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Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Saul Bellow Synopsis A chronicle of success and failure, this work is Bellow's tale of the writer's life in America. When Humboldt dies a failure in a seedy New York hotel, Charlie Citrine coping with the tribulations of his own success, begins to realize the significance of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder Publisher Comments One day when Sophie comes home from school, she finds two questions in her mail: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" Before she knows it, she is pondering all the great questions of Western philosophy (from the Greeks to Kant, to Marx... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather Publisher Comments Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Publisher Comments This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway's preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately managed to... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher Comments With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Scarlet Letter Norton Critical 3RD Edition by Nathaniel Hawthorne Synopsis A story of love, guilt, sin and redemption played out against the stark background of Puritan New England.... (read more) List Price $10.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Life After Life by Jill McCorkle Publisher Comments Award-winning author Jill McCorkle takes us on a splendid journey through time and memory in this, her tenth work of fiction. Life After Life is filled with a sense of wonder at our capacity for self-discovery at any age. And the residents, staff, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck Publisher Comments Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above Monterey on the California coast and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. As Steinbeck chronicles their thoughts and emotions... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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We Live in Water: Stories by Jess Walter Publisher Comments The first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, We Live in Water is a diverse suite of stories marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made him one of America's most talked... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse Publisher Comments Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lit: A Memoir (P.S.) by Mary Karr Staff Pick The best way I can describe this work is to say that it's absolutely delicious. More than a mere memoir, this fascinating jewel contains universal truths, with delicate and elegant phrasing, and, despite the subject matter, there's no sense of frivolous... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger Staff Pick After six long years, Audrey Niffenegger gives us a gem of a ghost story. Based around two sets of twins, Highgate Cemetery in London, a haunted flat, and long-buried secrets, this story proves even better than The Time Traveler's Wife. With a shocking... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell Staff Pick After graduating from Eton and serving five years as a member of the Imperial Police in Burma, George Orwell went slumming. Determined to overcome his inherited middle class mores, Orwell lived in abject poverty as a dishwasher and a vagrant. Down and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Red Badge of Courage (Bantam Classics) by Stephen Crane Publisher Comments First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before 21-year-old Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle." But this powerful psychological study of... (read more) List Price $3.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon Staff Pick The Lazarus Project, Hemon's latest novel, is about storytelling, the nature of memory and reality, and America's relationship to the rest of the world, both past and present. It's blackly funny, crackling with intelligence, and populated by realistic... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro Publisher Comments On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker Staff Pick As if facing the everyday insecurities and turmoil of adolescence isn't enough, 11-year-old Julia lives within the reality of a post-apocalyptic situation as the earth's rotation begins slowing by measurable degrees each day. Relationships, personal and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Well and the Mine: A Novel by Gin Phillips Publisher Comments In 1931 Carbon Hill, Alabama, a small coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches a woman shove the cover off the family well and toss in a baby without a word. For the Moore family, centered on helping anyone in need during the Great Depression... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lacuna (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver Publisher Comments In this powerfully imagined, provocative novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is the poignant story of a man... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk From Powells.com "Fugitives and Refugees is more than a book about the weird people and dark corners of Portland. Tucked surreptitiously between chapters are eleven 'postcards,' which, cobbled together, make up a sort of memoir of Palahniuk's years in his adopted city... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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