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Things Fall Apart

By: Achebe

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Anchor Books: October 1994

Seller ID: 20147

ISBN: 0385474547

Condition: Used - Very Good

"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 ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world with the arrival of aggressive European missionaries. These perfectly harmonized twin dramas are informed by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious comp...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson

By: Albom

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Doubleday: September 1997

Seller ID: 20191

ISBN: 0385484518

Condition: Used - Very Good

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for ...
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For One More Day

By: Albom

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Hyperion: September 2006

Seller ID: 117965

ISBN: 1401303277

Condition: Used - Very Good

This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his father--and she dies while he is gone. This haunts him for years. It unravels his own young family. It leads him to depression and drunkenness. One night, he decides to take his life. But somewhere between this world and the next, he encounters his mother again, in their hometown, and gets to spend one last day with her--the day he missed and always wished he'd...
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The First Phone Call from Heaven: A Novel

By: Albom

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks: October 2014

Seller ID: 285857

ISBN: 0062294407

Condition: Used - Very Good

Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

By: Albom, Mitch

Price: $24.99

Publisher: Harper: November 2019

Seller ID: 340584

ISBN: 0062952390

Condition: New

The Time Traveler's Wife

By: Audrey Niffenegger

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Harcourt: May 2004

Seller ID: 317178

ISBN: 015602943X

Condition: Used - Very Good

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant. An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The...
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The Overton Window

By: Beck

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Threshold Editions: June 2010

Seller ID: 123064

ISBN: 1439184305

Condition: Used - Very Good

A plan to destroy America, a hundred years in the making, is about to be unleashed . . . can it be stopped? There is a powerful technique called the Overton Window that can shape our lives, our laws, and our future. It works by manipulating public perception so that ideas previously thought of as radical begin to seem acceptable over time. Move the Window and you change the debate. Change the debate and you change the country. For Noah Gardner, a twentysomething public relations executive, it's safe to say that political theory is the furthest thing from his mind. Smart, single, handsome...
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Agenda 21

By: Beck

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Threshold Editions: November 2012

Seller ID: 123457

ISBN: 1476716692

Condition: Used - Very Good

"I was just a baby when we were relocated and I don't remember much. Everybody has that black hole at the beginning of their life. That time you can't remember. Your first step. Your first taste of table food. My real memories begin in our assigned living area in Compound 14." Just a generation ago, this place was called America. Now, after the worldwide implementation of a UN-led program called Agenda 21, it's simply known as "the Republic." There is no president. No Congress. No Supreme Court. No freedom. There are only the Authorities. Citizens have two primary goals in the new ...
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Mr. Lincoln's Wars: A Novel in Thirteen Stories

By: Braver, Adam

Price: $6.50

Publisher: William Morrow: January 2003

Seller ID: 317262

ISBN: 006008118X

Condition: Used - Very Good

Mr. Lincoln's Wars marks the emergence of a remarkably gifted writer. In this wildly inventive, highly ambitious collection, Adam Braver explores Abraham Lincoln's inner life and personal turmoils -- while also reflecting on the indelible impact Lincoln had on the nation during the last year of his presidency.Writing with lyrical yet muscular prose, Braver brings Abraham Lincoln to life, not just as the strong and resilient president of history books, but as a griefstricken father, heartbroken over the loss of his young son. Narrated from the multiple perspectives of Abraham Lincoln and ...
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Love in a Fallen City (New York Review Books Classics)

By: Chang, Eileen

Price: $7.50

Publisher: NYRB Classics: October 2006

Seller ID: 317226

ISBN: 1590171780

Condition: Used - Very Good

A New York Review Books Original " A] giant of modern Chinese literature" "-The New York Times" "With language as sharp as a knife edge, Eileen Chang cut open a huge divide in Chinese culture, between the classical patriarchy and our troubled modernity. She was one of the very few able truly to connect that divide, just as her heroines often disappeared inside it. She is the fallen angel of Chinese literature, and now, with these excellent new translations, English readers can discover why she is so revered by Chinese readers everywhere." "-"Ang Lee Eileen Chang is one of the great...
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Girl with a Pearl Earring: A Novel

