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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. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between... (read more)  List Price $15.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Evan Wright
Publisher Comments A powerhouse work of nonfiction, Generation Kill expands on Evan Wright's acclaimed three-part series that appeared in Rolling Stone during the summer of 2003. His narrative follows the twenty-three marines of First Recon who spearheaded the blitzkrieg... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Heller
Powells.com 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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pearl S. Buck
Publisher Comments Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ernest Hemingway
Publisher Comments The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Laurent De Brunhoff Publisher Comments School daze for Babar! Being the king of the elephants is hard work. But Babar's children say it's even harder to be a student. So Babar heads back to school-with hilarious results. His pencil breaks, he gets in trouble for talking in class, he sits on a... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William S. Burroughs
Powells.com Staff Pick On the surface Naked Lunch chronicles a junkie's journey from New York to Tangiers, and then into the imaginary — and hellish — Interzone. The soul of the book is much deeper, presenting a surreal satire of American culture and humanity. It... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vicki Iovine
Powells.com 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 $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Woody Guthrie and Marla Frazee Publisher Comments All aboard! Every young child wants to know: "where do babies come from?" In this book, Woody Guthrie provides an imaginative answer: "the new baby train!" Rambunctious and reassuring at the same time, this sing song story will have readers giggling all... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ingo Walther Publisher Comments From The Book of Kells to Boccaccio?s Decameron and from the Vienna Genesis to Dante?s Divine Comedy - see the breathtaking originals of 167 of the greatest classics of all time. This lavishly produced book introduces the reader to the fascinating world... (read more) Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David McCullough
From Powells.com David McCullough is our most dependable presidential biographer. Each of his efforts has been a resounding success, combining popular appeal with literary accolades. Mornings on Horseback, about Teddy Roosevelt, won the National Book Award, his... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $11.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hillary Rodham Clinton Publisher Comments The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller WITH A NEW AFTERWORD Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mikhail Bulgakov
Powells.com Staff Pick "Manuscripts don't burn" — that's what the man said. It's impossible to destroy the last thing that one has loved, as memory trumps death. This holds true for Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita: he burned his own copy down to nothing,... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kevin P. Phillips Publisher Comments The Bushes are the family nobody really knows, says Kevin Phillips. This popular lack of acquaintance — nurtured by gauzy imagery of Maine summer cottages, gray-haired national grandmothers, July Fourth sparklers, and cowboy boots — has let... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ernest Hemingway
Powells.com Staff Pick For Whom the Bell Tolls is one of the great 20th-century war novels. Hemingway's cast of characters are as rich and complex as you will find in any of his works. Hemingway's portrait of Robert Jordan and his role in the Spanish Civil War is a vivid... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rocco Dispirito
Powells.com 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 $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Upton Sinclair Publisher Comments In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the ... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Tony Horwitz
Powells.com 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. Recommended by... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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