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Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah, a young girl caught up in the raid. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

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Open the Barn Door by Christopher Santoro (Hardcover - Random House Childrens Books)
 

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Open the Barn Door by Christopher Santoro (Hardcover - Random House Childrens Books)
Illustrated in full color. Open the barn door and take a tour around the barnyard to find out just who's making all those wonderful animal sounds.

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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison (Paperback - Reprint)
Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. “Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”

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Brain Quest Bathtime by Brain Quest (PACKAGE - Workman Pub Co)
 

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Brain Quest Bathtime by Brain Quest (PACKAGE - Workman Pub Co)
BRAIN QUEST BATHTIME offers 10 original poems and stories and over 100 questions and answers on the very subjects kids want to talk about while splashing around in the tub with Mom or Dad keeping them company. Is there such a thing as a flying fish? How many legs does an octopus have? Is sea water salty or sweet? There is silly stuff--say "toy boat" five times fast; "Little Scientist"--what would happen to an ice cube if it fell into your warm tub?; and questions about the human body and basic health. The deck is printed on waterproof paper and comes packaged with a yellow terrycloth duck that doubles as a bath mitt (and often appears in the illustrations).

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Bicycles by Nikki Giovanni (Hardcover - William Morrow & Co)
 

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Bicycles by Nikki Giovanni (Hardcover - William Morrow & Co)
A new collection by the award-winning writer of Love Poems evaluates poignant and tragic experiences from the past decade, from the losses of a mother and sister to the shooting at Virginia Tech, where she works as a professor of English. 50,000 first printing.

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Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Paperback - Reprint)
Having spent six decades creating a series of alternate lives designed to bring her fame and fortune while hiding the truth about her tragic past, reclusive and enigmatic Vida Winter finds herself torn by young Margaret Lea's simple request for the truth about her own birth. A first novel. Reprint.

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Bright Lights, Big Ass by Jen Lancaster (Paperback - New Amer Library)
 

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Bright Lights, Big Ass by Jen Lancaster (Paperback - New Amer Library)
A hilarious new memoir by the best-selling author of Bitter Is the New Black chronicles the not-so-wonderful moments of her life in the big city, from reporting rude neighbors to Homeland Security or harboring a crush on her grocery store clerk, to fighting and losing the Battle of the Stairmaster. Original.

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Afrekete by Catherine E. McKinley (Paperback - Anchor Books)
 

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Afrekete by Catherine E. McKinley (Paperback - Anchor Books)
Destined to become a classic in the tradition of Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds and Erotique Noire, this anthology gives collective voice to black lesbian writings. A fresh and engaging journey, Afrekete will both inform and delight.

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The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore (Hardcover - Random House Childrens Books)
 

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The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore (Hardcover - Random House Childrens Books)
Everyone's favorite holidat tale is brought to vivid life again--this time by artist Cheryl Harness. Her lovely, old-fashioned scenes of a Victorian home positively brimming with holiday cheer fill these eye-catching pages, along with old St. Nick as he comes to pay a late-night visit.

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Cliffsnotes Rand's Atlas Shrugged by Andrew Bernstein (Paperback - Cliff Notes)
 

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Cliffsnotes Rand's Atlas Shrugged by Andrew Bernstein (Paperback - Cliff Notes)
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.

CliffsNotes on Atlas Shrugged is your guide to author Ayn Rand's masterpiece, an impassioned defense of the freedom of man's mind. She shows that without the independent mind, our society would collapse into primitive savagery.

Delve into the post-World War II historical context of Atlas Shrugged and the modern implications of its conclusions. Other features that help you study include

  • Character analyses of major players
  • A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
  • Critical essays
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  • A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites

Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure - you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

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Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman (Hardcover - Grand Central Pub)
 

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Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman (Hardcover - Grand Central Pub)
Traces the author's attempt to travel the world with her friend armed only with the collected works of Nietzsche, an astrology book, and their wits; a misadventure that culminated in astonishing culture shock on the streets of communist China.

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Maya Angelou by Marcia Ann Gillespie (Hardcover - Doubleday)
 

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Maya Angelou by Marcia Ann Gillespie (Hardcover - Doubleday)
An illustrated profile of one of America's best-loved writers pays tribute to the life, illustrious theatrical and literary careers, and activism of Maya Angelou, providing a remarkable scrapbook of an extraordinary woman who is renowned as a poet, author, playwright, and humanitarian. 100,000 first printing.

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The Best American Essays of the Century by Joyce Carol Oates (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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The Best American Essays of the Century by Joyce Carol Oates (Paperback - Reprint)
This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and important, essays that move from personal experience to larger significance without severing the connection between speaker and audience.
From Ernest Hemingway covering bullfights in Pamplona to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," these essays fit, in the words of Joyce Carol Oates, "into a kind of mobile mosaic suggest[ing] where we've come from, and who we are, and where we are going." Among those whose work is included are Mark Twain, John Muir, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Tom Wolfe, Susan Sontag, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Joan Didion, Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward Hoagland, and Annie Dillard.

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Thousands of Broadways by Robert Pinsky (Hardcover - Univ of Chicago Pr)
 

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Thousands of Broadways by Robert Pinsky (Hardcover - Univ of Chicago Pr)
Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky's home town of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America's most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of departure for a lively journey through the small towns of the American imagination. Thousands of Broadways explores the dreams and nightmares of such small towns--their welcoming yet suffocating, warm yet prejudicial character during their heyday, from the early nineteenth century through World War II. The citizens of quintessential small towns know one another extensively and even intimately, but fail to recognize the geniuses and criminal minds in their midst. Bringing the works of such figures as Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Alfred Hitchcock, Thornton Wilder, Willa Cather, and Preston Sturges to bear on this paradox, as well as reflections on his own time growing up in a small town, Pinsky explores how such imperfect knowledge shields communities from the anonymity and alienation of modern life. Along the way, he also considers how small towns can be small minded--in some cases viciously judgmental and oppressively provincial. Ultimately, Pinsky examines the uneasy regard that creative talents like him often have toward the small towns that either nurtured or thwarted their artistic impulses. Of living in a small town, Sherwood Anderson once wrote that "the sensation is one never to be forgotten. On all sides are ghosts, not of the dead, but of living people." Passionate, lyrical, and intensely moving, Thousands of Broadways is a rich exploration of this crucial theme in American literature by one of its most distinguished figures.

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Flannery by Brad Gooch (Hardcover - Little Brown & Co)
 

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Flannery by Brad Gooch (Hardcover - Little Brown & Co)
Evaluates the ways in which the mid-twentieth-century novelist reflected American culture and influenced literature, in a portrait that includes coverage of her relationships with such contemporaries as Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, and James Dickey.

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