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Top Trade Nonfiction

Celebrating the wonderfully weird tastes of our booksellers...

Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson (Paperback)

By Alan Pell Crawford
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780812969467
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2/2009
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Go Alan!

The Middle Place (Paperback)

By Kelly Corrigan
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781401340933
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Hyperion, 12/2008
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Can't wait for her next book!

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)

By Mary Roach
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780393334791
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 4/2009
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Hmmmm...

Best Garden Plants for Virginia (Paperback)

By Richard Nunally, Laura Peters
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9789768200136
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Lone Pine Publishing, 2/2006
We love Richard's book...and plants.

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time (Paperback)

By Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780143038252
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 2/2007
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People bought multiple copies of this one...lots of book groups too.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Paperback)

By Michael Pollan
$17.00
ISBN-13: 9780143038580
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 9/2007
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Big staff fave. Oh, and more than you ever want to know about corn.

Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously (Paperback)

By Julie Powell
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780316044271
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Back Bay Books, 7/2009
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Look for more "Movie Dates with Fountain Booksellers" in 2010.

My Life in France (Paperback)

By Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780307277695
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Anchor, 10/2007
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See above...

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)

By James W. Loewen
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780743296281
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Touchstone, 10/2007
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We think Steve sold all of these.

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Paperback)

By Michael Pollan
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780143114963
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 4/2009
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Yes, we love food.

The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief (Paperback)

By Peter Rollins
$19.95
ISBN-13: 9781557255600
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Paraclete Press, 5/2008
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Maybe the most stimulating speaker we worked with this year. Big brain.

Haunted Plantations of Virginia (Paperback)

By Beth Brown
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780764333286
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Schiffer Publishing, 10/2009
Yay Beth! You spooky girl you.

Under the Clock: The Story of Miller & Rhoads (Paperback)

By Earle Dunford, George Bryson
$19.99
ISBN-13: 9781596295292
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: History Press, 11/2008
Richmonders love books on Richmond. So do we.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)

By Malcolm Gladwell
$15.99
ISBN-13: 9780316010665
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Back Bay Books, 4/2007
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Ow. I've got something in my eye!

How (Not) to Speak of God (Paperback)

By Peter Rollins, Brian McLaren
$19.99
ISBN-13: 9781557255051
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Paraclete Press (MA), 8/2006
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Again...powerful speaker. We hope he comes back.

Haunted Battlefields: Virginia's Civil War Ghosts (Paperback)

By Beth Brown
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780764330575
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Schiffer Publishing, 7/2008
Maybe we can get Beth to do a ghost tour for us in 2010.

Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital (Paperback)

By Nelson Lankford
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780142003107
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 7/2003
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Excellent book!

The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy and Vice (Paperback)

By Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro
$15.99
ISBN-13: 9781580084307
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Ten Speed Press, 3/2004
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Congrats, Jason! Great gift book!

Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival (Paperback)

By Dean King
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780316159357
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Back Bay Books, 4/2005
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Come hear Dean King in March 2010 when his new book is released. Party!

Haunted Richmond (Paperback)

By Pamela K. Kinney
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780764327124
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Schiffer Publishing, 6/2007
Who knew ghosts were so popular?

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)

By James Howard Kunstler, James Howard Kunstler
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780802142498
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Published: Grove/Atlantic, 3/2006
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Thanks to Lisa Taranto at Tricycle Gardens for recommending this book to everyone!

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Paperback)

By Jon Meacham
$18.00
ISBN-13: 9780812973464
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 4/2009
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Kelly liked this one.

Virginia Off the Beaten Path: A Guide to Unique Places (Paperback)

By Judy Colbert

ISBN-13: 9780762748815
Availability: Out of Print
Published: GPP Travel, 9/2008
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Tess's pick.

The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Paperback)

By Kelly Coyne, Erik Knutzen
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9781934170014
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Process, 6/2008
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Homesteading Week was great. We'll do it again in Spring 2010.

Armageddon in Retrospect (Paperback)

By Kurt Vonnegut
$18.00
ISBN-13: 9780425226896
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Berkley Trade, 4/2009
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