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Master and Commander
$15.95 Add to cartArdent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as commander: the fourteen-gun ship HMS Sophie. Meanwhile–after a heated first encounter that nearly c
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #1
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0393541584
- Language: English
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
$19.95 Add to cartWhy did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this “artful, informative, and delightful” (William H. McNeill, New York Review
- Author: Diamond, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354326
- Language: English
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Best Investment Guide That Money Can Buy
$21.99 Add to cartIn a time of rampant misinformation about ways of growing your money, Burton G. Malkiel’s gimmick-free investment guide is more necessary than ever. Whether you’re considering your first 401k contribu
- Author: Malkiel, Burton G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035439
- Language: English
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The Book of Genesis
$39.99 Add to cartEnvisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way. Originally thinking
- Author: Crumb, R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: October 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0393061027
- Language: English
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You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Powers of Persuasion, and Why It Matters
$17.95 Read moreIf you’ve ever felt ineffective, invisible, or inarticulate, chances are you weren’t actually any of those things. Those feelings may instead have been the result of a lack of awareness we all seem to
- Author: Bohns, Vanessa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324035951
- Language: English
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions about Dead Bodies
$16.99 Add to cartEveryone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to o
- Author: Doughty, Caitlin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358496
- Language: English
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
$17.95 Add to cartIn Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and
- Author: Newitz, Annalee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882454
- Language: English
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The Stranger Beside Me
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1971, while working the late-shift at a Seattle crisis clinic, true-crime writer Ann Rule struck up a friendship with a sensitive, charismatic young coworker: Ted Bundy. Three years later, eight yo
- Author: Rule, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0393868494
- Language: English
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Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist
$23.95 Add to cartWill Eisner is one of the twentieth century’s great American artists, a man who pioneered the field of comic arts. Here, in his classic Comics and Sequential Art, he refines the art of graphic storyte
- Series: Will Eisner Instructional Books
- Author: Eisner, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 0393331261
- Language: English
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The Long Haul: A Trucker’s Tales of Life on the Road
$17.99 Read moreMore than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Since then he’s covered more than a million miles as a mover, packing, loading, hauling people’s belonging… [more below]
- Author: Murphy, Finn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 039335587X
- Language: English
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The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
$32.99 Add to cartThis revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a… [more below]
- Author: Deacon, Terrence W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0393317544
- Language: English
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German in 32 Lessons
$22.99 Add to cartGerman in 32 Lessons is the rapid and practical way to master the basics and begin speaking the language. The book gives you the essential, simplified grammar plus the 3000 most-used words–words and … [more below]
- Series: Gimmick (W.W. Norton)
- Author: Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: April 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0393314979
- Language: English
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French in 32 Lessons
$21.99 Add to cartThe Gimmick Books are based on the author’s many years of successfully teaching languages to tourists, business people, diplomats, and other international travelers.
- Series: Gimmick (W.W. Norton)
- Author: Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: August 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0393316475
- Language: English
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Ice Cream Queen: Flavors from Black America’s Past, Present, & Future
$29.99 Add to cartBack in the 1840s, a free Black woman ran a successful ice cream saloon in Nashville. Her name was Sarah Estell, and she became known as “the Ice Cream Queen.” Now taking up her crown is Lokelani Alab
- Author: Alabanza, Lokelani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0393881644
- Language: English
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Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex
$29.99 Add to cartIn delightful watercolor comics of pregnant seahorse dads, spider oral sex, and the four-headed echidna penis, Perrin Roosevelt Ireland takes us on a wild biodiversity ride through queerness, infideli
- Author: Ireland, Perrin Roosevelt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1324089040
- Language: English
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The Surgeon’s Mate
$15.95 Add to cartBritish naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin, with his great love, Diana Villiers, speed home to England with news of their latest victory over the Americans. But Maturin is a marked … [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #7
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0393541649
- Language: English
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Is a River Alive?
$19.99 Read moreHailed in the New York Times as “a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler,” Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing
- Author: MacFarlane, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1324130733
- Language: English
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Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence
$31.99 Read moreWe think of the Declaration of Independence as timeless. We know the sacred phrases: “all men are created equal,” “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” “self-evident truths,” “certain inalien
- Author: Parkinson, Robert G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1324124547
- Language: English
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Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age
$31.99 Read moreIn 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Field knew nothing about te
- Author: Tabor, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1324036028
- Language: English
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The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
$35.00 Read moreThe Book of Birds is a field guide with a difference: It shows readers not just how to identify birds, but also how to identify with them. Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris conjure the unique spiri
- Author: MacFarlane, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1324006846
- Language: English
