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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $12.05
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Manufacturer: The Dial Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Mary Ann Shaffer::Annie Barrows
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Publisher: The Dial Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
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Publication Date: 2008-07-29
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: “ I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb….
As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends—and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society—born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island—boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all.
Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society’s members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever.
Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises, and of finding connection in the most surprising ways.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $5.00
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Manufacturer: Scribner
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Publisher: Scribner
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
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Publication Date: 1999-09-30
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Reading Level: 180
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Description: In his introduction, Harold Bloom states that The Great Gatsby "has become part of what must be called the American mythology." This volume offers a complete critical survey of the novel, including examinations of its structure and narrative stance, redefining of the hero, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts presents critical essays that reflect a variety of schools of criticism on the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature. Each volume also contains an introductory essay by Harold Bloom, critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index.
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Sale: $51.97
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Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Plastic Comb
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Author: Diana Hacker
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Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Edition: 6th
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Dewey Decimal Number: 808.02
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Publication Date: 2006-11-23
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Reading Level: 512
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Description: Having helped nearly 3 million students at 1600 colleges and universities to write well, A Writer’s Reference succeeds because it has always been grounded in classroom experience. Nearly twenty years ago, Diana Hacker reinvented the college handbook by looking at her own students’ needs. She crafted a first-of-its-kind reference that offered practical solutions to college writing problems in a language students could understand and in a format that was easy for them to use. Her many innovations — hand-edited sentences, grammar checker boxes, student-friendly index entries, ESL coverage, and a lay-flat comb binding — have been widely imitated but never improved upon. In the Hacker tradition, the new contributing authors — Nancy Sommers, Tom Jehn, Jane Rosenzweig, and Marcy Carbajal Van Horn — have crafted solutions for the writing problems of today’s college students. Together they give us a new edition that provides more help with academic writing and that works better for a wider range of multilingual students. |
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Price: $3.90
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Sale: $2.78
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Manufacturer: Coyote Canyon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William Strunk
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Publisher: Coyote Canyon Press
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Edition: Original
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Dewey Decimal Number: 808
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Publication Date: 2007-09-28
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Reading Level: 56
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Description: This book is the classic reference text for clear writing and is generally considered a must-have for any student or writer. In this most revered of writing books, Strunk identifies the necessary qualities of proper American English style; and he does it all with wit and grace. Compelling and timeless, this book is simply the best of its kind.
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Sale: $77.00
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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stephen E Lucas
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Edition: 9th
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Dewey Decimal Number: 808
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Publication Date: 2005-11-29
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Reading Level: 506
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Description: Whether a novice or an experienced speaker, every student will learn how to be a better public speaker through Lucas' clear explanations and thorough coverage. By far the leading speech textbook of our time, The Art of Public Speaking has defined the art of being the best for more than six million students and instructors. The Lucas Learning Tools Suite offers even more tools and study options to fit the active lifestyles and diverse learning/teaching styles of today's students and instructors.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $8.87
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Manufacturer: Picador
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Naomi Klein
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Publisher: Picador
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.122
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Publication Date: 2008-06-24
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Reading Level: 720
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Description: In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq today, Klein shows how Friedman and his followers have repeatedly harnessed terrible shocks and violence to implement their radical policies. As John Gray wrote in The Guardian, "There are very few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books." |
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Sale: $21.37
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Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Spiral-bound
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Author: Diana Hacker
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Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Edition: 5th
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Dewey Decimal Number: 808
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Publication Date: 2008-01-14
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Reading Level: 288
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Price: $26.00
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Sale: $14.92
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Manufacturer: Random House
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David Ebershoff
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Publisher: Random House
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: 2008-08-05
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Reading Level: 528
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Description: Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.
Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense.
It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of a family’s polygamous history is revealed, including how a young woman became a plural wife.
Soon after Ann Eliza’s story begins, a second exquisite narrative unfolds–a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover the truth behind his father’s death.
And as Ann Eliza’s narrative intertwines with that of Jordan’s search, readers are pulled deeper into the mysteries of love and faith.
Praise for The 19th Wife
“This exquisite tour de force explores the dark roots of polygamy and its modern-day fruit in a renegade cult...Ebershoff (The Danish Girl) brilliantly blends a haunting fictional narrative by Ann Eliza Young, the real-life 19th “rebel” wife of Mormon leader Brigham Young, with the equally compelling contemporary narrative of fictional Jordan Scott, a 20-year-old gay man…With the topic of plural marriage and its shattering impact on women and powerless children in today's headlines, this novel is essential reading for anyone seeking understanding of the subject.”
–Publishers Weekly, Starred and “Pick of the Week”
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Price: $16.99
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Sale: $10.54
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Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Christopher Kendris::Theodore Kendris
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Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
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Edition: 6
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Dewey Decimal Number: 468.2421
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Publication Date: 2007-01-01
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Reading Level: 600
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Description: Barrons is today and always has been the Number-One reference source for verb usage in virtually every major language. With more than 1.5 million copies in print, the all-time best selling 501 Spanish Verbs beats all less well-established rivals with its brand-new 6th edition. Its printed in two colors, it features tinted page edges for ease of reference, and it comes with extra help for Spanish language students in the form of a CD-ROM. The book presents the most important and most commonly used Spanish verbs arranged alphabetically with English translations in chart form, one verb per page, and conjugated in all persons and tenses, both active and passive. The accompanying CD-ROM gives students practice exercises in verb conjugation plus a concise grammar review. This combined book and software package is a comprehensive guide to Spanish verb usage with a wealth of reference material and language tips, including a bilingual list of more than 1,250 additional Spanish verbs, helpful expressions and idioms for travelers, and verb drills and short tests with all questions answered and explained.
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Price: $27.99
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Sale: $16.79
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Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Nelson DeMille
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Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: 2008-10-28
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Reading Level: 688
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Description: #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille delivers the long-awaited follow-up to his classic novel The Gold Coast.
When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, that stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up temporary residence in the gatehouse of Stanhope Hall, John finds himself living only a quarter of a mile from Susan who has also returned to Long Island. But Susan isn't the only person from John's past who has reemerged: Though Frank Bellarosa, infamous Mafia don and Susan's ex-lover, is long dead, his son, Anthony, is alive and well, and intent on two missions: Drawing John back into the violent world of the Bellarosa family, and exacting revenge on his father's murderer--Susan Sutter. At the same time, John and Susan's mutual attraction resurfaces and old passions begin to reignite, and John finds himself pulled deeper into a familiar web of seduction and betrayal. In THE GATE HOUSE, acclaimed author Nelson Demille brings us back to that fabled spot on the North Shore -- a place where past, present, and future collides with often unexpected results.
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