National Book Award Books Product Reviews and Prices

Sean B. Carroll - Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

Biologist Sean Carroll writes about the men and women who forged the foundations of evolutionary biology with their discoveries of the past 150 ...

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Alice Walker - The Color Purple: A Novel

This new edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of Walker's Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner. "If it is true that it is what we run ...

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Latest review by kairosdreaming May 19, 2012

"Believe it or not I have never seen the movie that goes along with this book. After reading th..." Read full review

$6 - $14

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Rachel Kushner - Telex from Cuba: A Novel

Coming of age in mid-1950s Cuba where the local sugar and nickel production are controlled by American interests, Everly Lederer and KC Stites ...

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Latest review by Stephen_Murray Mar 12, 2011

"Rachel Kushner's debut novel Telex from Cuba, which was nominated for the 2008 fiction Nationa..." Read full review

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Lucille Clifton - Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000

Nineteen new poems as well as selections from the author's earlier collections explore human suffering, the tragedy of violence, and theological ...

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Latest review by poet1967 Dec 28, 2003

""Blessing the Boats - New and Selected Poems 1988-2000" Author: Lucille Clifton Publisher: BOA Editi..." Read full review

Laurie Halse Anderson - Speak

Melinda Sordino finds herself an outcast at her high school for calling the cops on an end of summer party, and, although she finds comfort in her ...

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Latest review by milknchalk Oct 25, 2010

"About two years ago (God, where has the time gone?) I wrote a review for this book, “Speak&rdq..." Read full review

$6 - $17

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Walter Dean Myers - Monster

FADE IN: INTERIOR: Early morning in CELL BLOCK D, MANHATTAN DETENTION CENTER. Steve (Voice-Over) Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle ...

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Latest review by teedy97 Apr 6, 2012

"I think Walter Dean Myers did and extraordinary job with this book. I was able to picture myself in..." Read full review

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Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain

Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier Inman, ...

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Latest review by canuckster1127 May 18, 2009

"An amazing first novel. The writing is poignant, and highly descriptive. There are some idiosyncrasi..." Read full review

Aleksandar Hemon - The Lazarus Project

A Bosnian immigrant living in the U.S. and his photographer girlfriend travel to the Balkans in a literary attempt to revive the life of an ...

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Victor S. Navasky - Naming Names

The story behind the 1950s Hollywood blacklist and the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which issued subpoenas to members of the Hollywood ...

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$23

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John Irving - World According to Garp: A Novel

Something of a modern classic, this is the story of T. S. Garp, who is raised by his eccentric feminist mother and spends most of his life surrounded ...

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Latest review by slickgl Mar 6, 2007

"The first time I read this book was in high school. The second time I read this book I was 23. It me..." Read full review

$6 - $8

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Barbara Cooney - Miss Rumphius

Seeking adventure in faraway places, Miss Rumphius fulfills her dream and then sets out to make the world more beautiful.Book Details:Format: ...

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Latest review by bilbopooh Aug 23, 2008

"What can you do to make the world a bit more beautiful? That is the challenge set forth in Miss Rump..." Read full review

$8 - $18

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Wanda Coleman - Mercurochrome: New Poems

This 11th collection, by the 1999 recipient of the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize, uses vivid, visceral language to examine issues ...

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Latest review by fuche_bu Jun 7, 2004

"I do not normally view Los Angeles as a hotbed of poetry. And yet there do seem to be quite a few g..." Read full review

Janet Flanner - Paris Journal: 1944-1955

The celebrated journalist's incisive accounts of social, political, and cultural developments in France.

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Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses: Movie Tie-in Edition

The first volume in McCarthy's Border Trilogy, ALL THE PRETTY HORSES begins with the death of John Grady Cole's grandfather. John Grady, age 16, has ...

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Latest review by paulsavage Dec 19, 2009

"Edited to correct some embarrassing grammatical mistakes In 1992 I was in graduate school in South C..." Read full review

$8 - $13

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Elaine Pagels - The Gnostic Gospels

The Gnostic Gospels provides engaging listening for those seeking a broader perspective on the early development of ...

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Latest review by msiduri Jun 9, 2008

"The Gnostic Gospels are non-canonical Christian writing dealing with the life of Jesus and some of t..." Read full review

$5 - $20

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