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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
$19.00 Add to cartIn his bestselling work of “comic sociology,” David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today’s upper class–those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0684853787
- Language: English
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I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
$19.00 Add to cartA classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English- Series: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2000
- ISBN10: 076790382X
- Language: English
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USA – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
$14.99 Add to cartDon’t just see the sights―get to know the people.
Who can afford not to understand the USA? Underneath the gleaming smile of American popular culture lies a rich and complex society that brims wi
- Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author: Beechey, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1787023214
- Language: English
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Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream
$14.00 Add to cartFor Aldous Huxley it was the next step in human evolution; for the CIA it was a potential tool for mind control; for Timothy Leary it was the liberator of humankind (a belief that led to his being bra
- Author: Stevens, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 02 1998
- ISBN10: 0802135870
- Language: English
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Journey Into Christmas and Other Stories
$19.95 Add to cartThe true meaning of Christmas emerges in these stories about reunited families, good fellowship, and restored faith. This is not to say that all is sugar candy. The mother in the title story faces a l… [more below]
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Aldrich, Bess Streeter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: October 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0803259085
- Language: English
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My World-And Welcome to It
$18.99 Add to cartThe world of Thurber is splendidly sampled in these thirty stories, sketches, and articles that range from the wildest comedy to the serious business of murder. Animal courtship, maids, Macbeth, baseb… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: March 19 1969
- ISBN10: 0156623447
- Language: English
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The Toughest Indian in the World
$18.00 Add to cartA beloved American writer whose books are championed by critics and readers alike, Sherman Alexie has been hailed by Time as one of the better new novelists, Indian or otherwise. Now his acclaimed new… [more below]
- Author: Alexie, Sherman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0802138004
- Language: English
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John Steinbeck: Novels and Stories 1932-1937 (Loa #72): The Pastures of Heaven / To a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / In Dubious Battle / Of Mice and Me
$40.00 Read moreThe Library of America presents for the first time in one volume Steinbeck’s early writings, which expressed his abiding concerns for community, social justice, and the elemental connection between na… [more below]
- Series: Library of America John Steinbeck Edition #1
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1883011019
- Language: English
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No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger: Volume 3
$24.95 Add to cartThis is the only authoritative text of this late novel. It reproduces the manuscript which Mark Twain wrote last, and the only one he finished or called the “The Mysterious Stranger.” Albert Bigelow P… [more below]
- Series: Mark Twain Library #3
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0520270002
- Language: English
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The Cage Keeper: And Other Stories
$19.00 Add to cartPassion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of society-these are the hard-hitting themes of a stunning… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Dubus, Andre, III
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375727744
- Language: English
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Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel
$17.00 Add to cartA haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story “The Lottery”
At last, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” enters Penguin Classics, sixty-five year- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0143107119
- Language: English
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Reasons to Live: Stories by
$16.99 Add to cartThe author of “At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom” presents a “tough-minded, original, an fully felt” (Sheila Ballantyne) collection of stories that “approach the usual cliches of real life and fictio… [more below]
- Author: Hempel, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 20 1995
- ISBN10: 0060976721
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor
$36.99 Add to cartDescribed by Anne Tyler as the undisputed master of the short story form, Peter Taylor imbued his stories with a powerful sense of the conflicts between the old rural society and the increasingly urba
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Taylor, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 554
- Publish Date: August 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531846
- Language: English
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The Country of the Pointed Firs, and Other Stories
$25.99 Add to cartThis edition of The Country of the Pointed Firs makes the American classic available in the form in which it was originally published in 1896. An edition published after the author’s death had incorpo… [more below]
- Author: Jewett, Sarah Orne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: February 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0393311376
- Language: English
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Gates of Eden
$14.99 Add to cart“A distinctive voice and an offbeat worldview…All of these stories take place in Coen Brothers Land, a parallel universe similar to our own–except it’s weirder, funnier, and better edited.” — New
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Coen, Ethan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0061684880
- Language: English
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John Steinbeck: Novels 1942-1952 (Loa #132): The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden
$45.00 Add to cartThis third volume in The Library of America’s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck’s writings shows one of America’s most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matte… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #3
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 983
- Publish Date: February 18 2002
- ISBN10: 1931082073
- Language: English
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Little Women: Illustrations by Marjolein Bastin
$45.00 Read moreThe exquisite illustrations of Marjolein Bastin meet timeless text in this elegant special edition of an American masterpiece.
The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to rediscover classic- Series: Marjolein Bastin Classics
- Author: Bastin, Marjolein
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1524873853
- Language: English
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories
$18.00 Add to cartThe inspiration for the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, plus eighteen other stories by the beloved author of The Great Gatsby
In the title story of this collection by one- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 26 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105493
- Language: English
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Collected Stories of Willa Cather
$16.95 Add to cartThe most complete collection available of Willa Cather’s remarkable short fiction, Collected Stories brings together all the stories published in book form during her lifetime along with two addition… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679736484
- Language: English
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The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
$17.00 Add to cartA finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Story Prize, the first ever collection of “dazzlingly told” (The New York Times) short stories–now available as a trade paperback.
Set in Gre- Author: Delillo, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 1451659091
- Language: English
