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The Quiet Girl
by Peter Hoeg
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Set in Denmark in the here and now, Hoegs masterful, inventive novel centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt.... ( read more)
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Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth about the American Voter
by Rick Shenkman
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Levees break in New Orleans. Iraq descends into chaos. The housing market teeters on the brink of collapse. Americans of all political stripes are heading into the 2008 election with the sense that something has gone terribly wrong with American politics.... ( read more)
List Price $25.00
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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
by Jeffrey Toobin
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Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important — and secret — legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land.
Just in... ( read more)
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The Things between Us: A Memoir
by Lee Montgomery
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The Montgomerys are among the last of a dying breed -- New England WASPs who effortlessly combine repression, flamboyant eccentricity, and alcoholism. Fragmented by drink and dysfunction, the family has not assembled in more than a decade. But when Big... ( read more)
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Arthur & George (Vintage International)
by Julian Barnes
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Can I already announce the best book of 2006 in January? If so, here it is! With his customary elegant prose and intricate and wry observational skill, Julian Barnes narrates the true story of the relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and George... ( read more)
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Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir
by Danielle Trussoni
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A memoir I would put up against any in recent memory. Full of heartbreak and love, this portrait of a father-daughter relationship lives in the mind far beyond the turn of the last page. Trussoni's gift transcends all; far from a rote recitation of... ( read more)
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A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America
by Jim Webb
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“I’m the only person in the history of Virginia elected to statewide office with a Union card, two Purple Hearts, and three tattoos." Jim Webb—the bestselling author and now the celebrated, outspoken U.S. Senator from Virginia—... ( read more)
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Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless
by Susan Jane Gilman
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Based on the belief that there's more to women's lives than just getting a date, Gilman's stories tell of struggling to get a life and a clue — and engaging in some spectacularly demented behavior along the way. Whether she's an uncool white kid in... ( read more)
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A Family Christmas
by Caroline Kennedy
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Focusing on the her own family traditions, bestselling author Caroline Kennedy presents a charming collection of favorite Christmas tales to those who love to celebrate the spirit of the holidays. (Holidays)... ( read more)
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Run: A Novel
by Ann Patchett
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Run, a worthy successor to Bel Canto, shows off Patchett's trademark gorgeous prose and emotional depth. Her characters are believably flawed, but ultimately good and decent human beings who you want to spend time with.
Recommended by Jill, Powells... ( read more)
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Oh the Glory of It All
by Sean Wilsey
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Strangely compelling, Sean Wilsey's bare-all memoir about his terribly eccentric family is as disturbing as it is entertaining. You know those moments in life when you think "this can't be happening"? Wilsey's life seems composed entirely of those... ( read more)
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How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard
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In this provocative, witty book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Bayard argues that non-reading can be just as useful an act as reading. He states that the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book, but the one who understands the... ( read more)
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Why I'm Like This: True Stories (P.S.)
by Cynthia Kaplan
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Comprised of 21 autobiographical tales, "Why I'm Like This" begins with a hilarious send-up of Kaplan's last year at "Queechy Lake Camp" and ends with a tour-de-force about the cruelly unfufilled life of the truffle pig.... ( read more)
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Without a Map: A Memoir
by Meredith Hall
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'Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her... ( read more)
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I'm Not the New Me: A Memoir
by Wendy McClure
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A hilarious and sometimes poignant look at the absurdities of weight-loss culture from an appealing and original new voice.
From the creator of the immensely popular websites Pound and Candyboots, this is the memoir of Wendy McClure's odyssey —... ( read more)
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Book of Tea
by Kazuko Okakura
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Minor classic of the Orient. Perhaps the most entertaining, most charming explanation and interpretation of traditional Japanese culture in terms of the tea ceremony. Introduction, notes by E. F. Bleiler.... ( read more)
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Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
by Mike Dash
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In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible symbol of the world’s richest and most powerful... ( read more)
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Bridging the World
by Robert S. Cortright
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A remarkable gallery of lavish photographs which elevate bridges from pieces of the roadway to pieces of art.
With 306 colorful pictures from 28 countries across 6 continents, Cortright awakens the eye and mind to the beauty of bridges.
These are... ( read more)
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The Mystery Guest
by Gregoire Bouillier
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Bouillier presents a delightfully French memoir singled out by the "San Francisco Chronicle, Slate," and "New York Magazine" as a Best Book of the Year. This translation marks the English-language debut of an iconoclast who has attracted a passionate... ( read more)
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On Chesil Beach: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
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Buy the set! Order On Chesil Beach now and receive the acclaimed 28-minute film about Ian McEwan for only $5 more.... ( read more)
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Used - Hardcover
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