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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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I'm not worried about the polls.  What I worry about are what the angry deadenders will do if Obamna wins.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt
by Steven D on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 05:59:03 PM EST
you know what happens to an engine when the timing belt goes?  It just chews everything up.  That's how I see this election shaping up.  The GOP will be left leaderless, without a going ideology, and with a base about as appealing as NoQuarter.
by BooMan on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 06:05:21 PM EST
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So what happens at the debate next week?

Will McCain raise the Ayers question?  His courage has been questioned...

Should Obama pre-empt him?  Methinks that the internals that the Obama camp is looking at are reflecting backlash at McCain - why else are Biden and Obama mocking McCain's courage?  Surely they must know this gets under McCain's fighter pilot skin and causes him to instinctively to react.

At first I dreaded this exchange.  Typical Democrat, waiting for the other shoe to drop.  But Obama's political jujitsu ability is just fun to watch - I'm glad he's on our side.  I've never seen the right so frustrated at their inability to make their silly arguments stick - remember the purple heart bandaids?

by granitestater on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 07:51:28 PM EST
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Obama's got McCain psyched out.  He's in his head.  Because of his daddy and grandaddy, and then his wife, McCain has never faced real opposition.  In this respect he's just like Bush.  Both are cowards.  He didn't expect Obama to stand up to him, and he doesn't know what to do.  And Obama knows how to diddle him.  As Willie Mays said, 'Say hey'.

Knut
by Knut Wicksell (b_didnn@hotmail.ca) on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 10:25:12 PM EST
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"...the GOP will be left leaderless..."
Not exactly. Its leader will be Sarah Palin. Much of what's left of the party will then bolt and it will be what it has been becoming for a long time, the American fascist party.
by priscianus jr on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 12:23:16 PM EST
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They'll be yelling "Voter Fraud!"
by sjct on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 06:00:43 PM EST
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And if he doesn't win, we'll hear the same cry. The good news? Both left and right are waking up to the rigging of the vote in this country.

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes
by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 06:04:18 PM EST
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Yeah, but the right's view of voter fraud is a fiction used to justify purging voters.
by ericy on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 08:27:13 AM EST
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