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Can I Keep My Jersey?: 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond
by Paul Shirley  Publisher Comments Offering an often hilarious, occasionally heart wrenching memoir of his life as a professional basketball player, Shirley details his years playing in America, Spain, and even Siberia....
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A Short History of the American Stomach
by Frederick Kaufman Publisher Comments The extremes of American eating — our separate-but-equal urges to stuff and to starve ourselves — are easy to blame on the excesses of modern living. But Frederick Kaufman followed the winding road of the American intestine back to that cold...
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Treats, Play, Love: Make Dog Training Fun for You and Your Best Friend
by Patricia Burnham Publisher Comments Treats, Play, Love is the collected wisdom of Patricia G. Burnham, the author of the highly successful Playtraining Your Dog, which has been in print for more than twenty-five years. Now, after fifty years in the business, she brings to this new book a...
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Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
by John Grogan Publisher Comments The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Now with photos and new...
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100 Simple Secrets Why Dogs Make Us Happy: The Science Behind What Dog Lovers Already Know
by David Niven Publisher Comments Why do people who have dogs live happier, longer, and more fulfulling lives? Sociologists and veterinarians have spent years investigating the positive effects that dogs have on people's health and happiness yet their findings are inaccessible to...
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Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being
by Todd Balf Publisher Comments At the turn of the 20th century, hundreds of handsome, lightning-fast racers won the hearts and minds of a bicycling-crazed public. Scientists studied them, newspapers glorified them, and millions of dollars in purse money was awarded to them. Major...
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Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant
by Jenni Ferrari-Adler 
Powells.com Staff Pick Whether eating alone is something you long for or something you curse, this collection of essays about cooking and eating for one will satisfy your appetite. A virtual smorgasbord of great writing from 26 authors, including Haruki Murakami, Nora Ephron,...
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The Dog Breed Bible: Descriptions and Photos of Every Breed Recognized by the Akc
by D. Caroline Coile Publisher Comments (back cover) A veces es difícil ser niño. Hay tantas cosas que debemos hacer, incluso cuando no tenemos ganas. Hay reglas que obedecer, y hay gente mayor diciéndonos qué podemos hacer y qué no debemos hacer. A veces...
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More Stuff on My Cat: 2x the Stuff + 2x the Cats = 4x the Awesome
by Mario Garza Publisher Comments Chasing the tail of the best-selling Stuff on My Cat: The Book (more than 100,000 copies sold ) comes this super-sized sequel from Stuffonmycat.com, the phenomenally successful Web site where millions of people from around the world post photographs of...
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The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them)
by Peter Sagal Publisher Comments Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are. Or so everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated NPR host — the man who put the second "L" in "vanilla" — decided to find out if it's true. From strip clubs to...
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Meat: A Love Story
by Susan Bourette Publisher Comments The amusingly enlightening adventure of a woman hunting for the truth about meatand why it's still good enough to eat. After spending a week working undercover at a slaughterhouse and being tormented by blood, the stink, and the squeals of animals being...
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Snog: A Puppy's Guide to Love
by Rachael Hale Publisher Comments Snog: A Puppy's Guide to Love features sixty original and captivating images of puppies by the world's most popular animal photographer. Hale uses her lens, her love of dogs, and a great deal of patience to create an enchanting perspective on how puppies...
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Buck Up, Suck Up...and Come Back When You Foul Up
by James Carville and Paul Begala Publisher Comments The political strategists who directed the Clinton campaign's War Room reveal the lessons and secrets from their hard-fought battles -- and how to use these highly effective strategies for success in everyday life. James Carville and Paul Begala have...
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Maximum Strength: Get Your Strongest Body in 16 Weeks with the Ultimate Weight-Training Program
by Eric Cressey Publisher Comments Most of the 23 million American men who lift weights do so to get bigger; unfortunately, many of them are going nowhere with watered-down bodybuilding routines that don’t help them actually get stronger. Eric Cressey’s cutting-edge four-phase...
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No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach
by Anthony Bourdain Publisher Comments "No Reservations" mixes beautiful, never-before-seen color photographs with outrageous tales of eating, drinking, and getting into and out of international trouble from bad-boy chef Anthony Bourdain....
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Make Money, Not Excuses: Wake Up, Take Charge, and Overcome Your Financial Fears Forever
by Jean Chatzky Publisher Comments Get Rich, Don't Bitch Today, more than ever before, wealth is something every woman has the power to create. Yet Jean Chatzky constantly hears all the excuses why women can’t and don’t master their money. Now, she reveals the secrets and the...
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Rockin' Down the Highway: The Cars and People That Made Rock Roll
by Paul Grushkin Publisher Comments FINALLY, THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED, BOOK-LENGTH HISTORY OF THE LONG AND WINDING INTERPLAY BETWEEN ROCK & ROLL AND THE AUTOMOBILE. ROCKIN’ DOWN THE HIGHWAY FEATURES: • More than 1,000 evocative images, including many never before seen in...
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Plant Seed, Pull Weed: Nurturing the Garden of Your Life
by Geri Larkin Publisher Comments Gardens have often been used as metaphors for spiritual nurturing and growth. Zen rock gardens, monastery rose gardens, even your grandmother's vegetable garden all have been described as places of refuge and reflection. Drawing on her experience working...
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Mutts Shelter Stories: Love. Guaranteed.
by Patrick Mcdonnell Publisher Comments Until one has loved an animal, one's soul remains unawakened." --Anatole France "This book is a credit to [Patrick McDonnell's] life's work and passion, and I know you will enjoy it and be moved by it." --Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO, the Humane...
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Puppy Chow Is Better Than Prozac: The True Story of a Man and the Dog Who Saved His Life
by Bruce Goldstein Publisher Comments To Bruce Goldstein-an edgy, twenty-something New Yorker trying to make his mark in advertising-just waking up in the morning was an ordeal. Underemployed and recently dumped, he was well into the downward spiral of bipolar disorder. Even with therapy...
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