 | The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $1.97 One man decides to be the smartest man in the world by reading the encyclopedia!
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 | The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor by Ken Silverstein
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $5.00 A boy decides to build a nuclear reactor in his backyard
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 | Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time by David Edmonds
Buy used from: $0.66 Read about how strange Bobby Fischer, the Chess Champion, really was
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 | The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
Buy used from: $0.01 How the Oxford English Dictionary came to be
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 | The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.93 A serial killer and an architect at the Chicago World's Fair
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 | Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers and My Uncle Arthur, New York's Greatest Hoarders (An Urban Historical) by Franz Lidz
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $10.64 Tragic tale of 2 Brothers/Hermits
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 | The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine by Rudolph Chelminski
Buy used from: $0.01 Loiseau's tragic search for perfection in the culinary arts
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 | Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition by Steve Olson
Buy new: $19.20 / Used from: $0.01 Profiles of Young Math Geniuses in Competition
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 | Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $1.94 Heartbreaking story of a student who gives away everything he owns, hitchhikes into the wilderness . . . never to return
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 | Death and the Sun: A Matador's Season in the Heart of Spain by Edward Lewine
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $0.01 Follow the tradition of bullfighters
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 | The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $3.35 Humorous & touching life of an undertaker in a small ltown
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 | Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy by Lawrence Weschler
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $2.90 Mr Wilson runs a tiny museum in California. If you can't afford to fly there . . . read this book
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 | Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $2.91 Live vicariously through a food critic as she dons inventive disguises to taste-test extraordinary cuisine
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 | The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren by Gerald Brittle
Buy new: $16.16 / Used from: $7.84 True account of a husband-and-wife team who encounter entities, ghosts & spirits
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 | Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal
Buy new: $12.75 / Used from: $0.49 Read about Isherwood, Tennessee Williams, the Sitwells, Truman Capote, E.M. Forster, Anais Nin, and--most of all--his alcoholic mummy through the witchy fish-eye lens of Gore Vidal
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 | No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman by Richard Phillips Feynman
Buy new: $16.46 / Used from: $3.08 Lots of anecdotes & personal stories of my favorite genius. In my next life, I plan on being as smart as his kneecap.
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 | The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $3.00 Read about th extraordinary Father Damien and the colony of lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai
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 | Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut by Mike Mullane
Buy used from: $1.23 Look into the testesterone-laden world of the NASA shuttle astronaut. Hilarious!
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 | The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears by Nick Jans
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.84 A man's naivete in his obsession with grizzlies leads to his death
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 | Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship by Dave Kindred
Buy new: $27.00 / Used from: $0.01 The fascinating tale of Howard Cosell and Muhammad Ali
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 | The Butterfly Hunter: Adventures of People Who Found Their True Calling Way Off the Beaten Path by Chris Ballard
Buy used from: $5.50 An awesome gallery of people with the strangest jobs: a female lumberjack, the scientist in "When Bugs Attacik", the guy who plays the "voice of God" in films & ads. Kewl!
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 | Overachievers, The: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids by Alexandra Robbins
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $0.66 Live in the cut-throat lives of Ivy-League obsessed teens. I'm sure most parents want to have this problem!
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 | I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger by Frank Wynne
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.90 Han van Meegeren fooled everybody with his Dutch masterpieces until a painting he sold to Herman Goring was traced back to him! Fabulous!
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 | Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.98 Read how one Microsoft employee had to go to the Himalayas to get away from Steve Ballmer and ended up building 2,600 libraries, 200 schools and90 computer labs!
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 | The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles by Martin Gayford
Buy new: $18.24 / Used from: $8.79 Read about 9 pivotal weeks when 2 angst-ridden art giants: Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gaugin were room-mates. It just boggles the mind!
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 | American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China by Matthew Polly
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $2.60 An 98-lb weakling goes on a quest to be a more manly man and finds it in a temple full of the fighting monks of Shaolin! True Story!
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 | Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family by Alexander Waugh
Buy new: $20.08 / Used from: $5.80 This is the story of an eccentric British family of writers-- one of which is the darkly witty Evelyn Waugh--- author of BRIDESHEAD REVISITED. Read about this endearing loony clan! And its all True!
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