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Bestselling Used Books for July 18

  1. American Heritage Dictionary 4TH Edition by American Heritage
  2. Harpercollins Student Notebook Spanish Dictionary (04 Edition) by Harper Collins Publishing Staff
  3. Touching Spirit Bear (01 Edition) by Ben Mikaelsen
  4. Twilight (Twilight Saga #1) by Stephenie Meyer
  5. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
  6. First Part Last (03 Edition) by Angela Johnson
  7. The New Best Recipe (Best Recipe) by Cooks Illustrated
  8. Touching Spirit Bear (05 Edition) by Ben Mikaelsen
  9. Graphic Guide To Frame Construction Rev Edition by Rob Thallon
  10. Practicing College Learning Strategies (4TH 07 Edition) by Carolyn H. Hopper
  11. The Shack by William P Young
  12. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  13. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
  14. Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper
  15. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
  16. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  17. Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim
  18. The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross
  19. Merriam Webster Dictionary New Edition by Merriam Webster
  20. The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries) by Sandra Cisneros

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The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries) The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Sandra Cisneros

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Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and... (read more)

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Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs
by Ansel Adams

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Ansel Adams recounts the circumstances surrounding the making of many of his most famous photographs and the methods he used in their realization. Each image is accompanied by a narrative that explores the technical and aesthetic problems presented by... (read more)

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Children's

Scien-Trickery: Riddles in Science Scien-Trickery: Riddles in Science
by J Patrick Lewis

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These clever riddle-rhymes cover everything from dinosaurs to gravity. The illustrations incorporate clues about the riddles, and the answers themselves are subtly included for anyone who needs a little extra help.      Endnotes... (read more)

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Science Fiction and Fantasy

Grave Peril: Book :Dresden Files #3 Grave Peril: Book :Dresden Files #3
by Jim Butcher

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Harry Dresden's faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. It comes with the territory when you're the only professional wizard in the Chicago area phone book. But in all Harry's... (read more)

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Religion Eastern

Widening Circles: A Memoir Widening Circles: A Memoir
by Joanna Macy

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In this absorbing, and sometimes thrilling memoir, well-known eco-philosopher, Buddhist scholar, and deep ecology activist /teacher Joanna Macy recounts her adventures of mind and spirit in the key social movements of our era. Macy's autobiography reads... (read more)

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Popular Fiction

Star of the Sea Star of the Sea
by Joseph O'Connor

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In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea sets sail for NewYork. On board are hundreds of refugees, some optimistic, many more desperate. Among them are a maid with a devastating secret, the bankrupt... (read more)

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Mystery

The Shadow of the Wind The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Okay, never mind that The Shadow of the Wind starts off in a wonderfully mysterious bookstore and that there's a romantic element that is not schmaltzy, but "timeless" in the best sense of the word. What I loved was how I thought I knew where the author... (read more)

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Graphic Novels

One Hundred Demons One Hundred Demons
by Lynda Barry

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Buddhism teaches that each person must overcome 100 demons in a lifetime. In this collection of 20 comic strips, Lynda Barry wrestles with some of hers in her signature quirky, irrepressible voice. Color illustrations throughout.... (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 leader of the renegade... (read more)

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World History

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
by Carlo Ginzburg

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"A wonderful book... Ginzburg is a historian with an insatiable curiosity, who pursues even the faintest of clues with all the zest of a born detective until every fragment of evidence can be fitted into place." -- New York Review of... (read more)

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Sports and Fitness

Joe Weider's Ultimate Bodybuilding Joe Weider's Ultimate Bodybuilding
by Joe Weider

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"This massive and authoritative Master Blaster book is the greatest bodybuilding book ever written, primarily because it is firmly based on the training principles of the Weider System of Bodybuilding, which have been followed by literally every... (read more)

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Foreign Languages

What Character Is That 2ND Edition an Easy Acces What Character Is That 2ND Edition an Easy Acces
by Ping Gam Go

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This dictionary has been referred to as the Rosetta Stone of the Chinese language. A Chinese Dictionary for the Western Mind. This dictionary is a must for every Chinese language student because it is the only dictionary indexed by the root of the... (read more)

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Humor

I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
by Amy Sedaris

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An unconventional hostess offers a warm and witty guide to the art of entertaining, furnishing a treasury of recipes, helpful advice, and offbeat tips on how to pull off a party with extraordinary flair regardless of the occasion, covering such topics as... (read more)

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