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The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate
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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /More than 150 inspired--and inspiring--novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians on how they subtly man...
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Great Short Books: A Year of Reading--Briefly
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time, from a bestselling historian, is the "perfect gift for busy bibliophiles" (Bo...
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Becoming A Grandmaster At Life
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /"Becoming a Grandmaster at Life" isn't just a book; it's a philosophy for living. It's the guide to Grandmasters to develop the ability to face con...
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The Funny Stuff: The Official P. J. O'Rourke Quotationary and Riffapedia
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Notes From Your Bookseller The greatest hits and perfect "mix tape" of the writings by the late P.J. O’Rourke. You might know O’Rourke from his p...
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Yexian: the Chinese Cinderella
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /First recorded in China in the ninth century, Yexian is considered by some to be the earliest version of the familiar Cinderella tale in the world....
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Yexian: the Chinese Cinderella
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /First recorded in China in the ninth century, Yexian is considered by some to be the earliest version of the familiar Cinderella tale in the world....
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Auroville Reflected
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /On 28 February 1968, on an impoverished plateau on the Coromandel Coast of south India, about 4,000 people from around the world gathered for a mos...
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The Patch
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The Patch is an “album quilt,” an artful assortment of nonfiction writings by John McPhee that have not previously appeared in any bookThe Patch ...
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Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Kurt Vonnegut used to like to say, "Practicing an art form is a way to grow your soul." He would screw up his lips into a prune face after he sai...
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Till Victory Is Won: Famous Black Quotations from the NAACP
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Taking its title from the moving lyrics of the official song of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, "Lift Every Voice a...
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Janesplains: A Compendium of Jane Austen's Wit & Wisdom
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A thematically organized wit-and-wisdom-style packaging of quotes and excerpts from the works of Jane Austen. Jane Austen is one of the most emine...
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The Funny Stuff: The Official P. J. O'Rourke Quotationary and Riffapedia
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A compendium of quotes and riffs by P.J. O'Rourke onsubjects ranging from government ("Giving money and power to politicians islike giving car keys...
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Daily Rituals: Women at Work
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /More of Mason Currey's irresistible Daily Rituals, this time exploring the daily obstacles and rituals of women who are artists--painters, composer...
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