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Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga #4)
by Stephenie Meyer

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The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch

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"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." — Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while... (read more)
 
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

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Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." Mortenson and Relin's Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time is a powerful contribution to that arsenal. If there... (read more)
 
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
by David Sedaris

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Always a delight, never a disappointment, David Sedaris has come out with his finest offering yet. He has a deft touch, moving between sarcasm and sadness or, in this collection, between redneck babysitters and quitting smoking. Recommended by Beth... (read more)
 
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What I Talk about When I Talk about Running
by Haruki Murakami

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Portland Happy Hour Guidebook (2008 Edition)
by Cindy Anderson

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Bigger and better! Eat, drink, and be happy; and save money too! Find more than 170 rated reviews on Portland's best Happy Hours. Enjoy high-end restaurant quality food and ambiance for less. Pick all the right places to meet up with friends! You can use... (read more)
 
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver

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After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my... (read more)
 
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan

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I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)... (read more)
 
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Seeing Seeing
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Seeing, José Saramago's latest novel and companion volume to Blindness, further demonstrates his ability to create a compelling story from an apparently simple and symbolic premise. Eerie and Kafka-esque, Seeing displays Saramago's writing at the height... (read more)
 
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The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials #01) The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials #01)
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by Naomi Novik

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Playing for Pizza
by John Grisham

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Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game. With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provided what was... (read more)
 
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama

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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a... (read more)
 
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Cry Wolf: An Alpha and Omega Novel
by Patricia Briggs

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Now Briggs begins an extraordinary new series set in Mercy Thompson's worldbut with rules of its own. INTRODUCING THE ALPHA AND OMEGA NOVELS... Anna never knew werewolves existed until the night she survived a violent attackand became one herself. After... (read more)
 
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Darkly funny and at times heartbreaking, The Brief Wondrous Life is about Díaz's unlikely hero (an obese Dominican Trekkie terrified of dying a virgin) with a rich narrative voice that compels sympathy over pity as the inner workings of both Oscar... (read more)
 
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Chosen by a Horse
by Susan Richards

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A lonely woman who's had a difficult life agrees to take care of a skeletal racehorse rescued by the SPCA. Susan Richards already owns three horses, but it is with Lay Me Down that she forges a special, healing relationship that alters her life.... (read more)
 
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