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There are 1030 books in this aisle.
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by Chuck Palahniuk  
From Powells.com "Fugitives and Refugees is more than a book about the weird people and dark corners of Portland. Tucked surreptitiously between chapters are eleven 'postcards,' which, cobbled together, make up a sort of memoir of Palahniuk's years in his adopted city... (read more)  List Price $16.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Yann Martel
Publisher Comments The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Doug Fine
Publisher Comments Advance praise for Farewell, My Subaru Fine is Bryson Funny. ----Santa Cruz Sentinel Fine is an amiable and self-deprecating storyteller in the mold of Douglas Adams. If you're a fan of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-style humor -- and also looking to... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Perkins
Publisher Comments From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposA(c) of international corruptiona and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations With a presidential election around the corner... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Robbins
Publisher Comments Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Sedaris
Powells.com Staff Pick One of these days I'll find the time to construct an actual review of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, but until I do let these words stand as my pledge: You will not regret purchasing this book. Further: You're unlikely to find more pure... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robin Donovan
Publisher Comments Campers will wax rhapsodic about sleeping outdoors, breathing clean air, and communing with nature, all the while eating unhealthy, unsatisfying foods. Campfire Cuisine is here to ensure that you won't have to eat hot dogs and baked beans any longer... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies
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by David Mitchell
Powells.com Staff Pick "For readers who enjoy good stories wrapped around an inventive structure. Each tale is obliquely connected to another moving forward through time. And each has a totally different voice and style." Salli, Powells... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Schlosser
Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Perrotta
Powells.com Staff Pick "What really makes Little Children shine is its theme of isolation. Never before have I laughed so much and so enjoyed a book whose message was so essentially sad....I closed the covers feeling sober, alone, and delirious from the sheer rush of the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sarah Vowell
Powells.com Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Brende
Publisher Comments What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Al Gore
Publisher Comments An Inconvenient Truth — Gore's groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance — is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Luis Alberto Urrea
Powells.com Staff Pick In May 2001, in an area called the Devil's Highway, twenty-six illegal immigrants struggled across the desert border into the U.S. Most of them died in their effort. Using this tragedy to illustrate the fate of many immigrants, Urrea sheds light on... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Lamott
Publisher Comments "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write [it] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hillary Rodham Clinton Publisher Comments The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller WITH A NEW AFTERWORD Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Flannery Oconnor
Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Grogan
Publisher Comments The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen
Publisher Comments Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how they make a difference to the environment. Inside The... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael C. Houck and M. J. Cody Publisher Comments In some parts of the United States, the notions of "urban wildlife," "urban naturalist," and "urban forest" might raise an eyebrow, but in Oregon, and particularly in the Portland area, we know better. We know that greenspaces are more than the islands... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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