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Merriam Websters Collegiate Dictionary 11TH Edition by Merriam Webster Publisher Comments The new Eleventh Edition of America's best-selling dictionary merges print, CD-ROM, and Internet-based formats to deliver unprecedented accessibility and flexibility at one affordable price. Fully revised print content features more than 225,000 clear... read more about this title check for other copies

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The Good Earth: Oprah Book Club #6 by Pearl S. Buck Publisher Comments Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived... read more about this title check for other copies

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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Publisher Comments The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway's first big novel, and immediately established Hemingway as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I... read more about this title check for other copies

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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Powells.com Staff Pick If your only experience with Catch-22 was reading it for a class in high school — or if you haven't even read it at all — you owe it to yourself to revisit this book. It's a comic masterpiece, yes, but more than that: Catch-22 is a blast of... read more about this title check for other copies

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Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W Loewen Publisher Comments Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve... read more about this title check for other copies

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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Publisher Comments The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin... read more about this title check for other copies

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America (the Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart From Powells.com Why do we love America so much? For the much-celebrated naked pictures of Supreme Court justices? The flashbacks to those stultifyingly dull high school textbooks? Or can it be that seeing the polished irreverence of the Daily Show writers in book form... read more about this title check for other copies

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Publisher Comments This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers... read more about this title check for other copies

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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Publisher Comments The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between... read more about this title check for other copies

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Wheelocks Latin 6TH Edition by Frederic M Wheelock Publisher Comments When Professor Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin first appeared in 1956, the reviews extolled its thoroughness, organization, and conciseness; at least on reviewer predicted that the book "might well become the standard text" for introducing students to... read more about this title check for other copies

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For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway Powells.com Staff Pick For Whom the Bell Tolls is one of the great 20th-century war novels. Hemingway's cast of characters are as rich and complex as you will find in any of his works. Hemingway's portrait of Robert Jordan and his role in the Spanish Civil War is a vivid... read more about this title check for other copies

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The Jungle (Bantam Classics) by Upton Sinclair Publisher Comments In this powerful book we enter the world of    Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives    in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom,     and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the   ... read more about this title check for other copies

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Merriam Websters Collegiate Dictionary 10TH Edition by Websters Merriam Web Synopsis Merriam Webster, America's foremost dictionary publisher, continues its 150-year tradition of excellence with a new edition of America's bestselling dictionary.... read more about this title check for other copies

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Vox New College Spanish and English Dictionary (National Textbook Language Dictionaries) by Vox Publisher Comments The ultimate Spanish-English reference The Vox New College Spanish and English Dictionary features morethan 240,000 translations, numerous idiomatic expressions, andthousands of usage examples. The second edition of this flagshiptitle not only includes... read more about this title check for other copies

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Guide To Reading & Writing Japanese 3RD Edition by Florence Sakade Synopsis This work covers all the 1945 characters in the "General Use" set of Japanese characters, with particularly detailed coverage of the 1009 essential characters that Japanese children must learn in the first six years of grade school.... read more about this title check for other copies

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Merriam-Webster's Guide to Punctuation and Style by Websters Publisher Comments Second edition.... read more about this title check for other copies

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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Quotations by Websters Synopsis More than 4,000 thought-provoking quotations from the world's most celebrated authors, politicians, philosophers, media personalities, and others--offering both contemporary reflections and traditonal gems--are found in this convenient reference... read more about this title check for other copies

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Piccadilly Van Gogh Lined Journal by Piccadilly Publisher Comments This illuminating book draws on many authoritative sources to provide an invaluable aid to understanding and learning from dreams, which act as keys to unlock the secrets of the subconscious mind. Its fifty chapters are packed with an array of the... read more about this title check for other copies

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics) by Mildred D Taylor Synopsis The story of one African-American family fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s.... read more about this title check for other copies

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Kaplan SAT Vocabulary Flashcards Flip-O-Matic by Kaplan Publisher Comments Provides test-takers with a unique, low-tech flashcard approach for tackling 500 challenging vocabulary words that appear frequently on the SAT. Includes definitions and sample sentences for each word.... read more about this title check for other copies

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