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    1984 (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    list: $18.00 - our price: $12.24
    by Everyman's Library
    Hardcover (03 November, 1992)
    (1030 reviews) 4.58 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: This is where we're at folks! Lies are Truth!: This 1949 classic has lost none of its punch. With his descriptive depiction of the future,
    A Bit on the Side: Stories
    list: $24.95 - our price: $15.72
    by Viking Books
    Hardcover (23 September, 2004)

    A Complicated Kindness
    list: $23.00 - our price: $15.64
    by Counterpoint Press
    Hardcover (05 October, 2004)
    A Fistful of Fig Newtons
    list: $14.00 - our price: $11.20
    by Broadway
    Paperback (12 October, 2004)
    (3 reviews) 4.67 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Everybody likes Fig Newtons: 12 hilarious stories about common catastrophes, humiliating experiences, picking on toddlers and tailgating on the Jersey Turnpike.

    A Gangster's Girl
    list: $14.95 - our price: $12.71
    by Kensington Pub Corp
    Paperback (01 February, 2004)
    (13 reviews) 3.85 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: The jury is still out on this one . . .: It wasn't that bad, but it wasn't good either. A Gangster's Girl is about Ceazia, a high maintenance female that must find a hustle to maintain her lifestyle (of the rich and shameless).
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    list: $13.00 - our price: $9.75
    by Perennial
    Paperback (01 September, 1998)
    (421 reviews) 4.71 out of 5 stars
    Editorial Review: Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroitobserver of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother,

    About Love and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
    list: $8.95 - our price: $8.06
    by Oxford University Press
    Paperback (01 June, 2004)
    Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology Of Ghostly Tales
    list: $25.00 - our price: $16.50
    by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
    Hardcover (30 August, 2004)

    Autumn Bridge
    list: $25.00 - our price: $16.50
    by Delacorte Press
    Hardcover (03 August, 2004)
    Bad Boys in Black Tie
    list: $14.00 - our price: $10.50
    by BRAVA
    Paperback (01 April, 2004)
    (8 reviews) 4.62 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Bad Boys Indeed!: Good With His Hands by fav Lori Foster was very enjoyable with believable characters who were fun and easy to like.

    Bad Dirt : Wyoming Stories 2
    list: $25.00 - our price: $16.50
    by Scribner
    Hardcover (30 November, 2004)
    Bedtime Stories for Women
    list: $13.95 - our price: $10.46
    by Llumina Press
    Paperback (01 November, 2003)
    (4 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A perfectly sumptuous re-write of the old classics!: What a wonderful book! I loved this grown up version of the fairy tales. The stories,

    Best New American Voices 2005 (Best New American Voices)
    list: $14.00 - our price: $10.50
    by Harvest Books
    Paperback (04 October, 2004)
    Best Short Stories/Les Meilleurs Contes: A Dual-Language Book (Dual-Language Book
    list: $10.95 - our price: $8.21
    by Dover Publications
    Paperback (01 May, 1996)
    (4 reviews) 4.75 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Proper.: As a language teacher and researcher, I've come to the conclusion that the single best way to learn a foreign language's vocabulary is through these sorts of dual-language texts.

    Better Than I Know Myself
    list: $24.95 - our price: $16.47
    by St. Martin's Press
    Hardcover (01 June, 2004)
    (9 reviews) 4.78 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Outstanding!: Better than I Know MyselfVirginia DeBerry & Donna Grant5 starsA Deeply moving story about the bond of friendship,
    Big Bad Love (Vintage Contemporaries)
    list: $13.00 - our price: $10.40
    by Vintage
    Paperback (01 October, 1991)
    (12 reviews) 4.58 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: I have been blown out of the water: Having just finished "Dirty Work", went right into "Big Bad Love". Never heard of Larry Brown until reading a haunting story,

    Big Sur
    list: $14.00 - our price: $10.50
    by Penguin Books
    Paperback (01 June, 1992)
    (42 reviews) 4.52 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Essential Kerouac: Though not my absolute favorite Kerouac novel, I can honestly say once again that I loved every bit of it(if you want some of my overall favorite Kerouac work,
    Bradbury Stories : 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
    list: $29.95 - our price: $18.87
    by William Morrow
    Hardcover (05 August, 2003)
    (3 reviews) 4.33 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Wistful, Melancholic, Whimsical, Articulate: This is a great collection of Ray Bradbury's short stories, with 100 stories totaling 888 pages (gives you an idea of just how short they are).

