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Lost in the Jungle

by Yossi Ghinsberg

Published: 2009-03-02

Paperback: 320 pages

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Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. But when a terribl...

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Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream

by Neil Young

Published: 2013-07-30

Paperback: 512 pages

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?I think I will have to use my time wisely and keep my thoughts straight if I am to succeed and deliver the cargo I so carefully have carried thus far to the outer reaches.”  --Neil Young, from Waging Heavy Peace   Legendary singer and songwriter Neil Young’s storied career has...

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Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad

by Peter L. Bergen

Published: 2013-04-30

Paperback: 384 pages

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NOW AN HBO DOCUMENTARY     In Manhunt, Peter Bergen delivers a taut yet panoramic account of the pursuit and killing of Osama bin Laden. Here are riveting new details of bin Laden's flight after the crushing defeat of the Taliban to Tora Bora, where American forces came startlingly clo...

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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

by Steven Johnson

Published: 2002-09-10

Paperback: 288 pages

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR AN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes re...

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Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire--and How It All Came Crashing Down . . .

by Ben Mezrich

Published: 2013-05-28

Hardcover: 304 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House—the sources for the films The Social Network and 21—comes the larger-than-life true tale of a group of American college buddies who brilliantly built a billion-dollar online poker colo...

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The Leopard: A Harry Hole Novel (8) (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Jo Nesbo

Published: 2012-06-26

Paperback: 688 pages

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In this electrifying new addition to Jo Nesbø’s internationally acclaimed series, Harry Hole must confront the darkest demons in his city—and in himself. Inspector Harry Hole has retreated to Hong Kong, escaping the trauma of his last case in squalid opium dens, when two young women ...

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Dispatches

by Michael Herr

Published: 1991-08-06

Paperback: 272 pages

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"He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . the premier war correspondence of Vietnam."--Washington Post. "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."--John le Carre." . . . Dispatches puts the rest of us in the shade."--Hunter S. Thompson....

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Mr. Monk Gets on Board

by Hy Conrad

Published: 2014-05-06

Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages

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Welcome to the series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something’s out of place....   Of all the things that make Adrian Monk uneasy, change ranks high on the list. So when Natalie completes her P.I. license?and technically bec...

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Note to Self: A Novel

by Alina Simone

Published: 2013-06-04

Hardcover: 256 pages

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A witty, keenly observant look at our Internet-obsessed cultureAnna Krestler is adrift. The Internet has draped itself, kudzu-like, over her brain, which makes it even more difficult to confront the question of what to do when she is dismissed from her job as a cubicle serf at a midtown la...

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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

by Amy Stewart

Published: 2009-05-21

Hardcover: 256 pages

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A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. In Wicked Plants, Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature’s most appalling creations. It’s an A to Z of plants...