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Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke Best Price: $4.41 When I had first heard of Dream Boogie, a 700-page biography of the late Sam Cooke, I was...	The Terror: A Novel Best Price: $3.75 I'm going to have to be careful that I don't gush too much over Dan Simmons' triumph...	This Wicked World: A Novel Best Price: $0.01 Jimmy Boone is a certain kind of maverick - out of the box and not quite a civilian. After...	He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back: The True Story of the Year the King, Jaws, Earnhardt, and the Rest of NASCAR's Feudin', Fightin' Good Ol' Boys Put Stock Car Racing on the Map Best Price: $5.98 On a cold February day in 1979, when most of the Northeast was snowed in by a blizzard, NASCAR...	Here If You Need Me: A True Story Best Price: $2.20 Well written. Prose was warm, welcoming, open... like a chaplain. The author strikes me as...



The Evolution of God (Back Bay Readers' Pick) Best Price: $5.98 "Introduction Has God Evolved? Robert Wright, as an atheist naturalist, must find natural...	Soul Circus: A Derek Strange Novel (Derek Strange Novels) Best Price: $8.48 A Washington, D.C., crime lord fights for his life in court while P.I. Derek Strange finds a...	Winter's Bone: A Novel Best Price: $4.87 I probably would never have heard of WINTER'S BONE but for the Oscar buzz during the recent...	The Mind's Fate: A Psychiatrist Looks at His Profession - Thirty Years of Writings Best Price: $2.40 This collection of essays assesses the evolving fields of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The...	The Historian Best Price: $0.59 This book certainly LOOKED fascinating. It was touted to me as a literary and wonderfully...



Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe Best Price: $0.75 I hate to write a negative review of this book, because the author clearly cares about the story...	The Black Veil Best Price: $1.89 With "The Black Veil", Rick Moody has written a brilliantly realized memoir which I...	You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival Best Price: $0.10 Wesley Gibson is an extraordinarily fine writer. YOUR ARE HERE: A Memoir of Arrival is that...	Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues Best Price: $10.94 British science journalist and physician Frank Ryan covers a lot of ground in this extensively...	Franny and Zooey Best Price: $4.48 So says Franny to her college beau, Lane in response to his wondering why she quit acting in...

The Weight of Water Reading Group Companion	Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 Best Price: $5.99 This is an interesting look back at many bands that defined my youth, and as such made for an...	Snake Best Price: $1.60 Written in short epigrammatic chapters, Snake bores a deep hole into the secret lives of a...	How Do We Know When It's God?: A Spiritual Memoir Best Price: $2.20 Continuing the odyssey that began ten years ago in Returning: A Spiritual Journeywhich Bill...	Brideshead Revisited Best Price: $7.98 Set in England during the reigns of George V, Edward VIII and George VI, Evelyn Waugh explores...

Swine Not?: A Novel Pig Tale Best Price: $1.21 Jimmy Buffett was presented with this idea, complete with photos by Helen Bransford, and he...	Tiare in Bloom: A Novel Best Price: $4.95 The front cover hooked me by relating this book to the Number One Ladies Detective Agency...	Handbook for the Heart: Original Writings on Love Best Price: $4.69 I read these essays in spare time. Most of them were about five pages, short enough to fill a...	The Thinker's Way Best Price: $4.85 John Chaffee encourages you to reach your full potential as a critical thinker and a creative...	The Keys of the Kingdom Best Price: $6.99 The first Cronin work I read was "The Citadel," just because it was a medical...

