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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
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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Publisher Comments Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthys first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy. Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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On Teaching and Writing Fiction by Wallace Stegner and Lynn Stegner Publisher Comments Wallace Stegner founded the acclaimed Stanford Writing Program-a program whose alumni include such literary luminaries as Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, and Raymond Carver. Here Lynn Stegner brings together eight of Stegner's previously uncollected essays-... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 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: $7.95 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 $16.00 Your price: $5.50 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: $4.95 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: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow Publisher Comments As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this gem by the great Saul Bellow was hailed as an American classic. Bold, expansive, and keenly humorous, The Adventures of Augie March blends street language with literary elegance to tell the story of a poor... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $9.95 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 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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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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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: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Collected Stories 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: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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