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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris Staff Pick One of these days I'll find the time to construct an actual review of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, but until I do let these words stand as my pledge: You will not regret purchasing this book. Further: You're unlikely to find more pure... (read more) List Price $24.45 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Control of Nature by John Mcphee Publisher Comments The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control nature.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tent by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments One of the world’s most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, punctuated with wonderful illustrations by the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey Publisher Comments "A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEW Edward Abbey... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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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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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott Publisher Comments "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda Synopsis The winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda is regarded as the greatest Latin American poet of the twentieth century. This bilingual edition makes available a major selection of his poems, both in the original Spanish and impressively... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon Publisher Comments The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment. When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Renewing Salmon Nation's Food Traditions by Gary Nabhan Publisher Comments Renewing Salmon Nation's Food Traditions describes a treasure trove of regional plants and species some at risk, others recovering. We hope that it can serve as both a reference guide and a historical inventory of species that were once abundant... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman Publisher Comments From irrational exuberance to corporate scandals, from the war in Iraq to the looting of California to the false pretenses used to sell an economic policy that benefits only a small elite, Krugman tells the uncomfortable truth like no one else. The... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Field Notes on the Compassionate Life by Marc Ian Barasch Publisher Comments Dubbed "one of today's coolest grown-ups" by "Interview" magazine, Barasch sets out on a journey to the heart of compassion. He discovers its power to change who people are and the society they have become.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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On Writing by Stephen King Publisher Comments "Long live the King," hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft,... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J. R. Moehringer Publisher Comments A moving, vividly told memoir full of heart, drama, and exquisite comic timing, about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar J.R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: It was the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Immaculate Deception II: Myth, Magic & Brith by Suzanne Arms Publisher Comments In this intimate perspective on birth, renowned author and photographer Suzanne Arms conveys the inherent wisdom in this natural process, through her eloquent words and pictures.... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How We Choose To Be Happy by Rick Foster Staff Pick One of the reasons happy people are special is that they have an unusual answer to the classic question: "Is the glass half full or half empty?" Their answer, which sets them apart from the rest of us, is that the glass is both half empty and half full... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (Literature of the Middle East) by Yehuda Amichai Publisher Comments Yehuda Amichai is Israel's most popular poet as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this revised and expanded collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved and enduring poems,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-deficit Disorder (05 - Old Edition) by Richard Louv Publisher Comments "I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged in--and so out of touch with the natural world. In this groundbreaking new work, child... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Slow Food Nation: A Blueprint for Changing the Way We Eat by Carlo Petrini Publisher Comments By now most of us are aware of the threats looming in the food world. The best-selling Fast Food Nation and other recent books have alerted us to such dangers as genetically modified organisms, food-borne diseases, and industrial farming. Now it is time... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Blankets: An Illustrated Novel by Craig Thompson Publisher Comments From the author of the critically-acclaimed and best-selling graphic novel, Good-Bye, Chunky Rice, comes Craig Thompson's all-new masterpiece. Blankets the most anticipated graphic novel of the year is already being regarded as THE defining... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Little House on a Small Planet: Simple Homes, Cozy Retreats, and Energy Efficient Possibilities by Shay Salomon Publisher Comments Live in less space but have more room to enjoy it. Does that sound like a contradiction? Smart readers will discover that, on the contrary, living small can free up your mind, your wallet, and your soul. With the cost of living rising, and the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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