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The Complete Essays of MontaigneThe Complete Essays of Montaigne
Best Price: $25.00
Michel de Montaigne was and is a very special benchmark in the history of Western civilization....
On LiteratureOn Literature
Best Price: $0.86
There seems to be a hiccup in the Kindle Store's database. This book is a collection of essays...
It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life in Your TwentiesIt's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life in Your Twenties
Best Price: $5.55
I really enjoyed the heart felt and brutally honest stories in this book. Being a women in her...
The Best American EssaysThe Best American Essays
Best Price: $48.00
The college version of The Best American Essays, Fourth Edition, is a collection of essays for...
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life & TimesPolitically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life & Times
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I wil never get sick of reading these things! These are classic stories that have finally been...


OrangesOranges
Best Price: $4.75
Wonderful book like all of Mc Phee's work. However, disappointing in that he did not cover the...
Place Called Maine: 24 Writers on the Maine ExperiencePlace Called Maine: 24 Writers on the Maine Experience
Best Price: $15.40
What is it like to live and write in Maine? Wesley McNair, Maine's premier anthologist, asked...
Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring)Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring)
Best Price: $3.43
Christopher Hitchens is a great writer who I follow with interest, making a point to read him...
Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & BeyondSeek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond
Best Price: $3.34
That's one of the main reasons I really like Denis Johnson. He is an evolution of Jack Kerouac,...
Synthesizing Research: A Guide for Literature Reviews (Applied Social Research Methods)Synthesizing Research: A Guide for Literature Reviews (Applied Social Research Methods)
Best Price: $44.94
Good text. I'm using it for a class where I'm doing an integrated literature review in prep for...


Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton FeldmanGive My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman
Best Price: $10.85
It won't matter if you are only casually familiar with Morton Feldman's work. You will still...
Spurgeon's Sermon Notes: Over 250 Sermons Including Notes, Commentary and IllustrationsSpurgeon's Sermon Notes: Over 250 Sermons Including Notes, Commentary and Illustrations
Best Price: $10.45
Spurgeons notes were spectacular. They were consise and valuable to the soul and spirit. With...
Thatched Roof (Beverley Nichols's Allways Trilogy)Thatched Roof (Beverley Nichols's Allways Trilogy)
Best Price: $13.77
I love this series of books by Beverley Nichols...I enjoy so much his writing style and the fact...
The Best American Essays 2005 (The Best American Series)The Best American Essays 2005 (The Best American Series)
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I read this series every year, and usually love it, but this edition is rather weak, and I'm...
Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life from The Philadelphia InquirerBad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life from The Philadelphia Inquirer
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I'm a lover of all things dog related, but this is just too much. While this was written by...

Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey NowWouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
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"Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now" is a series of short essays by Maya Angelou...
Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
Best Price: $7.98
Many readers will probably be attracted to books like these after reading and enjoying Eco's...
Less Than One: Selected EssaysLess Than One: Selected Essays
Best Price: $8.00
This collection of essays is by one of the great Russian poets of this century. In it he writes...
The Sweet ScienceThe Sweet Science
Best Price: $8.61
Sports Illustrated designated "The Sweet Science" the best book about sports ever...
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey NowWouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
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"Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now" is a series of short essays by Maya Angelou...

Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
Best Price: $7.98
Many readers will probably be attracted to books like these after reading and enjoying Eco's...
Less Than One: Selected EssaysLess Than One: Selected Essays
Best Price: $8.00
This collection of essays is by one of the great Russian poets of this century. In it he writes...
The Sweet ScienceThe Sweet Science
Best Price: $8.61
Sports Illustrated designated "The Sweet Science" the best book about sports ever...
100 Must-Read Classic Novels (Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide S.)100 Must-Read Classic Novels (Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide S.)
Best Price: $5.30
Although I had my own opinions regarding the 100 must-read novels, I was interested in hearing...
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of DarknessWe Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
Best Price: $8.98
The New York Times -bestselling book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive political edge...

Are Women Human?Are Women Human?
Best Price: $3.72
Sayers is one of my heroes. She is able to integrate a Biblical world view with the dilemmas of...
The Berkeley Book of College Essays: Personal Statements for California Universities and Other Select Schools (A Cody's Book)The Berkeley Book of College Essays: Personal Statements for California Universities and Other Select Schools (A Cody's Book)
Best Price: $6.83
This is an extremely engaging book which clearly presents the diverse styles and interests of...
Autobiography of a FaceAutobiography of a Face
Best Price: $4.35
I think this is a great book. No wonder it has been adopted by so many high schools. The way...
Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 14)Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 14)
Best Price: $17.50
in reponse to stevie, i'd say that andre breton has left us infinitely more to 'go on' than the...
The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and ReportageThe Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage
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The blurb on the back of the book calls THE GEORGE ORWELL READER "a feast of reading for...

