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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 $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 $11.00 Your price $6.50 (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 $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mikhail Bulgakov
Powells.com Staff Pick An amusing story about a stray dog who is surgically transported into the body of a criminal and later becomes the director of the animal control department that is responsible for ridding the city of cats. His animal tendencies and criminal antics cause... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David McCullough Publisher Comments Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as "a masterpiece" (John A. Gable, Newsday), it is the winner of the Los Angeles Times 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George Crile Publisher Comments Charlie Wilson's War was a publishing sensation and a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jon Lee Anderson Publisher Comments Illuminating a region to which America will be inextricably bound for some time to come, "New Yorker" staff writer Anderson offers an unprecedented look into the forces that shape the Afghan conflict and the players who may threaten Afghanistan's future.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.95 (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 Associated Press Publisher Comments More people write for the Associated Press than for any newspaper in the world, and more writers --over 1,750,000--have bought The AP Stylebook than any other journalism reference. It provides facts and references for reporters, and defines usage... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $7.95 (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 $5.95 (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 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 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 $6.50 (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 $4.50 (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) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hillary Rodham Clinton Publisher Comments 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 writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ruth Krauss and Maurice Sendak Publisher Comments With just 27 words, the inimitable Ruth Krauss created a charming little universe. Now Maurice Sendak has turned her bears into a troupe of players in a slapstick comedy starring a familiar boy in a wolf suit.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rick Atkinson Publisher Comments With the eye of a master storyteller, a brilliant military historian puts readers right on the battlefield in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division. "In the Company of Soldiers" is a compelling, utterly fresh view of the modern American soldier in action.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Darby Conley Publisher Comments The fourth Get Fuzzy collection, "Blueprint for Disaster" delivers all the laughs the comic strip's readers have come to expect, as mild-mannered ad executive Rob and his gentle pooch Satchel deal with the continual mischief of temperamental and power... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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