bernays Publisher Comments Part One. Beginnings Chapter 1. First Sentences: Beginning in the Middle Chapter 2. The Story's History Chapter 3. Pairs of Beginning Sentences (From Alexandra Marshall) Chapter 4. Begin a Story with a Given First Line (From William Kittredge) Chapter 5.... (read more) Your price: $13.99 New - Trade Paper
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Show Me How: 500 Things You Should Know: Instructions for Life from the Everyday to the Exotic by Lauren Smith and Derek Fagerstrom Publisher Comments Show Me How is a revolutionary reimagining of the reference genre, one part how-to guide, one part graphic art showpiece, and one part pure inspiration.In a series of 500 nearly wordless, highly informative step-by-step procedurals, readers learn how to... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Flexible
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Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7TH 09 Edition) by Joseph Gibaldi Publisher Comments The seventh edition is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to research and writing in the online environment. It provides an authoritative update of MLA documentation style for use in student writing, including simplified guidelines for citing works... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $20.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White and Maira Kalman Publisher Comments The only style manual ever to appear on bestseller lists has explained to millions of readers the basic principles of plain English. The books mantra "make every word tell" is still on point. Whether seventeen or seventy, this much-loved classic, now in... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Merriam Webster Dictionary 11TH Edition by Webster Synopsis A completely revised and updated edition of this best selling language reference is now available. COvers the core vocabulary of everyday life with over 75,000 clear, concise definitions. Inlcudes pronunciations, word origins and synonym lists. Special... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire: 101 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life by Graydon Carter Publisher Comments An intimate look into the inner lives of our most prominent cultural figures-- pulled from the celebrated Proust Questionnaire page in Vanity Fair magazine. The probing set of questions originated as a 19th-century parlor game popularized by... (read more) Your price: $23.99 New - Hardcover
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Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary by Websters Synopsis A bilingual dictionary that focuses on all Spanish, including Latin-American Spanish. It contains more than 80,000 entries designed to be clear and easy to understand for users of all facets of the language.... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden Staff Pick These volumes, The Dangerous Book for Boys and The Daring Book for Girls, are utterly brimming with tips, tools, maps, pictograms, glossaries, advice, game rules, blueprints... you name it! They're fantastic guidebooks for kids. And, truth be told, I... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Knowledge Book: Everything You Need to Know to Get by in the 21st Century by National Geographic Publisher Comments Indispensable for every home, library, and office, The Knowledge Book distills thousands of years of humankind's most significant ideas and achievements... explains how they are linked and why they are important... and packs everything into a single... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Living a Jewish Life: Jewish Traditions, Customs, and Values for Today's Families by Anita Diamant Publisher Comments Living a Jewish Life describes Judaism as not just a contemplative or abstract system of thought but as a blueprint for living fully and honorably. This new edition builds on the classic guide, which has been a favorite among Jewish educators and... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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No More Sleepless Nights, Workbook by Peter Hauri Publisher Comments Praise for No More Sleepless Nights "The best book this reviewer has seen on insomnia." –Library Journal "Nearly everything you always wanted to know about sleep and what can go wrong with it . . . with step-by-step... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht and Dozens of Experts Publisher Comments Danger! It lurks at every corner. Volcanoes. Sharks. Quicksand. Terrorists. The pilot of the plane blacks out and it's up to you to land the jet. What do you do? The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook is here to help: jam-packed with how-to, hands-on,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson Staff Pick This book should be titled "It's Not What You Think." Because practically every answer in the book could begin with that phrase. What a great collection of facts about our world! Find out the truth about all kinds of things, from the first animal in... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us by by Anna Grossman Synopsis Thanks to advancing technology and shifting mores, the amount of change we experience in our lifetimes is truly exceptional. Objects and practices that are commonplace can very quickly become outmoded. In this witty and informative collection of short... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White Publisher Comments You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. The revisions to the new edition are purposely kept minimal in order to... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Home Book of Taxidermy and Tanning by Gerald Grantz Publisher Comments All the basics for turning out successful taxidermy and tanning projects. Step-by-step instructions are easy to follow and fully illustrated.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How of Happiness: a New Approach To Getting the Life You Want (07 Edition) by Sonja Lyubomirsky Publisher Comments You can change your personal capacity for happiness. Research psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky's pioneering concept of the 40% solution shows you how Drawing on her own groundbreaking research with thousands of men and women, research psychologist and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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