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101 Places Not to See Before You Die (Paperback)

By Catherine Price
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Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia (Hardcover)

By Harriet Brown
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Published: William Morrow, 09/01/2010

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The Informer (Hardcover)

By Craig Nova
$26.00
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Published: Crown, 03/01/2010

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Spider Bones (Hardcover)

By Kathy Reichs
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Published: Scribner, 08/01/2010

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Relaxation Revolution: Enhancing Your Personal Health Through the Science and Genetics of Mind Body Healing (Hardcover)

By Herbert Benson, William Proctor
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781439148655
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Published: Scribner, 06/01/2010

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The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (Hardcover)

By Eliza Griswold
$27.00
ISBN-13: 9780374273187
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 08/01/2010

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Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science (Hardcover)

By Sissela Bok
$24.00
ISBN-13: 9780300139297
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Published: Yale University Press, 08/01/2010

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Barefoot in Baghdad: A Story of Identity-My Own and What It Means to Be a Woman in Chaos (Paperback)

By Manal Omar
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9781402237218
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Published: Sourcebooks, 08/01/2010

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Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption (Hardcover)

By Scott Simon
$22.00
ISBN-13: 9781400068494
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Published: Random House, 08/01/2010

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The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (Hardcover)

By James Baldwin, Randall Kenan (Introduction by)
$26.95
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Published: Pantheon, 03/01/2010

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Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Hardcover)

By Natasha Trethewey
$22.95
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Published: University of Georgia Press, 09/01/2010

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Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History (Hardcover)

By Yunte Huang
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780393069624
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 08/01/2010

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No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)

By Graham Bowley
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780061834783
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Published: Harper, 07/01/2010

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Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Paperback)

By Nick Heil
$16.00
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Published: Holt Paperbacks, 02/01/2009

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The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2 (Hardcover)

By Jennifer Jordan
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780393077780
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 08/01/2010

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Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover)

By Andrew Hacker, Claudia Dreifus
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780805087345
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Published: Times Books, 08/01/2010

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Passing Strange (Paperback)

By Martha A. Sandweiss
$17.00
ISBN-13: 9780143116868
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 01/01/2010

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The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering (Hardcover)

By Melanie Thernstrom
$27.00
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 08/01/2010

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One Mountain Thousand Summits (Hardcover)

By Freddie Wilkinson
$24.95
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Published: NAL Hardcover, 07/01/2010

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Through a Dog's Eyes (Hardcover)

By Jennifer Arnold
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781400068883
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Published: Spiegel & Grau, 09/01/2010

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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions (Paperback)

By Susan R. Barry
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780465020737
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Published: Basic Books, 08/01/2010

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Henry Clay: The Essential American (Hardcover)

By David S. Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler
$30.00
ISBN-13: 9781400067268
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Published: Random House, 05/01/2010

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Minefields of the Heart: A Mother's Stories of a Son at War (Hardcover)

By Sue Diaz, Jim Frederick (Foreword by)
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781597975155
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Published: Potomac Books, 07/01/2010

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Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (Hardcover)

By Tom Bissell
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Published: Pantheon, 06/01/2010

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Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover)

By Andrew Hacker, Claudia Dreifus
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780805087345
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Published: Times Books, 08/01/2010

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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions (Paperback)

By Susan R. Barry
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780465020737
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Published: Basic Books, 08/01/2010

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Getting to Calm: Cool-Headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens + Teens (Paperback)

By Laura S Kastner, Jennifer Wyatt
$19.95
ISBN-13: 9780982345405
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Published: Parent Map, 06/01/2009

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The Cookbook Collector (Hardcover)

By Allegra Goodman
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780385340854
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Published: The Dial Press, 07/01/2010

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Journey Into America: The Challenge of Islam (Hardcover)

By Akbar Ahmed
$29.95
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Published: Brookings Institution Press, 06/01/2010

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Sexy Book of Sexy Sex (Hardcover)

