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  Adventures of Philip Marlowe...

  Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell,...

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  Bizarre enthusiasm, unusual inheritors, $300,000 and a map are some of the details that made the radio broadcast perfect. When the will was read, everybody figured she'd been crazy when she wrote it. And that included me. But I changed my mind after spending a night on an island with a pig, a cat and an ape. Because in reality, they were people.

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  Shelter Dogs in a Photo Booth

  Guinnevere Shuster

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  This uplifting, fun collection of photographs and biographies of rescue dogs is the perfect gift for animal lovers. 
   
  Man's best friend! What better way to showcase adoptable dogs than by letting their true personalities shine in a photo booth! In the tradition of the best-selling dog photography book, Underwater Dogs, Shelter Dogs in a Photo Booth wins the heart of all dog lovers. 
   
  Often seen as sad, rejected, and behind cold metal bars, it's no wonder people would avoid images of shelter dogs awaiting forever homes. From talented photographer (and now public figure and adoption champion) Guinnivere Shuster comes Shelter Dogs in a Photo Booth, a guaranteed-to-make-you-smile photo book featuring rescued dogs in a brand-new light. Get ready to see the cutest canine portraits you’ve ever seen, along with a short stories about the dog’s personality and how the dog ended up in the shelter, and the adoption date.  
   
  Guinnevere’s fantastic photos have been featured on websites, in magazines, and on television programs all over the world: Good Morning America, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, The Huffington Post, Time, The Daily Mail . . . even celebrities have gotten in on the action: Amy Poehler, Cesar Millan, and Zooey Deschanel have made statements and posts declaring their love of Guinnevere’s work. After the adorable and up-for-adoption photos of these furry friends were seen and enjoyed by millions, adoption rates at Utah's Humane Society skyrocketed. 
   
  A portion of the proceeds of this book will benefit the Humane Society of Utah and Best Friends Animal Society.

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  Creation and Anarchy - The Work...

  Giorgio Agamben

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  The acclaimed Italian philosopher interrogates the concept of creation in art, religion, and economics in this collection of five essays. 
   
  Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche, or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is always the first principle that governs and decrees. This is as true for theology, where God not only creates the world but governs and continues to govern through continuous creation, as it is for the philosophical and political tradition according to which beginning and creation, command and will, together form a strategic apparatus without which our society would fall apart.  
   
  The five essays collected here aim to deactivate this apparatus through a patient archaeological inquiry into the concepts of work, creation, and command. Giorgio Agamben explores every nuance of the arche in search of an an-archic exit strategy. By the book’s final chapter, anarchy appears as the secret center of power, brought to light so as to make possible a philosophical thought that might overthrow both the principle and its command.

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  Little Known Facts: Matthew...

  Ilana Levine

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  With a prolific career of over 40 films and multiple TV and stage productions since he blasted to fame with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in 1986, Matthew Broderick is one of Hollywood’s most recognizable actors. Broderick talks about his famous parents, his iconic role as Bueller, acting with legends like Marlon Brando and how early in his life he didn’t have acting as a goal.

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  A Place of My Own - The...

  Michael Pollan

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  Michael Pollan's unmatched ability to draw lines of connection between our everyday experiences-whether eating, gardening, or building-and the natural world has been the basis for the popular success of his many works of nonfiction, including the genre-defining bestsellers, The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and In Defense of Food. With this updated edition of his earlier book A Place of My Own, listeners can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan's realization of a room of his own-a small, wooden hut, his "shelter for daydreams"-built with his admittedly unhandy hands. Inspired by both Thoreau and Mr. Blandings, A Place of My Own not only works to convey the history and meaning of all human building, it also marks the connections between our bodies, our minds, and the natural world. 
   
  "[A]n inspired meditation on the complex relationship between space, the human body, and the human spirit." -Francine du Plessix Gray

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  Adventures of Sam Spade The: The...

  Jason James, Robert Tallman

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  Sam has been called in by Dr Ludwig Zoyer, a psychoanalyst. He has a client named Mrs. Hamilton who has suffered from a complete nervous collapse because she thought she recognized a certain person crossing the street, a person she had not seen for years. Three years ago Mrs. Hamilton's son, Carter, died under mysterious circumstances. The woman that she thought she saw was her daughter-in-law, whom she had accused of murdering her son. The case had gone to court but she had not been charged, she had dropped out of sight soon afterwards. Mrs. Hamilton is suffering from an agonizing sense of guilt. Unconsciously, she thinks that she herself murdered her son.

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