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Geraldine Brooks - March

Geraldine Brooks - March

In a story inspired by the father character in Little Women and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father Bronson, a man ...
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Latest review by befus Sep 25, 2008
"At the mid-way point of Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women, there's a touching scene where the..." Read full review

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Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

First you took [the title] at face value, and picked it up immediately. "This is just the sort of book for which I have been looking!" Many of you, ...
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Latest review by theemmanator Mar 31, 2010
"This book is incredible. Dave Eggers manages to at once share his rather unique perspective of raisi..." Read full review

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Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

An evolutionary biologist dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for ...
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Latest review by waynio Dec 15, 2010
"Jared Diamond's 1997 bestseller, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a rare, mind-opening book that deserves..." Read full review

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James Gleick - Chaos: Making a New Science

James Gleick - Chaos: Making a New Science

Free Worldwide Delivery : Chaos : Paperback : Penguin Putnam Inc : 9780143113454 : 0143113453 : 01 Sep 2008 : The million-copy bestseller by National ...
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Latest review by gaviidae May 1, 2006
"James Gleick's "Chaos: Making a New Science" has been on my "must-read" list since about 1990, after..." Read full review

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Edith Wharton, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Christina Tumminello, Laura Dluzynski Quinn, Judith P. (AFT) Saunders - Age Of Innocence

Edith Wharton, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Christina Tumminello, Laura Dluzynski Quinn, Judith P. (AFT) Saunders - Age Of Innocence

Engaged to the docile May Welland, Newland Archer falls madly in love with the nonconformist Countess Olenska, an older woman with a reputation, but ...
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Latest review by sarajane821 Dec 1, 2011
"This is a very well-written novel about a man of New York culture during the late 1800's and his lov..." Read full review
William Maxwell - So Long See You Tomorrow: Reading & Interview

William Maxwell - So Long See You Tomorrow: Reading & Interview

A man is murdered on an Illinois farm in the 1920s. Two boys, one the son of the killer, end their friendship. Fifty years later, the other boy, now ...

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Toni Morrison - Beloved

Toni Morrison - Beloved

In 2006 the New York Times chose Toni Morrison's fifth novel from 1987, BELOVED, as the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years, beating ...
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Latest review by sbunnell27 Jan 13, 2004
"Whats amazing about Toni Morrison's Beloved is this: its a true story. A woman named Garner does wha..." Read full review

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David Willis McCullough - Truman

David Willis McCullough - Truman

Huge, ambitious, and perfectly realized, Truman is an American masterpiece about the most American of Americans, a man who confounded the nation and ...
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Latest review by toiletoctopus Feb 21, 2012
"David McCullough is among the world's most respected history writers. His classics such as 1776 and..." Read full review

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Edmund Morris - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

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

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Ha Jin - Waiting

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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Don DeLillo - Underworld

Don DeLillo - Underworld

In order to dramatize the theme that all people and events in the universe are connected, DeLillo presents several narrators and a series of ...
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Latest review by zanderson1977 Mar 26, 2003
"Yes, it goes backwards--not in a movie flashback kind of way, but in a tripping-over-the-coffee-tabl..." Read full review

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Frank Bidart - Watching the Spring Festival

Frank Bidart - Watching the Spring Festival

A first collection of lyrics by the Bollingen Prize-winning author of <IT>Star Dust <RO>evaluates the role of imminent mortality in forcing the ...

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Doris Kearns Goodwin - No Ordinary Time: Franklin And Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front In World War II

Doris Kearns Goodwin - No Ordinary Time: Franklin And Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front In World War II

A biography of Eleanor Roosevelt and an intimate look at those residing in the White House during the war years shows how Eleanor and Franklin ...
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Latest review by charles Mar 9, 2002
"After reading this book, I came to one conclusion: Goodwin has given made history accessible not on..." Read full review

$8 - $20

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Eudora Welty - Optimist's Daughter

Eudora Welty - Optimist's Daughter

When Laurel Hand, a Chicago widow, goes home to Mississippi to visit her sick father, she discovers that he is now married to Fay, a woman younger ...
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Latest review by gaelkm Jan 17, 2011
"This was my first book by Eudora Welty. I picked up this book, "The Optimist's Daughter" at a lendin..." Read full review

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

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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