    Breakfast at Tiffany's (First Vintage International)
    list: $12.00 - our price: $9.00
    by Vintage
    Paperback (28 September, 1993)
    (62 reviews) 4.52 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Great writer misses the mark: Breakfast at Tiffany's relates the story of Holly Golightly. If the name Golightly sounds somewhat contrived to your ear as it does to mine then you might not be shocked to learn that the character seems just as contrived and unrealistic.
    Breaking into Japanese Literature
    list: $19.95 - our price: $13.57
    by Kodansha International (JPN)
    Paperback (01 May, 2003)
    (3 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Brilliant! Best thing I've bought for Japanese learning!: This is absolutely brilliant. The stories are interesting and captivating,

    Caramelo
    list: $13.95 - our price: $10.46
    by Vintage
    Paperback (09 September, 2003)
    (54 reviews) 3.91 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Good Read: I have to admit when I first started reading this book I thought the dialogue and narrating was, as another reviewer described,
    Case Histories : A Novel
    list: $23.95 - our price: $16.76
    by Little, Brown
    Hardcover (09 November, 2004)

    Christmas in My Heart: A Treasury of Timeless Christmas Stories (Christmas in My Heart,
    list: $13.99 - our price: $10.49
    by Tyndale House Publishers
    Hardcover (01 August, 2004)
    Christmas in the South : Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers
    list: $15.95 - our price: $10.85
    by Algonquin Books
    Hardcover (01 October, 2004)

    Close Range : Wyoming Stories
    list: $14.00 - our price: $10.50
    by Scribner
    Paperback (10 February, 2000)
    (77 reviews) 3.77 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Stories Destined to Stand the Test of Time: Annie Proulx's "Close Range: Wyoming Stories" is so rich in language and characters,
    Collected Fictions
    list: $18.00 - our price: $12.24
    by Penguin Books
    Paperback (01 September, 1999)
    (49 reviews) 4.39 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: This is the best Englihs translation out there. Period.: Jorge Luis Borges is without a doubt one of the world's best writers of short fiction.

    Collected Stories
    list: $13.50 - our price: $10.13
    by Perennial
    Paperback (01 October, 1999)
    (8 reviews) 4.75 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Stories by a Master: This collection of twenty six stories by Nobel Laureate Garcia Marquez was first published as a whole in 1984,
    Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain (Bantam Classic)
    list: $6.95 - our price: $6.95
    by Bantam Classics
    Paperback (01 March, 1984)
    (8 reviews) 3.75 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: 5 stars for the work and 3 stars for the edition.: Ok, now I don't think I need to go on about Mark Twain's genius and how it is essential reading for anyone who fancies themselves a fan of classic American literature,

    Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    list: $22.95 - our price: $15.61
    by Doubleday
    Hardcover (15 August, 1984)
    (40 reviews) 4.95 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: The Best..: I've been a huge Edgar Allan Poe fan for a long time and believe he's one of the greatest authors ever. While not having this exact edition,
    Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Stories, Plays, Poems and Essays
    list: $25.00 - our price: $15.75
    by Perennial
    Paperback (01 September, 1989)
    (11 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: GET TO KNOW THE MAN: Oscar Wilde wrote some of the most brilliantly crafted, witty plays of all time. Get this book and read everything in it!

    Cravings
    list: $7.99 - our price: $7.19
    by Jove Books
    Mass Market Paperback (29 June, 2004)
    (23 reviews) 4.09 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Cravings: I read the book in one sitting--as my husband would say I inhaled it. All four of the authors are some of my favorite.I
    DAUGHTER OF TIME
    list: $12.00 - our price: $9.00
    by Touchstone
    Paperback (29 November, 1995)
    (96 reviews) 4.16 out of 5 stars
    Editorial Review: Josephine Tey is often referred to as the mystery writer for people who don't like mysteries. Her skills at character development and mood setting, and her tendency to focus on themes not usually touched upon by mystery writers,

    Dead Certain
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    by Ballantine Books
    Paperback (29 June, 2004)
    (3 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Predictable police procedural...: Did I read the same book as the other readers here?This is a very predicatable police procedural with a same-old,
    Delirio
    list: $19.95 - our price: $13.96
    by Alfaguara Ediciones, S.A. (Spain)
    Paperback (April, 2004)
    (4 reviews) 4.75 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Orfeo colombiano: Un premio jamás hace a un libro, pero un libro sin duda hace a un premio; escogiendo narrativa tan excelente como "Delirio" la última novela de la colombiana Laura Restrepo,

    Delta of Venus
    list: $14.00 - our price: $10.50
    by Harvest Books
    Paperback (02 February, 2004)
    (56 reviews) 4.36 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Sad but Lovely: Although it is true that Ms. Nin's gift for writing lush, expressive, sensual words makes this book successful as erotica,
    Dirty Sally
    list: $23.95 - our price: $16.29
    by Viking Books
    Hardcover (22 July, 2004)

