1999 November/December
There are 64 books in this aisle.
 Sale: $9.98 Hardcover List Price $21.95 
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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
by Eckhart Tolle  
Publisher Comments According to Tolle, accessing the deepest self, the true self, can be learned by freeing ourselves from the conflicting, unreasonable demands of the mind and living "present, fully and intensely, in the Now."...
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Sale: $4.98 Trade Paper List Price $8.95
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Holidays on Ice
by David Sedaris
Publisher Comments A new holiday classic from the author of the bestselling Naked and Barrel Fever! Holidays On Ice collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice scraper. This...
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Used: $8.50 Hardcover List Price $27.50
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Plainsong
by Kent Haruf
Publisher Comments A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.<BR>In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats...
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Used: $4.95 Hardcover List Price $26.00
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River Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America
by William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher Comments 'In RIVER-HORSE, the preeminent chronicler of American back roads -- who has given us the classics BLUE HIGHWAYS and PRAIRYERTH -- recounts his singular voyage on American waters from sea to sea. Along the route, he offers a lyrical and ceaselessly...
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Moosewood Restaurant Daily Special: More Than 250 Recipes for Soups, Stews, Salads & Extras
by Moosewood Collective
Publisher Comments A steaming bowl of soup with fresh bread and a green salad, a tempting combo plate of crisp, complementary salads--these Daily Specials have been staples of Moosewood's ever-changing menu board since the restaurant opened its doors more than twenty-five...
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Used: $8.95 Hardcover List Price $16.00
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King of Shadows
by Susan Cooper
Publisher Comments Nat Field's short life has been shadowed by loss and horror. His one escape is his talent for acting, and he has been picked by a dazzling international director to perform at Shakespeare's Globe, London's amazing new copy of the theater for which...
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Used: $12.50 Hardcover List Price $19.95
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The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury (Treasured Gifts for the Holidays)
by Jack Prelutsky
Publisher Comments Illustrated by brilliant watercolors, a collection of more than 200 poems are featured, written by such modern poets as Ted Hughes, Karla Kiskin, Eve Merriam and Shel Silverstein....
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Used: $9.95 Hardcover List Price $28.00
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century
by John Updike
Publisher Comments 'Since the series\' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our...
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Used: $20.00 Hardcover List Price $75.00
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Women
by Annie Leibovitz
Powells.com Staff Pick Annie Leibovitz got her start at Rolling Stone in the early seventies. There she made a name for herself and produced some of the publication's most well-known photographs, including the famous shot of a naked John Lennon wrapping himself around a...
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Used: $7.95 Hardcover List Price $15.95
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Bud, Not Buddy (Fiction)
by Christopher Curtis
Publisher Comments It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: <BR>1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own important, secret things. <BR>2. He's the...
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Used: $7.25 Hardcover List Price $27.00
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Galileo's Daughter
by Dava Sobel
Publisher Comments Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of...
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Weslandia
by Paul Fleischman
Publisher Comments School is over and Wesley needs a summer project. Having learned that every civilization has a staple food crop, he decides to plant a garden and start his own--civilization, that is. It doesn't take long for his neighbors and classmates to develop more...
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Used: $15.00 Trade Paper List Price $29.95
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Station Hill Blanchot Reader (99 Edition)
by Maurice Blanchot
Publisher Comments A major collection of writings from one of the most important twentieth century French authors, "The Blanchot Reader" includes six works of fiction ("Death Sentence, The Madness of the Day, When the Time Comes, Vicious Circles, Thomas the Obscure", and...
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Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem
Publisher Comments "Tell your story walking." St. Vincent's Home for Boys, Brooklyn, early 1970s. For Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. The Human Freakshow, a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach, rearrange objects),...
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Used: $19.95 Audio Cassette List Price $35.00
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Harry Potter & the Sorcerers Stone
by J K Rowling
Synopsis Read by Jim Dale 8 hours 17 minutes, 6 cassettes Harry Potter has no idea how famous he is. That's because he's being raised by his miserable aunt and uncle who are terrified Harry will learn that he's really a wizard, just as his parents were. But...
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Used: $25.00 Hardcover List Price $59.95
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Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hope
by Bruce Bernard
Publisher Comments Unlike any other book you may encounter, the sheer physical presence of Century is unique. With 1,120 pages and 1,072 images, this monster volume offers an informative, nostalgic, intimate and monumental insight into the last 100 years. Century is a...
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Used: $5.50 Trade Paper List Price $11.00
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The Restraint of Beasts
by Magnus Mills
Publisher Comments CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF 1998 BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES AND WINNER OF ENGLAND'S MCKITTERICK PRICE This award-winning literary tour de force, shortlisted for both the Whitbread and the Booker prizes, tells the captivating tale of three men: Tam...
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Used: $5.75 Hardcover List Price $15.95
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Basket Moon
by Mary Lyn Ray
Publisher Comments In a lyrical, elegant coming-of-age picture book, a boy begins to doubt his heritage when he hears taunts of "hillbilly" and "bushwhacker, " while accompanying his father to the big city. Color illustrations throughout....
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Bark, George
by Jules Feiffer
Publisher Comments "Bark, George," says George's mother, and George goes: "Meow," which definitely isn't right, because George is a dog. And so is his mother, who repeats, "Bark, George." And George goes, "Quack, quack." What's going on with George? Find out in this...
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Used: $4.50 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
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The Way I Found Her
by Rose Tremain
Publisher Comments This is the summer that Lewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending in Paris with his beautiful mother, Alice, who is translating the latest medieval romance by Valentina Gavrilovich, the bestselling and exotic Russian émigré. This...
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