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The House on Mango Street
Written by Sandra Cisneros
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: April 3, 1991
Price: $10.95
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous –... Read more >
Written by Sandra Cisneros
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: April 3, 1991
Price: $10.95
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous –... Read more >
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The Dark Side
The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
Written by Jane Mayer
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.95
One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
National Bestseller
With a New Afterword
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A Best Book of the Year: Salon, Slate, The Economist, The Washington Post, Cleveland Plain-Dealer
The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the... Read more >
The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
Written by Jane Mayer
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.95
One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
National Bestseller
With a New Afterword
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A Best Book of the Year: Salon, Slate, The Economist, The Washington Post, Cleveland Plain-Dealer
The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the... Read more >
Also available as an
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unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
eBook and a
hardcover.
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Things Fall Apart
A Novel
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1994
Price: $10.95
Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo’s fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1994
Price: $10.95
Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo’s fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2007
Price: $14.95
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina... Read more >
Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2007
Price: $14.95
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina... Read more >
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PEN/ O. Henry Prize Stories 2009
Edited by Laura Furman
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.00
A collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 features unforgettable tales in settings as diverse as post-war Vietnam, a luxurious seaside development in Cape Town, an Egyptian desert village, and a permanently darkened... Read more >
Edited by Laura Furman
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.00
A collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 features unforgettable tales in settings as diverse as post-war Vietnam, a luxurious seaside development in Cape Town, an Egyptian desert village, and a permanently darkened... Read more >
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Lolita
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 13, 1989
Price: $13.95
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar... Read more >
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 13, 1989
Price: $13.95
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Written by Harold S. Kushner
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2004
Price: $10.95
When Harold Kushner’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life’s most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts and fears that arise when tragedy... Read more >
Written by Harold S. Kushner
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2004
Price: $10.95
When Harold Kushner’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life’s most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts and fears that arise when tragedy... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio cassette,
abridged audio CD,
unabridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
hardcover.
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The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States
Introduction by Pauline Maier
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1998
Price: $2.95
The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution was the fulfillment of that promise.
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued a unanimous declaration: the thirteen North American colonies would be the thirteen United States of America, free and independent of Great Britain. Drafted by... Read more >
Introduction by Pauline Maier
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1998
Price: $2.95
The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution was the fulfillment of that promise.
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued a unanimous declaration: the thirteen North American colonies would be the thirteen United States of America, free and independent of Great Britain. Drafted by... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Gift
Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Written by Lewis Hyde
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $14.95
By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when it first appeared. An... Read more >
Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Written by Lewis Hyde
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $14.95
By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when it first appeared. An... Read more >
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Written by Alexandre Dumas
Format: Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1984
Price: $6.95
Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d'If -- doomed to spend his life in a... Read more >
Written by Alexandre Dumas
Format: Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1984
Price: $6.95
Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d'If -- doomed to spend his life in a... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
