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Letters To a Young Poet (02 Edition) by Rainer Maria Rilke Publisher Comments In 1903, Rilke replied in a series of 10 letters to a student who had submitted some verses to the well-known Austrian poet for an assessment. Written during an important stage in Rilke's artistic development, these letters contain many of the themes... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions) by Dover Thrift Editions Publisher Comments Unique collection spans over 400 years (1488-1902) of haiku history by the greatest masters: Basho, Issa, Shiki and many more, in translations by top-flight scholars in the field. Editor Faubion Bowers provides Foreword and many informative notes to the... (read more) Your price: $3.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Best American Short Stories 1999 by A Tan Publisher Comments In choosing this year's best American short stories, guest editor Amy Tan found herself drawn to fiction that satisfied her appetite for the magic and mystery she once loved as a child, when she was addicted to fairy tales. The result is a vibrant... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Self-Reliance, and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions) by Ralph Waldo Emerson Staff Pick Self-Reliance and Other Essays contains selections from both Emerson's First and Second Series, plus the Harvard Divinity School Address. This little gem of a book offers a fine sampling of the transcendental idealism and reliance on the individual... (read more) List Price $3.50 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Dover Thrift Editions) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Publisher Comments Dover Thrift edition.... (read more) Your price: $2.00 New - Trade Paper
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (Signet Classic Poetry) by John Milton Publisher Comments The completed texts of two of the greatest epic poems in English literature are combined in one volume where each provides a profound exploration of the moral problems of God's justice. Each work demonstrates Milton's genius for classicism, innovation... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Black and Blue (Oprah's Book Club) by Anna Quindlen Publisher Comments With daring and compassion, Anna Quindlen weaves a forceful, harrowing portrait of a woman and a marriage, capturing the profound intricacies of love and rage, passion and violence. At once heartbreaking and utterly riveting, BLACK AND BLUE is an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (Dover Thrift Editions) by William Blake Publisher Comments Dover Thrift edition.... (read more) List Price $3.25 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Short Stories by American Women by Candace Ward Publisher Comments Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.... (read more) Your price: $2.50 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Walden and Civil Disobedience (99 Edition) by Henry David Thoreau Publisher Comments Now completely repackaged, this edition celebrates 150 years of Thoreau's masterwork--his collection of his reflections on life and society. Includes "Civil Disobedience," his protest against the government's interference with civil liberty, and a new... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Short Stories 2003 by Walter Mosley and Katrina Kenison Publisher Comments Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Short Stories by American Women (Dover Thrift Editions) by Candace Ward Synopsis Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.... (read more) List Price $3.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber by Nicholson Baker Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Vox and The Fermata devotes his hyperdriven curiosity and magnificently baroque prose to the fossils of punctuation and the lexicography of smut, delivering to readers a provocative and often hilarious celebration of the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Dover Thrift Editions) by Gerard Manley Hopkins Publisher Comments Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins created verse that combined his awareness of material sensuousness with the asceticism of religious devotion. His collected poems, published posthumously in 1918, exercised a profound influence on modern poetry... (read more) Your price: $3.50 New - Trade Paper
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Irish Girls about Town by Maeve Binchy Publisher Comments Get ready to paint the town green. New York Times bestselling authors Maeve Binchy and Marian Keyes top an impressive roster of the Emerald Isle's most popular women writers as they celebrate the joys and perils of love and the adventure and constancy of... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Walden, Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry David Thoreau Publisher Comments One of the great books of American letters and a masterpiece of reflective philosophizing. Accounts of Thoreau's daily life on the shores of Walden Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, are interwoven with musings on the virtues of self-reliance and... (read more) Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Real Ponies Don't Go Oink! by Patrick F Mcmanus Publisher Comments Bestsellers by America's favorite humorist: -A Fine And Pleasant Misery They Shoot Canoes, Don't They? Never Sniff A Gift Fish The Grasshopper Trap Rubber Legs And White Tail-hairs The Night The Bear Ate Goombaw Whatchagot Stew (with Patricia "The Troll"... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Island: Three Tales by Gustaw Herling Publisher Comments These three tales, all set in Italy, are intensely dramatic depictions of suffering, solitude, and mindless violence done to the spirit. Herling's command of language is matched by an unblinking observation of his characters' stumbling progress toward... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories by William J. Bennett Publisher Comments Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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