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Ha Jin - Waiting

An ambitious and dedicated Chinese doctor, Lin Kong finds himself torn between two very different women--the educated and dynamic nurse with whom he ...

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Latest review by susiewho Dec 1, 2008

"This is a book you pick up, put down and pick up again. It doesn't captivate you at all . Sometimes..." Read full review

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Carol Shields and Alyss Bresnahan - The Stone Diaries

This novel chronicles the life of a Canadian woman, born in 1905 out of love and tragedy, and follows her life through marriage, motherhood and ...

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Latest review by TresCrazyDiva May 17, 2001

"I have never read one of Carol Shield's novels. I spotted it at the library as I scanned the paperba..." Read full review

$9 - $12

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Russell Baker - Growing Up

A reissue of the original prize-winning memoir by journalist Russell Baker.

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Latest review by anum88 Mar 15, 2007

"Growing Up is a very good autobiography. It is about a boy named Russell Baker who grows up during t..." Read full review

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Joy Williams - The Quick and the Dead

In her long-awaited new novel, the peerless Joy Williams has produced a masterpiece of contemporary American life, in all its bizarrely comic, ...

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Yusef Komunyakaa - Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

A collection of poems from the author's earlier books combined with a dozen new poems interweave memory and history.

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Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar - The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

This reissue of the groundbreaking study of female 19th-century writers contains a new introduction in which Gilbert and Guber address the origins of ...

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Latest review by lansky2000 Mar 20, 2005

"Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman In The Attic provides us with an interesting study..." Read full review

$9 - $18

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Francis Paul Prucha - The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians

'The author's detailed analysis of two centuries of federal policy makes The Great Father indispensable reading for anyone interested in ...

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John David Unruh - The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60

The most honored book ever released by the University of Illinois Press, The Plains Across was the result of more than a decade's work by its author. ...

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Douglas R. Hofstadter - Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

This groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning book sets the standard for interdisciplinary writing, exploring the patterns and symbols in the thinking ...

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Latest review by CHughett Dec 18, 2003

"A accumulation of years of study and thought, composed partly, I believe at Indiana university, wher..." Read full review

$9 - $24

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Richard Ellmann - Oscar Wilde

The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde--psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously ...

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Latest review by keithpruitt May 1, 2004

"Originally posted March 9, 2001 A little more than 100 years have passed since the death of Oscar Wi..." Read full review

$9 - $23

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Daniel K. Richter - Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America

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

Traces the history of the Hemings family from its origins in early eighteenth-century Virginia to its dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826, in ...

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Robert A. Caro - The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert Caro's study reveals Robert Moses as a head of a state agency who seemed to wield more power than most elected officials, and who forever ...

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Richard Kluger - Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris

No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankinds most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer ...

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Latest review by Bryan_Carey Apr 25, 2001

"Among all business enterprises in the United States, the industry that has been forced to endure mor..." Read full review

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Edmund Morris - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

The first volume of Edmund Morris's biography of Theodore Roosevelt covers his life up to 1901, when he assumed the presidency following the ...

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Latest review by mkp51 Oct 23, 2011

"Theodore Roosevelt... Harvard graduate, historian, New York state assemblyman; rancher, United State..." Read full review

$10 - $31

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