By Kristen Schaal, Rich Blomquist
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780811871266
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Published: Chronicle Books, 07/01/2010

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Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food (Paperback)

By Jeff Potter
$34.99
ISBN-13: 9780596805883
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Published: O'Reilly Media, 05/01/2010

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The Lovers (Hardcover)

By Vendela Vida
$23.99
ISBN-13: 9780060828394
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Published: Ecco, 07/01/2010

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The Spice Necklace: My Adventures in Caribbean Cooking, Eating, and Island Life (Hardcover)

By Ann Vanderhoof
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780618685370
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 06/01/2010

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The Hundred-Foot Journey (Hardcover)

By Richard C Morais
$23.00
ISBN-13: 9781439165645
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Published: Scribner, 07/01/2010

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Blood Hina: A Mas Arai Mystery (Hardcover)

By Naomi Hirahara
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780312545550
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Published: Minotaur Books, 03/01/2010

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Picturing Hemingway's Michigan (Hardcover)

By Michael R. Federspiel
$39.95
ISBN-13: 9780814334478
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Published: Wayne State University Press, 05/01/2010

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Composed (Hardcover)

By Rosanne Cash
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780670021963
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Published: Viking Adult, 08/01/2010

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The Smart Swarm (Hardcover)

By Peter Miller
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781583333907
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Published: Avery, 08/01/2010

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A World Without Islam (Hardcover)

By Graham E. Fuller
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780316041195
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Published: Little, Brown and Company, 08/01/2010

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Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt (Hardcover)

By Edward P. Kohn
$27.95
ISBN-13: 9780465013364
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Published: Basic Books, 08/01/2010

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The Titanic Awards (Paperback)

By Doug Lansky
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780399535840
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Published: Perigee Trade, 05/01/2010

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Night Soldiers (Paperback)

By Alan Furst
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780375760006
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 07/01/2002

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The Rise of Islamic Capitalism: Why the New Muslim Middle Class Is the Key to Defeating Extremism (Paperback)

By Vali Nasr
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781416589693
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Published: Free Press, 06/01/2010

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Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster (Hardcover)

By Jonathan Eig
$28.00
ISBN-13: 9781416580591
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 05/01/2010

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The Terrorists (Paperback)

By Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780307390882
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Published: Vintage, 07/01/2010

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How to Mellify A Corpse: And Other Human Stories of Ancient Science & Superstition (Paperback)

By Vicki Leon, Vicki Leon
$17.00
ISBN-13: 9780802717023
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Published: Walker & Company, 07/01/2010

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Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship (Hardcover)

By Gail Caldwell
$23.00
ISBN-13: 9781400067381
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Published: Random House, 02/01/2010

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A Happy Marriage (Paperback)

By Rafael Yglesias
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781439102312
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Published: Scribner, 08/01/2010

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The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times (Hardcover)

By Ilyon Woo
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780802119469
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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/01/2010

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Freedom (Hardcover)

By Jonathan Franzen
$28.00
ISBN-13: 9780374158460
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 08/01/2010

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Super Sad True Love Story (Hardcover)

By Gary Shteyngart
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781400066407
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Published: Random House, 07/01/2010

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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Hardcover)

By Mary Roach
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780393068474
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 08/01/2010

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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman (Hardcover)

By Sam Wasson
$19.99
ISBN-13: 9780061774157
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Published: Harper, 07/01/2010

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Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster (Hardcover)

By Jonathan Eig
$28.00
ISBN-13: 9781416580591
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 05/01/2010

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Short Cuts: A Guide to Oaths, Ring Tones, Ransom Notes, Famous Last Words, and Other Forms of Minimalist Communication (Hardcover)

By Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, Rob Flynn
$19.95
ISBN-13: 9780195389135
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA, 08/01/2010

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The Songs of Hollywood (Hardcover)

By Philip Furia, Laurie Patterson
$35.00
ISBN-13: 9780195337082
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA, 04/01/2010

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