|
Farley's Picks
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Good Owners, Great Dogs by Brian Kilcommons Publisher Comments A Training Manual for Humans and their Canine Companions. With two new chapters on Puppy Training and Dominance Aggression. Instead of going out of your mind, get into his. The only American to study and work with the renowned Barbara Woodhouse... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
add to wish list |
|
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Publisher Comments Set along a bloody frontier in our own time, this is Cormac McCarthy's first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling "Border Trilogy." Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The Dog Listener: A Noted Expert Tells You How to Communicate with Your Dog for Willing Cooperation by Jan Fennell Publisher Comments Jan Fennell's remarkable gifts have earned her the nickname "the dog whisperer." Her unique knowledge of the canine world and its instinctive language has enabled her to bring even the most desperate and troubled dogs to heel. This easy-to-follow guide... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The Power of Positive Dog Training by Pat Miller Publisher Comments A renowned dog trainer gives you the positive training tools you need to share a lifetime of fun, companionship, and respect with your dog. Plus, youll get: information on the importance of observing, understanding, and reacting appropriately to your dog'... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead Publisher Comments Lila Mae Watson is the first black female Elevator Inspector in the history of the Department. She is an Intuitionist, able to intuit defects purely by tuning in to the machinery. The opposition, the Empiricists, practice dutiful and routine physical... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Publisher Comments Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby Publisher Comments High Fidelity is the story of Rob, a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend Laura has just left him for Ian from the flat upstairs. Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Ravelstein (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Saul Bellow Publisher Comments Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously — and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
How To Be Your Dogs Best Friend: The Classic Training Manual for Dog Owners by The Monks of New Skete Publisher Comments For nearly a quarter century, How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend has been the standard against which all other dog-training books have been measured. This new, expanded edition, with a fresh new design and new photographs throughout, preserves the best... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Saul Bellow : Collected Stories (01 Edition) by Saul Bellow Publisher Comments Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebrated as one of America's greatest living writers. For more than sixty years he has stretched our minds, our imaginations, and our hearts with his exhilarating perceptions of life. Now collected for... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Heaven and Earth: Unseen by the Naked Eye by Katherine Roucoux From Powells.com "Heaven and Earth is cleverly conceived and elegantly executed, but what best recommends it, what makes it a bargain at 230 million times the price, are the photographs themselves. Here is Nature in all her vast variety, ravishing color, and myriad... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh From Powells.com In the past decade writers such as A. L. Kennedy, Iain Banks, Alan Warner, Michel Faber, and Ian Rankin have made Scotland one of the most talked about literary communities in the world. No writer, though, has been more central to this "... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
In the City of Shy Hunters by Tom Spanbauer From Powells.com In 1991, Tom Spanbauer X-ed his spot on the literary map with The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, a boisterous, bawdy romp through an alternative Old West peopled by uptight Mormons, big-hearted whores, and one unforgettable bisexual Indian. The book... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Battle For God by Karen Armstrong From Powells.com "In The Battle for God, Armstrong brilliantly traces the struggle between the burgeoning Western secularism and the religious fundamentalism that has dogged its heels for the past five hundred years, culminating in that greatest of all fundamentalist... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes Publisher Comments Nelson Humboldt is a visiting adjunct English lecturer at prestigious Midwest University, until he is unceremoniously fired one autumn morning. Minutes after the axe falls, his right index finger is severed in a freak accident. Doctors manage to reattach... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Gain by Richard Powers From Powells.com Recipient of the prestigious MacArthur "genius" grant and finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Richard Powers has long been a favorite of literary critics. The editors of the Utne Reader, though, came... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber From Powells.com This entertaining and morally persuasive portrait of 19th-century London society, from the lowliest of the low to the haughtiest of the high, has been widely hailed as "Dickensian." A better term would be "hyper-Dickensian." Faber's filthy guttersnipes... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee From Powells.com In 1978, New Yorker science writer John McPhee set out on a series of road trips with prominent geologists. In each case, they remained close to Interstate 80, which spans the country at about the 40th parallel. McPhee's purpose was to write an... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas Basbanes Publisher Comments The passion to possess books has never been more widespread than it is today; indeed, obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it. A Gentle Madness, finalist for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle award, is an... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
Don't Miss
