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Pilgrims Pilgrims
by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Gilbert's debut collection of short stories is remarkable for its breadth, range of setting, and subject matter. Each world her characters inhabit is authentic and fully realized, embracing the fabulous and bizarre with similar enthusiasm.... (read more)

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Photography

Women Photographers at National Geographic Women Photographers at National Geographic
by Cathy Newman
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Photojournalism is a demanding art, even more so for female photographers than for their male colleagues: Along with the perils, and discomforts shared by every professional traveler, women all too often face other obstacles unique to their gender. But... (read more)

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Pirateology: The Pirate Hunter's Companion (Ologies) Pirateology: The Pirate Hunter's Companion (Ologies)
by Captain William Lubber
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From the publishers of "Dragonology, Egyptology," and "Wizardology" comes "Pirateology." This magnificent resource offers adventurers and treasure hunters, landlubbers and sailors alike heretofore hidden knowledge of the exploits of one wickedly daring... (read more)

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Science Fiction and Fantasy

Stranger in a Strange Land Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
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NAME: Valentine Michael Smith ANCESTRY: Human ORIGIN: Mars Here is Heinlein's masterpiece — the brilliant spectacular and incredibly popular novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a classic in a few short years. It is the... (read more)

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Religion Eastern

Buddhism Plain and Simple Buddhism Plain and Simple
by Steve Hagen
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"Buddhism Plain and Simple" offers a clear, straightforward treatise on Buddhism in general and on awareness in particular. Steve Hagan presents the Buddha's uncluttered, original teachings in everyday, accessible language unencumbered by religious... (read more)

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Popular Fiction

Digital Fortress: A Thriller Digital Fortress: A Thriller
by Dan Brown
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From the author of the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "The Da Vinci Code." When the NSA encounters a code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer. What she uncovers sends shock waves throughout the corridors of power. Martin's Press... (read more)

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Mystery

Painkiller Painkiller
by Will Staeger
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With page-turning ferocity, Will Staeger delivers a stylistic blend of riveting action, thrilling suspense, and starkly alluring characters in this classic tale of espionage laced with a twist of modern-day terror . . . The quasi-retired, Virgin Islands-... (read more)

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Graphic Novels

The Best American Comics 2006 The Best American Comics 2006
by Harvey Pekar and Anne Elizabeth Moore
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Art and words meld in explosive and provocative ways in this fantastic and diverse sampling of the best new comics in America. No super heroes, no kids' stuff: just great storytelling. Recommended by Clyde, Powells.com... (read more)

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Westerns

Ride the River: The Sacketts (Sacketts) Ride the River: The Sacketts (Sacketts)
by Louis Lamour
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Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers. In Ride the River Louis L’Amour spins the tale of a young woman who has to protect her family... (read more)

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World History

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
by Sandy Tolan
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In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found... (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

French Vocabulary French Vocabulary
by Barcharts
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The most used French vocabulary words in a 6-page laminated guide. Contains information on: pronunciation, numbers, measurements, clothes, colors, entertainment, banking, travel, directions, time, days, weeks, months, seasons, weather, food, restaurants... (read more)

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Humor

Bff Brainfag Forever Bff Brainfag Forever
by Nate Beaty
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BFF: Brainfag Forever collects nearly a decade of Nate Beaty's self-published comics. Brainfag is a medical term for brain fatigue, culled from a turn-of-the-century Grape-Nuts ad. Nate uses comics to explore self-expression, love and love lost, urban... (read more)

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