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Tim Weiner - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

This comprehensive history of the Central Intelligence Agency, from the Cold War through the War on Terror, is written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

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$22

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David Small - Stitches: A Memoir...

The Caldecott-winning author of <IT>Imogene's Antlers <RO>presents a graphic account of his troubled childhood under a radiologist father who ...

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Latest review by JediKermit Jul 9, 2010

"Stitches is another book I saw recommended in the pages of Entertainment Weekly--a graphic nove..." Read full review

$11

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Tim Weiner - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

A <IT>New York Times<RO> reporter offers a powerful indictment of the CIA and its intelligence-gathering capabilities as he traces the history ...

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Latest review by toiletoctopus Nov 19, 2010

"Tim Weiner's "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" is disturbing material. Yet it truly did dese..." Read full review

$7 - $18

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Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin

A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons ...

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Latest review by quidrock Jul 27, 2009

"The inspiration for Colum McCann’s tale of ‘70’s New York City is the surprising h..." Read full review

$6 - $23

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Gloria Naylor - The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories

The stories of seven Black women living in an urban ghetto evoke the energy, brutality, compassion, and desolation of modern Black America.

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Latest review by kmhall Aug 17, 2006

"The Women of Brewster Place is a rich, deeply textured book that mixes tragedy and hope, deprivation..." Read full review

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Elizabeth Bishop - The Complete Poems: 1927-1979

The edition of Bishop's complete poems published in 1968 won the National Book Award. This is a more complete, updated collection, published after ...

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Latest review by grimgrrrl Sep 2, 2005

"Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell had a very unique and interesting relationship. Both accomplished..." Read full review

$6

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Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Historian Annette Gordon-Reed continues the meticulous and eye-opening investigation of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally ...

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John Cheever - The Wapshot Chronicle

THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE takes place in St. Botolph's, Massachusetts, a fishing village in which a storm causes ferry pilot Leander Wapshot's boat to be ...

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Latest review by phylida Jul 20, 2003

"Let me say at the outset that after reading the first half, I was so tired of the lack of hopeful ou..." Read full review

$8 - $11

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Alice McDermott - Charming Billy

Billy Lynch is an alcoholic. At his death, his large Irish Catholic family in Queens tells stories about him--his loyalty, his wacky side, his sad ...

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Latest review by meghcallie Jul 7, 2008

"I found this book at a book sale and originally picked it up because it had a big gold medal on it..." Read full review

$6

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James Jones - From Here to Eternity

Free Worldwide Delivery : From Here to Eternity : Paperback : Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc : 9780385333641 : 0385333641 : 01 Jul 1999 : ...

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Latest review by handysamm Jan 25, 2008

"One of the greatest military / historical novels ever written. Jones captures the naive innocence of..." Read full review

$7 - $15

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Alice Yaeger Kaplan - The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach

Relates the story of the only French writer to be executed for treason during World War II, from his rise during the 1930s to his trial and death in ...

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Latest review by Stephen_Murray Jul 5, 2002

"The Collaborator is not as luminously written or entrancingly constructed as Alice Kaplan's previous..." Read full review

Pete Hautman - Godless

When sixteen-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to ...

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Latest review by ramseelbird May 17, 2005

"Imagine worshipping your local water tower. Initially, the idea seems insane. Why worship something..." Read full review

$9

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Sheldon Vanauken and C. S. Lewis - Severe Mercy

No brief review can do justice to the human depth of this book. It invites us to explore a beautiful dollhouse of love and to witness the destruction ...

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Latest review by mshawpyle May 14, 2000

"This is the sort of work for which the term 'lapidary' was coined. It is a jewel, multi-faceted, cu..." Read full review

$6 - $13

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William T. Vollmann - Europe Central: Library Edition

William T. Vollmann turns his attention to Central Europe, setting this 800-page novel in 1941, when the German army was moving into Russia, where it ...

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Latest review by paulsavage Sep 26, 2005

"I am attempting, where possible, to fix some of my earlier reviews. Im not at all fond of having a..." Read full review

$19

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Flannery O'Connor - The Complete Stories

The Complete Stories is a collection of thirty-one stories written in Flannery O'Connor's short lifetime. Arranged chronologically, these stories are ...

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Latest review by Guildencrantz Jul 9, 2000

"I just started reading Kurt Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box : Uncollected Short Fiction and he m..." Read full review

$7 - $18

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