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Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee Staff Pick One afternoon while talking with a friend about books, I wondered how to best describe my experience of reading Disgrace, and this is what I came up with: it's like a finely-crafted, very sharp knife resting gently against your skin. The uneasiness and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee Publisher Comments A major new novel from the Nobel Prizewinning author of Waiting for the Barbarians, The Life and Times of Michael K and Disgrace Nobel laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee returns with a haunting and surprising novel about... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Independent People by Halldor Laxness Staff Pick "Independent People is epic and thorough, covering the sweep of generations as well as detailed hours ticking by during sleepless nights, ambling walks around the plains. It is a novel of contrasts, especially in its nuanced exploration of character... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan Staff Pick What an epic! Riotous writing sprawls through years and incarnations. Infamous characters, including Mo Yan himself! Incredibly imaginative, honest, and filled with beautiful emotion.... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Plague (Vintage International) by Albert Camus Staff Pick In The Plague, the Algerian city of Oran is set upon by plague and sealed off from the rest of the world, its citizens imprisoned not only with the disease but also with each other. Or are they? By the novel's end, every character is profoundly changed... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gitanjali: A Collection of Idian Poems by the Nobel Laureate by Rabindranath Tagore Publisher Comments An illuminating collection of inspirational poems by a Nobel Laureate While traveling through one of the poorest regions in India, W. B. Yeats was amazed to discover the women in the tea fields singing the songs and poems of Rabindranath Tagore. This... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner Staff Pick Faulkner is in a class of his own, and this is his best work. Moving seamlessly from its opening incoherence to its revelatory finale, it's almost as if he is teaching you how to read the novel as you are reading it! A family drama with some of the most... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Snow by Orhan Pamuk Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of My Name is Red ("a sumptuous thriller" John Updike; "chockful of sublimity and sin" New York Times Book Review) comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings for love, art, power, and God set in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments This internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel is a rich and brilliant chronicle celebrating the endless variety of life in the mythical Latin American town of Macondo. Truly a masterpiece of the art of fiction!... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cain by Jose Saramago Staff Pick The late José Saramago was quite the prolific writer, having composed over 30 books, including an array of acclaimed novels, poetry, and journals. Actively writing until his death at the age of 87 in 2010, the Portuguese Nobel laureate's international... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Light in August: The Corrected Text (Vintage International) by William Faulkner Publisher Comments William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and As I Lay Dying, a,ong... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prizewinning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric Publisher Comments The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata Publisher Comments Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in a series of short stories--which he called "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories"--written over the span of... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Home (Vintage International) by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, his shattered life has no purpose until he hears that Cee is in danger. Frank is a modern Odysseus returning to a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Adventures of Augie March: Great Books Edition (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Saul Bellow Publisher Comments Originally published in 1953, Saul Bellow's modern picaresque tale grandly illustrates twentieth-century man's restless pursuit of an elusive meaning. Augie March, a young man growing up in Chicago during the Great Depression, doesn't understand success... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass Publisher Comments Acclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II, The Tin Drum is the autobiography of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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