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I was born in Kansas City, Mo. and raised in California. I joined Alibris in the summer of 2003. I'm all about books, music, baseball, and laziness... If you're going to the kitchen can you bring me back a sandwich?

Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War, by Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss

By ChrisN, May 29, 2006 at 9:00 am

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Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War, written by Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss, is a horrific and truly haunting account of atrocities committed by members of an elite recon platoon in Vietnam, less than a year before the 1968 massacre at My Lai.
Expanding on their Pulitzer Prize–winning series of articles published in […]

Where is my mind? A short list of fantastic novels about and/or for the discombobulated

By ChrisN, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:00 pm

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We’re happy to inaugurate our Book Lists category with this mind-tripping list from our customer service manager, Chris Nuckols: 

House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski: One man attempts to edit a dead blind man’s papers about a famous photojournalist’s film documenting a house with shifting dimensions. Where is the house? Where is the film? Why […]