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The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
$19.00 Add to cartA WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by wo… [more below]
- Author: Ogilvie, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0593469984
- Language: English
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The Disenchantment
$18.00 Add to cartThis radiant and thrilling debut follows a passionate love affair between two noblewomen who wish to free themselves from their repressive society, whatever the cost.
In 17th century Paris, everyone h- Author: Bell, Celia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0593468910
- Language: English
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Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
$27.00 Add to cart- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: March 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0679724648
- Language: English
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Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography
$18.00 Add to cartAmid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest was untutored, all but unlettered, and regarded as no more than a guerrilla. His tactic was the headlong charge, mounted … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library #0000
- Author: Hurst, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 15 1994
- ISBN10: 067974830X
- Language: English
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Representations of the Intellectual
$19.00 Add to cartIn these impassioned and inspiring essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said explores what it means to be an intellectual today.
Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 02 1996
- ISBN10: 0679761276
- Language: English
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About Behaviorism
$15.95 Add to cartThe basic book about the controversial philosophy known as behaviorism, written by its leading exponent.
- Author: Skinner, B. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 12 1976
- ISBN10: 0394716183
- Language: English
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A Cosmology of Monsters
$18.00 Add to cart“If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. I loved it.” –Stephen King
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
ESQUIRE – THE NERD DAILY – THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY A GOOD- Author: Hamill, Shaun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 052556392X
- Language: English
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A Fable
$16.95 Read moreThis novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0307946770
- Language: English
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Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence
$17.00 Add to cartWith his national bestsellers A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle gave new meaning to the phrase “great escape”. Now he has written a delightful novel of romance, adventure, and tong… [more below]
- Author: Mayle, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 08 1994
- ISBN10: 0679751114
- Language: English
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
$19.00 Add to cartIf the conscious mind–the part you consider to be you–is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?
In this sparkling and provocative book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates- Author: Eagleman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0307389928
- Language: English
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The Loser
$17.00 Add to cartThomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 17 2006
- ISBN10: 1400077540
- Language: English
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores
$15.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit-he has purchased hundreds of women-he asks a m- Series: Vintage International
- Author: García Márquez, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 1400095948
- Language: English
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A General Theory of Love
$18.00 Add to cartThis original and lucid account of the complexities of love and its essential role in human well-being draws on the latest scientific research. Three eminent psychiatrists tackle the difficult task of
- Author: Lewis, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375709223
- Language: English
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE – A Pulitzer Prize finalist that’s as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came
- Author: Beckert, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0375713964
- Language: English
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
$20.00 Add to cartThe basis of Martin Scorcese’s acclaimed 2003 film, The Gangs of New York is a dramatic and entertaining glimpse at a city’s dark past.
Focusing on the saloon halls, gambling dens, and winding alleys o
- Author: Asbury, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0307388980
- Language: English
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How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter, New Edition (National Book Award Winner)
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – The definitive resource on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death.
Even more relevant than when it was first published, this edition a- Author: Nuland, Sherwin B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0679742441
- Language: English
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A gripping story of man pitted against nature’s most fearsome and efficient predator. This “travelogue about tiger poaching in Russia’s far east opens up a new genre … [the] co… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Vaillant, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0307389049
- Language: English
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Where I Come from: Stories from the Deep South
$18.00 Add to cartIn this irresistible collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg muses o… [more below]
- Author: Bragg, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0593310802
- Language: English
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The Magic Mountain
$22.00 Add to cartIn this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a community devoted exclusively to sickness–as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exh… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mann, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0679772871
- Language: English
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The Rivals
$18.00 Add to cartA prescient literary mystery about corporate espionage, family dynamics, and murder: the follow-up to Jane Pek’s “thoroughly modern twist on classic detective fiction,” The Verifiers (New York Times B… [more below]
- Series: Claudia Lin
- Author: Pek, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 059347015X
- Language: English