By: Chevalier, Tracy

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Penguin Books: January 2001

Seller ID: 343444

ISBN: 0452282152

Condition: Used - Very Good

The "New York Times" bestselling novel by the author of "Remarkable Creatures" and "The Last Runaway "Translated into thirty-nine languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film, starring Scarlett Johanson and Colin FirthTracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly-imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is tran...
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)

By: Christie, Agatha

Price: $13.99

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: January 2011

Seller ID: 313822

ISBN: 0062073494

Condition: New

Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer.Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.
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Executive Orders

By: Clancy

Price: $6.50

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: January 0001

Seller ID: 21498

ISBN: 0399142185

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The President is dead--and the weight, literally, of the world falls on Jack Ryan's shoulders, in Tom Clancy's newest and most extraordinary novel. "I don't know what to do. Where's the manual, the training course, for this job? Whom do I ask? Where do I go? "Debt of Honor""ended with Tom Clancy's most shocking conclusion ever; a joint session of Congress destroyed, the President dead, most of the Cabinet and the Congress dead, the Supreme Court and the Joint Chiefs likewise. Dazed and confused, the man who only minutes before had been confirmed as the new Vice-President of the United ...
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As Time Goes By: A Novel

By: Clark, Mary Higgins

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Pocket Books: April 2017

Seller ID: 334521

ISBN: 1501131095

Condition: Used - Very Good

Before I Say Good-Bye

By: Clark, Mary Higgins

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: April 2000

Seller ID: 344290

ISBN: 0684835983

Condition: Used - Very Good

Mary Higgins Clark, America's "Queen of Suspense," delves into the mystery of psychic powers and communication with the dead in her gripping new thriller," Before I Say Good-Bye." When Adam Cauliff's new cabin cruiser, "Cornelia II," blows up in New York harbor with him and several close business associates aboard, his wife, Nell MacDermott, is not only distraught at the loss but wracked with guilt because she and Adam had just had a serious quarrel and she had told him not to come home. The quarrel was precipitated by Nell's decision to try to win the congressional seat long held by ...
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The Alchemist

By: Coelho, Paulo

Price: $5.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: May 2006

Seller ID: 330749

ISBN: 0061122416

Condition: Used - Very Good

"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in Eng...
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The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom

By: Coelho, Paulo

Price: $6.50

Publisher: HarperOne: May 1995

Seller ID: 332645

ISBN: 006251279X

Condition: Used - Very Good

Here Paulo Coelho details his journey across Spain along the legendaryroad of San Tiago, which pilgrims have travelled since Middle Ages. On this contemporary quest, he encounters a Chaucerian variety of mysterious guides and devilish opponents and learns to understand the nature of truth through the simplicity of life. "The Pilgrimage" holds an important place in Paulo Coelho's literary canon. His first book, it not only paved the way for his phenomenal novel "The Alchemist," but it also fully expresses his humanist philosophy and the depth of his unique search for meaning.""
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Warrior of the Light: A Manual

By: Coelho, Paulo

Price: $7.50

Publisher: HarperOne: March 2004

Seller ID: 334640

ISBN: 0060527986

Condition: Used - Very Good

Warrior of the Light: A Manual is an inspirational companion to The Alchemist, an international bestseller that has beguiled millions of readers around the world. Every short passage invites us to live out our dreams, to embrace the uncertainty of life, and to rise to our own unique destiny. In his inimitable style, Paulo Coelho helps bring out the Warrior of the Light within each of us. He also shows readers how to embark upon the way of the Warrior: the one who appreciates the miracle of being alive, the one who accepts failure, and the one whose quest leads him to become the person he wa...
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Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption

By: Coelho, Paulo

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Harper Perennial: June 2006

Seller ID: 334866

ISBN: 0061124265

Condition: Used - Very Good

Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything -- youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. But something is missing in her life. So, one cold November morning, she takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up. But she does -- at a mental hospital where she is told that she has only days to live.Inspired by events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Bold and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young w...
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The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream

By: Coelho, Paulo

Price: $6.50

Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco: May 1995

Seller ID: 340063

ISBN: 0062502182

Condition: Used - Very Good

Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world, and this tenth anniversary edition, with a new introduction from the author, will only increase that following. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasur...
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Category: General Fiction