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Find textbooks at Alibris!

NOTE: Overstock bests Amazon's prices and is "blue."

THE BOOKS WITH "BUZZ":
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story:

True Compass: A Memoir
by Edward M. Kennedy.

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

Boran2 and maryb2004 recommend:

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde

Must-have information for all presidents-and citizens-of the twenty-first century?

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science behind the Headlines
Richard A. Muller

rae recommends:

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

On BooMan’s shelf:

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

This looks interesting:

Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

Here’s a good one from
Elizabeth Gilbert:

Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

"Crash" * Best Motion Picture, Academy Awards * Only $11.79 at Overstock * 2006 SAG Winner, Best Ensemble

Check out
Powell's new section:
NEW FAVORITES

Selected new arrivals at 30% off

Recommended by Indianadem and ejmw:
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Wellstone

From northcountry’s bookshelf:

The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
Political Corruption and Economic Chaos
by Ravi Batra

A novel about contractors in Iraq from the woman that runs The Spy That Billed Me:

Outsourced: A Novel
from RJ Hillhouse.


Great Deals
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Find mystery novels by Nancy Pickard ("Kansas")



Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power by Phyllis Bennis (interviewed on DN!)


Featured by Keith Olbermann, New (Powell's Sale): Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum (whose other books merit serious consideration)


"Explosive" State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
by James Risen


The book the CIA doesn't want you to read: Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Larry Johnson's review


BT's all-time best seller:

PERMACULTURE:
A Designers' Manual

$79.95 * Sale: $59.95


Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (Third Edition)


The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!


The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan


Green Press Initiative
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Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists by Eleanor Mills * NYT review


Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies & Their Journey


1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus



Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
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Check out Powell's
"At The Movies"


Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World by Noam Chomsky (Power & Terror: Post 9-11 Talks)


The Price of Privilege:

How Parental Pressure and
Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of
Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

by Madeline Levine


Save 35-70% on
name brand clothing,
footwear, and outdoor gear
at SierraTradingPost.com

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We listened to PEN American Center's "State of Emergency" and found 1940s books by Curzio Malaparte only at Alibris. (Selection (MP3) excerpted from "The Skin.")

Alibris - Books You Thought You'd Never Find
Banned Books * Are you a fan of Film Noir, Art House, Documentaries or Hong Kong Action? * Searching for a long-lost children's book or a first printing of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue on vinyl? Find it at Alibris!

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Like I said...come hear the Chico O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra at Birdland Sunday night. Sets at 9 + 11. I can get you and a couple of others in sans music charge.

Or...same place New Years Eve. No freebies that night, but a HELL of a good way to usher in the best New Year that we have had since the 1990s.

(I hope.)

After that...I am loose the next 3 days.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Fri Dec 28th, 2007 at 02:35:33 PM EST
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I am literally close to tears over here. Damn, I wish we could join you.

Please, please, please let us know of other sets where we can get in reduced/free and/or post calendars of upcoming events .

Did I mention how much I hate to miss this?

Have fun, everyone!

Can't hear ya, Peach!

by AP on Fri Dec 28th, 2007 at 08:20:04 PM EST
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Sounds like we need to plan a meetup sometime soon!

I was in DC a couple months ago and was this || close to ringing you up, but I had a pretty packed schedule and didn't want to be a tease :)

Tengo un sueño.
by ejmw (ewitham (at) umich (dot) edu) on Fri Dec 28th, 2007 at 08:57:45 PM EST
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what e said (about the meetup, that is.  haven't been back to DC since the march)

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz
by Man Eegee (man.eegee at gmail dot com) on Fri Dec 28th, 2007 at 09:09:23 PM EST
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Booooooo!!!

I'm only teasing. I know what it's like to have a packed schedule...you just want to do everything, and you know you can't.

Besides, our fall was pretty consumed when we found out--courtesy of Verizon's reckless digging in our yard--that we had blue polybutylene pipes. Let's just say that it has been rough on the pocketbook, and with a couple of other things we had to deal with this month, we couldn't just jet up to NYC. We'll be able to do so in a couple of months. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to blog about that hellish experience sometime soon.

Anyway...do let me know when you're headed this way again! It'll be fun!!!

Can't hear ya, Peach!

by AP on Fri Dec 28th, 2007 at 09:39:46 PM EST
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I work at Birdland almost every Sunday night with the same amazing band.

Plus this January a week with another amazing band in the same general idiom, The Giants of Latin Jazz. Jan. 22-26.

Any time.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Fri Dec 28th, 2007 at 10:49:12 PM EST
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