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Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too (Paperback) By Jenni Schaefer $19.00 On Our Shelves Now	Lives of the Saints (Hardcover) By H. Hoever $9.95 On Our Shelves Now	The Face of War (Paperback) By Martha Gellhorn $17.00 On Our Shelves Now
Sufferings in Africa: The Astonishing Account of a New England Sea Captain Enslaved by North African Arabs (Paperback) By James Riley $14.95 On Our Shelves Now	Personal Recollections of Vincent Van Gogh (Paperback) By Elisabeth Duqesne Van Gogh, Katherine S. Dreier (Translator) $8.95 On Our Shelves Now	Lake Forest:: Estates, People, and Culture (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) (Paperback) By Arthur H. Miller, Shirley M. Paddock $18.99 On Our Shelves Now
Chicago's Southeast Side Revisited (Paperback) By Rod Sellers $19.99 On Our Shelves Now	Chicago's Historic Pullman District (Paperback) By Frank Beberdick, Historic Pullman Foundation $18.99 On Our Shelves Now	Oak Park, Illinois: Continuity and Change (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) (Paperback) By David M. Sokol $18.99 On Our Shelves Now
South Bend, Indiana (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) (Paperback) By Kay Marnon Danielson $19.99 On Our Shelves Now	Glencoe, Illinois (Paperback) By Ellen Kettler Paseltiner, Ellen Shubart, Glencoe Historical Society $19.99 On Our Shelves Now	Chicago Heights Revisited (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) (Paperback) By Dominic Candeloro, Barbara Paul $18.99 On Our Shelves Now

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