A Maggot Best Price: $26.76 The first half or so of this novel is very good: I found the characters interesting, the detail...	The Age of Miracles Best Price: $1.27 Nobody should read this book, unless you're a lonely woman who enjoys harlequin romance and...	Pentimento (Back Bay Books) Best Price: $11.50 Lillian Hellman's PENTIMENTO, A loose collection of autobiographical essays and stories, has...	The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology Best Price: $63.94 I cannot express how wonderful these short stories are, how descriptive the places and people...	The Lovely Bones (Paperback) Best Price: $4.58 As a high school student, I found Love Bones to be really interesting and unique. I'm not...

byDavid SedarisHolidays on Ice: Stories Paperback Best Price: $21.98	Gladwell's 2002 The Tipping Point How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell) Best Price: $15.99	Here We Are in Paradise: Stories Best Price: $6.43 This collection of stories, set in various locales of North Carolina create entire worlds and...	The Secret Knowledge of Water: There Are Two Easy Ways to Die in the Desert: Thirst and Drowning Best Price: $10.70 Deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to seasoned explorers. Craig Childs has...	blink - (The Power of Thinking Without Thinking)

The Lost Dog: A Novel Best Price: $1.55 If you enjoy A.S. Byatt's books, you may enjoy this book. It is richly themed and...	Flights of Angels: Stories Best Price: $0.91 I have got all of her books but I couldn't read this one. It failed to engage me and I gave...	The Rolling Stone Interviews Best Price: $6.69 What I love about this book is the ability to pick an interview up depending what your...	Purple America: A Novel Best Price: $1.90 Like his earlier work The Ice Storm, Moody has again peeled back the layers of a dysfunctional...	Dot.Bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath Best Price: $0.95 I found this book because I have started a small business and wanted more insight into the...

The Secret Knowledge of Water : Discovering the Essence of the American Desert Best Price: $4.98 One has chance encounters when hiking the back trails, and often a useful nugget of useful...	Andy Kaufman Revealed!: Best Friend Tells All Best Price: $11.94 I read this book twice so far, and it is one of the most inspiring and informative pieces of...	American Primitive Best Price: $4.99 To read any poem by Mary Oliver is to be in the presence of the exquisite potential of language...	Forever: A Novel Best Price: $4.98 Billed as a piece of "old-fashioned storytelling at a gallop" [cover quotation from...	Garcia Best Price: $7.00 Now in paperback comes the lavishly illustrated, bestselling pictorial biography of the...

Rolling Stone Images of Rock & Roll Poster	The Catcher in the Rye Best Price: $4.59 On July 16, 2001, Holden Caulfield--arguably the most talked-about youth in literature (get in...	Make Believe: A Novel Best Price: $1.98 At the center of "Make Believe" is Bo, a four-year-old child whose father died before...	The Perfect Store: Inside eBay Best Price: $3.00 One of best books I've read this year. eBay levels the field allowing free and open trade. ...	Transparency: Stories Best Price: $2.50 Transparency is Frances Hwang's debut collection of short stories. While her writing is a...

The Abuse Excuse: And Other Cop-outs, Sob Stories, and Evasions of Responsibility Best Price: $1.22 While I highly agree that many defenses belong in the waste basket, Dershowitz waxes self...	Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and His Times Best Price: $7.49 Radu Florescu and Raymond McNalty the authors of this biography of Vlad Dracula, the Voivod of...	Lieutenant Hornblower Best Price: $1.02 This is the story of Hornblower as the junior lieutenant aboard HMS Renown, a British Ship of...	The Physics of Christmas: From the Aerodynamics of Reindeer to the Thermodynamics of Turkey Best Price: $7.99 The Physics of Christmas by Roger Highfield. This book starts off as a fascinating read into...	Home Fires Burning: A Novel Best Price: $4.15 A family story focusing on the elderly leading lady (you'll never forget Bright...

Hank Williams: The Biography Best Price: $5.99 Hank left very little documented about his personal self, outside of what was projected in his...	Nano : The Emerging Science of Nanotechnology Best Price: $4.95 The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to an argument supported by...	The World Treasury Of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics	Deception: A Novel Things like this don't happen to people like us. That's what Lachlan Harriot thinks as...	Marjorie Morningstar Best Price: $11.92 "Marjorie Morningstar" was not, perhaps, Herman Wouk's greatest work, but I...

