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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Publisher Comments Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead Publisher Comments Lila Mae Watson is the first black female Elevator Inspector in the history of the Department. She is an Intuitionist, able to intuit defects purely by tuning in to the machinery. The opposition, the Empiricists, practice dutiful and routine physical... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Lesson Before Dying (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ernest J Gaines Publisher Comments A Lesson Before Dying, is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sophie's Choice by William Styron Publisher Comments Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States by Helen Prejean Publisher Comments In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Leaving Las Vegas by John Obrien Synopsis Leaving Las Vegas, the first novel by John O'Brien, is a disturbing and emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it, a powerful tale of hard luck and hard drinking and a relationship of tenderness and destruction. An... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Father and Son by Larry Brown Publisher Comments A classic story of good and evil set in the rural American South of 1968.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paris Trout by Pete Dexter Publisher Comments In Paris Trout, Pete Dexter tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that eats away at the social fabric of a small town, exposing the hypocrisies of its ways and shattering the lives of its citizens. The crime is the murder of a fourteen-year-... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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You Got Nothing Coming: Notes from a Prison Fish by Jimmy Lerner Synopsis A memoir of astonishing power reveals the true story of a middle-class, middle-aged man who fell into the inferno of the American prison system and what he has to do to survive.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Proximity to Death by William S Mcfeely Publisher Comments "The dry boards of a Georgia courthouse creak into life when a lawyer, in defiance of a society that no longer cares, goes about the tough, unpopular work of trying to keep us from killing the person seated next to him." On a misty September morning... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover Publisher Comments Acclaimed journalist Ted Conover sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system. When Conovers request to shadow a recruit at the New York State Corrections Officer Academy was denied, he... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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