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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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Learn the real story behind the WMD in Iraq:

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
by Ron Suskind

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

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

DaveW recommends:

I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter

Need some laughs?

I Am America (and So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert

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.


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Download Sleeper Cell on iTunes (Better than "24") Download Weeds on iTunes (Hilarious 1/2-hour adult comedy starring Mary-Louise Parker) Download Late Nite with Conan O'Brien on iTunes
John Belushi - SNL
Download South Park on iTunes
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James Hunter - People Gonna Talk:
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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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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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Have a nice new cafe!
by CabinGirl on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 07:38:50 AM EST
Hi Cabin Girl! I've been away at CE classes for a couple of days. The cafe looks mighty quiet. I suppose the back-to-school rush is occupying the time of those with young ones still at home. Wednesday was move-in day at the IU dorms. I won't be wandering by there for awhile. The poor kids will be in serious gridlock for a few days and its a long walk from the dorms to the local watering holes.

I noticed something magical on the way home from Indianapolis earlier this afternoon. Every gas station I passed for over 20 miles had repriced at exactly the same rate, 3.73, no exceptions. Wow! What a coincidence! </snark>

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

by Indianadem on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 07:24:58 PM EST
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Hi ID!  I thought I might have scared people off with my dumb picture up top...

I used to live in a college town...we would all breathe a sigh of relief every May, and depression would set in by Labor Day with the return of the students and associated traffic jams and bar overcrowding.  :)

3.73 a gallon?  We're down to $3.43 here.  Sadly, that seems like a bargain compared to $4.18 gas.

by CabinGirl on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 08:34:11 PM EST
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your first interpretation was the right one, cg.

here we just got 25,000 knuckleheads all at once. add the influx due to the dnc = it's a zoo here.

time for the uni-hill neighbourhood re-education program to commence with all the new renters....so far so good.

the revolution will not be televised...

by dada on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 08:56:04 PM EST
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"uni-hill neighbourhood re-education program"...I like it.

I don't think I can quite imagine the carnival+riotgear atmosphere in the Denver area right now.  

by CabinGirl on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 09:24:00 PM EST
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We are fast multipliers, but lets not add that to our tables.
Besides, I didn`t tell them to be that way. It could be the air.

The difference between theists and atheists is that the atheists don't set the theists on fire for refusing to agree with them.
by KNUCKLEHEAD on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 11:58:23 PM EST
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