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by Jim Kokoris  Publisher Comments Sam was an indifferent Chicago lawyer content to drift though life on his good looks and his wife's money, until a violent incident shatters his world. Newly addicted to watching Sister North, a nun with a popular TV show, Sam embarks on a trip to Lake... (read more)  List Price $23.95 Your price $5.13 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Dee Dee Stovel Publisher Comments Pack the Perfect Portable Feast! Picnics are casual, they're fun, and somehow the food just tastes better outdoors. Enjoy 29 great picnic events with more than 125 recipes - packable repasts for every occasion ad season, such as a Summer Canoe Picnic, A... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patricia Bjaa Welch Publisher Comments Chinese Art is a guide to the meanings behind the hundreds of common motifs and symbols found in all forms of Chinese art. A thorough examination of the diverse usage of natural symbols, colors, numbers, inanimate items and personages, Chinese Art... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $41.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Chuck Palahniuk 
Publisher Comments Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Pollan
Publisher Comments In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant -- though this... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Haruki Murakami
Powells.com Staff Pick In Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami brings the Oedipus legend to contemporary Japan. The reader is treated to his musings on art, culture, the loss of innocence and...cats, in his patented, magic-realist way. Easily his best novel translated into... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Allen Sibley Publisher Comments America's premier bird artist has prepared two guides specifically designed for use in the field--and eminently portable. Each has essential information and thousands of illustrations, with at least six views of each species. 4,000+ full-color... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Robbins Publisher Comments American MIAs choose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Four generations of strong, alluring women share a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. In "Villa Incognito," love, lust, and provocative ideas abound.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas More Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references.... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steve Geng Publisher Comments A memoir about two siblings who loved each other (sometimes), the thrill of the shoplift, the power of the written word, the agony of addiction, and the joy of someone who understands and still stays true through it all.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Marvin Mondlin Publisher Comments The story of the sellers and the dealers, the collectors and the readers, when America got high on books. They called it the New York Booksellers' Row, or, more commonly, Book Row. It's an American story, the story that this richly anecdotal historical... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jon Krakauer
Publisher Comments The extraordinary bestselling true story of a young man's uncompromising pilgrimage that ended in tragedy.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan Lethem
Powells.com Staff Pick The narrator, Lionel Essrog, known as The Human Freakshow, suffers with Tourette's syndrome and though you might not want to know him in real life, he's got to be one of the most brilliant characters ever created. His quirky rants put me off at first... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Chuck Palahniuk
Powells.com Staff Pick "A page-turner that reads like a good mystery, Diary is a study in art, history, community, family and the betrayal of all of the above as seen through the eyes of Portland's own Chuck Palahniuk. Also, check out his book about Portland... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Neal Stephenson
Publisher Comments Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison — a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Robbins Publisher Comments What if the Second Coming didn't quite come off as advertised? What if "the Corpse" on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is--what does that portent for the future of western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adeline Yen Mah
Publisher Comments Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Herodotus Publisher Comments Translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt with an introduction and Notes by John M. Marincola.... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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