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Night
by Elie Wiesel  Publisher Comments A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel...
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The Glass Castle: a Memoir
by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in...
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Night
by Elie Wiesel 
Publisher Comments Night -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary Of...
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Persephone Classics)
by Winifred Watson Publisher Comments "Why has it taken more than half a century for this wonderful flight of humor to be rediscovered?"-Guardian "The sweetest grown-up book in the world."-Sunday Times "Everyone, no matter how poor or prim or neglected, has a second chance to blossom in the...
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All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on american politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power. New Foreword by...
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A Curious Earth
by Gerard Woodward Publisher Comments In this successor to his Man Booker Prize finalist, Gerard Woodward slyly pits defiant Aldous Jones against the hazards of aging. Left with an empty house after the death of his wife, Aldous Jones is tempted to spend the whole day sitting in his...
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In the Garden of the North American Martyrs: Stories
by Tobias Wolff
Publisher Comments Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a...
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The Stone Gods: A Novel
by Jeanette Winterson Publisher Comments This new world weighs a yatto-gram. But everything is trial-size; tread-on-me-tiny or blurred-out-offocus huge. There are leaves that have grown as big as cities, and there are birds that nest in cockleshells. On the white sand there are long-toed...
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Stoner (New York Review Books Classics)
by John Edward Williams Publisher Comments Born the child of a poor farmer in Missouri, William Stoner is urged by his parents to study new agriculture techniques at the state university. Digging instead into the texts of Milton and Shakespeare, Stoner falls under the spell of the unexpected...
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Affinity: A Novel
by Sarah Waters
Publisher Comments A spellbinding ghost story, a complex and intriguing historical mystery, and a poignant romance with an enexpected twist. An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women's ward of Millbank prison...
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Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
by Tobias Wolff Publisher Comments "One of our most exquisite storytellers" (Esquire) gives us his first collection in over a decade: ten potent new stories that, along with twenty-one classics, display his mastery over a quarter century. Tobias Wolff's first two books, In the Garden...
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The Masque of the Black Tulip
by Lauren Willig Publisher Comments Harvard grad student Eloise Kelly achieved the academic coup of the century when she unmasked the spy who saved England from Napoleon. But now she has a million questions about the Pink Carnation's deadly French nemesis, the Black Tulip. And she's pretty...
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The Death of Jim Loney
by James Welch Publisher Comments Jim Loney is a half-breed Indian living in a small Montana town. He's 35 years old, and he's slowly going mad. A compelling story of the modern American Indian, out of warpaint and costume, with no tribe and no home in nature or the cheap substitutes...
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Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf Publisher Comments This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway's preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately managed to...
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Color Purple (82 Edition)
by Alice Walker
Publisher Comments Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters — one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South — who sustain their...
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Weight : Myth of Atlas and Heracles (05 Edition)
by Jeanette Winterson Publisher Comments The story of Atlas and Heracles. Atlas knows how it feels to carry the weight of the world; but why, he asks himself, does it have to be carried at all? In Weight — visionary and inventive, yet completely believable and relevant to the questions...
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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
by Oscar Wilde Publisher Comments Introduction (by V. Holland) Part One. Stories Chapter 1. "The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapter 2. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Chapter 3. "The Canterville Ghost Chapter 4. "The Sphinx Without a Secret Chapter 5. "The Model Millionaire Chapter 6. "A House...
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The Winds of War
by Herman Wouk Synopsis These two classic works capture the tide of world events even as they unfold the compelling tale of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom. The multimillion-copy bestsellers that capture all the drama, romance, heroism,...
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Essays of E. B. White (Perennial Classics)
by E B White Publisher Comments Good-bye to Forty-eighth StreetTurtle Bay, November 12, 1957 For some weeks now I have been engaged in dispersing the contents of this apartment, trying to persuade hundreds of inanimate objects to scatter and leave me alone. It is not a simple matter. I...
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The Barracks Thief
by Tobias Wolff Publisher Comments The Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected...
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