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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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White Publisher Comments You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Publisher Comments When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins Publisher Comments Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Breakfast of Champions (73 Edition) by Kurt Vonnegut Staff Pick After Slaughterhouse Five came out in 1969, Kurt Vonnegut entered a long period of depression and swore he would never write another novel. Fortunately he was lying, and in 1973, out came Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday (the subtitle... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments The Bell Jarchronicles 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 $13.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde Publisher Comments “ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . .... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Beating the College Blues by Paul Grayson Publisher Comments Beating the College Blues deals with many potential collegiate pitfalls with insightful, timely, and compassionate support. Topics covered include changing family relationships; sex, date rape, and sexual harassment; coping with anxiety, depression, and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ultimate X-Men Comics by Peter Sanderson Publisher Comments Following exciting new developments in the X-Men universe, this revised edition of Ultimate X-Men includes the best of the two feature films and the animated television series. Watch the evolution of the X-Men superheroes from their conception in the... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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100 Successful College Application Essays (2ND 02 Edition) by Harvard Independent Staff Publisher Comments The largest collection of successful college application essays available in one volume. These are the essays that helped their authors gain admission to Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Wellesley, Colby, and other outstanding schools—followed by... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke by Angela Nissel Publisher Comments “People always say Im going to look back on these days and laugh why put it off?” When Angela Nissel found herself struggling financially while in college, instead of sulking, she decided to entertain herself by creating an online journal... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger Publisher Comments Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This Book Is Not Required an Emotional by Inge Bell Synopsis This revised edition of a modern classic remains faithful to the vision of the late Inge Bell - to encourage students to educate themselves by calling their attention to the personal, social, intellectual, and spiritual demands and opportunities... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Writing a Successful College Application Essay by George Ehrenhaft Publisher Comments (back cover) Write an essay that they'll remember in the college admissions office Follow these three easy steps: 1. Read sample essays and the critiques that point out their strengths and weaknesses. 2. Pick a topic matters to you"one that opens a... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds by Richard J Light Publisher Comments Why do some students in the United States make the most of college, while others struggle and look back on years of missed opportunities? What choices can students make, and what can teachers and university leaders do to improve more students... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir Publisher Comments Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How To Go To College Almost for Free by Benjamin R. Kaplan Publisher Comments Hundreds of millions of dollars in scholarship prizes are waiting to be won. 23 year-old Ben Kaplan has won many of them, paying nearly $90,000 toward his Harvard education. Ben then wrote and self-published his story and methodology in How To Go To... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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