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by Sally Schneider  
Powells.com Staff Pick I must have sixty cookbooks; this is my favorite. The detailed, extensive instructions will please beginners; meanwhile hundreds of 'improvisations' make it ideal for more advanced, imaginative cooks, too. The Roasted Turkey recipe, inspired by Alice... (read more)  List Price $40.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Stephen W Hawking Publisher Comments Stephen Hawking?s phenomenal, multimillion-copy bestseller, A Brief History of Time, introduced the ideas of this brilliant theoretical physicist to readers all over the world. Now, in a major publishing event, Hawking returns with a lavishly... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $17.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alain de Botton
Publisher Comments Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dr Seuss Publisher Comments Come join us for the celebration of the Cat's fortieth birthday. Following the stunning success of Six by Seuss, which has sold over 734,000 copies, is the delightful debut of A Hatful of Seuss--304 pages of wonderfully nonsensical vintage material. This... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Telushkin Publisher Comments How much do you know about Judaism?How did the Ten Lost Tribes become lost ? Are circumcisions performed on the Sabbath ? Which country first granted Jews equal rights ?When was polygamy outlawed for Jews ? Why does Jewish law compare gossiping to murder... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Book Club Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Stefan Fatsis
Publisher Comments Scrabble may be truly called America's game. But for every group of "living-room players" there is someone who is "at one with the board." In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis introduces readers to those few, exploring the underground world of colorful... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by J Krishnamurti Publisher Comments This comprehensive record of Krishnamurti's teaching is an excellent, wide-ranging introduction to the great philosopher's thought. Within general discussions of conflict, fear, violence, religious experience, self-knowledge, and intelligence... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William S Burroughs Publisher Comments In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Amy Sohn Publisher Comments Television's sauciest and sexiest program is nothing less than a national phenomenon. Now, after four wildly successful and critically acclaimed seasons, the show's winning formula of sex, glamour, humor, and candor is available in a one-of-a-kind... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sunset From Powells.com The sun is (here and there) peeking out from behind the clouds, the daffodils are bursting out of the hard winter earth, and the days are getting noticeably longer: spring is just around the corner. Which makes this a perfect time for picking up... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price $23.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mike Davis
Publisher Comments To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere." No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tony Horwitz Publisher Comments This wild and comic tale of Middle East misadventure is "a very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region. Fearlessness is a valuable quality in a travel writer, and Mr. Horwitz...seems as intrepid as they come". (The... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Truman Capote
Publisher Comments Available for the first time in a single volume are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction. Two of these childhood memoirs — "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor" — center... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Chris Van Allsburg
Powells.com Staff Pick Could a bookseller's favorite book really be a children's Christmas picture book? I am often asked to name my favorite book — an impossible question to answer, really — and I find myself mentioning The Polar Express time and again (not without... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Karen Armstrong
From Powells.com "In The Battle for God, Armstrong brilliantly traces the struggle between the burgeoning Western secularism and the religious fundamentalism that has dogged its heels for the past five hundred years, culminating in that greatest of all fundamentalist... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Phaidon Synopsis This is a pocket-sized A-Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times. Each artist is represented by a full-page colour plate of typical work, accompanied by information on each image and its creator. Artists, styles and... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Burton Silver Synopsis Should the marks a cat makes be treated as art, or are they simply forms of territorial behavior? This photographic record of cat creativity will intrigue catlovers and art-lovers alike, as it deciphers many heretofore unexplained aspects of cat behavior... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Julie Sussman
Publisher Comments < h4 align=center> This is NOT your father's home repair book < /h4> < p> And it's not your husband's, your brother's, your boyfriend's, or the guy's next door. < i> Dare to Repair< /i> is a do-it-herself book for every... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dan Savage Publisher Comments Dan Savage is irreverent, irrepressible, and opinionated. He's held his own on Politically Incorrect, told tales on This American Life, continues to write a beloved nationally syndicated column-and he's had it up to here (my hand is higher than my head... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $10.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Erik Larson
Publisher Comments September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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