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Too Young To Die

By: N/A

Price: $12.99

Publisher: Publications International Ltd: 1991

Seller ID: 0004193

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The Biggest Game in Town

By: A Alvarez

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Chronicle Books: 2002

Seller ID: 0019738

Called "the best book ever written on poker" by players and critics alike, The Biggest Game in Town is a sought-after classic thats finally available in print again. Acclaimed author A. Alvarez delves into the seedy, obsessive world of high-stakes Vegas poker, where "the next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing." Uncovering an exotic underground rich in ambiance and eccentricity, The Biggest Game in Town is "a magnificent book " (San Francisco Chronic... View more info

A Thousand Pieces of Gold: Growing Up Through China's Proverbs

By: Adeline Yen Mah

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco: 2002

Seller ID: 0036543

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Room for All of Us: Surprising Stories of Loss and Transformation

By: Adrienne Clarkson

Price: $10.99

Publisher: Allen Lane Canada: 2011

Seller ID: 0036713

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The Age Of Turbulence: Adventures In A New World

By: Alan Greenspan

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Penguin: 2008

Seller ID: 0010182

"The Age Of Turbulence" is Alan Greenspan's incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life's journey through his more than eighteen-year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board to the present, in the second half of "The Age of Turbulence" Dr. Greenspan... View more info

The Book of My Lives

By: Aleksandar Hemon

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Picador: 2014

Seller ID: 0036553

Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, where boyhood is consumed by street soccer and sibling rivalry, and a young man's life is about American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. At the age of twenty-seven, Hemon journeyed to Chicago--a trip that would mark the beginning of another life, this time in the United States. There, he watched from afar as war broke out in Bosnia, his parents and sister fleeing, and Hemon himself unable to return. Yet... View more info

The Force of Things: A Marriage in War and Peace

By: Alexander Stille

Price: $9.99

Publisher: FSG: 2013

Seller ID: 0034220

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Scribbling The Cat: Travels With An African Soldier

By: Alexandra Fuller

Price: $9.99

Publisher: The Penguin Press: 2004

Seller ID: 0002180

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Lucky

By: Alice Sebold

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Little Brown And Co.: 2002

Seller ID: 0015550

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The Same River Twice: Honoring The Difficult

By: Alice Walker

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Scribner: 1996

Seller ID: 0007850

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Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter: Growing Up With A Gay Dad

By: Alison Wearing

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Knopf Canada: 2013

Seller ID: 0031736

A moving memoir about growing up with a gay father in the 1980s, and a tribute to the power of truth, humour, acceptance and familial love. Alison Wearing led a largely carefree childhood until she learned, at the age of 12, that her family was a little more complex than she had realized. Sure her father had always been unusual compared to the other dads in the neighbourhood: he loved to bake croissants, wear silk pyjamas around the house, and skip down the street... View more info