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Bestselling Used Books for May 9

  1. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
  2. The Glass Castle: a Memoir by Jeannette Walls
  3. Ender's Game (Ender Wiggins Saga #1) by Orson Scott Card
  4. Alchemist (98 Edition) by Paulo Coelho
  5. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
  6. Small Steps (06 Edition) by Louis Sachar
  7. The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting by Christie Mellor
  8. The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer
  9. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  10. John Adams by David Mccullough
  11. Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
  12. Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers (Laurel Leaf Books) by Gary Paulsen
  13. The Sci-Fi Dollar Mystery Book by Team Geeky @ Powell's Books
  14. The Whole Truth by David Baldacci
  15. The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A J Jacobs
  16. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
  17. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
  18. The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
  19. The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig
  20. His Dark Materials Omnibus by Philip Pullman

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Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers

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Dave Egger's parents died from cancer within a month of each other when he was 21 and his brother, Christopher, was seven. They left the Chicago suburb where they had grown up and moved to San Francisco. This book tells the story of their life together.... (read more)


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Paul Strand (Masters) Paul Strand (Masters)
by Mark Haworth Booth

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Paul Strand was more than a great artist: he was a discoverer of the true potential of photography as the most dynamic medium of the twentieth century. Purity, elegance, and passion are the hallmarks of Strand's imagery. This inaugural volume of Aperture'... (read more)

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The Night Before Kindergarten (Reading Railroad Books) The Night Before Kindergarten (Reading Railroad Books)
by Natasha Wing

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'Twas the night before kindergarten, and as they prepared, kids were excited, and a little bit scared. It's the first day of school! Join the kids as they prepare for kindergarten, packing school supplies, posing for pictures, and the hardest part... (read more)

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Empire Empire
by Orson Card

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The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone. The battle rages between the... (read more)

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Religion Eastern

The Miracle of Mindfulness The Miracle of Mindfulness
by Thich Nhat Hanh

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'There have been more than 250,000 copies sold of this famous introduction to Buddhist meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh\'s gentle stories and exercises show us how to use the practice of'... (read more)

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Popular Fiction

The Exile The Exile
by Allan Folsom

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John Barron, the youngest cop on the LAPD’s elite 5-2 squad, gets a baptism of blood and fire as he encounters the most haunting case and villains he’s ever faced. Trapped in a web of global intrigue, Barron and his sister, Rebecca, are swept... (read more)

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I Heard That Song Before I Heard That Song Before
by Mary Higgins Clark

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In a riveting psychological thriller, Mary Higgins Clark takes the reader deep into the mysteries of the human mind, where memories may be the most dangerous things of all. At the center of her novel is Kay Lansing, who has grown up in Englewood, New... (read more)

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Graphic Novels

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life: Volume 1 Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life: Volume 1
by Bryan Lee O'Malley

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Scott Pilgrim's life is totally sweet. He's 23 years old, in a rock band, "between jobs," and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's fantastic until a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, rollerblading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers... (read more)

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Westerns

Lonesome Dove Lonesome Dove
by Larry Mcmurtry

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Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major novel at last of the American West as it really was. A love story, an adventure, an American epic, Lonesome Dove embraces all the West... (read more)

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World History

Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
by Queen Noor

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A national best-seller on its first publication in 2003, Leap of Faith is the story of a young American woman who became wife and partner to an Arab monarch. In it, Queen Noor of Jordan provides a compelling portrait of her late husband King Hussein and... (read more)

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Sports and Fitness

Tao of Gung Fu the Bruce Lee Librar Volume 2 Tao of Gung Fu the Bruce Lee Librar Volume 2
by John Little

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Bruce Lee had written the majority of "The Tao of Gung Fu" prior to his death. In it, he gives a thorough examination of martial arts and self defence techniques, and of Eastern and Western approaches to fitness.... (read more)

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Foreign Languages

Ll Ultimate French Beginner Intermediate Ll Ultimate French Beginner Intermediate
by Living Language

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This deluxe course has everything you need to learn French from scratch or to revive the French that you learned years ago. Ultimate French combines conversation and culture in an easy-to-follow, enjoyable, and effective format. It’s the perfect... (read more)

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Humor

I Am America (and So Can You!) I Am America (and So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert

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Stephen Colbert is America — and since we live in America, we must also live in him. Think long and hard about that as you devour this book which should be required reading for all Americans, and by "Americans" I mean "Stephen Colbert's body parts."... (read more)

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