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Adieux: A Farewell to Sartreby Jean Paul Sartre, Simone De BeauvoirISBN 0394530357 (0-394-53035-7)
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Ake : The Years of Childhoodby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0394528077 (0-394-52807-7)
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Amelia Earhart: The Final Storyby Jeffrey L. Ethell, Vincent V. LoomisISBN 0394531914 (0-394-53191-4)
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Architecture, Men, Women, and Money in America, 1600-1860by Roger G. KennedyISBN 0394535790 (0-394-53579-0)
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The Artist and the Quiltby Charlotte RobinsonISBN 0394532201 (0-394-53220-1)
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The Assaultby Harry MulischISBN 0394542452 (0-394-54245-2)
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Berlin Gameby Len DeightonISBN 0394534077 (0-394-53407-7)
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Billy Bathgateby E. L. DoctorowISBN 0394525299 (0-394-52529-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Bathgate'Book summary:In the Bronx of the 1930s, 15-year-old Billy Bathgate hooks up with a legendary mobster, Dutch Schultz. Schultz becomes an unlikely surrogate parent to the boy, introducing him to the ways of the world and training Billy to follow in his footsteps. After Billy falls for Schulz's latest girlfriend, he begins to question the actions of the mob he was so eager to join. As he seeks to protect the young woman, he gains strength in following his own heart and makes a courageous passage from boyhood to adulthood. E.L Doctorow won the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for this novel. [via]
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The Book of Lightsby Chaim PotokISBN 0394520319 (0-394-52031-9)
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Readerby Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman, Ann J. LaneISBN 0394510852 (0-394-51085-2)
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Compassby Janet ColemanISBN 0394525450 (0-394-52545-0)
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Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Ageby Bjorn Kurten, Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0394512677 (0-394-51267-7)
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Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friendby Janet Flanner, Natalia Danesi MurrayISBN 0394529545 (0-394-52954-5)
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Debutante: The Story of Brenda Frazierby Gioia DilibertoISBN 0394535162 (0-394-53516-2)
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Diaries of Mario M. Cuomo: The Campaign for Governorby Mario CuomoISBN 0394536959 (0-394-53695-9)
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The Divine Sarah : A Life of Sarah Bernhardtby Arthur Gold, Robert FizdaleISBN 0394528794 (0-394-52879-4)
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Emma Goldman: An Intimate Lifeby Alice WexlerISBN 0394529758 (0-394-52975-8)
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Entrepreneurs of the Old Westby David DaryISBN 0394524055 (0-394-52405-5)
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F. D. R.: The New Deal Years, 1933-1937by Kenneth S. DavisISBN 0394527534 (0-394-52753-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'F. D. R.: The New Deal Years, 1933-1937'Book summary:FDR: The War President opens as Roosevelt has been re-elected to a third term and the United States is drifting toward a war that has already engulfed Europe. Roosevelt, as commander in chief, statesman, and politician, must navigate a delicate balance between helping those in Europe--while remaining mindful of the forces of isolation both in the Congress and the country--and protecting the gains of the New Deal, upon which he has spent so much of his prestige and power.
Kenneth S. Davis draws vivid depictions of the lives, characters, and temperaments of the military and political personalities so paramount to the history of the time: Churchill, Stalin, de Gaulle, and Hitler; Generals Marshall, Eisenhower, and MacArthur; Admiral Darlan, Chiang Kai-shek, Charles Lindbergh, William Allen White, Joseph Kennedy, Averell Harriman, Harry Tru-man, Robert Murphy, Sidney Hillman, William Knud-sen, Cordell Hull, Henry Morgenthau, Henry Stimson, A. Philip Randolph, Wendell Willkie, and Henry Wallace.
The portrait of Henry Hopkins, who interacted with many of these personalities on behalf of Roosevelt, is woven into this history as the complex, interconnected relationship it was. Hopkins burnished the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt and eased the way for their interactions with Stalin.
Another set of characters central to Roosevelt's life and finely drawn by the author includes Eleanor Roo-sevelt, Sara Roosevelt, Missy LeHand, Grace Tully, Princess Martha of Norway, and Daisy Suckley.
