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A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain (Book)

Tamler Sommers

ISBN:9781934781388

Do we have free will? What counts as justice in the Peruvian Amazon? Is Catherine Zeta-Jones objectively hotter than Drew Barrymore? These are just a few of the questions that philosopher Tamler Sommers attempts to answer in far-spanning interviews with ten acclaimed researchers in the burgeoning field of moral psychology...more details
Format:Paperback Pages:239

USD $18.53

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Be a Nose! [With 2 Hardcover Sketchbooks] (Book)

Art Spiegelman

ISBN:9781934781142

Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, creator of Wacky Packs and the Garbage Pail Kids, and father of the modern graphic novel (though he's still demanding a blood test)...more details
Format:Hardback Pages:368

USD $33.12

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Best of Wholphin, Volume 2 (Book)

Brent Hoff

ISBN:9781934781883

"The Best of Wholphin, Volume 2, " features the acclaimed filmmaker Spike Jonze and actress Catherine Keener short in which they reenact a memory from Maurice Sendak's childhood; the touching "Short Term 12...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:60

USD $27.27

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Children and the Tundra (Book)

Doris Haggis-On-Whey

ISBN:9781934781890

For years, Dave Eggers and his brother, Toph, have moonlighted as the not-so-secret authors of the "HOW" series of faux-scientific texts for children. In each book...more details
Pages:64

USD $26.34

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Citrus County (Book)

John Brandon

ISBN:9781934781531

Teenage romance is confusing even in the best of times -- but it's even worse when you've also accidentally kidnapped your girlfriend's little sister. John Brandon follows his acclaimed "Arkansas" with this dark...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:215

USD $30.19

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En Las Sombras de Estados Unidos (Book in Spanish)

Peter Orner

ISBN:9781934781791

SPANISH LANGUAGE. "En las Sombras de Estados Unidos" is the Spanish translation of "Underground America, " the third book in the "Voice of Witness" series. It focuses on the difficult lives of undocumented workers in the United States...more details
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:351

USD $21.41

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Fever Chart (Book)

Bill Cotter

ISBN:9781934781999

Having spent most of his life medicated, electroshocked, and institutionalized, Jerome Coe finds himself homeless on the coldest night of the century -- and so...more details
Format:Paperback Pages:305

USD $19.46

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Fur Journal (Book)

Staff of McSweeney's

ISBN:9781934781913

The "Fur Journal" is exactly that: a blank hardcover book, bound in imitation fur. Like "The Wild Things" before it, this journal's coat is soft and mink-like...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:96

USD $12.88

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Half a Life (Book)

Darin Strauss

ISBN:9781934781708

"Half my life ago, I killed a girl." So begins Darin Strauss' "Half a Life, " the true story of how one high school outing in his father's Oldsmobile resulted in the tragic death of a young girl...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:204

USD $23.61

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Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives (Book)

Peter Orner

ISBN:9781934781944

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Format:Hardback Pages:511

USD $32.19

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I (Book)

Stephen Dixon

ISBN:9780971904705

This is the long-awaited novel by master Stephen Dixon, twice a finalist for the National Book Award, I. is a searingly powerful and seemingly autobiographical novel--in the form of linked stories--that explores the limitations of memory and the frustrations of the narrator's life...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:338

USD $21.07

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I Found This Funny: Eighteen Humorous Pieces and Three That May Not Be Funny at All (Book)

Judd Apatow

ISBN:9781934781906

"I Found This Funny" is a compilation of work by some of Judd Apatow's favorite authors. The book showcases many different styles of writing...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:462

USD $26.83

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It Is Right to Draw Their Fur: Animal Renderings by Dave Eggers (Book)

Dave Eggers

ISBN:9781934781982

In time to coincide with a gallery show in San Francisco, this is Dave Eggers's first collection of drawings. Most of these works are of unusual mammals...more details
Format:Hardback Pages:200

USD $48.77

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Lady Into Fox (Book)

David Garnett;R A Collins PaulGarnett

ISBN:9781932416053

The latest lost classic from the Collins Library: David Garnett's haunting 1922 debut novel, the story of a man, a woman, a fox, and a love that could not be tamed. Hardcover...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:78

USD $26.29

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Lemon (Book)

Lawrence Krauser

ISBN:9780970335517

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Format:Hardcover Pages:264

USD $22.39

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McSweeney's 36 (Book)

Dave Eggers

ISBN:9781934781746

"McSweeney's" began in 1998 as a literary journal, edited by Dave Eggers, that published only works rejected by other magazines. Since then, "McSweeney's" has attracted works from some of the finest writers in the country...more details
Format:Hardback Pages:500

USD $34.14

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McSweeney's Issue 31 (Book)

Dave Eggers

ISBN:9781934781340

Barthelme said that "The Novel of the Soil is dead, as are Expressionism, Impressionism, Futurism, Imagism, Vorticism, Regionalism, Realism, the Kitchen Sink School of Drama...more details
Format:Hardback Pages:156