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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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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


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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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This is really interesting. Keith Olbermann did his whole 1-hour show on this topic with NO commercial breaks. Then Dan Abrams did his whole show on it with only one commercial break. Now Keith is back again live with only a few breaks. Nothing but this story has been reported on MSNBC for the last two and a half hours. Nonstop. With all of their applicable resources focusing on just this story.

So is Keith making this a story in order to break the ugly Rev. Wright narrative? Maybe. But it is a very disturbing story. And it sounds like Republican opposition research via "contract employee" proxy at the State Department - with middle management afraid to report it upstream. But now they've been caught.  Very interesting.

by RandyH on Thu Mar 20th, 2008 at 10:27:49 PM EST
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ahem:
...it sounds like Republican opposition research via "contract employee" proxy...

l wouldn't jump to that party-centic conclusion too quickly. it may have well been a democRAT oppo...just sayin'.

L have no idea where the "order" came down from, but there's a lot of animosity out there in hillaryville.

the revolution will not be televised...

by dada on Thu Mar 20th, 2008 at 11:09:19 PM EST
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Could be. But from the timing, it fits what they did in 1992 preparing to go up against Bill Clinton in the general when they did the exact same thing and got caught. But I wouldn't put it past Hillary, either. She plays by the same rulebook.
by RandyH on Thu Mar 20th, 2008 at 11:14:44 PM EST
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this from C&L:

...each intrusion happened within a day or so of an Obama victory - *Iowa, Wisconsin/Hawaii and Mississippi. Coincidence? We need to know who knew what, and when...

[linkhttp://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/03/20/verdict-former-us-attorney-speaks-out-on-passportgate-ii/}

who benefits most from this?

the most obvious conclusion would not be RATpublicans...but l'm cynical by nature.

there's no such thing as coincidence

my 2¢  YMMV

the revolution will not be televised...

by dada on Thu Mar 20th, 2008 at 11:50:06 PM EST
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Let the Congressional investigations begin!
by RandyH on Thu Mar 20th, 2008 at 11:57:46 PM EST
[ Parent ]
And Joe Biden could have some fun on C-Span with this one too. Just wait for the Senate committee hearings...
by RandyH on Thu Mar 20th, 2008 at 11:10:40 PM EST
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