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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
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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


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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.")

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Display:
Y'know what. folks?

It doesn't make a LICK of difference whether he is alive and effectively active or dead and thus inactive.

Not a lick.

It changes nothing.

There are others who will gladly step right into his shoes.

Many others.

The actors change, but the play goes right on about its business.

Forget about him.

He has.

AG

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

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Tue May 15th, 2007 at 02:42:15 PM EST
The ones who are celebrating are the ones who can't wait to fill his shoes. Too unseemly to display publicly.

Can't hear ya, Peach!
by AP on Tue May 15th, 2007 at 03:19:41 PM EST
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AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West
by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Tue May 15th, 2007 at 03:24:14 PM EST
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it won't help our side any for the other side to be able to point to nasty comments about a person that just died.

let's at least show him the respect of the recently departed, and the respect of his collar.

you know if someon says "good riddance," then michelle malking will point and say "see???the left is evil and mean and wacko!!"

at least wait a couple days.  or at least bring up salient points, like when he said that gays and unmarried women and the aclu caused 9/11.

i am listening to tucker "i hardly knew her" carlson on msnbc now, and a representative from liberty university could not answer (and in fact dodged) the very question about falwell's blaming secularists for 9/11.

let's stick to the facts, and not be snide.

at least not until a couple days from now.

it's the thurman munson rule of improv:  never make fun of someone on the day they die.

by skippybkroo (skippybkroo@aol.com) on Tue May 15th, 2007 at 04:25:47 PM EST
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I am not much on the idea of limiting my speech because of what Michelle Malkin might say.

No matter what we do, no matter what we say, it doesn't matter because if we don't say anything, the Right will just make shit up. So you might as well express your bad, fabulous self!

by stormbear on Tue May 15th, 2007 at 08:11:15 PM EST
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Y'know, every day for the last... quarter century or more...  that sorry waste of oxygen was doing his dead level best, in the name of some twisted ideas of his own, to see to it that I, everyone I ever cared about, and every idea that made any kind of life worth having, was either stomped on or stomped out...

And now that he's gone to oblivion I'm supposed to say nice things about him?

The only two regrets I have are (1) he appears to have died quickly and painlessly, probably while comatose, and (2) I wasn't there to help....

Compromise:  In his honor, tonight, I shall drink several glasses of icewater, because he can't.  And then, in honor of all the victims of jerry and his fellow travelers who may now be resting easier, I have a bottle of 18 year MacAllan.  Slainte' to the deserving, and justice to jerry.  Like it or not.


We are all captives of the pictures in our heads -- our belief that the world which we have experienced is the world that really exists. -- Walter Lippman

by stormkite on Tue May 15th, 2007 at 08:51:46 PM EST
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The Thurman Munson rule: if you make fun of Thurman Munson (now or in the future) I will a)cry, and b)hunt you down and beat your ass.
by BooMan on Tue May 15th, 2007 at 04:35:35 PM EST
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