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The Know It All

By: A J Jacobs

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2005

Seller ID: 0064632

ISBN: 0743250621

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.

33,000 PAGES
44 MILLION WORDS
10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY
1 OBSESSED MAN

To fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His wife, Julie, tells him it's a waste of time, his friends believe he is losing his mind, and his...
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Edward M. Kennedy

By: Adam Clymer

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Harper Books: 2009

Seller ID: 0067789

ISBN: 0061843717

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Edward M. Kennedy is one of the most influential senators in Congress. For the last 35 years, he′s played a major role in events ranging from the Vietnam War to Supreme Court confirmations. He′s also been closely associated with issues such as health care, civil rights and campaign finance reform. More than the foremost lawmaker and best orator in the Senate, he′s enthralled (and disappointed) a generation who saw him as the keeper of his famous brothers′ flame. He′s seen America -- and her politics -- change in drastic ways. In this definitive biography, New York...
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Through The Children's Gate (Adam Gopnik)

By: Adam Gopnik

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Knopf: 2006

Seller ID: 0069303

ISBN: 0676978266

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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Even After All This Time

By: Afschineh Latifi

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Reagan Books: 2005

Seller ID: 0137119

ISBN: 0060745339

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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That's What I Am

By: Al Waxman

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Publisher: Malcolm Lester Books: 1984

Seller ID: 0077829

ISBN: 1894121260

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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The Doctor and the Damned

By: Albert Haas

Price: $7.99

Publisher: St Martin's: 1984

Seller ID: 0107679

ISBN: 0312214782

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

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Kipling - A Brief Biography

By: Alberto Manguel

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Bayeux Arts: 0000

Seller ID: 0058533

ISBN: 1896209483

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Best known for his Jungle Books and his Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling was a complex and fascinating writer. Born in Bombay, sent to the England of his parents at the age of five and left for years in the hands of a sadistic housekeeper, educated in an English school and later, as a cub reporter, in the vastness of India, Kipling is one of the most sympathetic and wisest observers of the lives of outsiders. This short biography intends to introduce new readers to this extraordinary writer. It is engaging, authoritative, and full of fascinating pictures of Kipling's times and his amazing worl...
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Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight

By: Alexandra Fuller

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Random House: 2003

Seller ID: 0110848

ISBN: 0375758992

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A worthy heir to Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Alexandra Fuller shares visceral memories of her childhood in Africa, and of her headstrong, unforgettable mother.

"This is not a book you read just once, but a tale of terrible beauty to get lost in over and over."--Newsweek

"By turns mischievous and openhearted, earthy and soaring . . . hair-raising, horrific, and thrilling."--The New Yorker

Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight...
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Go Ask Ali

By: Ali Wentworth

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Publisher: Harper: 2018

Seller ID: 0140729

ISBN: 0062466011

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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The Same River Twice - Honoring the Difficult

By: Alice Walker

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Publisher: Scribner: 1996

Seller ID: 0128484

ISBN: 0684814196

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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All The Days Of My Life (So Far)

By: Alison Sweeney

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Kensington: 2004

Seller ID: 0145642

ISBN: 752550015002

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Mosaic

By: Amy Grant

Price: $7.99

Publisher: WaterBrook: 2007

Seller ID: 0146203

ISBN: 140007360X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo

By: Amy Schumer

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Pocket: 2018

Seller ID: 0141184

ISBN: 1982110988

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"This is your happy hour with Amy Schumer... It's Bossypants meets Trainwreck meets your long weekend." --TheSkimm

"Amy's got your back. She's in your corner. She's an honesty bomb. And she's coming for you." --Actress Tilda Swinton and Trainwreck co-star

The Emmy Award-winning and Tony-nominated comedian, actress, writer, and star of Inside Amy Schumer and the acclaimed films Trainwreck and I Feel Pretty has taken the entertainment world by storm with her winning...
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Red Azalea

By: Anchee Min

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Anchor: 2006

Seller ID: 0066275

ISBN: 1400096987

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, this is Anchee Min's celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao's China. As a child, Min was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read, write, or love as she pleased, she found a lifeline in a secret love affair with another woman. Miraculously selected for the film version of one of Madame Mao's political operas, Min's life changed overnight. Then Chairman Mao suddenly died, taking with him an entire world. This national bestseller and New Y...
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The Rainbow Comes And Goes

By: Anderson Cooper

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Publisher: Harper: 2016

Seller ID: 0133253

ISBN: 0062454943

Binding: Hard Cover

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The Rainbow Comes And Goes

By: Anderson Cooper

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Publisher: Harper: 2016

Seller ID: 0138904

ISBN: 0062454951

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

A charming and intimate collection of correspondence between #1 New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, that offers timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their lives.
Anderson Cooper's intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS' 60 Minutes affords him little time to spend with his ninety-one year old mother. After she briefly fell ill, he and Gloria began a conversation through e-mail unlike any they had ever had before--a correspondence of surprising honesty and depth in which they discussed their lives,...
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It Was Me all Along

By: Andie Mitchell

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Publisher: Potter: 2015

Seller ID: 0139260

ISBN: 0770433251

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

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A heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and overcomes food addiction to find self-acceptance.
All her life, Andie Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant, and it provided a refuge from her fractured family. But when she stepped on the scale on her twentieth birthday and it registered a shocking 268 pounds, she knew she had to change the way she thought about food and herself; that her life was at stake.
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Queen Of France (Marie Antoinette)

By: Andre Castelot

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Publisher: Harper: 1957

Seller ID: 0110215

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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Pieces Of My Mind

By: Andrew A Rooney

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Atheneum: 1984

Seller ID: 0081942

ISBN: 0689114923

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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Someday (Andrew H Malcolm)

By: Andrew H Malcolm

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Harper: 1991

Seller ID: 0056726

ISBN: 0060974621

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

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