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Into the Wild (97 Edition)
by Jon Krakauer  
Publisher Comments The extraordinary bestselling true story of a young man's uncompromising pilgrimage that ended in tragedy....
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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...
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Into the Wild (07 Edition)
by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhikes to Alaska and walks alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body is found by a moose hunter. How Chris McCandless came to die is the unforgettable...
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.)
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments Hailed by the "New York Times" as "a fascinating, spicy, learned tale," this runaway national bestseller takes an extraordinary look into literary genius, madness, and the making of the"Oxford English Dictionary."...
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Paula
by Isabel Allende Publisher Comments With an enchanting blend of magical realism, politics, and romance reminiscent of her classic bestseller The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende presents a soul-baring memoir that seizes the reader like a novel of suspense. Written for her daughter...
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Brave Companions
by David McCullough Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or changed how we see the world but whose stories express much that is...
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Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
by Karen Armstrong
Powells.com Staff Pick In 1965, at the tender age of seventeen, Karen Armstrong took vows of poverty and chastity and entered a Catholic convent. However, she soon realized she was not suited to monastic life and left. Her experiences in the convent, though, never left...
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The Long Walk, New PB Edition: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
by Slavomir Rawicz Publisher Comments "The Long Walk" is the harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners' desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India....
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Goodbye To a River (60 Edition)
by John Graves Publisher Comments In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream's regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as...
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Lost Boy a Foster Childs Search for T
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...
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Darkness Visible (90 Edition)
by William Styron Publisher Comments A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic...
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Hitchcock Revised Edition
by Francois Truffaut Synopsis This is a revised edition of the author's Hitchcock (BRD 1968), his dialogue with the author. Indexes. This revised edition was published in France in 1983....
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Jesus: A New Vision
by Marcus J Borg Publisher Comments From top Jesus expert Marcus Borg, a completely updated and revised version of his vision of Jesus—as charismatic healer, sage, and prophet, a man living in the power of the spirit and dedicated to radical social change. Fully revised and updated...
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Starship & 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...
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How To Talk Dirty and Influence People (92 Edition)
by Lenny Bruce Review "The immortal enemy of cant and hypocrisy and pseudo-liberalism, which is just another form of hypocrisy. What Lenny was saying should continue to be said until we begin to hear some of it." George Carlin, New York...
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Something Like an Autobiography
by Akira Kurosawa Publisher Comments Translated by Audie E. Bock. "A first rate book and a joy to read.... It's doubtful that a complete understanding of the director's artistry can be obtained without reading this book.... Also indispensable for budding directors are the addenda, in...
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Buddha
by Karen Armstrong Publisher Comments With such bestsellers as A History of God and Islam, Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered "penetrating, readable, and prescient" (The New York Times) works that have lucidly engaged a wide range of religions and religious issues. In Buddha she...
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A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness
by Dave Pelzer Publisher Comments These words were Dave Pelzer's declaration of independence to his mother, and they represented the ultimate act of self-reliance. Dave's father never intervened as his mother abused him with shocking brutality, denying him food and clothing, torturing...
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America Is in the Heart : a Personal History (73 Edition)
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....
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Chronicles of Tao (93 Edition)
by Ming-dao Deng Publisher Comments A guide to freeing ourselves from the inappropriate and crippling behaviors that sabotage our success....
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