Integral to this history as well are the Argentina Conference, the Atlantic Charter and the beginnings of the United Nations, the Moscow Conference, lend-lease, the story of the building of the atomic bomb, Hitler's Final Solution and how Roosevelt and the State Department reacted to it, Pearl Harbor and war with Japan, the planning of Torch, and the murder of Admiral Darlan. All these stories intersect with the economic and social problems facing Roosevelt at home as the United States mobilizes for war.
The lessons and concerns of 1940-1943 as dissected in this book are still relevant to the problems and concerns of our own time. A recurrent theme is technology: Do people control technology, or does technology control people?
Kenneth Davis had the rare gift of writing history that reads with the immediacy of a novel; and though the outcome of this history is well known, the events and people depicted here keep the reader focused on an enthralling suspense story. [via]More editions of F. D. R.: The New Deal Years, 1933-1937:
The Fbi-KGB Warby Tom Shachtman, Robert J. LamphereISBN 0394541510 (0-394-54151-0)
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Forgotten Craftsby John SeymourISBN 0394539567 (0-394-53956-7)
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From a Limestone Ledge: Some Essays and Other Ruminations About Country Life in Texasby John GravesISBN 0394512383 (0-394-51238-3)
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Genderby Ivan IllichISBN 0394527321 (0-394-52732-1)
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The Generals: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Leeby Nancy S. Anderson, Dwight G. AndersonISBN 0394521064 (0-394-52106-4)
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The Glenn Gould Readerby Glenn Gould, Tim PageISBN 0394540670 (0-394-54067-0)
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Going to Extremesby Joe McGinnissISBN 0394511727 (0-394-51172-7)
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The Great Vintage Wine Bookby Michael Broadbent, Broadbent, J. M. (John Michael), 1927ISBN 0394510992 (0-394-51099-2)
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Heidiby Johanna Spyri, Ruth SandersonISBN 039453820X (0-394-53820-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heidi'Book summary:Johanna Spyri's classic story of a young orphan sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the Swiss Alps is retold in it's entirety in this beautifully bound hardcover edition. Heidi has charmed and intrigued readers since it's original publication in 1880. Much more than a children's story, the narrative is also a lesson on the precarious nature of freedom, a luxury too often taken for granted. Heidi almost loses her liberty as she is ripped away from the tranquility of the mountains to tend to a sick cousin in the city. Happily, all's well that ends well, and the reader is left with only warm, fuzzy thoughts. Spryi's story will never grow wearisome--and this is a very appealing edition. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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A History of American Wars: From Colonial Times to World War Iby T. Harry WilliamsISBN 0394511670 (0-394-51167-0)
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In Hitler's Germany: Everyday Life in the Third Reichby Bernt Engelmann, Krishna WinstonISBN 0394524497 (0-394-52449-7)
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The Invisible Bar: The Woman Lawyer in America, 1638 to the Presentby Karen Berger MorelloISBN 0394529642 (0-394-52964-2)
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Iran: The Untold Story--An Insider's Account of America's Iranian Adventure and Its Consequences for the Future. Orig Pub in Great Britain Under Titleby Muhammad Hasanayn HaykalISBN 0394522753 (0-394-52275-3)
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Irish Folktalesby Henry H. GlassieISBN 0394532244 (0-394-53224-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Irish Folktales'Book summary:Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the ancient Irish kings through the Celtic Renaissance of Yeats to our own time, they are set in cities, villages, fields and forestsfrom the wild Gaelic western coast to the modern streets of Dublin and Belfast. [via]
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King Hereafterby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0394523784 (0-394-52378-4)
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The Language of Clothesby Alison LurieISBN 0394513029 (0-394-51302-9)
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Life in Russiaby Michael BinyonISBN 0394533399 (0-394-53339-9)
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Light-Horse Harry Lee: The Legacy of the American Revolutionby Charles RoysterISBN 0394513371 (0-394-51337-1)
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Lines to Mountain Gods : Nazca and the Mysteries of Peruby Evan HadinghamISBN 0394542355 (0-394-54235-5)
