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by Pema Chodron  Publisher Comments In this book Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chodron offers short, stand-alone readings designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living. More than a collection of thoughts for the day, Comfortable with Uncertainty... (read more)  List Price $19.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Alice McDermott 
From Powells.com In 1998, Alice McDermott's fourth novel, Charming Billy, surprised the literary world by capturing the National Book Award. Few doubted that McDermott deserved the prize and the readership it would deliver — she'd also been nominated for... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Huston Smith Publisher Comments Huston Smith, internationally recognized philosopher, scholar of religion, and author of the long-acclaimed classic The World's Religions, now offers Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Costello
Powells.com Staff Pick Vi Asplund, a Secret Service agent, returns to her childhood home to protect the vice president as he campaigns in the New Hampshire primary. Jens, her brother, still lives in Portsmouth, writing code for a wildly successful computer game. If Mark... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $3.35 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Donna Tartt
Publisher Comments Richard Papen arrived at Hampden College in New England and was quickly seduced by an elite group of five students, all Greek scholars, all worldly, self-assured, and, at first glance, all highly unapproachable. As Richard is drawn into their inner... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michel Faber
Publisher Comments Hailed as "original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century" (The Wall Street Journal), this first novel lingers long after the last page has been turned. Described as a "fascinating psychological thriller" (The Baltimore Sun), this entrancing... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Amy Borkowsky Publisher Comments Does your mother call you in a panic when she hears a storm warning for your area? Does she act as though it's her duty to alert you to every health story she hears on the news? Have you ever been briefly out of contact with your mother only to find she... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gary Shteyngart
Publisher Comments The Russian Debutante's Handbook is infused with energy and wit and a brilliant use of language. Hilarious, extravagant, yet uncannily true to life, it follows the adventures of Vladimir, a young Russian-American immigrant, whose capitalist dreams and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sloan Wilson Publisher Comments Sloan Wilson's searing indictment of a society that favours wealth and power over spiritual integrity.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Shales
From Powells.com "Live from New York is described as 'an uncensored history of Saturday Night Live' and that is exactly what you get: no mincing of words, no glancing blows....See the hatred that Jim Belushi still bears for Bob Woodward for writing about his brother... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Salvatore Calabrese Publisher Comments "[C]atch a whiff of...old-fashioned American style in a...volume, nearly square, which, like the drinks it describes, a little of this combined with a little of that and presented with a flourish...cleverly chosen period posters and illustrations...A... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.46 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Kimmel
Publisher Comments It is the first night of Hanukkah. Hershel of Ostropol is walking down the road. Tired and hungry, he is looking forward to reaching the next village. He is sure that bright candles, merry songs, and platters of potato latkes will be waiting for him. But... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nick McDonell Synopsis From a gifted and assured 17-year-old author comes a stunning portrait of his generation, set among wealthy kids in Manhattan.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sogyal Rinpoche
Publisher Comments This acclaimed spiritual masterpiece is widely regarded as one of the most complete and authoritative presentations of the Tibetan Buddhist teachings ever written. A manual for life and death and a magnificent source of sacred inspiration from the heart... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Durden Publisher Comments 55 is a new series of beautifully produced pocket-sized books that acknowledge and celebrate all styles and aspects of photography. Dorothea Lange was working for the FSA in California at the same time as Walker Evans was photographing in the South... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Douglas Hofstadter
Publisher Comments Douglas Hofstadter’s book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Simon Broughton Special Offer For a limited time, buy a new copy of any of the books in Rough Guide's Popular Culture section, and get The Rough Guide to World Party CD free!... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jill Ker Conway
Synopsis The beloved bestselling author of "The Road from Coorain and "True North continues her remarkable autobiography with an account of her decade as the first woman president of Smith College-a time when she was faced with the challenge of reinventing women... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Arthur Phillips
Publisher Comments A first novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune—financial, romantic, and spiritual—in an... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by National Audubon Society
Synopsis Once in a great while, a natural history book changes the way people look at the world. In 1838, John ames Audubon's Birds of America was one...In 1934, Roger Tory Peterson produced Field Guide to the Birds,..Now comes The Sibley Guide to Birds, Thus did... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $22.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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