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Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids
$17.00 Add to cartRecord-setting Jeopardy! champion and author of Planet Funny Ken Jennings “reveals the truth behind all those things you tell your children” (Parade) in this entertaining and useful New York Times bes… [more below]
- Author: Jennings, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1476706964
- Language: English
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Silver Screen Fiend: Learning about Life from an Addiction to Film
$17.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller from author, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, a “heartfelt and hilarious” (USA TODAY) memoir about coming of age as a performer during the late 1990s while obses… [more below]
- Author: Oswalt, Patton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1451673221
- Language: English
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The Pie and Pastry Bible
$50.00 Add to cartThe Pie and Pastry Bible is your magic wand for baking the pies, tarts, and pastries of your dreams–the definitive work by the country’s top baker.
-More than 300 recipes, 200 drawings of techniques- Author: Beranbaum, Rose Levy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 11 1998
- ISBN10: 0684813483
- Language: English
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Don’t Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip
$17.00 Add to cart“A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane” (Kirkus Reviews), Don’t Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips–before portable DVD players, smartphone… [more below]
- Author: Ratay, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1501188755
- Language: English
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The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death
$19.99 Add to cartAn “entertaining” (Booklist) account of the mysterious, hair-raising, and heartbreaking cases handled by the coroner of Marin County, California throughout his four decades on the job–from high-profi… [more below]
- Author: Bateson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1501168231
- Language: English
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Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living
$17.00 Read moreIn the bestselling tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Helen MacDonald’s H Is for Hawk, Karen Auvinen, an award-winning poet, ventures into the wilderness to seek answers to life’s big questions wi… [more below]
- Author: Auvinen, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1501152297
- Language: English
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World’s Great Men of Color, Volume I
$21.00 Add to cartThe classic, definitive title on the great Black figures in world history, beginning in antiquity and reaching into the modern age.
World’s Great Men of Color is the comprehensive guide to the most no- Series: World’s Great Men of Color #I
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 23 1996
- ISBN10: 0684815818
- Language: English
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Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
$20.99 Add to cartThis lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947–the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world–is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction… [more below]
- Author: Lebrecht, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1982134267
- Language: English
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Heart Earth
$17.99 Add to cartIvan Doig’s companion memoir to his bestselling This House of Sky–inspired by the letters his mother wrote during World War II–is “a lyrical evocation of the Doigs’ gallantly hardscrabble existence … [more below]
- Author: Doig, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1501156055
- Language: English
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
$17.99 Add to cart*Now a major motion picture–Rob Peace–starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor*
*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1476731918
- Language: English
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The Science of Monsters: The Origins of the Creatures We Love to Fear
$18.99 Add to cartFeatured on NPR’s Science Friday, an “ingenious” (The Wall Street Journal) and insightful guide to history’s legendary and frightening monsters and the science and culture that created them.We all kno… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 145166799X
- Language: English
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Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
$24.00 Add to cartThe intimate and highly revealing life story of the world’s longest-serving, most charismatic, and controversial head of state in modern times.
Fidel Castro was a dictatorial pariah to some and a her- Author: Ramonet, Ignacio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 1416562338
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast
$26.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.
Published po- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0684833638
- Language: English
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The Middle East
$19.00 Add to cartRenowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years–from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 07 1997
- ISBN10: 0684832801
- Language: English
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The World’s Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America’s First Black Sports Hero
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend” (Publishers Weekly)–the remarkable Major Taylor who became the world’s fastest bicyclist at the height of the Jim Cro… [more below]
- Author: Kranish, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1501192604
- Language: English
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The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in America
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Soldier Girls and Just Like Us, an “extraordinary” (The Denver Post) account of refugee teenagers at a Denver public high school and their compassionate teacher and “a… [more below]
- Author: Thorpe, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1501159100
- Language: English
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Period. End of Sentence.: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice
$26.00 Read moreFrom beloved New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Anita Diamant comes a timely collection of essays to help inspire period positive activism around the globe.
When Period. En- Author: Diamant, Anita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1982144289
- Language: English
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Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the one-of-kind mind of Bill James, famous for revolutionizing the way we think about baseball, comes a “thought-provoking meditation” (Seattle Times) and epic tour through American crime–now av… [more below]
- Author: James, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 141655274X
- Language: English
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The Idealist
$21.99 Add to cartThis smart, “riveting” (Los Angeles Times) history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society–and the life and shocking suicide of Aaron Swartz, a founding developer of R… [more below]
- Author: Peters, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1476767742
- Language: English
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The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt
$20.00 Add to cartAward-winning author and journalist David Giffels explores the meaning of identity and place, hamburgers, hard work, and basketball in this collection of wry, irreverent essays reflecting on the many … [more below]
- Author: Giffels, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1451692749
- Language: English