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The Long Surrenderby Burke DavisISBN 0394520831 (0-394-52083-1)
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The Longest War: Israel in Lebanonby Jacobo TimermanISBN 0394530225 (0-394-53022-5)
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Lulu in Hollywoodby Louise BrooksISBN 0394520718 (0-394-52071-8)
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Making Scenes: A Personal History of the Turbulent Years at Yale, 1966-1979by Robert Sanford BrusteinISBN 0394510941 (0-394-51094-1)
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Means of Ascentby Robert A. CaroISBN 0394528352 (0-394-52835-2)
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Mexico Setby Len Deighton, Robert GottliebISBN 0394535251 (0-394-53525-1)
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The Minds of Billy Milliganby Daniel KeyesISBN 0394519434 (0-394-51943-4)
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Modern Soviet Societyby Basile H. KerblayISBN 0394513169 (0-394-51316-9)
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Moscow Women: Thirteen Interviewsby Karin Liden, Carola HanssonISBN 0394523326 (0-394-52332-6)
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Most Likely to Succeed: Six Women from Harvard and What Became of Themby Fran R. SchumerISBN 0394543246 (0-394-54324-6)
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National Defenseby James M. FallowsISBN 0394518241 (0-394-51824-1)
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New England Reflections: 1882-1907, Photographsby Alvah Howes, George Howes, Walter Howes, Alan B. Newman, Ashfield Historical SocietyISBN 0394513754 (0-394-51375-4)
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The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adamsby Pauline MaierISBN 0394510968 (0-394-51096-8)
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Out in the Noonday Sun: Edwardians in the Tropicsby Valerie PakenhamISBN 0394522567 (0-394-52256-7)
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Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistoryby Lucy R. LippardISBN 0394518128 (0-394-51812-8)
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Photographing Montana, 1894-1928 : The Life and Work of Evelyn Cameronby Donna M. LuceyISBN 0394540360 (0-394-54036-0)
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The Pied Piper: Allard K. Lowenstein and the Liberal Dreamby Richard CummingsISBN 039453848X (0-394-53848-X)
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Portrait of the Enemyby David Chanoff, Van Toai DoanISBN 0394536711 (0-394-53671-1)
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Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Professionby Janet MalcolmISBN 0394520386 (0-394-52038-6)
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The Public Good: Philanthropy and Welfare in the Civil War Eraby Robert Hamlett BremnerISBN 0394511239 (0-394-51123-9)
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Queen Victoria : The Woman, the Monarchy, and the Peopleby Dorothy ThompsonISBN 0394537092 (0-394-53709-2)
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Reckless Disregardby Renata AdlerISBN 0394527518 (0-394-52751-8)
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Red Star in Orbitby James E. ObergISBN 0394514297 (0-394-51429-7)
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Reinhold Niebuhr : A Biographyby Richard Wightman FoxISBN 0394516591 (0-394-51659-1)
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Return to a Chinese Villageby Jan MyrdalISBN 0394537742 (0-394-53774-2)
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Reversal of Fortune: Inside the Von Bulow Caseby Alan M. DershowitzISBN 0394539036 (0-394-53903-6)
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The Riddle of the Dinosaurby John Noble Wilford, Doug HendersonISBN 0394527631 (0-394-52763-1)
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Right in Her Soul: The Life of Anna Louise Strongby Helene Keyssar, Strong, Tracey & Keyssar, HeleneISBN 0394516494 (0-394-51649-4)
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The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930'sby Elizabeth KendallISBN 0394511875 (0-394-51187-5)
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Russian Journalby Andrea LeeISBN 0394518918 (0-394-51891-8)
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At age twenty-five, Andrea Lee joined her husband, a Harvard doctoral candidate in Russian history, for his eight months study at Moscow State University and an additional two months in Leningrad. Published to enormous critical acclaim in 1981, Russian Journal is the award-winning authors penetrating, vivid account of her everyday life as an expatriate in Soviet culture, chronicling her fascinating exchanges with journalists, diplomats, and her Soviet contemporaries. The winner of the Jean Stein Award from the National Academy of Arts and Lettersand the book that launched Lees career as a writerRussian Journal is a beautiful and clear-eyed travel-writing classic.
