Back to School - Used Books
There are 149 books in this aisle.
There are 149 books in this aisle.
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by Allen Ginsberg  
Powells.com Staff Pick "Do we need to say anything about Howl? This is, more than anything else, the book that launched the Beat movement. By turns wildly praised and bitterly reviled, it still packs a wallop today." Chris F., Powells.com... (read more)  List Price $6.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher Comments One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Robbins
Publisher Comments Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sylvia Plath
Publisher Comments The Bell Jarchronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Simone De Beauvoir Publisher Comments This triumphant and genuinely revolutionary book began as an exceptional woman's attempt to find out who and what she was. It ended up shocking, infuriating, and galvanizing millions of readers and dramatically revising the way women talk and think about... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dk Publisher Comments Following exciting new developments in the X-Men universe, this revised edition of Ultimate X-Men includes the best of the two feature films and the animated television series. Watch the evolution of the X-Men superheroes from their conception in the... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Benjamin R. Kaplan Publisher Comments Hundreds of millions of dollars in scholarship prizes are waiting to be won. 23 year-old Ben Kaplan has won many of them, paying nearly $90,000 toward his Harvard education. Ben then wrote and self-published his story and methodology in How To Go To... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments Represents a selection from Nietzche's notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Angela Nissel
Publisher Comments "People always say I?m going to look back on these days and laugh — why put it off?" When Angela Nisell found herself struggling financially while in college, instead of sulking, she decided to entertain herself by creating an online journal... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Princeton Review Publisher Comments This is the only guide students will need for a successful preliminary college search. Browsing through the 2003 edition of the Complete Book of Colleges, students will find meticulously researched profiles of more than 1,600 schools. It contains the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $4.78 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $10.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jack Kerouac
Publisher Comments On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hunter S Thompson
Powells.com Staff Pick When Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought the Modern Library in 1925, its mission was ? and still is ? to provide attractive, hardcover editions of important works of literature and thought to serious readers on a budget. The Modern Library became... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by J. D. Salinger
Publisher Comments Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Synopsis Includes 29 poems revolving around the title, selections written for oral readings with jazz accompaniment, and 13 previously published poems.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert L Peters Publisher Comments Is graduate school right for you? Should you get a master’s or a Ph.D.? How can you choose the best possible school? This classic guide helps students answer these vital questions and much more. It will also help graduate students finish in less... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Margaret Atwood
Powells.com Staff Pick This is my favorite out of all Margaret Atwood's books. It tells the story so convincingly of the cruelty and competition between young girls as viewed by the now older narrator Elaine. Complex and disturbing, Cat's Eye is a momentous book from one of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hermann Hesse Publisher Comments With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesse’s best-known and most autobiographical work is one of literature’s most poetic evocations of the soul’s journey to liberation Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Greg Gottesman Publisher Comments ARCO's runaway hit is back -- and it's better than ever! This brash, lively handbook -- the group effort of college students from Boston to Berkeley -- has been a smash hit through three editions, selling out printing after printing. Now freshly updated,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $1.55 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Learning Express Publisher Comments Why You Need This Book! Taking a test is a dreadful event for anyone, young or old. And usually there is so much riding on the test in terms of your future. It doesn't have to be so bad -- and you can Substantially improve your odds for success. Simply... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $3.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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