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The Glass Castle: a Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Our Day to End Poverty: 24 Ways You Can Make a Difference (Bk Currents) by Shanno Daley Harris Publisher Comments Imagine ending poverty at home and around the globe in our own lifetimes. Imagine your actions combining with others; actions to make poverty history. With originality and imagination, this book invites us to look at our very ordinary days, from waking... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism. Americans are a positive people — cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A Caro Publisher Comments One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman Staff Pick Klosterman understands your life. Intimately. Through this seemingly meandering and always hilarious critique of modern pop culture, he exposes how unlikely cultural minutiae make our society tick and dictate how we live our lives.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Day by Luis J Rodriguez Publisher Comments By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as drugs, murder, suicide, and senseless acts... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kunstler Publisher Comments James Howard Kunstler's The Long Emergency was an underground hit, going into nine printings of the hardcover edition. His shocking vision for our post-oil future caught the attention of environmentalists and business leaders and was the subject of much... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus Publisher Comments Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee by Pamela Druckerman Publisher Comments A strange and surprising journey around the world to examine how and why people cheat on their spouses. This global look at infidelity truly reveals a puritanical America From Memphis to Moscow, when it comes to infidelity the statistics tell the story... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her inimitable stories on public radio's This... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and by David Rakoff Publisher Comments Rakoff takes readers on a bitingly funny grand tour of the culture of excess. He shows that far from being bobos in paradise, mankind is in a special circle of gilded-age hell.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments A brilliant and insightful work that examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades, Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambitions and... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki Publisher Comments “No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.” —H. L. Mencken H. L. Mencken was wrong. In this endlessly fascinating book, New... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit Staff Pick If, like me, you've ever wondered how people can possibly survive the mental ordeal of a catastrophe like 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina, A Paradise Built in Hell will pique your curiosity — and reward it with a riveting examination of what happens to... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Them : Adventures With Extremists (02 Edition) by Jon Ronson Publisher Comments AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY THROUGH THE WORLD OF FRINGE-DWELLERS Islamic fundamentalists, Ku Klux Klansmen, Christian separatists, and certain members of British Parliament would seem to have very little in common, but they do in fact share one crucial... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Wealth/ White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inquality by Melvin Oliver Publisher Comments Black Wealth/White Wealth demonstrates how an analysis of private wealth uncovers a revealing story about race in America. An examination of how assets are created, expanded and preserved reveals a deep economic divide between blacks and whites. Charting... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Creating a World That Works for All by Sharif Abdullah Publisher Comments Exclusivity--the desire to stay separate from other people--is at the root of most of the world's problems, according to Abdullah, who then presents a unique blueprint for social justice.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Publisher Comments In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour, gold-drenched drug dealers, and street-corner society. Focusing on two... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Health and Community Design: The Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity by Lawrence D Frank Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and index.... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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