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Reading the World
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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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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Conference of The Birds (Penguin Classics) by Farid Ud Din Attar Publisher Comments The acclaimed translation of a magnificent work of Persian poetry—now updated with new material Composed in the twelfth century in northeastern Iran, Farid Attar’s great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Publisher Comments Set in the 1860s, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. The dramatic sweep and richness of observation, the seamless intertwining of public and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kafka on the Shore 1st Edition by Haruki Murakami Staff Pick In Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami brings the Oedipus legend to contemporary Japan. The reader is treated to his musings on art, culture, the loss of innocence and...cats, in his patented, magic-realist way. Easily his best novel translated into... (read more) Your price: $40.00 Used - Hardcover
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Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy #1) by Naguib Mahfouz Publisher Comments The master work by the 1988 Nobel Prize winner in literature, this stunning book, which introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1990s, is "a majestic and capacious accomplishment"... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Platform (02 Edition) by Michel Houellebecq Staff Pick Lots of interesting, kinky sex brackets this novel's ideas of the good and bad of global tourism. Our hero's wanderings through far-flung locales allows the author to explore lust, love, travel, adventure, capitalism — and how they all intertwine. As... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi Publisher Comments Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapis memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk Publisher Comments At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Publisher Comments Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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In the Land of Israel (93 Edition) by Amos Oz Publisher Comments Oz traveled throughout Israel and the West Bank in the 1980s and spoke with many people about the past, present, and future of his country. What he found is memorably set down here. New Authors Note and Postscript; map. Translated by Maurie Goldberg... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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I Saw Ramallah (00 Edition) by Mourid Barghouti Publisher Comments Winner of the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz Medal, this fierce and moving work is an unparalleled rendering of the human aspects of the Palestinian predicament. Barred from his homeland after 1967s Six-Day War, the poet Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino Staff Pick One of the most inventive books in recent decades, Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler has a nearly animate quality (or barely inanimate quality); its succession of unwinding mysteries suggests what it might be like to find oneself in a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Will and Testament of Senhor Da Silva Araujo by Germano Almeida Publisher Comments Everyone in Cape Verde knows Senor da Silva. Successful entrepreneur, owner of the island's first automobile, a most serious, upright, and self-made businessman, Senor da Silva is the local success story. Born an orphan, he never married, he never... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lovers of Algeria by Anouar Benmalek Publisher Comments A breathless story of love and survival in war-torn Algeria-past and present The devil has entered our country, and his footprints are everywhere. Nine-year-old Jallal is old enough to know that his life in Algeria is precarious at best. Having run away... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges Publisher Comments Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges's dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Staff Pick In Invisible Cities, Marco Polo and Kublai Khan tell stories of the cities they've seen, imagined, dreamt, and remembered. The result is a diaphanous fantasy alternating between mirage and memory, like bridges slipping through river fog, or minarets... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Drowned Book Ecstatic & Earthy Reflectio by Rumi Publisher Comments Bahauddin, Rumi's father, was not only a major force in the development of Islamic spirituality, but also deeply influential in his son's life. This delightful and provocative collection reveals the depth of thirteenth-century Sufi mystical wisdom and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Don Quixote by Cervantes and Edith Grossman Publisher Comments Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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Crime and Punishment (91 Edition) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Staff Pick One of the great classics of world literature, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the story of Raskolnikov, a young man who — unable to complete his studies — commits what he calls "justifiable murder." What ensues is as demanding and illuminating... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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