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Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon
by Chuck Palahniuk
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"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)

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Photography

The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford Companion To...) The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford Companion To...)
by Robin Lenman
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In addition to a wide range of technical information, the book encapsulates over 800 biographical entries, both on photographers and on other individuals who have significantly influenced photographic culture from the early 19th century to the present.... (read more)

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Barack Barack
by Jonah Winter
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This is a journey that began in many places. It began in Kansas, home of Barack's mother. It began in Africa, home of Barack's father. It began in Hawaii one moonlit night, the night that Barack was born. Sometimes it was a lonely journey. Sometimes it... (read more)

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Sabriel: The Abhorsen Trilogy, Book One (The Abhorsen Trilogy #01) Sabriel: The Abhorsen Trilogy, Book One (The Abhorsen Trilogy #01)
by Garth Nix
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Since childhood, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who refuse to stay dead. But now her father, the Mage Abhorson, is missing, and Sabriel must cross into that world to find... (read more)

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Religion Eastern

Dharma Punx Dharma Punx
by Noah Levine
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Fueled by the music of revolution, anger, fear, and despair, we dyed our hair or shaved our heads ... Eating acid like it was candy and chasing speed with cheap vodka, smoking truckloads of weed, all in a vain attempt to get numb and stay numb. This is... (read more)

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Popular Fiction

The Alexandria Link The Alexandria Link
by Steve Berry
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Cotton Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U.S. State Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book dealer. But his quiet existence is shattered when he receives an anonymous e-mail: "You have something I want. You're... (read more)

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Mystery

Killing Floor Killing Floor
by Lee Child
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While passing through a small Georgia town, former cop Jack Reacher is arrested for murder. Jack knows that he didn't kill anybody. But he doesn't stand a chance of convincing anyone. Reissue.... (read more)

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Graphic Novels

Che: A Graphic Biography Che: A Graphic Biography
by Spain Rodriguez
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A graphic biography of the most iconic revolutionary figure of the twentieth century. Since his death in 1967, Ernesto "Che" Guevara has become a universally known revolutionary icon and political figure whose image is among the most recognizable in the... (read more)

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Westerns

Killoe Killoe
by Louis Lamour
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Dan Killoe--over six feet of tough, raw, lightning fast man.  He had a trail heard and a mass of settlers to get across unknown territory to a new land.  Then he gave shelter to a stranger being hunted by Felipe Soto, scar-faced... (read more)

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World History

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged... (read more)

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Sports and Fitness

Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
by H G Bissinger
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The classic, best-selling story of life in the football-driven town of Odessa, Texas, with a new afterword that looks at the players and the town ten years later. Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa — the... (read more)

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Foreign Languages

Hebrew/English Dictionary Hebrew/English Dictionary
by Ehud Ben Yehuda
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Ben-Yehuda's POCKET ENGLISH-HEBREW, HEBREW-ENGLISH DICTIONARY derives from the eight-volume DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the father of modern Hebrew, and from the new studies by his son, Ehud Ben-Yehuda, and... (read more)

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Humor

Found II: More of the Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World Found II: More of the Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World
by Davy Rothbart
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Found II, the follow-up to the acclaimed national bestseller, contains an engrossing, eye-opening assortment of the latest and greatest lost, tossed, and forgotten items — love notes, shopping lists, doodles, and diary entries — from around the... (read more)

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