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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 his infant sister dies. Read by Frank McCourt. Book available. ... Read more
Stores Selling: 15
$3.00 - $37.00
Dexter Filkins - The Forever War
Journalist Dexter Filkins provides a long view of the conflict with Islamofascism, before and after 9/11. Filkins reports on the rise of the Taliban in the '90s, the attacks of September 11, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and their aftermath. He covers a great deal of territory, reporting fr... Read more
Stores Selling: 13
$5.00 - $22.00
Junot Diaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Oscar Wao is an overweight Dungeons & Dragons-playing geek living in a Dominican-American ghetto whose dreams are cut short by the 500-year curse that has plagued his family and his people, "The Curse of the New World." In his first novel since his universally revered collection of sho... Read more
Stores Selling: 8
$4.00 - $26.00
David Guterson - Snow Falling on Cedars
In the midst of a raging snowstorm, a trial on Puget Sound in the 1950s pits the island's Japanese-American inhabitants against the local fisherman: a courtroom drama plus a study of conflicts between cultures and generations. ... Read more
Stores Selling: 9
$4.00 - $169.00
Philip Gourevitch - We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Decimation means the killing of every tenth person in a population, and in the spring and early summer of 1994 a program of massacres decimated the Republic of Rwanda. Although the killing was low-tech--performed largely by machete--it was carried out at dazzling speed: of an original population of ... Read more
Stores Selling: 6
$3.00 - $23.00
Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child--and the lack of understanding that led to tragedy. ... Read more
Stores Selling: 5
$4.64 - $10.80
Ariel Sabar - My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Family's Past
Ariel Sabar grew up ashamed of his idiosyncratic father, Yona, a Kurdish Jew from a tiny Iraqi village. Impelled by a mid-life desire to understand him, Sabar investigates the lost world in which his father grew up, retracing the family's expulsion from Iraq, their abysmal period in Israel, and thei... Read more
Stores Selling: 5
$4.60 - $10.76
Alex Ross - The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
A colorful history of modern music is set against the backdrop of the events, personalities, social institutions, and cultural movements of the twentieth century, chronicling the evolution of mass culture and mass politics, technological innovation, revolution, social experiments, and more in terms ... Read more
Stores Selling: 5
$6.56 - $12.96
Carol Shields and Alyss Bresnahan - The Stone Diaries
From her birth in rural Manitoba, to her journey with her father to southern Indiana, to her years as a wife, mother, and widow, to her old age, Daisy Stone Goodwill struggles to find a place for herself in her own life. ... Read more
Stores Selling: 8
$2.00 - $46.00
Harriet A. Washington - Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
In this study of race, medicine, and history, Harriet A. Washington provides an in-depth account of three centuries of medical experimentation on African Americans by the medical community, and the ideas that lay behind it all. Carried out without the knowledge or consent of the subjects, this so-ca... Read more
Stores Selling: 4
$5.92 - $11.56
Tim Jeal - Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
We think of Stanley as a cruel imperialist who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of the Congo--and the journalist who conducted the most legendary celebrity interview in history, opening with, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" But these perc... Read more
Stores Selling: 3
$5.00 - $25.00
Andrew X. Pham - The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars
Scenes of ethereal beauty alternate with violent upheavals in this atmospheric memoir. Andrew X. Pham tells the story of his father's life in small, dreamy sequences, skipping about through time masterfully. Once the scion of an old wealthy family, Thong Van Pham watched his fortune, his country, a... Read more
Stores Selling: 4
$9.00 - $16.00
Sylvia Nasar - A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994
This biography analyzes how Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash's eccentric personality helped him to develop revolutionary mathematical processes, and chronicles the transformation of this prolific eccentricity into a 30-year bout of paranoid schizophrenia and eventual recovery in 1990. Nas... Read more
Stores Selling: 2
$.54 - $12.95
James Tobin - Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II
A National Book Critics Circle Award-winning classic documents the career of the World War II combat reporter while describing his coverage of the experiences of everyday soldiers, his receipt of a Pulitzer Prize, and his death during the Okinawa campaign. ... Read more
Stores Selling: 2
$9.00 - $11.00
Nicholson Baker - Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
In an exposT of contemporary library policies, the best-selling author of Vox describes how such institutions have dismantled collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books to replace them with microfilmed copies, exploring the hidden reasons for such policies and calling for t... Read more
Stores Selling: 2
$8.13 - $9.89
Winfried Georg Sebald - Austerlitz
Austerlitz, the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by “one of the most gripping writers imaginable” (The New York Review of Books), is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kind... Read more
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$8.66 - $10.17
Joyce Johnson - Minor Characters: A Young Woman's Coming-Of-Age in the Beat Orbit of Jack Kerouac
Twenty-one-year-old Joyce Johnson, an aspiring novelist and a secretary at a New York literary agency, fell in love with Jack Kerouac on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg nine months before the publication of On the Road made Kerouac an instant celebrity. While Kerouac traveled to Tangiers, Sa... Read more
Stores Selling: 4
$4.64 - $10.20
Mary Jo Bang - Elegy
Mary Jo Bang's fifth book of poetry features the same carefully off-kilter free verse and obsessions with the nature of art that preoccupied her previous collections, but in ELEGY, these techniques are no longer the central concern, and have been put into use to memorialize the life of Bang's dead s... Read more
Stores Selling: 2
$7.00 - $16.00
Simon Schama - Rough Crossings: The British, The Slaves and the American Revolution
British historian Simon Schama provides a fresh historical perspective as he tells how and why many American slaves chose to fight on the British side during the American Revolution. Decrying the misinformation spread at the time by the American side, Schama explains the British views on slavery, in... Read more
Stores Selling: 2
$3.99 - $12.20
Devin Johnston - Sources
Devin Johnston explores the duality of thresholds in his third book of verse. Just as a door may be an entrance or an exit, and a ladder can take you up or down, Johnston's manipulation of his SOURCES, which range from the ancient Greeks to Edward Gorey, shows how memory of the past can be used as a... Read more
Stores Selling: 2
$9.00 - $12.00
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