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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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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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.95 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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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: $5.95 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: $5.95 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: $7.00 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 $16.00 Your price: $6.50 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: $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: $6.95 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 Published on the fortieth anniversary of its initial publication, this edition of the classic book contains a new Preface by David McCullough, “one of our most gifted living writers” (The Washington Post). Built to join the rapidly... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Vox New College Spanish and English Dictionary (National Textbook Language Dictionaries) by Vox Publisher Comments Boost your word power with Vox! The Vox New College Spanish and English Dictionary gives you the most comprehensive, up-to-date reference to the words and phrases you need to know and understand to communicate effectively. Inside you'll find thousands of... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Good Earth: Oprah Book Club #6 by Pearl S. Buck Publisher Comments ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A poignant tale about the life and labors of a Chinese farmer during the sweeping reign of the country¹s last emperor. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Curious George Rides a Bike by Hans Augusto Rey Publisher Comments The ingenious little monkey who left the jungle to live with the man in the yellow hat is at it again. What happens when he sets off on his new bicycle to deliver newspapers is enough to make heads spin. He builds a whole navy of paper boats, lands in a... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds: Western Region by Donald Stokes Staff Pick Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds is by far the best bird guide on the market. It is straightforwardly organized by plumage color with color tab indexes for quickly finding the bird at your feeder. The large-full color photographs of the male and female... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $21.00 Used - Flexible
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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: $8.95 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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Blueprint for Disaster: A Get Fuzzy Collection by Darby Conley Publisher Comments You have to wonder what kind of pets cartoonist Darby Conley had as a child. If they were anything like Bucky Katt and Satchel Pooch. . . well, life in the Conley house must have been interesting to say the least. The wacky triumvirate of Bucky, Satchel,... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence by Peter T Nesbett Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-278) and index.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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