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by Thomas Berger  
Publisher Comments The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated. So speaks Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger's masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the Western as serious literature... (read more)  List Price $16.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Michael Collopy Publisher Comments Seventy-five of the world’s greatest peacemakers — spiritual leaders, politicians, scientists, artists, and activists — testify to humanity’s diversity and its potential. Featuring 16 Nobel Peace Prize laureates and such... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by B. R. Myers Publisher Comments Available for the first time, the full-length, unexpurgated version of the essay that incited one of the most passionate literary controversies ever in American letters... When the Atlantic Monthly first published an excerpted version of B. R. Myers... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Mcphee
Publisher Comments A long-awaited new book by the nonfiction master, winner of the Pulitzer Prize Few fish are as beloved-or as obsessed over-as the American shad. Although shad spend most of their lives in salt water, they enter rivers by the hundreds of thousands in the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lawrence David Publisher Comments Naughty or nice? Peter Claus thinks this yearly question is most unfair. As Santa’s son, he should know. For the second year in a row his name appears on the dreaded Naughty List. That means no presents for Christmas! But Peter doesn’t... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Matteo Pericoli and Paul Goldberger Publisher Comments Matteo Pericoli trained as an architect in Milan and then came to work in New York in 1995. His arrival preceded by just a few days the arrival of the biggest snowstorm of the decade, and the sense of the city in its wake–especially its silence... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Slipcase) check for new and sale copies
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by Diane Forley
Publisher Comments Frank Stitt's Southern Tablefeatures the distinctive recipes of one of America's most original culinary voices, an award-winning third-generation Alabamian whose travels around the world brought into focus the uniqueness of the food back home. Now Frank... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Art Spiegelman
Powells.com Staff Pick In 1941, Jack Cole, formerly an illustrator and later a cartoonist for Playboy, introduced the world to Plastic Man, a superhero who, due to an unfortunate accident with a horrible acid, developed the incredible ability to transform himself into any... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies
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by Beppe Severgnini Publisher Comments In his American publishing debut, the Bill Bryson of Italy spends a year in one of Washington, D.C.'s toniest neighborhoods, bargain hunting at a mattress warehouse, savoring pizza from a franchise, and trying not to drown in the shower. It wasn't... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $7.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Redhill
Publisher Comments What does it really mean to love another person? The question hovers like a persistent wisp of fog over the story of Martin Sloane, an Irish-born artist who creates intricate, object-filled boxes, and Jolene Iolas, the young American woman who finds... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Earl Mindell Publisher Comments The Bestselling Guide to Herbal Remedies -- Completely Revised and Expanded Since its original publication in 1992, Earl Mindell's Herb Bible has become the definitive guide to the world of herbal remedies. Recognized as today's leading trend in self... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Auster
From Powells.com Paul Auster could be postmodernism's poster child. Structurally overt, intellectually complex, metaphorically self-conscious, Auster explores surfaces in order to dig deep and borrows classical forms in order to reveal contemporary dissonance... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Carole Angier Publisher Comments One of the most eagerly awaited biographies of recent years: a searching life of the great Italian writer and witness to the Holocaust Perhaps the most important writer to emerge from the death camps, Primo Levi spent sixty-five of his sixty-seven years... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Phaidon Press Synopsis Following in the tradition of Phaidon's "The Art Book", this is an illustrated dictionary which presents in alphabetical order the work of 500 great artists from the 20th century. Each artist is represented by a full-page colour plate of a key work and a... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (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 James Gavin Review "Gavin does a cringingly fine job of detailing these personal travails, Baker's desperate womanizing, and his musical persona....Not just a pitiable waste of luminous talent, but a really scary story. Narrated by Gavin with gingery discernment."... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Budiansky Publisher Comments Dogs: Man's best friends-or canine con artists? For centuries dogs have stolen our hearts, our homes, and our wallets. Just how do dogs get otherwise reasonable adults to feed them sirloin, let them occupy easy chairs, and generally allow them to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher Comments For the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the men and women who long for and love the complex frailties and treacherous beauty of a world defined by ice. Greenland, the world?s largest island, 840... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Julie Otsuka
Powells.com Staff Pick A breathtaking debut. Also a painter, Otsuka creates complex scenes and well-rounded characters with astonishing efficiency. Line by line her minimalist strokes disguise the massive canvas on which she's working: the internment of more than 120,000... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Matthiessen
Publisher Comments Cranes are ubiquitous in the earliest legends of the world's peoples, where they often figure as sentinels of heaven and omens of longevity and good fortune. For their great beauty and imposing size — they are the largest of all flying birds on... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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