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Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:31:51 PDT

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Every Purchase Funds Global Literacy

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:31:33 PDT

Better World Books is a for-profit social enterprise that collects used books and sells them online to raise money for literacy initiatives worldwide. We offer great...

America's BookShelf, The World's Largest Book Club, Is A Book Exchange Club That...

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:31:04 PDT

America's BookShelf, The World's Largest Book Club, Is A Book Exchange Club That Connects People From All Over The United States And Helps Book Readers From All Over The...

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Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:30:40 PDT

In business since 2000, Booksfree is the premier online book rental service. O Magazine referred to us as the books version of Netflix. Rent paperback or audio books on...

Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West (Hardcover)

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:51:00 PDT

Amazon.com Review Hearts of the West are unburdened in Leaning into the Wind, an anthology encompassing a wealth of experiences from farmers, ranchers, rangers, and other...

Pioneer Women

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:50:18 PDT

Review Cleveland Plain Dealer A striking testimonial to the too often overlooked feminine half of the pioneer experience. -- Review Review Peter S. Prescott Newsweek...

Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915 (Histories of the...

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:49:01 PDT

* Paperback: 387 pages * Publisher: University of New Mexico Press; No Additional Listings Printed edition (October 1, 1982) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0826306268 *...

The Women's West

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:46:25 PDT

* Paperback: 324 pages * Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press (April 1987) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0806120673 * ISBN-13: 978-0806120676 * Product Dimensions: 9...

The American West. Visions and Revisions (New Studies in Economic and Social...

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:44:48 PDT

* Paperback: 180 pages * Publisher: Cambridge University Press (January 10, 2005) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0521596718 * ISBN-13: 978-0521596718 * Product...

Women on the Frontier

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:43:03 PDT

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Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:33:00 PDT

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Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:31:53 PDT

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The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die [book]

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:12:27 PDT

Imagine for a moment that you are about to take a foreign vacation to an exotic destination. You have saved your entire life to travel there. It is a destination with...

Tamales 101: A Beginner's Guide to Making Traditional Tamales (Paperback)

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:32:07 PST

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San Diego Book Club Reading List

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:32:18 PST

Our book club picks from 2006 on...

Welcome, San Diego Womens Book Club!

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:31:44 PST

The San Diego Women's book club is designed for women in San Diego to be able to get together once a month to discuss good books. The goal of the book club is to have...

Book Clubs at City of San Diego Public Library Locations

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:30:29 PST

This listing is for book clubs at San Diego Public Library locations. Please contact the library directly for more information about book clubs and meetings. You may also...

Snake Oil Science: The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:31:39 PDT

Bad Science Recommended Reading - Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O (Wiley Bad Science Series)

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:07:32 PDT

Product Description "David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to...

khahn718 writes "I just saw a reference to this book the other day. I'm adding it to my list."

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:30:22 PDT

I just saw a reference to this book the other day. I'm adding it to my list.

khahn718 writes "This book is freakin' hilarious."

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:04:28 PDT

This book is freakin' hilarious.

The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:14:31 PST

Do you smell bad? If you are reading this, it's a sure thing that you are a resident of the 21st century, and it's probable that you also are a resident of a society that...

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Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:44:25 PST

very good book

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Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:49:25 PST

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DailyOM - Spirit Heals [book] (by Meredith L. Young-Sowers)

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:50:52 PST

Meredith L. Young-Sowers has created a book for women that puts a woman's connection to spirit at the very center. This book will help you learn to nourish yourself on...

DailyOM - Loving What Is [book] (by Byron Katie)

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:50:23 PST

This book contains what Byron Katie refers to as "The Work." The Work is simply four questions that, when applied to a specific problem, will enable you to see the...

Amazon.com: Born With A Tooth: Books: Boyden Joseph

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:18:20 PST

* Paperback: 292 pages * Publisher: Cormorant Books (March 26, 2003) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 1896951295 * ISBN-13: 978-1896951294 * Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x...

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Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:37:25 PST

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Three Bags Full (Hardcover)

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:16:28 PST

From Publishers Weekly The mysterious death of their shepherd has sent a flock of sheep into a frenzy trying to piece together whodunit. Overcoming their sheepish ways,...

Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the...

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:04:12 PST

Book Description Grappling with her lifelong phobia of anything slick, cheesy, or remotely claiming to provide self-empowerment, Beth Lisick wakes up on New Year's Day...

Water for Elephants: A Novel

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:51:14 PST

Amazon.com Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of Water for Elephants, he is living out his days in a nursing home,...

Rent Books Netflix -style*

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:37:36 PDT

Online Book Rental Library. Stop buying books when you can borrow new releases and classics with free shipping! Netflix has popularized online DVD Rental. We`re doing it...

maxandevelyn writes "My dad gave this to me for my birthday. I think I'll have to wait to read it..."

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:19:17 PDT

My dad gave this to me for my birthday. I think I'll have to wait to read it until after school--right now my brain is too shot for serious reading!

White Noise (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:57:33 PDT

Amazon.com Something is amiss in a small college town in Middle America. Something subliminal, something omnipresent, something hard to put your finger on. For example,...

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)

Wed, 09 May 2007 16:59:55 PDT

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Before 9/11, New York Times columnist Friedman was best known as the author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, one of the major...

I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence (Hardcover)

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:50:32 PDT

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Sedaris's sidesplitting guide to throwing parties hopes to return readers to the times when the word "entertainment" was...

Orientalism

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:07:38 PDT

The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.

Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:07:38 PDT

Julia Gelardi's Born to Rule is an historical tour de force that weaves together the powerful and moving stories of the five royal granddaughters of Queen Victoria. These...

The Sparrow

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:07:38 PDT

In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet which will come to be known...

The Mismeasure of Man

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:07:38 PDT

How smart are you? If that question doesn't spark a dozen more questions in your mind (like "What do you mean by 'smart,'" "How do I measure it," and "Who's asking?"),...

Wonder Woman: The Complete History

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:07:38 PDT

There can't be many people who haven't heard of Wonder Woman, arguably the first female superhero and one of the "big three" (the others being Batman and Superman). She...

An Uncommon Woman - The Empress Frederick: Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of...

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:07:38 PDT

The Titled Americans: Three American Sisters and the British Aristocratic World...

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:07:38 PDT

The Titled Americans is a family saga spanning three generations, chronicling the glamorous lives of Leonard Jerome, his daughters, and their children. Raven-haired...

The Turkish Lover

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:07:38 PDT

Enthralled admirers of Esmeralda Santiago's memoirs of her childhood have yearned to read more. Now, in The Turkish Lover, Esmeralda finally breaks out of the monumental...

The Age of Innocence

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:07:38 PDT

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a...