The Pilot's Wife (Oprah's Book Club) Some minor wear from reading. Pages slightly discolored. Some writing. Book itself is in great...	First Fiction	I'm So Happy for You: A novel about best friends What if your best friend, whom you've always counted on to flounder in life and love (making...	Great Tales from English History: A Treasury of True Stories about the Extraordinary People--Knights and Knaves, Rebels and Heroes, Queens and Commone [GRT TALES FROM ENGLISH HIST] Best Price: $20.95	The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood [UNWANTED] [Paperback] Best Price: $17.95

Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood Best Price: $5.70 Recalling the agony of growing up as an obsessive-compulsive religious fanatic, Traig fearlessly...	Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe Best Price: $0.75 I hate to write a negative review of this book, because the author clearly cares about the story...	The Black Veil Best Price: $1.89 With "The Black Veil", Rick Moody has written a brilliantly realized memoir which I...	You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival Best Price: $0.10 Wesley Gibson is an extraordinarily fine writer. YOUR ARE HERE: A Memoir of Arrival is that...	Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues Best Price: $10.94 British science journalist and physician Frank Ryan covers a lot of ground in this extensively...

Franny and Zooey Best Price: $4.48 So says Franny to her college beau, Lane in response to his wondering why she quit acting in...	The Weight of Water Reading Group Companion	Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 Best Price: $5.99 This is an interesting look back at many bands that defined my youth, and as such made for an...	Snake Best Price: $1.60 Written in short epigrammatic chapters, Snake bores a deep hole into the secret lives of a...	How Do We Know When It's God?: A Spiritual Memoir Best Price: $2.20 Continuing the odyssey that began ten years ago in Returning: A Spiritual Journeywhich Bill...

Brideshead Revisited Best Price: $7.98 Set in England during the reigns of George V, Edward VIII and George VI, Evelyn Waugh explores...	Winter's Bone: A Novel Best Price: $7.48 ... especially to themselves but also to others around them, to their families, to their...	Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey Best Price: $2.90 This is a book for the person who travels adventurously and with an open curisoty about the...	House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest Best Price: $5.49 This book reveals the history and culture of the early Puebloans (Anasazi) better than any...	The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor Best Price: $4.99 "The Link" is the story of Ida, one of the most perfect fossils of a mammal ever...

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Best Price: $5.40 After the third book by this Canadian, I think I finally broke the code and have now discovered...	The Great Depression: America in the 1930s Best Price: $5.99 This book very accurately portrays life in the 30's and the crucial role FDR played in...	Show Me A Hero Best Price: $1.99 A well done look at the diversifying of America. Lisa Belkin, a NY Times reporter, gives us...	The Wooden Nickel: A Novel Best Price: $15.61 I purchased this book while on vacation as it looked like a good book to read at the beach. The...	The Return of Little Big Man: A Novel Best Price: $5.94 36 years is an astonishingly long time for a sequel, and there are siginificant differences...

Exit Music (Inspector Rebus Mysteries) Best Price: $4.90 Sad but true, this was John Rebus' retirement. Gosh, it took me a while to accept him as the...	Special Tasks Best Price: $17.80 More than any other work I've seen, Special Tasks illuminates the Soviet experience. Its...	The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh Best Price: $7.95 Meanness to your fellow man is no virtue unless you write fiction, especially the kind perfected...	An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life Best Price: $6.94 This book is a general introduction to Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism. It covers a whole range of...	Franny and Zooey Best Price: $7.61 Die-hard Salinger fans would pick this book up. I, regrettably, find the book exceedingly...

How To Meditate - A Guide To Self-discovery	The Real Animal House: The Awesomely Depraved Saga of the Fraternity That Inspired the Movie "Loud, raucous, infantile, racy, and very funny...The book is full of likable eccentrics,...	The Devil's Highway: A True Story The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went...	All the Finest Girls: A Novel Now in paperback, the acclaimed first novel that movingly charts the intersection of two lives,...	Exile (Garnethill Trilogy) "Stunning. . . . The danger reaches a frightening pitch."--Rocky Mountain News ...

Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 Best Price: $6.85 I generally liked the book. However, I think it is badly scarred by sloppy fact checking, poor...

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