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by Brock Clarke  
Powells.com Staff Pick Hilariously twisted and yet somehow still burning with heart, An Arsonist's Guide will be eminently accessible (and very funny) to readers of any background. Lit majors, however, may take special delight in watching the source of so many dull lectures go... (read more)  List Price $23.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Ian Baker
Publisher Comments The myth of Shangri-la originates in Tibetan Buddhist beliefs in beyul, or hidden lands, sacred sanctuaries that reveal themselves to devout pilgrims and in times of crisis. The more remote and inaccessible the beyul, the vaster its reputed qualities.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Colson Whitehead
Powells.com Staff Pick Fans of the extended junketeering riffs in John Henry Days, rejoice: Colson Whitehead is back with a short, satirical novel about a city — and a man — looking for a fresh start. Gone are the extended digressions and extravagant stylistic... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pierre Bayard Publisher Comments In this provocative, witty book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Bayard argues that non-reading can be just as useful an act as reading. He states that the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book, but the one who understands the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Chuck Johnson Synopsis A collection of signature recipes from restaurants and lodges in Oregon, along with photos and histories.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frank Bergon Publisher Comments With 2003 marking the beginning of the Lewis and Clark expedition bicentennial celebration, this journal is now reissued in a beautiful new Penguin Classics package.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Gunther Publisher Comments Plot Summary Death Be Not Proud chronicles Johnny Gunther's gallant struggle against the malignant brain tumor that killed him at the age of seventeen. The book opens with his father's fond, vivid portrait of his son - a young man of extraordinary... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $3.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Iris Chang
Publisher Comments In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered -- a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thucydides And Warner Publisher Comments Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom McCarthy
Publisher Comments A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it. Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can't quite place. How he goes... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Clapton Publisher Comments In "Clapton: The Autobiography," one of the most revered and private figures in the history of rock, blues, and pop finally shares his astonishing life story. The perfect gift for any Slow Hand fan.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Homer Publisher Comments In this widely acclaimed verse translation of Homer's great epic, Robert Fagles combines the skills of poet and scholar. He brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic work, but maintains the drive and metric music of Homer's... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rachael Ray Publisher Comments Bestselling cookbook phenom and Food Network megastar Ray is back with her most indispensable cookbook yet, filled with enough 30-minute recipes and variation to put something different and irresistible on the table every night for an entire year. 16... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Zadie Smith
Publisher Comments Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexandre Dumas
Publisher Comments Translated with an Introduction by Robin Buss... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Reich
Publisher Comments Thomas Bolden grew up on the streets, his childhood a blur of fragmented memories. But now he's managed to put his past behind him, find the woman he wants to share his life with, and carve out a successful career on Wall Street. Until, in the blink of... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Reich Publisher Comments Christopher Reich electrified readers with Numbered Account and The Runner, his first two international thrillers. Now the "New York Times bestselling author whose work has been called "gripping" ("Chicago Tribune), "chilling" ("The Denver Post... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $3.25 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Pynchon Publisher Comments In the mid-1960s, the publication of Pynchon's V and The Crying of Lot 49 introduced a brilliant new voice to American literature. Gravity's Rainbow, his convoluted, allusive novel about a metaphysical quest, published in 1973, further confirmed Pynchon... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sara James Publisher Comments Transplanting Southern roots to southern Africa, Ginger Mauney has earned the acceptance of a troop of baboons, unraveled mysteries of life and death in an elephant herd, and raised her young son in the wilds of Etosha National Park. During her career as... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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