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There are 1097 books in this aisle.
There are 1097 books in this aisle.
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by Runni  
Publisher Comments Providing step-by-step direction for potential writers, this kit includes "30 Steps to Becoming a Writer," a miniature book, "Get Published in 6 Months or Less," and a bonus card deck offering 52 quick lessons and jumpstarts for overcoming writer's block... (read more)  List Price $22.95 Your price $14.50 (Used - Boxed Non-book) check for new and sale copies 
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by Vikas Swarup
Publisher Comments Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Trevor Norton
Publisher Comments On a hot summer's day there could be no quicker transport to the seaside than Trevor Norton's cool and entrancing account of a lifetime's adventures under or near the water. Norton's eye for the bizarre, amazing, and beautiful inhabitants of the oceans... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Spencer Overton
Publisher Comments Spencer Overton attacks the least-inspected area of our democracy: partisan control of the ballot box. While politicians spew shallow sound bites that describe a "free" American people who govern themselves by selecting their representatives, in... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Louise Erdrich
Publisher Comments When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts. After all, the family descends from an Indian... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Strasser
Publisher Comments In the fall of 2003, Iraqi prisoners were beaten, stripped naked, confined in small spaces, tortured, sexually humiliated, and abused by U.S. personnel at Abu Ghraib, a sprawling prison complex near Baghdad. The abuse was kept hidden by the U.S. military... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Sherrill
Publisher Comments In the bicentennial issue of Life magazine that was published in 1991 — an issue given over to the two-hundred-year history of the Bill of Rights — Frank Wilkinson was featured as one of history's greatest defenders of the portion of the First... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Diane Osen
Publisher Comments An original collection of literary interviews asks some of our greatest living writers, "What book most changed your life?" Contributors include E.L. Doctorow, Philip Levine, Alice McDermott, Grace Paley, and Robert Stone. All profits will be donated to... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenneth Joh Atchity
Publisher Comments This fully revised guide shows how to turn a movie idea into a treatment thatcan persuade even the most jaded movie producers.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Dallek
Synopsis Let Every Nation Know is the first book of its kind — a historical biography in Kennedy's own words. Combining a remarkable audio CD of Kennedy's most famous speeches, debates and press conferences with the insights of two of America's preeminent... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Marie Arana
Publisher Comments Featuring a gathering of more than fifty of contemporary literature's finest voices, this volume will enchant, move, and inspire readers with its tales of The Writing Life. In it, authors divulge professional secrets: how they first discovered they were... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Georgina Harding
Publisher Comments In 1616, in the north Atlantic, an English whaling ship prepares to head back toward home. Thomas Cave, however, bets the rest of the crew that he can spend a winter on an Arctic island. From his post at the edge of the known world, Cave sees his own... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $13.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Riera
Publisher Comments Invaluable analysis of teenage behavior and uncommonly wise advice for apprehensive parents. Addressing the isolation, fear, and silence parents endure during their child's adolescence, authors Michael Riera and Joseph Di Prisco get beyond the... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth Carmel
Publisher Comments Brilliant Waters combines Elizabeth Carmel's stunning landscape photography with a wonderful selection of moving poetry. Robert Redford contributes engaging insights and commentary in his beautifully written foreword. This collection of remarkable... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $28.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Benjamin Kunkel
Publisher Comments Benjamin Kunkel's brilliantly comic debut novel concerns one of the central maladies of our time — a pathological indecision that turns abundance into an affliction and opportunity into a curse. Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sue Leaf
Publisher Comments Catbirds and pocket gophers, bur oaks and bull snakes, bluestem grass and leopard frogs have populated the gently rolling prairies around Sue Leaf's midwestern farming community for centuries. A hundred years ago her town, located forty-five miles from... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $5.93 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Maine
Powells.com Staff Pick Historical fiction can be a tough balance between fact and imagination. Biblical fiction, by extension, can be even more difficult to pull off — loaded as the stories and characters are with centuries of interpretation and emotion. Fallen... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Chris Abani
Publisher Comments In this dazzling debut by a singular new talent, the sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to make his way out of the ghetto. Broke, beset by floods, and... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Arthur Sze
Publisher Comments "Sze brings together disparate realms of experience--astronomy, botany, anthropology, Taoism-and observes their correspondences with an exuberant attentiveness."-"The New Yorker" <P>"Sze's poems seem dazzled and haunted by patterns."-"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 Gary Snyder
Publisher Comments Following The Practice of the Wild, this new collection of essays by Gary Snyder blazes with insight. In his most autobiographical writing to date, these essays employ fire as a metaphor for the crucial moment when deeply held viewpoints yield to new... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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