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An American Childhood by Annie Dillard Publisher Comments A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Nature Stories (New York Review Books Classics) by Jules Renard Publisher Comments The natural world in all its richness, glimpsed variously in the house, the barnyard, and the garden, in ponds and streams, and at large in the woods and the fields, including old friends like the dog, the cat, the cow, and the pig, along with more... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dissident (P.S.) by Nell Freudenberger Publisher Comments From the PEN/Malamud Award-winning author of Lucky Girls comes an intricately woven novel about secrets, love, art, identity, and the shining chaos of every day American life. Yuan Zhao, a celebrated Chinese performance artist and political dissident... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pride and Prejudice (Norton Critical Editions) by Jane Austen Publisher Comments "Backgrounds and Sources" includes biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and by acclaimed biographers Claire Tomalin and David Nokes. Seventeen of Austen's letters--eight of them new to the Third Edition--allow readers to glimpse the... (read more) List Price $20.25 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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St. Mawr & the Man Who Died by D H Lawrence Publisher Comments These two brilliant novels are deservedly among Lawrence's most popular works. Both are at the same time exciting narratives and striking expressions of Lawrence's philosophy. St. Mawr is the story of a splendid stallion in whose vitality the heroine... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Publisher Comments With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Four Feathers (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&n Classics Trade Paper) by A E W Mason Publisher Comments The Four Feathers, by A. E. W. Mason, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Snow Leopard (78 Edition) by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas— now celebrating its thirtieth anniversary IN 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Night Road by Kristin Hannah Publisher Comments For a mother, life comes down to a series of choices. To hold on… To let go.. To forget… To forgive… Which road will you take? &... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Beach Music by Pat Conroy Publisher Comments Pat Conroy is without doubt America's favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets of families in richly lyrical prose and unforgettable narratives. Now, in Beach Music, he tells of the dark... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Mass Market
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What I Talk about When I Talk about Running by Haruki Murakami Publisher Comments An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible way they intersect, from the incomparable, bestselling author Haruki Murakami.While simply training for New York City Marathon would be enough for most people, Haruki Murakami's decided to write... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions by Martin Amis Publisher Comments To this tantalizing nonfiction collection Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not about Marriage by Pete Dexter Publisher Comments Filled with humor and wisdom, the brilliant first collection of Dexter's finest nonfiction chronicles his life and times.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Walden and Civil Disobedience (Penguin American Library) by Henry David Thoreau Publisher Comments 'If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.' Disdainful of America's growing commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Homeland and Other Stories by Barbara Kingsolver Publisher Comments With the same wit and sensitivity that have come to characterize her highly praised and beloved novels Animal Dreams and The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver gives us a rich and emotionally resonant collection of twelve stories. Spreading her memorable... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Until They Bring the Streetcars Back (Mysteries & Horror) by Stanley Gordon West Publisher Comments Get this book to a few of your favorite readers and stand back. It starts brush fires wherever it goes, fanned by great word of mouth, spreading through book clubs and reading groups of all ages, into living rooms and bedrooms and classrooms, loved and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Attack of the Theater People by Marc Acito Publisher Comments It is 1986, and aspiring actor Edward Zanni has been kicked out of drama school for being “too jazz hands for Juilliard.” Mortified, Edward heads out into the wonderland of eighties New York City and finally lands a job as a “party... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Don Quixote, Which Was a Dream by Kathy Acker Synopsis In this extraordinary and unique novel, Don Quixote is an indomitable woman on an intractable quest to become a knight and defeat the evil enchanters of modern America.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien Staff Pick During the Vietnam war, Tim O'Brien spent a year in the U.S. infantry. As a result, he wrote If I Die in a Combat Zone (Box Me Up and Ship Me Home), an account of his experiences there. He doesn't spare us the terrible particulars of this piece of our... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ladies' Man by Richard Price Publisher Comments Kenny Becker just dumped his girlfriend--the reasons are a little complex. Young and newly unemployed, his main assets at the moment are six-pack abs and a healthy libido--hes ready to get out, find a little action, and maybe find himself too. ... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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