Anchor Books
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Social and Political Philosophy: Readings from Plato to Gandhi
$21.00 Add to cartAn anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson, Thoreau,… [more below]
- Author: Somerville, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 06 1963
- ISBN10: 0385012381
- Language: English
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The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx & Crake/The Year of the Flood/MaddAddam
$53.00 Add to cartA boxed set (three trade paperbacks) of the internationally celebrated speculative fiction trilogy from one of the most visionary authors of our time, Margaret Atwood.
Across three stunning novels–O- Series: Maddaddam Trilogy
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0804172315
- Language: English
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The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
$21.00 Read moreAfter the fall of Rome, as civilizations collapsed and libraries burned, ancient knowledge that would eventually fuel the Renaissance was at risk of being lost. This thrilling history tracks three cru… [more below]
- Author: Moller, Violet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1101974060
- Language: English
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After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
$19.00 Add to cartIn this gripping narrative history, Lesley Hazleton tells the tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam, a rift that dominates the news now more tha
- Author: Hazleton, Lesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0385523947
- Language: English
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Assholes: A Theory
$17.00 Read moreThe perfect graduation gift for every young adult entering the real world.
In the New York Times bestseller Nick Hornby calls “helpful, stimulating, and very timely” (The Believer), philosopher Aaron- Author: James, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0804171351
- Language: English
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Night Boat to Tangier
$17.00 Add to cartONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR – “A darkly incantatory tragicomedy of love and betrayal … Beautifully paced, emotionally wise.” –The Boston Globe
In the dark waiting room of th- Author: Barry, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1101911344
- Language: English
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The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners
$16.95 Add to cartTwenty prizewinning stories selected from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year–continuing the O. Henry Prize’s century-long tradition of literary excellence.
“Widely regarded a- Series: O. Henry Prize Collection
- Author: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0593311256
- Language: English
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Saturday
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish in this “dazzling [and] powe… [more below]
- Author: McEwan, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 11 2006
- ISBN10: 1400076196
- Language: English
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “A devastating expos? of colleges and local law enforcement…. A substantive deep dive into the morass of campus sex crimes, where the victim is too often treated like the accus
- Author: Krakauer, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0804170568
- Language: English
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The Angel’s Game: A Psychological Thriller
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes a riveting masterpiece about love, literature, and betrayal. – “[Zaf?’s] visionary storytelling prow… [more below]
- Author: Zafón, Carlos Ruiz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 18 2010
- ISBN10: 0767931114
- Language: English
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The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
$17.00 Add to cart“The true story of women who stood up to huge corporations and won, creating momentous change for all working women.” –Gloria Steinem, co-founder of Ms. magazine
As flying boomed in the 1960s, women- Author: McShane Wulfhart, Nell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 059308229X
- Language: English
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The Wake of the Wind
$15.95 Add to cartA dramatic and thought-provoking novel of one family’s triumph in the face of the hardships and challenges of the post-Civil War South.
The Wake of the Wind, J. California Cooper’s third novel, is her- Author: Cooper, J. California
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 28 1999
- ISBN10: 0385487053
- Language: English
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Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
$18.00 Add to cartThe page-turning first novel in the charmingly gothic, fiendishly funny Faustian series about a brilliant scientist who makes a deal with the Devil, twice. – “The spot-on work of a talented writer.” –… [more below]
- Series: Johannes Cabal #1
- Author: Howard, Jonathan L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0767930762
- Language: English
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The Gangster We Are All Looking for
$16.95 Add to cartThe highly acclaimed novel that reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing eyes of a child finding her place and voice in a new country.
“A brilliant evocation of human sor- Author: Le, Thi Diem Thuy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 11 2004
- ISBN10: 0375700021
- Language: English
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Skipping Christmas
$17.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A classic tale for modern times from a beloved storyteller, John Grisham offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that have become part of our holiday tradition.
I… [more below]- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0440422973
- Language: English
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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In this “wonderfully vivid, kinetic narrative” (The New York Times), the bestselling author of Voices in the Ocean captures colossal, ship-swallowing waves, and the surfers… [more below]
- Author: Casey, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0767928857
- Language: English
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Chrysalis: A Thriller
$17.00 Add to cartA blockbuster new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child, centered on a dominant tech company–Chrysalis–whose groundbreaking virtual reality technology is redefining the wa… [more below]
- Series: Jeremy Logan
- Author: Child, Lincoln
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0525562486
- Language: English
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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
$26.00 Add to cartFor more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational to… [more below]
- Author: Lopate, Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: January 15 1997
- ISBN10: 038542339X
- Language: English
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The Famished Road: Man Booker Prize Winner
$20.00 Add to cartBOOKER PRIZE WINNER – A modern classic that reveals the tension between the land of the living, with its violence and political struggles, and the temptations of the carefree kingdom of the spirits. –… [more below]
- Author: Okri, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0385425139
- Language: English
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Paradiso
$21.00 Add to cartWith his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is… [more below]
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: September 09 2008
- ISBN10: 140003115X
- Language: English
