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Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia from Pantheon Price: $15.72 Customer Review:  _Chasing the Sea_ is one of the finer travel books I have read in some time. Author Tom Bissell set out originally to cover the tragic disappearance of the Aral Sea, a once large inland body of water shared by Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan that has been slowly choked to death since the 19th century by... |
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God Lives in St. Petersburg : and Other Stories from Pantheon Price: $13.60 |
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Speak, Commentary from Publishers Group West Customer Review: Imagine having a collection of transcripts of today's most noted pundits discussing our era's most popular movies. Impossible, you say. There's no way such a book could exist. When pigs fly, maybe. Even optimistically, it seems pretty far-fetched. But lo, what is that in the distance? Is... |
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The Bellybutton Fiasco from Xlibris Corporation Price: $20.99 Customer Review: This floridly wretched work is the creation of two young book editors (one a Salon contributor) who wrote an article for Harper's magazine arguing that Xlibris and other for-fee online "publishers" are in fact exactly the same as old-fangled vanity presses. To prove their point, they concocted this... |
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