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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Staff Pick Once I started this book, I couldn't stop reading. Not only is this young adult book funny and touching it feels so real. Anyone of any age who has struggled to know themselves and has fought for happiness will find resonance in the words and... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Loving What is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie Publisher Comments Out of nowhere, like a breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice, comes Byron Katie and “The Work.” In the midst of a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed, and over a ten-year period sank further into rage, despair, and thoughts... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell Staff Pick While it was hard to narrow down my list to just five "best of" picks, I didn't have to think twice about what would be my favorite book of the year. In Cloud Atlas Mitchell again uses the format of connecting short stories with recurring motifs into a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Life of Pi by Yann Martel Staff Pick I admit it; before reading Life of Pi, I thought, There's just no way that Yann Martel can write a whole book about a teenage boy and a tiger stranded together in a lifeboat for 277 days. But, I was so wrong; he pulls it off beautifully. You will love... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Staff Pick True or false: One out of every four items for sale in the average American supermarket contains corn? (Think, think, think...) Believe it or not, it's true. If this unsettles you — or just plain doesn't make sense — pick up a copy of Michael Pollan... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elementsfire, water, air, and earthto transform the stuff of nature into delicious things... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk From Powells.com "Fugitives and Refugees is more than a book about the weird people and dark corners of Portland. Tucked surreptitiously between chapters are eleven 'postcards,' which, cobbled together, make up a sort of memoir of Palahniuk's years in his adopted city... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel Publisher Comments On the banks of Mali's Niger River, Soumana Natomo and his family gather for a communal dinner of millet porridge with tamarind juice. In the USA, the Ronayne-Caven family enjoys corndogs-on-a-stick with a tossed green salad. This age-old practice of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W Loewen Publisher Comments Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Labyrinths (New Directions Paperbook, 186) by Jorge Luis Borges Publisher Comments Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original and significant figures in modern literature. In his preface, Andre Maurois... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy by Robert Bly Publisher Comments Robert Bly's ground-breaking anthology of spiritual poems, the result of over a decade of personal research, celebrates the ongoing role of the divine in literature. For as long as people have lived together in communities and built enduring cultures... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening by Gayla Trail Publisher Comments This is not your grandmother's gardening book. You Grow Girl is a hip, humorous how-to for crafty gals everywhere who are discovering a passion for gardening but lack the know-how to turn their dreams of homegrown tomatoes and fresh-cut flowers into a... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant Publisher Comments As vividly as Jon Krakauer put readers on Everest, John Vaillant takes us into the heart of North America's last great forest, where trees grow to eighteen feet in diameter, sunlight never touches the ground, and the chainsaws are always at work... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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River of Doubt Theodore Roosevelts Darke by Candice Millard Publisher Comments At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The River of Doubt—it is a... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories by David Sedaris Publisher Comments A bestseller in its own right and a must-have for fans of the #1 bestselling author David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction. David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sea: A Novel by John Banville Staff Pick Banville's fluid prose glides over the pages of The Sea, a rich story filled with heart and bittersweet longing. I pored over the luminescent descriptions of time and place and the beautiful characters that make up this world. Clearly the Man Booker was... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution by Alice Waters Staff Pick A new kitchen standby that delivers on the promise of the title, Alice Waters's The Art of Simple Food continues her revolution in good eating with over 250 delicious and easy-to-cook recipes.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage. As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish by G Bruce Knecht Publisher Comments This modern pirate yarn has all the makings of a great true adventure tale and is also an exploration of the ways our culinary tastes have all manner of unintended consequences for the world around us. Hooked is a story about the poaching of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Staff Pick Best book of 2005, favorite book of the year...Slice the question any number of ways, but the book published last year that I'm most grateful for having read is The Year of Magical Thinking, a devastating affirmation of love and commitment, hope and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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