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Books 1 - 10 of 38 next » by Kazuo Ishiguro
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This is the story of an artist as an aging man, struggling through the wreckage of Japan's World War II experience. Ishiguro's first novel.... (read more) Used - Trade Paper 
by Margaret Atwood
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First published in 1985, this is a novel of such power that the reader is unable to forget its images and its forecast. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. "A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker... (read more) Your Price $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
by John Irving
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On one list are the books you like to recommend. You want to turn on someone to your favorite unknown author or introduce them to the season's latest, greatest novel. If you've read widely enough over the years, you'll match reader to occasion. The list... (read more) Used - Mass Market
by Ani Pachen
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Since the publication of Sorrow Mountain in 2000, I have received letters from people throughout the world who felt inspired by Ani Pachen's example. Her courage in the face of devastation, as well as the Buddhist teachings that helped her endure... (read more) Your Price $9.00 Used - Trade Paper 
by Melissa Fay Greene
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Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human face on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman working to save her countrys children. After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian... (read more) Used - Hardcover
check for availability by Eric Weiner
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Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of un-unhappiness. The book uses a... (read more) Your Price $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
by Steve Fainaru
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There are tens of thousands of them in Iraq. They work for companies with exotic and ominous-sounding names, like Crescent Security Group, Triple Canopy, and Blackwater Worldwide. They travel in convoys of multicolored pickups fortified with makeshift... (read more) Used - Hardcover
by Emma Larkin
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Read Emma Larkin's posts on the Penguin Blog Over the years the American writer Emma Larkin has spent traveling in Burma, she's come to know all too well the many ways this brutal police state can be described as "Orwellian." The life of the mind exists... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
by E Benjamin Skinner
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To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told -- and heard.... (read more) Used - Hardcover
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