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Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement (P.S.) by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments Sylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to life, it garnered... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.) by David Laskin Publisher Comments Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered "land, freedom, and hope." The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bell Jar (P.S.) by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments The Bell Jar chronicles 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 $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen & Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (P.S.) by Trevor Corson Publisher Comments In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and aneccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses (P.S.) by Bruce Feiler Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of The Wild Places examines the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we move In this exquisitely written book, which folds together natural history, cartography, geology, and literature, Robert Macfarlane sets... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible (P.S.) by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the era of the King James Bible and its translation, immersing readers in an age whose greatest monument is not a painting or a building but a book. 16-page insert.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.) by Aleksa Solzhenitsyn Publisher Comments Solzhenitsyn's gripping epic masterpiece, the searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression, in one abridged volume, authorized by the... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Patron Saint of Liars (P.S.) by Ann Patchett Publisher Comments St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Not so for Rose, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed. She plans to give up her baby because she... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Five Quarters of the Orange (P.S.) by Joanne Harris Publisher Comments When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous woman they hold responsible for a tragedy during the German occupation years ago. But the past and present are... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lucky Girls: Stories (P.S.) by Nell Freudenberger Publisher Comments First highlighted in the "New Yorker" fiction issue, "Lucky Girls" is a collection of five novella-like stories that take place mostly in Asia--the debut of a new talent and a "New York Times" Notable Book.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Holy Skirts: A Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art (P.S.) by Rene Steinke Staff Pick My coworker Adrienne recommended this book to me, and I just gobbled it up whole. It's based on the life of the Baroness Elsa, a mess of a woman who did everything unthinkable, including unabashedly eating the heart out of the American art world. She's... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War (P.S.) by Charles London Publisher Comments Today, in violence-torn regions across the globe, 20 million children have been uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and poverty. This is their story . . . and ours. In this powerful and unforgettable book—by turns painful, funny... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (P.S.) by Loung Ung Publisher Comments After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Astonishing Splashes of Colour (P.S.) by Clare Morrall Publisher Comments Taking its title from a description of Peter Pan's Neverland, Astonishing Splashes of Colour follows the life of Kitty, a woman who, in a sense, has never grown up. As her moods swing dramatically from high to low, they are illuminated by an unusual... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Missing Mom (P.S.) by Joyce Carol Oates Publisher Comments "Missing Mom" is the story of Nikki Eaton, a liberated 31-year-old woman who never thought of herself as a daughter until the sudden loss of her mother. After a tumultuous year of sorrow, illumination, and wisdom, Nikki finds a nurturing love from an... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates Publisher Comments It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride of the Falls," begins a relentless seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hip: The History (P.S.) by John Leland Publisher Comments Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gentlemen and Players: A Novel (P.S.) by Joanne Harris Publisher Comments For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years. This year, however... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pale Blue Eye (P.S.) by Louis Bayard Publisher Comments At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet's body swinging from a rope. The next morning, an even greater horror comes to light. Someone has removed the dead man's heart. Augustus Landor... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 (P.S.) by James Shapiro Publisher Comments 1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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