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What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction Best Price: $18.69 What Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison's writings about her work, her... | The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath Best Price: $3.34 Readers seeking a full experience of John Steinbeck's literary style won't want to miss Harvest... | Letters to a Young Therapist (Art of Mentoring) Best Price: $7.89 If you are a therapist in training or maybe even a seasoned veteran, this book offers... | Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book Best Price: $7.79 One of the worst things a reader can do with a book I did with this one. I seeing the title... | For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand Best Price: $3.34 Ayn Rand presents her philosophy as an alternative to the two philosophical cul-de-sacs, which... |
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Letters to a Young Conservative (The Art of Mentoring) Best Price: $1.25 Dinesh D'Souza is an Indian immigrant who served as an author of the Dartmouth Review during his... | | | | |