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Just Before Dark
$18.99 Add to cartJim Harrison’s essays and articles have been selected from twenty-five years of work, from venues as diverse as PLAYBOY, THE NATION, OUTSIDE, and the AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW. They explore the passions
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 061800193X
- Language: English
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Nadirs
$16.95 Add to cartJuxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta M?ler’s childhood in the Romanian countryside. The individual t… [more below]
- Series: European Women Writers
- Author: Muller, Herta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803282540
- Language: English
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Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf
$16.99 Add to cartP.G. Wodehouse often said that he wished he’d spent more time playing golf and less “fooling about writing stories and things.” Happily, the prolific and beloved satirist often took his pen to the gre
- Series: P.G. Wodehouse Collection
- Author: Wodehouse, P. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0618009272
- Language: English
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Marking the Sparrow’s Fall: The Making of the American West
$26.99 Add to cartWinner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Wallace Stegner was a literary giant…. [more below]
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0805062963
- Language: English
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The Last Gentleman
$28.99 Add to cartWill Barrett is a 25-year-old wanderer from the South living in New York City, detached from his roots and with no plans for the future, until the purchase of a telescope sets off a romance and change
- Author: Percy, Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 04 1999
- ISBN10: 0312243081
- Language: English
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Shakespeare: Invention of the Human: The Invention of the Human
$32.00 Add to cart“The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer.” -Geoffrey O’Brien, New York Review of Books
A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is t
- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 157322751X
- Language: English
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Love in the Ruins
$28.99 Add to cartDr. Tom More has created a stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he embarks on an unforgettable odyssey to cure mankind’s spiritual flu. This novel confronts both the value of life and its suscept
- Author: Percy, Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 04 1999
- ISBN10: 0312243111
- Language: English
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The Thanatos Syndrome
$26.99 Add to cartReturning home to the small Louisiana parish where he had praticed psychiatry, Dr. Tom More quickly notices something strange occuring with the townfolk, a loss of inhibitions. Behind this mystery is
- Author: Percy, Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 04 1999
- ISBN10: 0312243324
- Language: English
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A High Wind in Jamaica
$17.95 Add to cartRichard Hughes’s celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteent… [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0940322153
- Language: English
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Word of Honor
$17.99 Add to cartWhat will it cost to keep a promise? Of the four people at the Newpointe post office when the bomb went off, three were killed instantly. The fourth, a five-year-old boy, lies comatose in the hospital
- Series: Newpointe 911 #3
- Author: Blackstock, Terri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0310217598
- Language: English
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Lolly Willowes: Or the Loving Huntsman
$17.95 Add to cart“[The book] I’ll be pressing into people’s hands forever is “Lolly Willowes,” the 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner. It tells the story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for he
- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback) #05
- Author: Warner, Sylvia Townsend
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: September 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0940322161
- Language: English
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The Second Coming
$25.99 Add to cartWill Barrett (also the hero of Percy’s The Last Gentleman) is a lonely widower suffering from a depression so severe that he decides he doesn’t want to continue living. But then he meets Allison, a me
- Author: Percy, Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 13 1999
- ISBN10: 0312243243
- Language: English
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Popol Vuj
$14.95 Add to cartUn libro sagrado del pueblo maya k’iche’ sobrevivi a la destrucci n de los escritos de la cultura maya por religiosos espa oles. El Popol Vuj fue transcrito en el alfabeto latino en 1558 y traducido … [more below]
- Author: Montejo, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 14 1999
- ISBN10: 0888993625
- Language: Spanish
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The Complete Fairy Tales
$17.00 Add to cartGeorge MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay “The Fanta… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: MacDonald, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140437371
- Language: English
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Clockspeed: Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage (Revised)
$21.99 Add to cartIn business today, all advantage is temporary. In order to survive-let alone thrive-companies must be able to anticipate and adapt to change, or face rapid, brutal extinction. In Clockspeed, Charles F… [more below]
- Author: Fine, Charles H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 21 1999
- ISBN10: 0738201537
- Language: English
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Sugar Snow
$9.99 Add to cartWith this illustrated adaptation from the beloved Little House series, the youngest readers can share in the joy of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved classics.
In Sugar Snow, Laura is delighted when a sof
- Series: Little House Picture Book
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 22 1999
- ISBN10: 0064435717
- Language: English
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Bachelor Girl
$11.99 Add to cartThe eighth and final installment in the Rose Years series, which tells the story of the spirited daughter of the author of the beloved Little House series.
Rose Wilder has become an independent young
- Series: Little House Sequel
- Author: MacBride, Roger Lea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 22 1999
- ISBN10: 0064406911
- Language: English
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The Colors of Us
$18.99 Read moreA positive and affirming look at skin color, from an artist’s perspective.
Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her skin. But when she and her m- Author: Katz, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0805058648
- Language: English
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Sector 7
$19.99 Add to cartThe Caldecott Honor-winning adventure of a young boy and a mischievous cloud in a funny, touching story about art, friendship, and the weather by three-time Caldecott Medalist David Wiesner.
Only the- Author: Wiesner, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 20 1999
- ISBN10: 0395746566
- Language: English
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The Trail of Tears
$5.99 Add to cartAfter losing the fight to keep their land in the 19th century, the Cherokee Nation is led on the heartbreaking and torturous Trail of Tears by Chief John Ross. Young readers learn about this epic true… [more below]
- Series: Step Into Reading
- Author: Bruchac, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 21 1999
- ISBN10: 0679890521
- Language: English
