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The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics)
The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics)
by James Fenimo Cooper
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Illus. in black-and-white. This action-packed edition of James Fenimore Cooper's famous adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French and Indian War to vivid life.   From the Trade Paperback edition.... (read more)

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The Ansel Adams Guide: Basic Techniques of Photography - Book Two
The Ansel Adams Guide: Basic Techniques of Photography - Book Two
by John P Schaefer
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The continuation volume to the highly successful "Basic Techniques of Photography, Book 1", this profusely illustrated manual offers a contemporary guide to Ansel Adams' brilliant approach to creative photography. 320 illustrations, 160 in color. 30... (read more)

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The House at Pooh Corner
The House at Pooh Corner
by A. A. Milne
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This deluxe edition of Milne's classic work is a stunning companion to the Winnie-the-Pooh 80th Anniversary Edition. The interior features the unabridged text and Shepard's charming illustrations in full color on cream-colored stock, along with a die-cut... (read more)

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American Gods
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
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Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident.Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a... (read more)

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Religion Eastern
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Autobiography : the Story of My Experiments With Truth (83 Edition)
Autobiography : the Story of My Experiments With Truth (83 Edition)
by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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Boyhood, legal studies, purification, the growth of the Satyagraha -- nonviolent protest -- movement. Critical, inspiring work of the man responsible for the freedom of India.... (read more)

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Map of Bones: A SIGMA Force Novel
Map of Bones: A SIGMA Force Novel
by James Rollins
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During a crowded service at a cathedral in Germany, armed intruders in monks' robes unleash a nightmare of blood and destruction. But the killers have not come for gold; they seek a more valuable prize: the bones of the Magi who once paid homage to a... (read more)

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Living Dead in Dallas: Sookie Stackhouse Novel #2 (Southern Vampire Series)
Living Dead in Dallas: Sookie Stackhouse Novel #2 (Southern Vampire Series)
by Charlaine Harris
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Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is on a streak of bad luck. First, her coworker is murdered and no one seems to care. Then she's face-to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously... (read more)

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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
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Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black... (read more)

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Westerns
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Sin Killer: The Berrybender Narrative, Book 1
Sin Killer: The Berrybender Narrative, Book 1
by Larry Mcmurtry
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The first novel in McMurtry's "New York Times" bestselling four-volume work is now in paperback. The aristocratic English Berrybender family is on its way up the Missouri River in 1830 to see the untamed West. Along with Indians and pioneers, they meet a... (read more)

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Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World
Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World
by Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu
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This lyrical evocation of girlhood in a remote Himalayan village where women truly rule is now in paperback. In the remote Himalayas, on the shores of Lake Lugu, there is a place the Chinese call "the Country of Daughters." This is the home of the... (read more)

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Shoeless Joe
Shoeless Joe
by W P Kinsella
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" Wild...Romantic...Unconventional...A triumph of hope." THE BOSTON GLOBE The voice of a baseball announcer tells the Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella: " If you build it, he will come." " He" is Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ray's hero... (read more)

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Jazz Chants (Jazz Chants)
Jazz Chants (Jazz Chants)
by Carolyn Graham
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Jazz Chants are Carolyn Graham's snappy, upbeat chants and poems that use jazz rhythms to illustrate the natural stress and intonation patterns of conversational American English. Her first book, Jazz Chants, was published in 1978, followed by Jazz... (read more)

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Humor
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If You Didn't Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat?: Misadventures in Hunting, Fishing, and the Wilds of Suburbia
If You Didn't Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat?: Misadventures in Hunting, Fishing, and the Wilds of Suburbia
by Bill Heavey
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For nearly a decade, Bill Heavey, an outdoorsman marooned in suburbia, has written the “Sportsman’s Life” column on the back page of Field & Stream, where he does for hunting and fishing what David Feherty does for golf and Lewis... (read more)

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