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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 town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her. ... Read more

Stores Selling: 19

$4.00 - $97.00

Jeffrey Eugenides and Benito Gomez Ibanez - Middlesex

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop physically - leads Callie ... Read more

Stores Selling: 11

$10.00 - $62.00

Ian McEwan - Atonement

In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution. Reissue. (A Focus Features film, written by Chris... Read more

Stores Selling: 15

$5.00 - $22.00

Jonathan Harr - Civil Action

This riveting work of legal reportage is at once the story of an emotionally explosive lawsuit and a searing expose of the American legal system. When young lawyer Jan Schlichtmann initiates a civil suit against two of the nation's largest corporations who stand accused of the deaths of children in ... Read more

Stores Selling: 8

$5.28 - $11.52

Marilynne Robinson - Home

Returning to Gilead to care for her dying father, Glory Boughton, the daughter of John Ames's closest friend, is joined by her long-absent brother, with whom she bonds throughout his struggles with alcoholism, unemployment, and their father's traditionalist values. By a Pulitzer Prize-winning author... Read more

Stores Selling: 16

$4.00 - $35.00

Roberto Bolano - 2666

Four years after his death from liver failure, Roberto Bolano burst into the English-speaking literary world with the 2007 translation of his sprawling tour de force, THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES. In 2008 came the translation of his posthumously published epic, 2666, which he wrote feverishly up until his ... Read more

Stores Selling: 10

$8.00 - $42.00

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

$5.00 - $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

$5.00 - $23.00

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 guards--both idealistic "new jacks" like himself and brutally hardened veterans, prison rituals like strip frisks and cell searches, and the impass... Read more

Stores Selling: 6

$4.64 - $18.96

Helene Cooper - The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood

Born into Liberia's privileged upper class, Helene Cooper's family were the descendants of the freed American slaves who first turned Liberia into a country. Her life took a drastic change in 1980 when Liberia plunged into a long and bloody civil war. Her family's possessions were seized, her mother... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$4.64 - $10.80

Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel

An Englishman, Archie Jones, and a Bengali Muslim named Samad Iqbal, who first met after World War II in Turkey, encounter each other again 30 years later in the North-West London neighborhood where they live with their families. The daughter of Archie and his Jamaican wife falls in love with Samad'... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$8.91 - $10.76

Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) had on soldiers, their kin, and society as a whole. The visible presence of the dead bodies (often in damaged or mangled form, gravely wounded or deco... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$5.24 - $11.48

Chris Hedges - War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student... Read more

Stores Selling: 4

$3.96 - $10.04

Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Traces the history of the Hemings family from its origins in early eighteenth-century Virginia to its dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826, in an account that describes their family ties to the third president. Reprint. A best-selling National Book Award winner and New York Times and Publisher... Read more

Stores Selling: 4

$11.00 - $14.00

Stephen Jay Gould - Mismeasure of Man

Exposes the fatal flaws in the ranking of people according to their supposed gifts and limits by discussing the development of the theory of limits and by reanalyzing the data on which it is based. ... Read more

Stores Selling: 4

$6.53 - $12.21

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 long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness. A first novel by the author of the collection Drown. 100,000 first printi... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$11.00 - $16.00

Harryette Mullen - Sleeping With the Dictionary

Stores Selling: 2

$11.00 - $12.00

Ariel Sabar - My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

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

$12.00 - $16.00

Rebecca Solnit - As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art

In this collection of 19 essays, Rebecca Solnit writes about calendars of nature photography, the tie between walking and physics, natural history museums, and more--most of them focusing on the issue that concerns her most: the politics of environmentalism ... Read more

Stores Selling: 2

$14.00 - $17.00

Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) had on soldiers, their kin, and society as a whole. The visible presence of the dead bodies (often in damaged or mangled form, gravely wounded or deco... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$13.00 - $18.00

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