Farley's Picks - Used Books
There are 394 books in this aisle.
There are 394 books in this aisle.
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by Haruki Murakami  
From Powells.com Haruki Murakami is generally considered the greatest Japanese writer of his generation, but at times he seems more in tune with the culture of the West than of his native country. Throughout his work, the food, music, movies, and literature... (read more)  List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Eric Schlosser
Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrick Dennis
Publisher Comments Wildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis' Auntie Mame sold over two million copies and stayed put on the "New York Times bestseller list for 112 weeks. It was made into a play, a Broadway as well as a Hollywood musical, and a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George Saunders
From Powells.com In an era that boasts Jerry Springer, Tammy Faye Baker, and "Survivor Africa," it's difficult to make it as a satirist. Any effort to exaggerate the world's ridiculous contractions — the satirist's stock in trade — falls flat... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Fritjof Capra
Publisher Comments After a quarter of a century in print, Capra's groundbreaking work still challenges and inspires. This updated edition of The Tao of Physics includes a new preface and afterword in which the author reviews the developments of the twenty-five years since... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by The Monks of New Skete
Powells.com Staff Pick "[T]he Monks of New Skete have completely revised and updated their original work to include 'the most current ideas about training and dog care' while remaining 'faithful to what we have learned through our experience.' Given the changes in the dog... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Denis Johnson
Powells.com Staff Pick The best thing about Denis Johnson's writing is that he never seems to take the easy way out. Some of these nonfiction pieces in this collection are searing and brutal, a few are soul searching, and a couple just plain funny. They made me think about... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Spanbauer From Powells.com In 1991, Tom Spanbauer X-ed his spot on the literary map with The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, a boisterous, bawdy romp through an alternative Old West peopled by uptight Mormons, big-hearted whores, and one unforgettable bisexual Indian. The book... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Colson Whitehead
From Powells.com Rarely does a first novel generate the kind of excitement The Intuitionist did when it was first published in 1998. This noirish mystery about the Byzantine underbelly of the Department of Elevator Inspectors (of all things) in a Gotham-like... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Denis Johnson
Powells.com Staff Pick Blame the Gothic romantic deep inside me (buried alive, in a coffin), but I've long had a soft spot for the famous evening of June 16, 1816, in which Lord Byron read a book of German ghost stories to guests at his home in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, then... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hunter S Thompson
Powells.com Staff Pick When Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought the Modern Library in 1925, its mission was ? and still is ? to provide attractive, hardcover editions of important works of literature and thought to serious readers on a budget. The Modern Library became... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Xingjian Gao
Powells.com Staff Pick Born in 1940, Gao Xingjian was still a young man when China's decade long Cultural Revolution began in 1966. This disastrous period represented China's bizarre attempt to create a utopian society by both erasing its extensive history and obliterating... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Furst
Powells.com Staff Pick Many Alan Furst fans ? and their numbers are growing rapidly ? are under the mistaken impression that he is English. This is due to the fact that Furst, a native New Yorker, established his initial reputation on the other side of the Atlantic. It's... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nick Hornby
Powells.com Staff Pick In the nineties, while Americans were looking to cloying John Gray to explain the differences between men and women, the Brits were having a much better time learning about the foibles of gender from two of their best satirists. Taken together... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Saul Bellow
Powells.com Staff Pick Saul Bellow is no stranger to the roman à clef. Von Humboldt Fleisher in Humboldt's Gift was clearly modeled on the late poet Delmore Schwartz, and Harold Rosenberg inspired Victor Wulpy in the story ''What Kind of Day Did... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $13.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dan Chaon
Publisher Comments In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mines the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Carey
Powells.com Staff Pick When Booker Prize-winning author Peter Carey first read Charles Dickens's classic, Great Expectations, he brought with him the point of view of his fellow Australians, whose ancestors had been exiled from England and sent to what was then a penal... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jim Thompson
Powells.com Staff Pick Reviewer Dale Peck recently illustrated one writer's failure to create genuinely "soulless" characters with a comparison: "In fact, soullessness in fiction is hard to come by: most bad writing actually suffers from too much soul. A good writer –... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harold Bloom
Powells.com Staff Pick If Michael Jordan offered a seminar on jumping, you can bet anyone with a pair of Nikes would want to attend. Just so, when Harold Bloom published a book called How to Read and Why it went straight onto the New York Times Bestseller list. As a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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