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Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Publisher Comments The Bell Jar chronicles 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 $13.95 Your price: $6.95 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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 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: $5.95 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 authors vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lordes work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . .... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood Staff Pick This is my favorite out of all Margaret Atwood's books. It tells the story so convincingly of the cruelty and competition between young girls as viewed by the now older narrator Elaine. Complex and disturbing, Cat's Eye is a momentous book from one of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.50 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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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics) by Ken Kesey Publisher Comments A visually arresting deluxe edition of Ken Kesey's counterculture classic Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's 1962 novel has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Now in a new deluxe edition with a foreword by Chuck... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Siddhartha : a New Translation (00 Edition) by Hermann Hesse Publisher Comments This classic of twentieth-century literature chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the time of the Buddha—a spiritual journey that has inspired generations of readers. Here is a fresh translation from Sherab Chödzin... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 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: $5.95 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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Publisher Comments Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a bestseller for more than four decades as well as an intellectual landmark. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. Was he a destroyer or the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $12.50 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: $1.00 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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Truth and Existence by Jean Paul Sartre Publisher Comments Truth and Existence, written in response to Martin Heidegger's Essence of Truth, is a product of the years when Sartre was reaching full stature as a philosopher, novelist, playwright, essayist, and political activist. This concise and engaging text not... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.50 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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A Is for Admission: The Insider's Guide to Getting Into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges by Michele A Hernandez Publisher Comments A former admissions officer at Dartmouth College reveals how the world's most highly selective schools really make their decisions.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.25 Used - Trade Paper
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100 Successful College Application Essays by Harvard Independent 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, Pomona, and other outstanding schools... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Harvard Schmarvard: Getting Beyond the Ivy League To the College That Is Best for You by Jay Mathews Publisher Comments Smarten Up—It's Time to Choose the Right College Think that your life's growth, success, and happiness depend on which college you attend? The higher-profile school, the better, right? Wrong! Neither is true. Written by, yes, a Harvard grad... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Money Management for College Students by Larry Burkett Publisher Comments Whether you're just starting to think about college or have only a year left, the Momey Management for College Students workbook is an invaluable resource. Learn to manage your finances, balance your checkbook, use credit cards, obtain loans, etc.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $1.48 Used - Trade Paper
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