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A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
$9.37
Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir.With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throughout Europe and her literar..
A Bagful of Locusts and the Baboon Woman: Construc...
$11.67
Not since the publication of Lee's case study on the Dobe Ju/'Hoansi and Turnbull's case study on the Mbuti Pygmies, has there been such an interesting addition to the African cases of the Spindler Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology series. Set in the subSaharan Africa in a contemporary context, ..
Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source
A Bearer of Divine Revelation: New and Selected St...
$10.79
With a spare eloquence reminiscent of Hemingway and an insistence on divine grace even in the darkest circumstances, Lawrence Dorr writes short stories as powerful as they are profound.The fifteen new and selected stories here, stylistically and substantively rich, follow a central character through..
A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries)
$14.39
On any given day in London, all Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, wants to do is relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist another chance to unravel a mystery, ev..
A Beautiful Lie
$10.42
“Everybody lies. We all do it. Many years ago I told one lie that has taken on a life of its own.” In India in 1947 the country is coming apart and so is thirteen-year-old Bilal’s life. He is determined to protect his dying father from the news of Partition, news that he knows will break his father'..
A Beautiful, Cruel Country
$23.40
Arizona's Arivaca Valley lies only a short distance from the Mexican border and is a rugged land in which to put down stakes. When Arizona Territory was America's last frontier, this area was homesteaded by Anglo and Mexican settlers alike, who often displaced the Indian population that had lived th..
A Bell for Adano
$8.61
This classic novel and winner of the Pulitzer Prize tells the story of an Italian-American major in World War II who wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700-year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists. Although..
A Betrayal in Winter (The Long Price Quartet)
$11.98
Daniel Abraham delighted fantasy readers with his brilliant, original, and engaging first novel, A Shadow in Summer. Now he has produced an even more powerful sequel, a tragedy as darkly personal and violent as Shakespeare's Macbeth.As a boy, Otah Machi was exiled from his family, Machi's ruling hou..
A Better India: A Better World
$9.19
What will it take for India to bridge this great divide When will the fruits of development reach the poorest of the poor, and wipe the tears from the eyes of every man, woman and child, as Mahatma Gandhi had dreamt And how should this, our greatest challenge ever, be negotiated In this honest, b..
A Biography of the English Language
$55.66
The third edition of A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE continues to examine the structure of English, from its Indo-European pre-history, through the invasions that shaped Old and Middle English, through its speakers' conscious efforts to police it in the Early Modern period, through its present-d..
A Biography of the English Language
$8.96
The second edition of A Biography of the English Language continues to examine the structure of language. The textbook discusses three important issues: languages and language change are systematic; the inner history of a language is profoundly affected by its outer history of political and culural ..
A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents...
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Just a few of the vitally important lessons in caring for your aging parent-and yourself-from Jane Gross in A Bittersweet SeasonAs painful as the role reversal between parent and child may be for you, assume it is worse for your mother or father, so take care not to demean or humiliate them.Avoid ho..
A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh
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In the first novel of a spellbinding new trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows best. A Blaze of Glory takes us to the action-packed Western Theater for a vivid re-creation of one of the war’s bloodiest and most iconic engagements-the Battle ..
A Bloomsbury Group Reader
$17.43
Because whenever they wrote the members of Bloomsbury tried to write well, there is an abundant variety of illuminating and delightful reading to be found in the short prose works of the Group's novelists, biographers, critics, and even political economists. In A Bloomsbury Group Reader Professor Ro..
Delacorte Books for Young Readers
A Bone From A Dry Sea
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While visiting the site where his father is searching for the fossil remains of human ancestors, a young girl discovers something that could alter the story of human evolution. Author: Dickinson, Peter Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0385308..
A Bone of Contention: The Second Chronicle of Matt...
$13.49
From Kirkus ReviewsA second visit to the 14th century and Cambridge, England, once again focuses on physician-teacher Matthew Bartholomew and his friend Brother Michael, a Senior Proctor, both living at Michaelhouse, one of several competitive, quarrelsome college residences (An Unholy Alliance, 199..
A Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, Book 2...
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The inheritor of Jane Engle's entire fortune, Aurora Teagarden moves into the Engle estate and discovers a skull, and soon she is investigating a crime. Author: Harris, Charlaine Publisher: Walker & Co Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0802712452 ISBN-13: 9780802712455..
A Book Lover's Journal
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An exquisite journal with over 100 entries for books. Interspersed with illustrations, photos, woodcuts, and fascinating facts on the history of books and publishing personalities. Author: Da Capo Press Publisher: Da Capo Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0201103540 ISBN-13: 978020..
A Book of Common Prayer
$10.81
A shimmering novel of innocence and evil: the gripping story of two American women in a failing Central American nation, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean"[Didion's] most ambitious project in fiction, and her most successful ....
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthol...
$19.68
Selected by a Nobel Prize-winning poet, a collection of the world's greatest poetry from the past two thousand years brings together five hundred great pieces by more than two hundred poets, along with commentary by the editor. Author: Milosz, Czeslaw Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Binding: Ha..
A Book of Ruth
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Hardcover, First Edition, 1974, Simon and Schuster, 280 pages. Author: Syrell Rogovin Leahy Publisher: Simon and Schuster Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0671218948 ISBN-13: 9780671218942..
A Brave and Startling Truth
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First read by Maya Angelou at the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, this wise and moving poem will inspire readers with its memorable message of hope for humanity. Author: Angelou, Maya Publisher: Random House Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0679449043 ISBN-13: 97..
A Breed Apart: The True Story of a $40 Million Cre...
$12.20
In this “energetic” (Publishers Weekly) memoir, Victor Woods vividly recounts a trouble-filled and misunderstood coming-of-age in the suburbs of Chicago, the rollercoaster ride that led him to captain a multi-million dollar counterfeit scheme, and his life-changing stint in federal prison.In 1990, V..
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America i...
$9.16
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeIn this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, renowned journalist Neil Sheehan tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel John ..
A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for...
$21.36
A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children is a companion to its predecessor published by Oyate, Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children. A compilation of work by Native parents, children, educators, poets and writers, A Broken Flute contains, from a Native ..