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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 ...

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Latest review by kairosdreaming Feb 16, 2013

"This book is one I've kind of sat and thought about for awhile. Which usually means good thing..." Read full review

$6 - $18

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Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel

In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book ...

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Latest review by electricnerve Aug 23, 2007

"Isn't it great to read with a book in one hand and a dictionary in the other? Especially when the bo..." Read full review

$8 - $18

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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 ...

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Latest review by alexdg1 Apr 21, 2007

"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 - $15

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Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried

An anniversary edition of a collection of interconnected fictional stories follows the members of an American platoon fighting in the Vietnam War, in ...

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Latest review by Stephen_Murray Feb 5, 2010

"Tim O’Brien was born three and half years before me on October 1, 1946 in Austin, Minnesota, 6..." Read full review

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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

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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 ...

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Latest review by millinocket Mar 28, 2012

"Popular culture tends to portray small towns as places where everyone knows everything about everyon..." Read full review

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John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces: Twentieth-Anniversary Limited Edition

This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has sold over three-quarters of a million copies and continues to earn critical acclaim. The story of one Ignatius ...

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Latest review by whyterabbit79 Sep 29, 2007

"This is and always will be one of my top ten books of all time. Having lived in New Orleans my whole..." Read full review

$11 - $33

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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 ...

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Latest review by jankp Sep 7, 2009

"I've never before read a novel like John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath, pub..." Read full review

$7 - $28

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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 ...

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Latest review by relic_hunter24 Jan 8, 2012

"Jared Diamonds 'Guns, Germs and Steel' is one of the most well assembled and highly stimulating..." Read full review

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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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 ...

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Latest review by kairosdreaming Apr 15, 2013

"Never saw the show and I was never really a fan of Westerns in general. But I was told this wa..." Read full review

$7 - $22

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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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Herbert P. Bix - Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

This biography of the emperor of Japan examines his formative years and how they shaped his character, his deft grasp of both the imperial system and ...

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Latest review by rooster3888 May 25, 2002

"Emperor Showa, commonly known as Hirohito in the United States, had from the end of World War II to..." Read full review

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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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Junot Diaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a ...

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Latest review by benho Sep 14, 2008

"I was inspired to pick up The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by an NPR story on finding a new..." Read full review

$6 - $19

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