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Literature

Holidays on Ice Holidays on Ice
by David Sedaris
Synopsis
Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never-before-published story to help spread the cheer and mortification of the season. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very... (read more)

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Photography

Thin Thin
by Lauren Greenfield
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Critically acclaimed for Girl Culture and Fast Forward, Lauren Greenfield continues her exploration of contemporary female culture with Thin, a groundbreaking book about eating disorders. Greenfield's photographs are paired with extensive interviews and... (read more)

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Peter and the Starcatchers Peter and the Starcatchers
by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
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Don???teven think of starting this bookunless you???re sitting in a comfortable chair and have lots of time. Afast-paced, impossible-to-put-down adventure awaits as the young orphan Peterand his mates are dispatched to an island ruled by the evil King... (read more)

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Science Fiction and Fantasy

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
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The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to "The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter," Witch, the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies written in 1655. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing... (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

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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Mystery

Scarpetta Scarpetta
by Patricia Cornwell
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From America's #1 bestselling crime writers comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel. Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD... (read more)

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Graphic Novels

The League of Extraordinary Gentleman #02 The League of Extraordinary Gentleman #02
by Alan Moore
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It's one month after the events in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 1, and the skies over England are filled with flaming rockets as Mars launches the first salvo of an invasion. Only our stalwart adventurers — Allan Quatermain, Mina Harker... (read more)

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Westerns

Buy the Chief a Cadillac Buy the Chief a Cadillac
by Rick Steber
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In spare, honest, and picturesque language, Rick Steber sets this Spur Award-winning novel on the Klamath Indian reservation in 1961 just days before the tribe's "termination" by the U. S. government. Each tribal member received a $43,000 settlement from... (read more)

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World History

Peace To End All Peace : the Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (89 Edition) Peace To End All Peace : the Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (89 Edition)
by David Fromkin
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In a famous line toward the end of David Lean's magnificent Lawrence of Arabia, Prince Faisal tells Lawrence, "Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men, courage and hope for the future. Then, old men make... (read more)

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Sports and Fitness

Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph
by Vivian Stringer and Laura Tucker
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"Lots of people have dreams, but C. Vivian Stringer is the dream — a coalminer's daughter who believed when her Poppa told her there was no obstacle she could not surmount. And she lives that dream, teaching others to rise up to meet challenges... (read more)


Foreign Languages

Spanish Vocabulary Mini Spanish Vocabulary Mini
by Barcharts
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This laminated guide measuring 3 5/8 x 8 1/2 is useful for any student or traveler looking to learn Spanish. This guide contains information on: adjectives, adverbs, common phrases, food, numbers, measurements and much more.... (read more)

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Humor

I Am America (and So Can You!) I Am America (and So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert
Powells.com Staff Pick
Stephen Colbert is America — and since we live in America, we must also live in him. Think long and hard about that as you devour this book which should be required reading for all Americans, and by "Americans" I mean "Stephen Colbert's body parts."... (read more)

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Used - Hardcover

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