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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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
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A Clearing In the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century by Witold Rybczynski From Powells.com Rarely are biographer and subject so well-matched as in Witold Rybczynski's seminal biography of the great nineteenth century landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted. In such classic works as Home: The Short History of an Idea and City... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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American Pastoral by Philip Roth Publisher Comments As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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High Fidelity by Nick Hornby Publisher Comments Now a major motion picture from Touchstone Pictures. Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 has... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Among the Missing by Dan Chaon Publisher Comments In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mines the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.88 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $20.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Staff Pick The narrator, Lionel Essrog, known as The Human Freakshow, suffers with Tourette's syndrome and though you might not want to know him in real life, he's got to be one of the most brilliant characters ever created. His quirky rants put me off at first... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Married a Communist by Philip Roth From Powells.com With respect to American literature, the nineties belonged to Philip Roth. Aside from the remarkable accomplishment of producing a major literary work every other year, Roth's first four novels of the decade constituted a literary grand slam, receiving... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs by Patricia McConnell Publisher Comments The Other End of the Leash shares a revolutionary, new perspective on our relationship with dogs, focusing on our behavior in comparison with that of dogs. An applied animal behaviorist and dog trainer with more than twenty years experience, Dr. Patricia... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead Publisher Comments Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. This marvellously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected novel, set in the curious world of elevator inspection, portrays a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Saul Bellow : Collected Stories (01 Edition) by Saul Bellow Publisher Comments A collection of treasured stories by the unchallenged master of American fiction Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebrated as one of Americas greatest writers. For more than sixty years he stretched our minds, our imaginations, and... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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
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A Gesture Life by Chang Rae Lee Publisher Comments The second novel from the critically acclaimed New York Timesbestselling author Chang-rae Lee. His remarkable debut novel was called "rapturous" (The New York Times Book Review), "revelatory" (Vogue), and "wholly innovative" (Kirkus Reviews).... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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