 | DARK HORSES: Poets on Overlooked Poems
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 | Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
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 | Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis
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 | Boone: A Biography by Robert Morgan
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 | Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself by Ann Wroe
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 | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie, Sherman) by Sherman Alexie
Buy new: $11.04 / Used from: $5.21 CHILDREN/YOUNG ADULT BEGINS. Boy grapples with community and identity.
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 | Deadline by Chris Crutcher
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 | Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) by Stephenie Meyer
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 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling
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 | The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
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 | The Girl's Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can't Manage without Apostrophes! by Lynne Truss
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 | Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California (American Crossroads) by Peter La Chapelle
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 | Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff
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 | Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
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 | The Shotgun Rule: A Novel by Charlie Huston
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $0.95 CRIME/SUSPENSE BEGINS. Summer of 1983 takes deadly turn for four teen slackers.
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 | Con Ed by Matthew Klein
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 | The Strangler by William Landay
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $0.01 In the midst of the Boston Stranglers rampage, three sons of a murdered cop face down corruption and murder.
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 | The Death Trust by David Rollins
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $0.01 Air Force sleuth looks into deaths in Iraq, Germany.
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 | What's So Funny? (Dortmunder Novels) by Donald E. Westlake
Buy used from: $0.04 Hapless crook John Dortmunder is blackmailed into stealing a 680-pound chess set.
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 | The Guild of Xenolinguists by Sheila Finch
Buy new: $21.33 / Used from: $10.00 FANTASY/SCIENCE FICTION BEGINS. Watch your language; ETs may be listening.
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 | The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
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 | Rollback (Sci Fi Essential Books) by Robert J. Sawyer
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 | Halting State by Charles Stross
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 | Ha'penny by Jo Walton
Buy new: $19.72 / Used from: $0.74 A tale set in 1949 Britain warns theres a price for giving up freedoms.
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 | Garage Band by Gipi
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $2.17 GRAPHIC NOVELS BEGIN. The acclaimed Italian writer-artists character study of a young garage band.
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 | Chance In Hell by Gilbert Hernandez
Buy new: $2.66 / Used from: $2.00 Grim tale about an orphan girl who grows up amoral simply to survive.
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 | The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $3.73 HISTORY BEGINS. Riveting true tale of humans, nature and heroics during the Nazi siege of Warsaw.
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 | The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (Volume Two of The Liberation Trilogy) by Rick Atkinson
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $2.39 Second volume of his World War II trilogy.
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 | Boss-busters and Sin Hounds: Kansas City and Its Star by Harry Haskell
Buy new: $26.56 / Used from: $13.58 How the paper youre reading influenced KC in the early 20th century. *
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 | Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession With the Untamed West by Michael L. Johnson
Buy new: $28.59 / Used from: $17.50 KU professor busts Western myths. *
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 | The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche by Gary Krist
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $0.10 Harrowing tale of trains swept off a mountain in 1910.
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 | The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater, 1870-1930 by Felicia Hardison Londr??
Buy new: $28.15 / Used from: $17.00 History of Kansas Citys entertainment life. *
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 | Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West by Scott Martelle
Buy new: $25.95 / Used from: $5.74 Infamous railroad strike and its repercussions.
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 | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $0.01 MEMOIR/AUTOBIOGRAPHY BEGINS. Harrowing and heartening tale of a Sierra Leone boy soldier.
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 | Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
Buy new: $20.47 / Used from: $1.18 Stunning memoir of life, death, family and brutal tragedy.
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 | How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill
Buy new: $15.64 / Used from: $0.01 Personal story also serves as examination of corporate values.
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 | Mama's Boys: A Double Life by Jonathan Holden
Buy new: $16.00 / Used from: $27.81 The former Kansas poet laureates latest is a memoir about himself and his twin brother. *
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 | Elvis Is Titanic: Classroom Tales from the Other Iraq by Ian Klaus
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $0.01 Authors own account of teaching in Iraq.
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 | Writing in an Age of Silence by Sara Paretsky
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $0.01 Writers education in feminism, social justice and making of mystery novels.
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 | Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject by Meryle Secrest
Buy used from: $0.44 The title and subtitle say it well.
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