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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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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: $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: $6.95 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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Brave Companions by David McCullough Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or changed how we see the world but whose stories express much that is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 Jungle (Bantam Classics) by Upton Sinclair Publisher Comments Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory. A grim indictment that led to government regulations of the food industry, The Jungle is Sinclair's extraordinary contribution to... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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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: $7.50 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: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W Loewen Publisher Comments Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Merriam Websters Collegiate Dictionary 11TH Edition by Merriam Webster Publisher Comments The new Eleventh Edition of America's best-selling dictionary merges print, CD-ROM, and Internet-based formats to deliver unprecedented accessibility and flexibility at one affordable price. Fully revised print content features more than 225,000 clear... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Heart of a Dog (68 Edition) by Mikhail Bulgakov Staff Pick An amusing story about a stray dog who is surgically transported into the body of a criminal and later becomes the director of the animal control department that is responsible for ridding the city of cats. His animal tendencies and criminal antics cause... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Pinduli (04 Edition) 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: $9.00 Used - Hardcover
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Illustration Now! by Julius Wiedemann Publisher Comments Von Zeitschriften und Tageszeitungen über Anzeigenwerbung, CD-Cover bis hin zum Handy-Wallpaper - Illustration ist heute maßgeblicher Bestandteil der visuellen Kommunikation. Wie der Fantasie selbst, stehen der Illustration unbegrenzte... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price: $28.00 Used - Flexible
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The Art of Discworld by Terry Pratchett and Paul Kidby Publisher Comments The Discworld floats through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle (once there were five elephants, but that's another story). It's a world bursting with magic, a land of contrasts and extremes, from the bustling metropolis of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Robota by Orson Scott Card and Doug Chiang Publisher Comments An illustrated science fiction book from award-winning artist Doug Chiang and the popular fantasy writer Orson Scott. Review coverage in men's magazines and national newspapers. 75 colour illus.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Alexander Hamilton: A Life by Willard Ste Randall Publisher Comments Chapter One The Wish of My Heart Alexander Hamilton realized instantly that he would die. Before he even heard the shot, the oversize lead ball had torn into his right side just above the hip, crashed through a rib, sliced through his liver, shattering a... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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