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Mind's I

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Price: $6.95

Publisher: Basic Books: November 1981

Seller ID: 54925

ISBN: 046504624X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Best American Essays 2015 (The Best American Series )

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Price: $3.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: October 2015

Seller ID: 54990

ISBN: 0544569628

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Writing an essay is like catching a wave," posits guest editor Ariel Levy. "To catch a wave, you need skill and nerve, not just moving water." This year's writers are certainly full of nerve, and have crafted a wide range of pieces awash in a diversity of moods, voices, and stances. Leaving an abusive marriage, parting with a younger self, losing your sanity to Fitbit, and even saying goodbye to a beloved pair of pants imbued with meaning are all unified by the daring of their creation. As Levy notes, "Writing around an idea you think is worthwhile--an idea you suspect is an insight--requires...
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The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

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Price: $5.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 1993

Seller ID: 55035

ISBN: 0671683063

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history.

William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in "The Book of Virtues, " an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American h...
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The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories

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Price: $3.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: August 1992

Seller ID: 55059

ISBN: 0192829688

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The scene: a sleeping car on the North-Western express, somewhere between Preston and Carlisle. The weapon: a small-caliber revolver. The victims: two young newlyweds, with little money and no known enemies. The puzzle: everyone in the car has an alibi, and no one was seen to leave. And thus the stage is set for another gripping detective story.
The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories gathers thirty-three engrossing tales of crime, ranging from the birth of the genre to the present day. Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Margery Allingham, P.D. James...
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Ten of the Best

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Price: $6.95

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association: January 1985

Seller ID: 55061

ISBN: 0895772078

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Modern Library)

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Price: $6.95

Publisher: Modern Library: October 1994

Seller ID: 55096

ISBN: 0679601287

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in the anthology are such distinguished spell weavers as Edgar Allen Poe ("The Black Cat"), Wilkie Collins ("A Terribly Strange Bed"), Henry James ("Sir Edmund Orme"), Guy de Maupassant ("Was It a Dream?"), O. Henry ("The Furnished Room"), Rudyard Kipling ("They"), and H.G. Wells ("Pollock and the ...
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The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris (1969-06-23)

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Price: $6.95

Publisher: McGraw-Hill: January 1774

Seller ID: 55101

ISBN: B01NCQBMEX

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly

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Price: $5.25

Publisher: Broadway Books: October 2008

Seller ID: 56968

ISBN: 0767926846

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Rarely has a collection of influential essays, stories, and poems so vividly captured America. Readers can see the nation through the eyes of its finest writers in this remarkable anthology.--Chicago Tribune.
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The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

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Price: $5.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 1993

Seller ID: 56980

ISBN: 0671683063

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling

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Price: $3.95

Publisher: William Morrow: January 2012

Seller ID: 58765

ISBN: 1620903245

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Disney's - 101 Dalmatians

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Price: $1.29

Publisher: Bendon Inc: January 2014

Seller ID: 59520

ISBN: 1631097830

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Bright Air

By: N/A

Price: $2.99

Seller ID: 113448

ISBN: 1741757630

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

By: N/A

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 1993

Seller ID: 105402

ISBN: 0671683063

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

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Price: $1.95

Publisher: Disney Press: November 2007

Seller ID: 105415

ISBN: 142310627X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Benjamin Franklin Gates looks to discover the truth behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in Book of Secrets, the upcoming sequel to Walt Disney Pictures blockbuster National Treasure, to be released on December 21.
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