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Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom (Paperback)

By Jennifer S. Holland
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780761159131
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Published: Workman Publishing, 6/2011
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UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIPS

A senior writer for National Geographic magazine presents a collection of heart-warming tales about animals who have forged unlikely, abiding bonds with other animals not of their own species, from Koko the gorilla's famous adoption of All Ball the kitten to the friendship between Owen the hippo and the tortoise Mzee.

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Paperback)

By Christopher Mcdougall
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780307279187
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Published: Vintage, 4/2010
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BORN TO RUN

Part adventure story, part extreme sports, "Born to Run" is a riveting tale about one journalist's quest to discover the secrets of the world's greatest distance runners--a reclusive Indian tribe living deep in the Copper Canyon of northern Mexico.

Also available as a Google eBook.

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Paperback)

By Rebecca Skloot
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781400052189
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Published: Broadway, 3/2011
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IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS

Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping. 

Also available as a Google eBook.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Paperback)

By Bill Bryson
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780767919395
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Published: Anchor, 10/2011
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AT HOME

With his signature wit, charm, and seemingly limitless knowledge, Bill Bryson takes us on a room-by-room tour through his own house, using each room as a jumping off point into the vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for granted. As he takes us through the history of our modern comforts, Bryson demonstrates that whatever happens in the world eventually ends up in our home, in the paint, the pipes, the pillows, and every item of furniture. Bryson has one of the liveliest, most inquisitive minds on the planet, and his sheer prose fluency makes "At Home" one of the most entertaining books ever written about private life.

Also available as a Google eBook. 

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The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and (Paperback)

By Gretchen Rubin
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780061583261
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Published: Harper Paperbacks, 3/2011
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HAPPINESS PROJECT

Chronicles the author's year spent testing the edicts of conventional wisdom to assess their actual potential for improving life, describing how she engaged in various activities from getting more sleep and singing to her children to starting a blog and imitating a spiritual master.

Also available as a Google eBook.

Cleopatra: A Life (Paperback)

By Stacy Schiff
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780316001946
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Published: Back Bay Books, 9/2011
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CLEOPATRA

A Pulitzer Prize winner weaves together sex and celebrity, empire and politics in a story that is as contemporary as it is ancient, capturing fully for the first time the operatic power of Cleopatra's life and reign.

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American Hist (Paperback)

By S. C. Gwynne
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781416591061
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Published: Scribner, 5/2011
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EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON

Describes in sometimes brutal detail the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the Comanche kidnapping of a white 9-year-old girl, who grew up to love her captors, marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.

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F in Exams: The Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers (Paperback)

By Richard Benson
$9.95
ISBN-13: 9780811878319
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Chronicle Books, 4/2011
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F IN EXAMS

"F" stands for "funny" in this perfect gift for students or anyone who has ever had to struggle through a test and needs a good laugh. Celebrating the creative side of failure in a way we can all relate to, F in Exams gathers the most hilarious and inventive test answers provided by students who, faced with a question they have no hope of getting right, decide to have a little fun instead. Whether in science (Q: What is the highest frequency noise that a human can register? A: Mariah Carey), the humanities (Q: What did Mahatma Gandhi and Genghis Khan have in common? A: Unusual names), math, or other subjects, these 250 entries prove that while everyone enjoys the spectacle of failure, it's even sweeter to see a FAIL turn into a WIN.

Just Kids (Paperback)

By Patti Smith
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780060936228
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Published: Ecco, 11/2010
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JUST KIDS

An artist and musician recounts her romance, lifetime friendship and shared love of art with Robert Mapplethorpe, in an illustrated memoir that includes a colorful cast of characters, including Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, William S. Burroughs and more.

Also available as a Google eBook. 

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Paperback)

By Siddhartha Mukherjee
$18.00
ISBN-13: 9781439170915
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Published: Scribner, 9/2011
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EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES

A historical assessment of cancer addresses both the courageous battles against the complex disease and the misperceptions and hubris that have compromised modern understandings, covering such topics as ancient-world surgeries and the developments of present-day treatments.

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Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back (Paperback)

By Todd Burpo, Lynn Vincent, Colton Burpo
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780849946158
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Published: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 11/2010
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HEAVEN IS FOR REAL

This is the true story of Colton Burpo, the four-year old son of a small-town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven.

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I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections (Paperback)

By Nora Ephron
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780307742803
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Published: Vintage, 11/2011
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I  REMEMBER NOTHING

Ephron gives a candid, edgy voice to everything women who have reached a certain age have been thinking . . . but rarely acknowledging. Filled with insights and observations that instantly ring true--and could have come only from her--"I Remember Nothing" is pure joy.

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A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--and a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression (Paperback)

By Ted Gup
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780143120001
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 10/2011
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SECRET GIFT

Inside a suitcase kept in his mother's attic, Gup discovered letters written to his grandfather in response to an ad placed in a Canton, Ohio, newspaper in 1933 that offered cash to 75 families facing a devastating Christmas. The author travels coast to coast to unveil the lives behind the letters, describing a range of hardships and recreating in his research the hopes and suffering of Depression-era Americans.

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1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)

By Charles C. Mann
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9781400032051
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Published: Vintage, 10/2006
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1491

Mann offers a groundbreaking study that radically alters readers' understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.

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Outliers: The Story of Success (Paperback)

By Malcolm Gladwell
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780316017930
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Published: Back Bay Books, 10/2010
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OUTLIERS

In this stunning investigation of success, Gladwell asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? Brilliant and entertaining, "Outliers" is a landmark work that will transform the way success is understood.

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