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By: Charriere, Henri
Price: $6.50
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS: November 2013
Seller ID: 495332
ISBN: 0061120669
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
"A modern classic of courage and excitement." --The New Yorker
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture Starring Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek
Henri Charri re, nicknamed "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's...
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By: Constantine, Liv
Price: $6.50
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS: March 2018
Seller ID: 495325
ISBN: 0062667580
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND DECEMBER PICK FOR REESE WITHERSPOON'S HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB
"Filled with envy, deception, and power, it's a great reading escape. And there is a thrilling twist at the end " --Reese Witherspoon
"Will keep you up. In a 'can't put it down' way. It's 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' with XX chromosomes."--The Skimm
"Deliciously duplicitous. . . . equally as twisty, spellbinding, and addictive as Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl or Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train."-- View More...
By: Cooperman, Elizabeth,Walton, Thomas
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Sagging Meniscus Press: July 2018
Seller ID: 495233
ISBN: 1944697667
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Coover, Robert
Price: $7.50
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: February 2018
Seller ID: 495340
ISBN: 0393608468
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as "a writer who has managed, willfully and even perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous vision and versions of America." Coover finds inspiration in everything from painting, cinema, theater, and dance to slapstick, magic acts, puzzles, and riddles.
His 1969 story "The Babysitter" has alone inspired generations of innovative young writers. Here, in this selection of his best stories, spanning more than half a century, you will find an invi...
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By: Cosby, S. A.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Flatiron Books: July 2020
Seller ID: 495309
ISBN: 1250252687
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
A husband, a father, a son, a business owner...And the best getaway driver east of the Mississ
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By: Dahl, Roald
Price: $3.50
Publisher: PUFFIN BOOKS: May 2014
Seller ID: 495292
ISBN: 0142410373
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
"Matilda will surely go straight to children's hearts."...
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By: Dass, Ram
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Harmony: October 2005
Seller ID: 495270
ISBN: 1400054036
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Like New
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Liveright: June 2019
Seller ID: 452494
ISBN: 1631495631
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Like New
Best Books of 2019: Washington Post - O, The Oprah Magazine - Time - NPR - Peopl
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By: Didion, Joan
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Vintage: April 1995
Seller ID: 495272
ISBN: 0679754857
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Like New
By: Didion, Joan
Price: $6.50
Publisher: VINTAGE: September 2016
Seller ID: 412044
ISBN: 0679751831
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Like New
By: Egan, Jennifer
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Scribner: June 2018
Seller ID: 419102
ISBN: 1476716749
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
Price: $8.50
Publisher: Liveright: March 2019
Seller ID: 495248
ISBN: 1631495941
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Like New
Over the course of an adventured-filled life, now in its tenth decade, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been many things: a poet, painter, pacifist, publisher, courageous defender of free speech, and owner of San Francisco's legendary City Lights bookstore. Now the man whose A Coney Island of the Mind became a generational classic reveals yet another facet of his manifold talents, presenting here his travel journals, spanning over sixty years. Selected from a vast trove of mostly unpublished, handwritten notebooks, and edited by Giada Diano and Matthew Gleeson, Writing Across the Land...
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By: Fine, Julia
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Harper Perennial: May 2019
Seller ID: 495258
ISBN: 0062684140
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Like New
"Delightful and darkly magical. Julia Fine has written a beautiful modern myth, a coming-of-age story for a girl with a worrisome power over life and death. I loved it." --Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry
Finalist for the Bram Stoker Superior Achievement in a First Novel Award - Shortlisted for the Chicago Review of Books Best Novel Prize - A Bustle Unmissable Debut of the Year...
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By: Fink, Sheri
Price: $7.50
Publisher: BROADWAY BOOKS:
Seller ID: 495259
ISBN: 0307718972
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Like New
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink's landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina - and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice.
In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and maintain life amid chaos.By: Foucault, Michel
Price: $8.00
Publisher: VINTAGE: September 2013
Seller ID: 495273
ISBN: 0679753354
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Like New
Price: $8.50
Publisher: MODERN LIB: January 2013
Seller ID: 495276
ISBN: 0812974603
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Like New
By: Freire, Paulo
Price: $12.00
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC US: May 2013
Edition: 30
Seller ID: 495291
ISBN: 0826412769
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm.
With a substantive new introduction on Freire's life and the remarkable impact of this book by writer ...
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Price: $12.50
Publisher: Clarkson Potter: April 2019
Seller ID: 483795
ISBN: 0525573860
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Like New
By: George, Alex
Price: $5.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: February 2017
Seller ID: 495316
ISBN: 0399162100
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
By: Grimm, Jacob,Grimm, Wilhelm
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Princeton University Press: October 2016
Seller ID: 495229
ISBN: 0691173222
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in content and style. For the very first time, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm makes available in English all 1...
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