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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle Publisher Comments Eckhart Tolle is emerging as one of today's most inspiring teachers. In The Power of Now, already a word-of-mouth bestseller in Canada, the author describes his transition from despair to self-realization soon after his 29th birthday. Tolle took another... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Johnstown Flood (Touchstone Books) by David McCullough Publisher Comments David McCullough is known to millions as the author of the critically acclaimed, best-selling books The Great Bridge, The Path Between the Seas, and Mornings on Horseback, and as host of the popular PBS television series "Smithsonian World?' The... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Then There Were None by Martha H Noyes Publisher Comments A personal and emotional account, in words and pictures, of the effect of Western contact on the Hawaiian population.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Muddy's Chronicles: Memoirs from the Last Great Coffeehouse by Bill Stevens Publisher Comments Philosophical coffeehouses, those hotbeds of liberal ideas, poetry readings, strange cigarettes, and all-night jazz sessions, were a hallmark of the Beat era. Muddy's Java Cafe hosted the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, and virtually all of Denver... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Writing the Range (97 Edition) by Elizabeth Jameson Publisher Comments A major goal of the New Western History is to chronicle the vast diversity of western experience. In this pathbreaking anthology, coeditors Elizabeth Jameson and Susan Armitage-who brought us "The Womens West in 1987"-meet that challenge by bringing... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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New Orleans Stories : Great Writers on the City (92 Edition) by John Miller Synopsis Voodoo. Vampires. Jazz. There's no city quite like New Orleans, a city that whispers stories and where writers come to eavesdrop. New Orleans Stories collects the very best writing on the Big Easy by a stellar gallery of writers for whom the city has... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Oklahoma Western Biographies #2: Last Conquistador: Juan de Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest by Mark Simmons Publisher Comments This book chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de Oñate, the first colonizer of the old Spanish Borderlands. Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, in the mid-sixteenth century, Don Juan was the prominent son of an aristocratic silver... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time by Michael Perry Publisher Comments Here the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town), and the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen Staff Pick I read Winterdance while camping in the mountains of eastern Oregon when it was cold, very cold (though I was snug and warm in my sleeping bag), but I was glad to not be experiencing the Arctic climes in the book. Gary Paulsen describes cold and snow the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish Staff Pick Those of us who feel like we're "just getting by" will be both humbled and inspired by Kalish's tales of life on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression. Her humorous and heart-warming depiction of a childhood spent working the land and, in doing so... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.) by David Laskin Publisher Comments Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered "land, freedom, and hope." The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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L.A. Exposed: Strange Myths and Curious Legends in the City of Angels by Paul Young Publisher Comments Every city has its urban legends, its tall tales, and even its outright lies, and Hollywood and Los Angeles have enough to fill a book--and Paul Young has done just that. L.A. Exposed includes the facts behind the myths surrounding everything from the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge by Kevin Starr Publisher Comments Kevins Starrs Golden Gate is a brilliant and passionate telling of the history of the bridge itself, and a recounting of the rich and peculiar history of the California experience. The Golden Gate is a grand public work, a symbol and a very real bridge,... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West by Jeff Guinn Publisher Comments Now in paperback, bestselling author Jeff Guinn’s definitive, myth-busting account of the most famous shoot-out in American history—“A terrific read” (Clive Cussler). The so-called Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (which was... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Old Man and the Swamp: A True Story about My Weird Dad, a Bunch of Snakes, and One Ridiculous Road Trip by John Sellers Staff Pick Another winner from John Sellers, author of Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life. This true story about his swampy snake-wrangling adventure with his aging father is hilarious and heartwarming.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Land of the Burnt Thigh (Borealis Books) by Edith Eudora Kohl Publisher Comments A fascinating memoir of homesteading in South Dakota in the early twentieth century.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Huguenot on the Hackensack: David Demarest and His Legacy by David C Major Publisher Comments A Huguenot on the Hackensack explores the life and legacy of David Demarest, a seventeenth-century French Protestant who, in middle age, emigrated to New Amsterdam and became one of the earliest settlers of the Hackensack Valley. There he founded a... (read more) List Price $29.50 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings (Vintage Departures) by Jonathan Raban From Powells.com "I had a boat, most of a spring and summer, a cargo of books, and the kind of dream of self-enrichment that spurs everyone who sails north from Seattle," explains Jonathan Raban at the outset of his journey along the Inside Passage from... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Fur Trade of the Far West Volume 1 by Hiram Chittenden Publisher Comments Epic in sweep and reach, strongly written and superbly researched, The American Fur Trade of the Far West is a classic if there ever was one. Its publication in 1902 made clear how much the fur trade was "indissolubly connected to the history of North... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Route 66: The Mother Road by Michael Wallis Publisher Comments America's Main Street is celebration, Michael Wallis hit the road again, revisiting people and places that made the Mother Road on American icon, and uncovering new treasures. A love letter and a tribute, Route 66: The Mother Road takes us on an... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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