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A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle  Publisher Comments A funny--and often hilarious--month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations of moving into an old French farmhouse in Provence and adapting to a very different way of life....
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories
by David Sedaris 
Publisher Comments From the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim comes a collection of the short stories David Sedaris loves most. Containing the work of both contemporary and classic writers, Children Playing Before a...
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Short Stories in French (New Penguin Parallel Texts)
by Richard Coward Publisher Comments Written by authors from Quebec as well as France, the majority of these stories have been published in the last decade and reflect a rich diversity of styles and themes. From Daniel Boulanger's exploration of revenge and the desire for recognition in The...
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Bill Bryson's African Diary (02 Edition)
by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments “Here is a man who suffers so his readers can laugh.” — Daily Telegraph Bill Bryson travels to Kenya in support of CARE International. All royalties and profits go to CARE International. Bryson visits Kenya at the invitation of CARE...
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Leaf Storm: And Other Stories
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments <p>Contains <em>Leaf Storm</em>, <em>The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World</em>, <em>A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings</em>, <em>Blacaman the Good</em>, <em>Vendor of Miracles</em>, <...
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Good Life (89 Edition)
by Scott Nearing Publisher Comments This one volume edition of Living the Good Life and Continuing the Good Life brings these classics on rural homesteading together. This couple abandoned the city for a rural life with minimal cash and the knowledge of self reliance and good health....
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Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson
Publisher Comments "Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."<P>After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson-bestsellingauthor of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to...
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Basin and Range
by John Mcphee Publisher Comments The first of John McPhee' s works in his series on geology and geologists, "Basin and Range" is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world-- a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the...
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The Best American Short Stories 2007
by Stephen King and Heidi Pitlor Publisher Comments Pop-culture icon Stephen King serves as the guest editor of this popular anthology, which includes such contributors as Richard Russo, John Barth, Jim Shepard, Alice Munro, William Gay, and Mary Gordon....
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Primate's Memoir (01 Edition)
by Robert M. Sapolsky
Powells.com Staff Pick I never imagined that a book written by a primate behaviorologist would make me laugh out loud. Sapolsky is a born storyteller, and I found his experiences of twenty years in Africa studying baboons absolutely fascinating. You get to know the...
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Italian Neighbors
by Tim Parks Publisher Comments In this deliciously seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks celebrates ten...
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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson Publisher Comments Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a...
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Holy the Firm
by Annie Dillard Publisher Comments In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and...
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French Short Stories 1 Parallel Text Nou
by Pamela Lyon Publisher Comments Reissue...
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Thirteen Stories
by Eudora Welty Publisher Comments Thirteen outstanding short stories by Welty, written between 1937 and 1951. “Miss Welty has written some of the finest short stories of modern times” (Orville Prescott, New York Times). Selected and with an Introduction by Ruth M. Vande Kieft....
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Pilgrimage (92 Edition)
by Paulo Coelho Publisher Comments Here Paulo Coelho details his journey across Spain along the legendaryroad of San Tiago, which pilgrims have travelled since Middle Ages. On this contemporary quest, he encounters a Chaucerian variety of mysterious guides and devilish opponents and...
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Short Stories in Italian Racconti in Ita
by Nick Roberts Publisher Comments This collection includes stories by established Italian literary figures such as Italo Calvino and Primo Levi as well as a new generation of writers. Aspects of Sicilian and Italian life are explored by Leonardo Sciascia and Goffredo Parise, while...
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Legends of the Fall (89 Edition)
by Jim Harrison Publisher Comments The publication of this magnificent trilogy of short novels -- "Legends Of The Fall, "Revenge, and "The Man Who Gave Up His Name -- confirmed Jim Harrison's reputation as one of the finest American writers of his generation. These absorbing novellas...
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Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times
by Sara Nickles Publisher Comments Before the notion of "political correctness" encroached on the ways people spoke, wrote, and conducted themselves in public and private, some of America's best writers embraced unsafe sex, excessive alcohol, and a good cigar. From the classically...
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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher Comments "When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full possession. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on...
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