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Abraham Lincoln: The 16th President, 1861-1865
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Audio CD ($23.96)
McGovern's account reminds us why we hold Lincoln in such esteem and why he remains the standard by which all of his successors are measured.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain defined classic as "a book which people praise and don't read"; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a happy exception to his own rule. Twain's mastery of dialect, coupled with his famous wit, has made Huckleberry Finn one of the most loved and distinctly American classics ever written.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Audio CD ($25.19) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Mark Twain's classic novel of a mischievous boy's pranks and escapades in a nineteenth-century river town---whitewashing a fence, seeking buried treasure, trying to impress the adored Becky Thatcher, and more.
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Ask a Mexican
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An irreverent, hilarious, and informative look at Mexican American culture is taken by rising star Gustavo Arellano, who uses the best questions from readers of his Ask a Mexican! column in California's OC Weekly to explore the many clichés applied to Mexican Americans.
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Bad Dirt
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Audio Download ($20.19)
A remarkable collection of stories, Bad Dirt is filled with the vivid characters for which Proulx has become known.
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The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
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There are no bears on Hemlock Mountain, No bears, no bears at all… Or so young Jonathan is told by the grown-ups as he sets out alone over Hemlock Mountain
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The Beautiful and Damned
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and the Damned, "marks an advance over This Side of Paradise," Edmund Wilson wrote...
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The Bedford Boys
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Audio Download ($20.19)
The Bedford Boys is the astonishing true story of twenty-one young men who were killed during the first horrifying minutes of D-Day and the friends and families they left behind in the small town of Bedford.
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Books: A Memoir
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Larry McMurtry is known to be reclusive and extremely private, rarely giving interviews or making public appearances. Audiences are therefore sure to be eager to hear this intimate and surprisingly personal memoir of the brilliant writer's love affair with books.
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Brainstorm: Using Science to Spark Maximum Creativity
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Creativity is often considered an innate gift, not something that can be learned or optimized. In fact, there is an entire branch of science devoted to dissecting, understanding, and stimulating creativity.
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Controlled Burn: Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men
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Once or twice a decade, an unknown short-story writer blazes onto the literary scene with work that is thrilling and new.
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Dali & I
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Art dealer Stan Lauryssens made millions in modern art, but he sold only one name: Salvador Dalí. The surrealist painter's work was a hot commodity for the newly rich, investors, and businessmen looking to launder their black-market cash. Lauryssens didn't mind looking the other way; he just hoped the buyers would look the other way as well.
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Digging for the Truth
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Josh Bernstein takes readers through some of the most remote, intriguing and physically challenging locations on the planet as he uncovers the world's greatest ancient mysteries.
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Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's
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Soon after the new Constitution took effect and George Washington became president, the United States was in serious danger of disaster. A bitter political rivalry between men who had once been allies and two surging issues that inflamed the nation led to grim talk of breaking up the union.
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The End of Food
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The frightening truth about the modern food system is revealed, as the bestselling author of The End of Oil turns his attention to food and finds that the system we’ve entrusted with meeting one of our most basic needs is dramatically failing us.
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Flappers and Philosophers
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First published in 1920, Flappers and Philosophers marked F. Scott Fitzgerald's entry into the realm of the short story...
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Flying Through Midnight
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Like Jarhead, We Were Soldiers Once..., and Young, John T. Halliday's combat memoir is gripping, novelistic, and startlingly candid, taking readers through the devastating trials and hard-won victories of flying in the Vietnam War.
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A Fractured Mind
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Oxnam, the successful China scholar and president of the Asia Society, shares his powerful and moving story of his struggle with a terrifying illness: Multiple Personality Disorder.
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Golf My Own Damn Way
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Golf My Own Damn Way is a different golf instructional book, as only John Daly can write. Funny, irreverent, and crude, this book is perfect for the everyday golfer looking to improve his or her game or nongolfers looking for a laugh.
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Hedgehogging
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Step inside the world of Wall Street with Barton Biggs as he discusses investing in general, hedge funds in particular, and how he has learned to find and profit from the best moneymaking opportunities in an eat-what-you-kill, cutthroat investment world.
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How to Get Started in Real Estate Investing
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You hear from everyone that real estate's a sure thing – but how do you begin?
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Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed
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Iggy Pop’s legendary career has been tumultuous, reaching great heights, producing mega-hits, while at times hitting rock-bottom lows in jail and mental institutions.
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Johnny Got His Gun
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Johnny Got His Gun holds a place as one of the classic antiwar novels.
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Leadership and Self-Deception
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Most personal and organizational problems are the result of a little-known problem called self-deception....
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The Maltese Falcon
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Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade is hired to locate a client's sister by tailing the sister's companion.
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