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 Arab/American Landscape,
Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts by Gary Paul Nabhan. Essays
exploring how two seemingly disparate cultures are bound to each other
in ways rarely imagined. Illustrated with B&W photos. 141 pages. Buy
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Asylum in the Grasslands by Diane Glancy. Poetry collection by award-winning author exploring the history of loss in the Cherokee community. More
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The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English A Brief History of the Future
edited by Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor. First Edition. Over vulgar
language 60,000 entries from the English-speaking world. 720 pages. Buy
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Hardscrabble
by Kevin Mcfadden. The VQR Poetry Series title. Poems that examine
American identity through the latent possibilities of language. More
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In Defense of Food
An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan. A detailed examination of what
to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health. Indexed. 244
pages.
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The
Jesus Mystery Astonishing
Clues to the True Identities of Jesus and Paul by Lena Einhorn.
Speculative history presenting a new hypothesis about the relationship
between Jesus and the apostle Paul. Indexed. 279 pages. Buy
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Jesus
the Rabbi Prophet A New Light on the Gospel Message by
Jacques Baldet.
Translated from the French by Joseph Rowe. Scholar Sand historian
Jacques
Baldet seeks to restore the historical context and true nature of the
Jewish
society in which Jesus lived. Indexed. 260 pages. Buy
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The Nature of Home Taking Root in a Place
by Greta Gaard. Essays exploring what it means to be at home in the world. 209 pages. Buy
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Paradoxes from A to Z by
Michael Clark. A compendium of philosophical paradoxes that takes the
reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno
to Galileo and Lewis Carroll to Bertrand Russell. Indexed. 253
pages. More
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Rural
Delivery by Michael Hofferber. A collection of short,
pungent, sometimes
humorous and frequently thought-provoking commentaries and advice on
rural
living in contemporary America. 146 pages. Buy
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Spalding's
World Tour The Epic Adventure that Took Baseball Around the
Globe -
And Made It America's Game by Mark Lamster. Illustrated with historic
B&W
photos. Biographical history of one of the most colorful figures in the
history of American sports -- A.G. Spalding. Indexed. 341 pages. More
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Things I Learned From Knitting... Whether I Wanted To or Not
by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee. A humorous collection of witty observations
on how knitting and life wisdom are spun together. 160 pages.. More
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This Moment on Earth
Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future by John
Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry. An inspiring celebration of courageous
American innovators who are transforming the way we protect and care
for the world we live in. Indexed. 254 pages.. More
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Mark
Twain and Company Six Literary Relations by Leland Krauth.
Examines
some creative "sparks and smolderings" ignited by Twain's contact with
Americans Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, and Harriet Beecher Stowe
and
the British writers Matthew Arnold, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rudyard
Kipling. Indexed. 307 pages. More
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Quick
Change
by Jay Cronley. New paperback edition of novel first published in 1981,
and the inspiration for separate French and American films (the latter
starring Bill Murray and Geena Davis). 259 pages. More
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Informal
English Puncture Ladies, Egg Harbors, Mississippi Marbles,
and Other
Curious Words and Phrases of North America by Jeffrey Kacirk.
Collection
of liguistic oddities and vernacular Americanisms. 239 pages. More
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The
Birdhouse Chronicles: Surviving the Joys of Country
Life. Trade
paperback, new. First Edition. Part memoir, part travelogue, part
nature
writing-an intimate first-person narrative of returning to a realer,
simpler
life. 258 pages.. More
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Dog
Culture: Writers on the Character of Canines edited
by Ken Foster.
Trade paperback, new. Anthology of writings about dogs. Includes
selections
by Annie Bruno, Hillary Rosner, Nicholas Dawidoff, Brent Hoff, T
Cooper,
Chris Offutt, Rene Steinke and more. 195 pages. More
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