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Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
First you took [the title] at face value, and picked it up immediately. "This is just the sort of book for which I have been looking!" Many of you, particularly those among you who seek out the maudlin and melodramatic, were struck by the "Heartbreaking" part. Others thought the ... Read more
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$5.00 - $104.00
George C. Herring - From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
The author of America's Longest War uses foreign relations as a lens through which to tell the story of America's rise from thirteen colonies to the world's greatest superpower, in a volume that documents America's interaction with other peoples and nations of the world. ... Read more
Stores Selling: 5
$17.00 - $25.00
Daniel Walker Howe - What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
A panoramic history of the United States ranges from the 1815 Battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War and chronicles the dramatic changes that took place in America during the period, interweaving political and military events with social, economic, and cultural history to addre... Read more
Stores Selling: 3
$21.00 - $23.00
Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Historian Annette Gordon-Reed continues the meticulous and eye-opening investigation of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings she began in her previous book (THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS) by tracking the lives of the Hemings family in a variety of locations, bot... Read more
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$21.00 - $25.00
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
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$19.00 - $23.00
John Updike - Rabbit at Rest
A haunting novel that completes Updike's extraordinary tetralogy chronicling four decades of life in America. In the final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild while exploring the bleak terra... Read more
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$9.00 - $23.00
RICHARD BRODY - Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life Of Jean-Luc Godard
A landmark study examines the interplay among the life, work, and times of the influential French filmmaker, exploring Godard's cinematic innovations in which he combined the principles of filmmaking with the realities of current events and explored the changing image of the cultural hero, and follo... Read more
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$21.00 - $29.00
Joel L. Kraemer - Maimonides: The Life And World Of One Of Civilization's Greatest Minds
Moses Maimonides, the medieval rabbi, philosopher, and physician, remains one of the most important figures in Jewish history. He is most famous for the MISHNEH TORAH, a 14-volume guide to Talmudic law, and GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED, an intellectual synthesis of Jewish faith and Greco-Roman philosophy... Read more
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$21.00 - $25.00
John Updike - Rabbit Is Rich
The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are le... Read more
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$8.00 - $24.00
Gary Giddins - Visions of Jazz: The First Century
Gary Giddins' idiosyncratic series of essays on key figures in 20th-century jazz doesn't pretend to be an all-inclusive guide to the key players in the first century of the music's history; his introduction makes plain that, aside from obvious inclusions like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, he r... Read more
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$18.00 - $21.00
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
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$22.00 - $26.00
James Ingram Merrill, J.D. McClatchy, Stephen Yenser - The Changing Light at Sandover: Including the Whole of the Book of Ephraim, Mirabell's Books of Numer, Scripts for the Pageant and a New Coda, the H
Mystical poems explore the author's experiences communicating with a spirit named Ephraim through an Ouija board. ... Read more
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$23.00 - $29.00
Mark Doty - My Alexandria: Poems
Winner of the third annual T. S. Eliot Prize. ... Read more
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$12.00 - $28.00
Frances Fitzgerald - Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War
An examination of the presidency of Ronald Reagan explores his "Star Wars" program, showing how Reagan used his acting skills and public image to drive a program derided by scientists. ... Read more
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$21.00 - $26.00
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