    Disney's Princess Storybook Collection : Love and Friendship Stories (Disney Storybook
    list: $15.99 - our price: $10.87
    by Disney Press
    Hardcover (15 September, 1999)
    (6 reviews) 3.5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: GREAT GIFT BOOK - girls love this stuff!: This is a perfect gift book for that five or six year girl on your list, as long as you don't mind that she grows up thinking that the girl with the daintiest feet wins the prince's love (Cinderella) and that a kiss from a prince has magical life-restoring powers (Sleeping Beauty -- or is it Snow White?)
    Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
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    by Riverhead Books
    Paperback (03 February, 2004)
    (41 reviews) 4.15 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A new voice in LITERATURE!: I had previously read a few of ZZ Packer's stories in lit magazines such as ZOETROPE and The New Yorker and I have been anxiously awaiting this collection.

    Drinking, Smoking, and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times
    list: $13.95 - our price: $10.46
    by Chronicle Books
    Paperback (01 September, 1994)
    (6 reviews) 4.67 out of 5 stars
    Editorial Review: Here's to the three greatest pleasures in life: a cigarette before and a martini after. Drinking, Smoking & Screwing celebrates these less-than-holy pursuits and unlocks the sweet mystery of sin with a sordid selection of essays,
    Drive-By Comedy
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    by Highbridge Audio
    Audio CD (09 October, 2003)
    (2 reviews) 1 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: All except one!: The only funny track is the first one by Steven Colbert, the guy from The Daily Show. His sarcasm and satire is gut busting!

    Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection
    list: $29.95 - our price: $18.87
    by HarperAudio
    Audio CD (01 October, 2000)
    (8 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Comment for the "reader from San Francisco": Lighten up dude! It's Edgar Allen Poe not Andrew Dice Clay! What did you expect?
    El Codigo Da Vinci / The Da Vinci Code
    list: $22.95 - our price: $13.77
    by Ediciones Urano
    Paperback (30 November, 2003)
    (16 reviews) 4.19 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: CONTROVERTIDO, PERO MUY BUENO: UNA MUY BUENA NOVELA CON UN TEMA MUY CONTROVERTIDO. EN ESTA NOVELA SE HABLA TAL VEZ DE LA MENTIRA MÁS AÑEJA Y MÁS GRANDE EN LA HISTORIA DE LA HUMANIDAD Y DAN BROWN LO MANEJA DE UNA MANERA ÁGIL ,

    El Paraíso en la otra esquina
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    by Alfaguara Ediciones, S.A. (Spain)
    Paperback (24 March, 2003)
    (5 reviews) 3.8 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A Tale of Two Impossible Paradises: Where Vargas Llosa simply shines, again, is in the very telling of these lives, his writing continues to mature becoming so much its own and,
    Eleven Short Stories/Undici Novelle: A Dual-Language Book (Dual-Language Book)
    list: $11.95 - our price: $8.96
    by Dover Publications
    Paperback (01 June, 1994)
    (1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A great tool: This book is a great version of these classic tales. Being a dual-language text makes it an excellent aid to Italian language study.

    Empress Orchid : A Novel
    list: $24.00 - our price: $16.32
    by Houghton Mifflin
    Hardcover (03 February, 2004)
    (34 reviews) 4.09 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Simply wonderful!: This book is filled with drama, intrique, loyalty, corruption, forbidden love and mystery. The Forbidden City is a totally different world for the book's heroine,
    Euclid in the Rainforest : Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math
    list: $24.95 - our price: $17.46
    by Pi Press
    Hardcover (04 October, 2004)

    FATE IS THE HUNTER
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    by Simon & Schuster
    Paperback (02 July, 1986)
    (69 reviews) 4.96 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: The best aviation book ever written: The first book I ever read that puts you in the cockpit, sweating to cross the Blue ridge Mountains,
    Ficciones (English Translation)
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    by Grove Press
    Paperback (01 June, 1969)
    (62 reviews) 4.92 out of 5 stars
    Editorial Review: Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one'shead removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild discomfort;

    Five Minute Mysteries: 37 Challenging Cases of Murder and Mayhem for You to Solv
    list: $8.95
    by Running Press Book Publishers
    Paperback (01 March, 1989)
    (4 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A non-traditional approach to logic puzzles.: This book contains thirty-seven puzzles aimed at testing your logic, perception and knowledge,
    Five-Minute Erotica (Five-Minute)
    list: $9.95 - our price: $8.96
    by Running Press Book Publishers
    Paperback (02 September, 2003)
    (2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Five Minute Erotica: This is a wonderful book. I like books about sex but I dont't like to read long novels. That's why I like this book.

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