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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn Publisher Comments “Its a wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future.” —Howard Fast, author of Spartacus and... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley Publisher Comments "Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune Aldous Huxley is rightly considered a prophetic genius and one of the most important literary and philosophical voices of the 20th Century, and Brave New World is... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith Staff Pick A book dealer came into Powell's rare book room one day while I was working and bought a beautiful first edition of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. She said it was her favorite book and a birthday present to herself. From the look in her eye and the way she... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brave New World (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley Publisher Comments "Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune Aldous Huxley is rightly considered a prophetic genius and one of the most important literary and philosophical voices of the 20th Century, and Brave New World is... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (P.S.) by Robert M. Pirsig Publisher Comments One of the most influential and provocative books of its generation, "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" continues to attract and inspire readers of all ages with its intriguing blend of ancient and Eastern philosophy, cultural criticism, and... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Little, Big (P.S.) by John Crowley Publisher Comments John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood — not found on any map — to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Portrait in Sepia (P.S.) by Isabel Allende Publisher Comments "Portrait in Sepia is the best book Allende has published in the United States since her first novel of nearly two decades ago, The House of the Spirits.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World “Portrait in Sepia tightens the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lullabies for Little Criminals (P.S.) by Heather Oneill Staff Pick Baby (her given name) is thirteen with no mother and a heroin-addicted father not a feel-good kind of storyline. Lullabies for Little Criminals is a humorous and nerve-racking story. I disliked every character in the novel at some point, but O... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Confusion (Baroque Cycle #02) (P.S.) by Neal Stephenson Publisher Comments In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ask the Dust (P.S.) by John Fante Publisher Comments Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the 20th-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Poisonwood Bible (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver Staff Pick In The Poisonwood Bible, a Baptist missionary takes his family to the Belgian Congo in the late '50s, endangering the lives of his wife and four daughters. Alternating between the voices of the mother and daughters, Kingsolver successfully paints the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ahab's Wife (P.S.) by Sena Jeter Naslund Publisher Comments "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature along with "Call me Ishmael." Sena Jeter Naslund has created an entirely new universe with a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Electric Michelangelo (P.S.) by Sarah Hall Publisher Comments Cy Parks is the Electric Michelangelo, an artist of extraordinary gifts whose medium happens to be the pliant, shifting canvas of the human body. Fleeing his mother's legacy a consumptives' hotel in a fading English seaside resort Cy... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The System of the World: #03 Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson Staff Pick The concluding volume of the Baroque Cycle mixes swashbuckling adventure, historical romance, mathematics, and Isaac Newton into a frothy brew that's truly irresistible.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Beet Queen (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt Fritzie and her husband, Pete; ordinary Mary, who will cause a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Holy Skirts: A Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art (P.S.) by Rene Steinke Staff Pick My coworker Adrienne recommended this book to me, and I just gobbled it up whole. It's based on the life of the Baroness Elsa, a mess of a woman who did everything unthinkable, including unabashedly eating the heart out of the American art world. She's... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Utterly Monkey (P.S.) by Nick Laird Publisher Comments Danny Williams didn't mean to be a lawyer, but somehow he is -- and for up to eighteen hours a day. He's well paid, home owning, and twenty-seven but is also overworked, lonely, and frequently stoned. The plan was to leave the troubles of a small town in... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Missing Mom (P.S.) by Joyce Carol Oates Publisher Comments "Missing Mom" is the story of Nikki Eaton, a liberated 31-year-old woman who never thought of herself as a daughter until the sudden loss of her mother. After a tumultuous year of sorrow, illumination, and wisdom, Nikki finds a nurturing love from an... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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