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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Stranger by Albert Camus Publisher Comments Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (L'Etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments The Bell Jarchronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pocket Poets #04: Howl: And Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg Staff Pick "Do we need to say anything about Howl? This is, more than anything else, the book that launched the Beat movement. By turns wildly praised and bitterly reviled, it still packs a wallop today."... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Breakfast of Champions (73 Edition) by Kurt Vonnegut Staff Pick After Slaughterhouse Five came out in 1969, Kurt Vonnegut entered a long period of depression and swore he would never write another novel. Fortunately he was lying, and in 1973, out came Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday (the subtitle... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins Publisher Comments Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins Publisher Comments Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Publisher Comments When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ariel: Perennial Classics Edition by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments "In these poems...Sylvia Plath becomes herself, becomes something imaginary, newly, wildly and subtly created." -- From the Introduction by Robert... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir Publisher Comments Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments Represents a selection from Nietzche's notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde Publisher Comments “ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . .... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics) by Ken Kesey Publisher Comments Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse Publisher Comments With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesses best-known and most autobiographical work is one of literatures most poetic evocations of the souls journey to liberation Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger Publisher Comments Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood Staff Pick This is my favorite out of all Margaret Atwood's books. It tells the story so convincingly of the cruelty and competition between young girls as viewed by the now older narrator Elaine. Complex and disturbing, Cat's Eye is a momentous book from one of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Atlas Shrugged (99 Edition) by Ayn Rand Publisher Comments Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a bestseller for more than four decades as well as an intellectual landmark. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world — and did. Was he a destroyer or the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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