Results for Books > Pulitzer Prize

Refine results

Showing 1-15 of 244 items
-61%
Newjack : Guarding Sing Sing - Ted Conover - 9780375726...
Featured Product

Newjack : Guarding Sing Sing - Ted Conover - 9780375726...

ISBN13: 9780375726620. ISBN10: 0375726624. by Ted Conover. Published by Random House, Inc.. Edition: 00 More at Textbooks.com

$6.22

15.95
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Featured Product

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

At once a true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously perverse ... More at Audible.com
Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove

Set in the late-nineteenth century, this novel chronicles a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys ...
  14 reviews Write a review
Latest review by bsquared445 Jan 24 '07
"No character ever played by Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, or even my idol Chuck Norris could even come..." Read full review

$7 - $22

from 3 stores
John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her ...
  1 review Write a review
Latest review by felrona Jul 17 '12
"The city of Savannah erupts with debate and discussion revloving around one man: Jim Williams and th..." Read full review

$20

from 1 store
Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible

In 1959, Nathan Price, a evangelical Baptist who has taken his wife and four daughters on a mission to the Belgian Congo, finds that their traditions ...
  128 reviews Write a review
Latest review by kairosdreaming Feb 16 '13
"This book is one I've kind of sat and thought about for awhile. Which usually means good thing..." Read full review

$13 - $22

from 1 store
Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when ...
  276 reviews Write a review
Latest review by alexdg1 Apr 21 '07
"When I look back at my childhood I wonder how I survived it at all. It was, of course, a miserable c..." Read full review

$9 - $14

from 2 stores
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 ...
  1 review Write a review
Latest review by waynio Dec 15 '10
"Jared Diamond's 1997 bestseller, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a rare, mind-opening book that deserves..." Read full review

$7 - $16

from 3 stores
Conrad Richter - Town

Conrad Richter - Town

In the final novel of Richter's Awakening Land trilogy, Sayward Wheeler completes her mission and lives to see the transition of her family and her ...
  1 review Write a review
Latest review by majenta Mar 15 '06
"THE TOWN is thicker than its 2 predecessors combined, and after the first few chapters it goes from..." Read full review
Daniel Callahan - Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society With

Daniel Callahan - Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society With "a Response to My Critics"

Sparking controversy in medical, social and professional circles, the nation's most respected medical ethicist strikes at the heart of America's ...

$41

from 1 store
George F. Kennan - Russia Leaves the War

George F. Kennan - Russia Leaves the War

The first volume of George F. Kennan's SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS 1917-1920 won a Pulitzer Prize in history in 1957. RUSSIA LEAVES THE WAR is Kennan's ...

$14 - $37

from 2 stores
Ernest Becker - The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker - The Denial of Death

The culmination of his life's work, "The Denial of Death is renowned anthropologist Ernest Becker's inspiring and revolutionary answer to the "why" ...
  2 reviews Write a review
Latest review by a-s-d Jan 11 '06
"The terror of mortality and the avoidance of this reality is an unconscious and, until recently, lar..." Read full review

$6 - $12

from 3 stores
John Steinbeck, Peter Lisca, Kevin Hearle - The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002)

John Steinbeck, Peter Lisca, Kevin Hearle - The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002)

Hemingway's The Grapes of Wrath still stands as a quintessential piece of Great American Writing. The story of the sufferings and trials of the Dust ...
  44 reviews Write a review
Latest review by jankp Sep 07 '09
"I've never before read a novel like John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath, pub..." Read full review

$6 - $28

from 2 stores
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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

This history examines the influences of geography and environment on the development of civilization and seeks to find large patterns that might ...
  40 reviews Write a review
Latest review by relic_hunter24 Jan 08 '12
"Jared Diamonds 'Guns, Germs and Steel' is one of the most well assembled and highly stimulating..." Read full review
David Halberstam - War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals

David Halberstam - War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals

The author of The Best and the Brightest explores the complex dynamics of foreign policy in post-Cold War America, profiling Washington decision ...
  3 reviews Write a review
Latest review by jeff_wilder78 Nov 09 '03
"Depending on how one views American foreign policy in the 1990s, it was either a decade of large fai..." Read full review
Ted Conover - Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

Ted Conover - Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

A journalist recounts the year he spent as a corrections officer at the notorious prison, offering a true insider's view of the culture of its ...
  6 reviews Write a review
Latest review by PacManY2J Apr 09 '12
"Ted Conover embodies the term "dedication to the craft." He wanted to write a commentary on th..." Read full review

$6

from 1 store
Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her ...
  3 reviews Write a review
Latest review by millinocket Mar 28 '12
"Popular culture tends to portray small towns as places where everyone knows everything about everyon..." Read full review

$19

from 1 store
Jon Meacham - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham's account of the White House years of Andrew Jackson shows him to be a man of principle as well as of passion. Even in those days, says ...
  1 review Write a review
Latest review by sweaver May 08 '10
"Author Jon Meacham, also editor of Newsweek magazine, follows up his World War II era book Franklin..." Read full review

$9 - $22

from 2 stores
    Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 16    Next >>