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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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Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his...
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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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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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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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Freedom in Exile
by Dalai Lama Publisher Comments In this astonishingly frank autobiography, the Dalai Lama reveals the remarkable inner strength that allowed him to master both the mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism and the brutal realities of Chinese Communism....
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Starship and the Canoe (78 Edition)
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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Lost Boy : a Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family (97 Edition)
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: A Memoir of Madness
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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Boys of My Youth (98 Edition)
by Jo Ann Beard
Publisher Comments Jo Ann Beard grew up amid a tightly knit clan of mothers, aunts, sisters, and girlfriends. Her steadfast family and its culture of women somehow made the prospect of dangerous neighborhood boys, friendly barflies, and potential romance all the more...
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Into Thin Air : a Personal Account of the MT. Everest Disaster (97 Edition)
by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed...
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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...
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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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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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Henry and June: From a Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary (1931-1932) of Anais Nin
by Anais Nin
Powells.com Staff Pick This series of journal entries documents Anais Nin's love affair with Henry Miller and his wife June from 1931 to 1932. It would prove to be one of the more sexually adventurous periods of Nin's life. With her poetic voice and ability to use the diary as...
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Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
by Ben Hamper Synopsis The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a no-holds-barred journey through the belly of the American industrial beast....
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
by Bill Bryson
Publisher Comments The master humorist and bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods now guides us on an affectionate, hysterically funny tour of America's most outrageous absurdities. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the...
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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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Genie: A Scientific Tragedy
by Russ Rymer Publisher Comments The compelling story of a young woman's emergence into the world after spending her first 13 years strapped to a chair, and her rescue and exploitation by scientists hoping to gain new insight into language acquisition....
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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 turns...
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