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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Publisher Comments This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Publisher Comments The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Staff Pick Despite a long and varied literate life, I somehow made it to 2010 without having ever read Hemingway, even compulsory high-school Hemingway. Intimidated by his bravado and bullfighting, I steered clear of ol' Papa. It only hit me a few months ago, after... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs Publisher Comments Naked Lunch is the unnerving tale of a monumental descent into the hellish world of a narcotics addict as he travels from New York to Tangiers, then into Interzone, a nightmarish modern urban wasteland in which the forces of good and evil vie for control... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz Staff Pick Blue Latitudes is an enjoyable and often hilarious journey into the amazing life and adventures of Captain James Cook and his crew. There is no better way to learn nautical history than to bring an Aussie, and a bottle of grog, along.... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Book Club Paperback
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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Publisher Comments The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway's first big novel, and immediately established Hemingway as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Cafe (Mollie Katzen's Classic Cooking) by Mollie Katzen Publisher Comments reakfast is back! And Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Caf offers tasty, protein-rich, meatless breakfasts to boost your energy level and get you going first thing in the morning-or any time of the day. Mollie Katzen provides simple, mouth-watering, healthful... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Touchstone Books) by David McCullough Publisher Comments This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nations history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge rose out of the expansive era following the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson Publisher Comments Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and... (read more) Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Staff Pick If your only experience with Catch-22 was reading it for a class in high school — or if you haven't even read it at all — you owe it to yourself to revisit this book. It's a comic masterpiece, yes, but more than that: Catch-22 is a blast of anarchic... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta by Danny Danziger Publisher Comments Surveying a broad landscape through a narrow lens, 1215 sweeps readers back eight centuries in an absorbing portrait of life during a time of global upheaval, the ripples of which can still be felt today. At the center of this fascinating period is the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Good Earth: Oprah Book Club #6 by Pearl S. Buck Publisher Comments Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable : Three Novels (55 Edition) by Samuel Beckett Staff Pick Here is the great masterpiece of prose by Irish legend and Nobel laureate Beckett. At times it is a disturbingly funny sojourn through the devastation of mortality. Other times it leaves you feverish and paranoid about the horrors of simplicity and the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Flavor by Rocco Dispirito Staff Pick Dispirito has put together a cookbook that is much better than the typical celebrity fare. He focuses on the four classic tastes: sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Each recipe includes essential information such as total cooking time, active cooking time... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $2.25 Used - Hardcover
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In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat by Rick Atkinson Publisher Comments "A beautifully written and memorable account of combat from the top down and bottom up as the 101st Airborne commanders and front-line grunts battle their way to Baghdad.... A must-read."—Tom Brokaw For soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway Publisher Comments In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pinduli by Janell Cannon Publisher Comments Janell Cannon's newest picture book about an unloved animal features an endearing young hyena named Pinduli.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Book Club Hardcover
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Baksheesh and Brahman: Asian Journals - India by Joseph Campbell Staff Pick An interesting portrait of Joseph Campbell early in his career, Baksheesh and Brahman is a collection of journal entries, drawings, and photographs from his trip to India in 1954, right after he finished editing Heinrich Zimmer's works on Indian art and... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer Publisher Comments This book recountsthe horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged German soldier. At first an exciting adventure, young Guy Sajer 's war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the Ukraine, a... (read more) Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood by Vicki Iovine Staff Pick Tired of all the parenting books with simplistic solutions and misleading information about how demanding the first year really is? Then this book is for you. The author is not a doctor or an expert — instead, she writes from her own experience as a... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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