Strategies for Successful Writing: A Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader and Handbook (7th Edition)Strategies for Successful Writing: A Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader and Handbook (7th Edition)
Best Price: $7.50
I think this item is pretty good. Even tho it is for an English class in college. I think it's...
Mexico: A Traveler's Literary CompanionMexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion
Best Price: $8.57
Been there? Want to go there? Won't go but want to know? Buy this book. Funny, warm, based in...
The Tears of ErosThe Tears of Eros
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I cannot understand why the fuss over this book. The text is disappointing: repetitive,...
Walden and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics)Walden and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics)
Best Price: $2.45
Walden, of course, is a timeless classic. I've read it in its entirety several times, and I keep...
The World's Last Night: And Other EssaysThe World's Last Night: And Other Essays
Best Price: $7.41
"The World's Last Night: And Other Essays contains a number of C.S. Lewis's short essays...

The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th anniversary critical editionThe Man with the Golden Arm: 50th anniversary critical edition
Best Price: $10.65
This is a stunning novel. It's centred around a group of Chicago low lives and addicts, and it...
Southern Ladies & GentlemenSouthern Ladies & Gentlemen
Best Price: $5.18
A very good read - very unflinching in terms of sexuality - quite bawdy in places.
Why Orwell MattersWhy Orwell Matters
Best Price: $6.00
Has Hitchens answered his own question? I am not sure. Maybe he thought the answer is so obvious...
Havanas in Camelot: Personal EssaysHavanas in Camelot: Personal Essays
Best Price: $10.54
i would recommend this volume not just to previous readers of styron... but to anyone interested...
Legally Correct Fairy TalesLegally Correct Fairy Tales
Best Price: $7.39
If you are a fan of fairy tales, or Law, then you will love this book. David Fisher covers a...

Wallflower at the OrgyWallflower at the Orgy
Best Price: $4.89
Nora Ephron recently wrote I Feel Bad About My Neck, and wrote the screenplays for When Harry...
The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings (Modern Library Classics)The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings (Modern Library Classics)
Best Price: $10.69
When we think of Transcendentalism, we first turn to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David...
The Golden AssThe Golden Ass
Best Price: $5.00
I too had to read this as a course requirement in college. Surprisingly, it was not as dry as I...
The Vintage MenckenThe Vintage Mencken
Best Price: $7.66
I have never read anything by Mencken, but it was high time to do it. This is a good beginning....
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming SentencesSister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
Best Price: $2.00
as one of the survivors of diagramming sentences (we're 70 plus) I bought this as a gift for a...

Santaland Diaries & Seasons Greetings: 2 PlaysSantaland Diaries & Seasons Greetings: 2 Plays
Best Price: $5.47
I laughed out loud reading these plays! Seriously, David Sedaris is one warped individual who...
Keeping Heart on Pine Ridge: Family Ties, Warrior Culture, Commodity Foods, Rez Dogs and the SacredKeeping Heart on Pine Ridge: Family Ties, Warrior Culture, Commodity Foods, Rez Dogs and the Sacred
Best Price: $5.41
This is a great book that takes you on a real live journey deep into the daily live of Lakota...
City Lights: Stories About New YorkCity Lights: Stories About New York
Best Price: $14.94
Dan Barry writes about New York as if it was a village. Its size is not as important as the...
The Sewing Room : Uncommon Reflections of Life, Love, and WorkThe Sewing Room : Uncommon Reflections of Life, Love, and Work
Best Price: $8.99
This book is fantastic. In her simple, straightforward and lucid style, Reverend Barbara Crafton...
Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America (A Longman Topics Reader) (Longman Topics Series)Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America (A Longman Topics Reader) (Longman Topics Series)
Best Price: $17.84
I run a small training center for subculture missionaries (Goths, Punks, Sk8ers, and Metalheads...

Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and MortalityBodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
Best Price: $8.00
you will like this book. Lynch's "poetic" prose is purple. If you like Sherwin...
Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in AmericaDream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America
Best Price: $2.00
In the title essay of this extraordinary keepsake of childhood in America, John Edgar Wideman...
The Monsters and the CriticsThe Monsters and the Critics
Best Price: $13.37
What most people do not realize when reading Tolkien is that he shaped his world with a...
How to Be Alone: EssaysHow to Be Alone: Essays
Best Price: $3.75
Franzen's collection of essays is about a variety of different topics, but it is ultimately...
Snobbery: The American VersionSnobbery: The American Version
Best Price: $1.80
I didn't find the information particularly enlightening. I had the feeling that the author was...

The Riverside MiltonThe Riverside Milton
Best Price: $79.50
Somewhere in the illegibly tiny notes to the Riverside Milton are some valuable bibliographic...
    
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