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334: A Novel
$15.11
Number 334, the city street address of a place in which time pivots forward and backward, becomes the setting for a unique odyssey through human history. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. Author: Disch, Thomas M. Publisher: Vintage Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0375705449 ISBN-13: 9780..
9 Highland Road: Sane Living for the Mentally Ill
$7.72
Before Julie Callahan came to the house at 9 Highland Road in Glen Cove, New York, she had spent a good part of her young life in mental hospitals, her mental and emotional coherence nearly destroyed by a childhood of sexual abuse. Fred Grasso, a schizophrenic, had lived in a filthy single-room occu..
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 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 Middle Eastern Food
$9.60
More than 500 recipes from the subtle, spicy, varied cuisines of the Middle East, ranging from inexpensive but tasty peasant fare to elaborate banquet dishes. Author: Claudia Roden Publisher: Vintage Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0394719484 ISBN-13: 9780394719481..
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
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A Washington Post, Rocky Mountain News, Boston Globe Best Book of the YearIntrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betrayal, tyranny, family, and a conspiracy trying its damnedest to happen.Ali Shigri, Pakistan Air Force pilot and Silent Drill Com..
A Coffin for Dimitrios
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The classic story of an ordinary man seemingly out of his depth, this is Ambler's most widely acclaimed novel, "one of the masterpieces of the genre" (The New York Times Book Review).A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, int..
A Dormir!/ Time to Sleep!: Como solucionar el prob...
$12.27
About the AuthorEduard Estivill, licenciado en Medicina por la Universidad de Barcelona, está especializado en Neurofisiología Clínica y Pediatría. Desde 1989 dirige la Clínica del Sueño Estivill del USP Institut Universitari Dexeus de Barcelona y, desde 1999, la Unidad de Alteraciones del Sueño del..
A Happy Death
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The first novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author lays the foundation for The Stranger, telling the story of an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood.In A Happy Death, written when Albert Camus was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, reve..
A History of the Jews in America
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Spanning 350 years of Jewish experience in this country, A History of the Jews in America is an essential chronicle by the author of The Course of Modern Jewish History.With impressive scholarship and a riveting sense of detail, Howard M. Sachar tells the stories of Spanish marranos and Russian refu..
A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud,...
$11.58
“Has all the elements of a juicy novel . . . riveting. . . . Reudite and elegant.” -NewsdayNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, Directed by David Cronenberg and starring Keira Knightly, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, and Vincent Cassel.In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both..
A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustei...
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Collected together, two of the most electrifying classic masterpieces of the American theater, remarkable not only for their historical value but for their continued ability to engage the imagination and the heart. With an Introduction by Robert Nemiroff."Rich and warm and funny and varied ... beaut..
A Reader's Guide to Remembrance of Things Past
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Identifies characters, persons, places, and themes found in Marcel Proust's masterpiece Author: Kilmartin, Terence Publisher: Vintage Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0394720962 ISBN-13: 9780394720968..
A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah...
$8.69
When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuits, and Russians with the stubborn generosity of a born teacher and the clarity of an o..
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
$19.56
Originally published at the beginning of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment-a powerful, inspiring book that examines what it means to lead a Christian life that still speaks to our time.William Law's A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life succeeded in inspiring the most cynical men of the age wi..
A Stranger in This World: Stories
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In the tradition of the works of Raymond Carver and Richard Ford, this fiction debut shines with verbal brilliance. Disturbing yet compellingly readable, the stories in this collection explore the gap between disappointment and hope, between life as it could be and life as it is. Author: Canty, Kevi..
A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and...
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The 2005 Summer Selection is available in an exclusive three volume boxed edition that includes a special reader’s guide with an introduction by Oprah Winfrey.Titles include:As I Lay DyingThis novel is the harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury A..
A Time to Kill: A Jake Brigance Novel
$7.92
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The master of the legal thriller probes the savage depths of racial violence in this searing courtroom drama featuring the beloved Jake Brigance.“John Grisham may well be the best American storyteller writing today.”-The Philadelphia InquirerThe life of a ten-year-old ..
A Town Like Alice (Vintage International)
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From the hugely acclaimed author of On the Beach-a tale of love and war that follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback. • “Entertaining ... Dramatic ... Shute is a natural and effective story-teller.” -The New York TimesJean Paget, ..
A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red ...
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When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldie..
About Face: A History of America's Curious Relatio...
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"Mann's colorful and detailed narrative, studded with dozens of vivid anecdotes, reveals how ineptly [we] have managed our ties with the world's most populous nation." --The Washington Post Book WorldDrawing on hundreds of previously classified documents, scores of interviews, and his own experience..
Advice to Writers: A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdot...
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In Advice to Writers, Jon Winokur, author of the bestselling The Portable Curmudgeon, gathers the counsel of more than four hundred celebrated authors in a treasury on the world of writing. Here are literary lions on everything from the passive voice to promotion and publicity: James Baldwin on the ..
African Madness
$10.14
Beautiful new condition book, no marks, no wear. . Author: Shoumatoff, Alex Publisher: Vintage Binding: paperback Language: english ISBN-10: 0679725458 ISBN-13: 9780679725459..
Aftermath: The Remnants of War: From Landmines to ...
$8.86
In riveting and revelatory detail, Aftermath documents the ways in which wars have transformed the terrain of the battlefield into landscapes of memory and enduring terror: in France, where millions of acres of farmland are cordoned off to all but a corps of demolition experts responsible for the un..
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
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Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge of the Holocaust. Now this enigma of a man is ..