Farley's Picks - Used Books
There are 385 books in this aisle.
There are 385 books in this aisle.
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by John Colapinto  
Publisher Comments In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine — and a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the... (read more)  List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Arthur Bradford Publisher Comments From O. Henry Award-winning short story writer Arthur Bradford comes this strangely outlandish yet compassionate collection that signals a major new voice in fiction. One young man steals his blind friend's truck and is caught by the cops, while another... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $7.50 (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 Michel Faber
From Powells.com This entertaining and morally persuasive portrait of 19th-century London society, from the lowliest of the low to the haughtiest of the high, has been widely hailed as "Dickensian." A better term would be "hyper-Dickensian."... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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 Thom Jones
Powells.com Staff Pick Thom Jones has no hope of being selected for Oprah's celebrated book club. Jones's raw stories of Haldol-fogged vets, self-deluded boxers, and advertising men in existential crisis smell too strongly of testosterone, sweat and despair for the daytime TV... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Carey
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Jill's Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Haddon
Publisher Comments Foreign rights have been sold to the UK, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Japan, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Holland and Brazil. Film rights have been bought by Hey Day (the makers of Harry Potter) together with Brad Grey (producer of The Sopranos... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Kate Jennings
Publisher Comments On Wall Street, reflects Cath, women are about as welcome as fleas in a sleeping bag. Funny, liberal and left-leaning, she is an unlikely candidate to be writing speeches on derivatives in a Manhattan tower, 'putting words in the mouths of plutocrats... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Erik Larson
Publisher Comments Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Audio Cassette) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicholas Basbanes
Powells.com Staff Pick Nicholas Basbanes opens this marvelous book with the story of biblioklept extraordinaire Stephen Carrie Blumberg. Over the span of 25 years, Blumberg toured the continent visiting libraries and stealing their books. When he was finally caught, he... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.00 (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 Jan Fennell
Powells.com Staff Pick This book makes the perfect companion to Patricia McConnell's excellent The Other End of the Leash. Where McConnell explains the difference between primates and canines from an animal behaviorist's perspective, Fennell gives clear, practical steps on how... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Auster Publisher Comments After losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he sees a clip from a lost film by the silent comedian Hector... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $6.74 (Used - Audio Cassette) check for new and sale copies
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by Wallace Stegner and Lynn Stegner
Powells.com Staff Pick Wallace Stegner once claimed that "talents are as numerous as salmon eggs, and for the same reason: those that can survive to maturity will be few." Coming from the founder of the Stanford Writing Program and one of the most... (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 $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Redmond Ohanlon From Powells.com In the nineteenth century, Great Britain produced several generations of well-bred young men who left the mannered communities of their pastoral homeland and set out by ship and rail into a still untamed world. These adventurers were courageous and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Hynes
Publisher Comments Nelson Humboldt is a visiting adjunct English lecturer at prestigious Midwest University, until he is unceremoniously fired one autumn morning. Minutes after the axe falls, his right index finger is severed in a freak accident. Doctors manage to reattach... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Powers
From Powells.com Recipient of the prestigious MacArthur "genius" grant and finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Richard Powers has long been a favorite of literary critics. The editors of the Utne Reader, though, came... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dennis Cooper
Powells.com Staff Pick "What is truly remarkable about this novel is how much compassion Cooper is able to cultivate in his readers. Even at his most deranged and violent, Larry is at least as sympathetic as he is abhorrent. Oddly enough, Larry reminded me of no one so much as... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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