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A Passion for Egypt
$19.00This compelling biography of Arthur Weigall, the British Egyptologist and Chief Inspector of Antiquities, chronicles his involvement with the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb under Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon. Weigall…
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Beard on Food
$26.50In Beard on Food, one of America’s great culinary thinkers and teachers collects his best essays, ranging from the perfect hamburger to the pleasures of oxtails, from salad dressing to…
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Captain Raptor and the Space Pirates
$17.99Planet Jurassica is under siege. The sinister space pirates have raided the Imperial palace and stolen the famous Jewels of Jurassica. This looks like a job for . . ….
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Death of a Writer
$14.95From Booker Prize nominee Michael Collins comes “a wonderfully creepy murder mystery” (People), about a novelist whose last hope for fame may be the deepest secret in his past.For E….
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I’m a Lebowski, You’re a Lebowski
$18.00LOOK INSIDE THE BOOK First released in 1998, the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski flopped at the box office. But over the past nine years the movie has developed a…
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Letters of Transit
$18.00A beautifully-crafted blend of travel, history, political observation and personal experience, Letters of Transit is the distillation of the colorful journeys Matthew Stevenson has made throughout the world for over twenty…
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Minerva Clark Gives Up the Ghost
$16.95Minerva Clark’s yoga-instructor mom has returned—with a new husband in tow. As if that isn’t a big enough shock, there’s a surprise of the supernatural sort in store for the…
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Restless
$20.00RESTLESS by William Boyd is now a two-part movie starring Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, and Rufus Sewell, airing on the BBC in the UK and on the Sundance Channel in…
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The Chicken Dance
$16.95On his birthday, Don Schmidt spends the day waiting patiently for his big surprise—a cake, presents, maybe a Chinese clown . . . . But instead, his batty parents get…
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The French Riviera
$17.00The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers is a reader’s journey along the fabled coast which has provided the inspiration and setting for some of the greatest literature of…