[Lee] takes us wherever she is, conveying a feeling of place and atmosphere that is the mark of real talent.
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A book of very great charm . . . [Lee] records what she saw and heard with unassuming delicacy and exactness.
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Sagebrush Country: Land and the American Westby Philip L. FradkinISBN 0394529359 (0-394-52935-9)
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A Scattered People: An American Family Moves Westby Gerald W. McFarlandISBN 0394538412 (0-394-53841-2)
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Science on Trial: The Case for Evolutionby Douglas J. FutuymaISBN 0394523717 (0-394-52371-7)
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The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospelsby Marvin MeyerISBN 0394529596 (0-394-52959-6)
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In this volume, Marvin W. Meyer has produced a new English translation for general readers of four of the most important and revealing of these early Christian texts -- the Secret Book of James, the Gospel of Thomas, the Book of Thomas, and the Secret Book of John. [via]More editions of The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels:
The Secret That Explodedby Howard MorlandISBN 0394512979 (0-394-51297-9)
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Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fiftiesby Peter BiskindISBN 0394527291 (0-394-52729-1)
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The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilkeby Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell, Robert HassISBN 0394524349 (0-394-52434-9)
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The Sense of Sight: Writingsby John BergerISBN 0394542878 (0-394-54287-8)
Hardcover, Pantheon
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The Shock of the Newby Robert HughesISBN 0394513789 (0-394-51378-9)
Hardcover, Knopf
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The Soviet Paradox : External Expansion and Internal Declineby Seweryn BialerISBN 0394540956 (0-394-54095-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuriesby Ruth BrandonISBN 0394527402 (0-394-52740-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Sporty Gameby John NewhouseISBN 0394514475 (0-394-51447-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Spy of the Old Schoolby Julian RathboneISBN 0394517962 (0-394-51796-2)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Stallion Gateby Martin Cruz SmithISBN 0394530063 (0-394-53006-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Survival of Charles Darwin: A Biography of a Man and an Ideaby Ronald W. ClarkISBN 039452134X (0-394-52134-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Tales from the American Frontierby Richard ErdoesISBN 0394516826 (0-394-51682-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Target Is Destroyed: What Really Happened to Flight 007 and What America Knew about Itby Seymour M. HershISBN 0394542614 (0-394-54261-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Third Millenium: A History of the World A. D. 2000-3000by David Langford, Brian M. StablefordISBN 039453980X (0-394-53980-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Tim Page's Namby Tim PageISBN 0394530055 (0-394-53005-5)
Softcover, Knopf
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Tokyo Rising : The City since the Great Earthquakeby Edward G. SeidenstickerISBN 0394543602 (0-394-54360-2)
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Understanding Toscanini : How He Became an American Culture-God and Helped Create a New Audience for Old Musicby Joseph HorowitzISBN 0394529189 (0-394-52918-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Unreliable Memoirsby Clive JamesISBN 0394512634 (0-394-51263-4)
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Visions of Historyby E.P. Thompson, Henry Abelove, MARHO (Organization)ISBN 0394530462 (0-394-53046-2)
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Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-Westby Victoria GlendinningISBN 0394520238 (0-394-52023-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Wall Jumperby Peter SchneiderISBN 0394529286 (0-394-52928-6)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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The War Diaries of Jean-Paul Sartre : November, 1939 - March, 1940by Jean-Paul Sartre, Quintin HoareISBN 0394538137 (0-394-53813-7)
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Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!: China Encounters the Westby Orville SchellISBN 0394513312 (0-394-51331-2)
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The Workshop of Democracy Vol. II : The American Experimentby James M. BurnsISBN 0394512758 (0-394-51275-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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XPDby Len DeightonISBN 0394512588 (0-394-51258-8)
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The Yankees: The Four Fabulous Eras of Baseball's Most Famous Teamby Dave AndersonISBN 0394519027 (0-394-51902-7)
Hardcover, Random House
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I, the Supremeby Augusto Roa BastosISBN 0394535359 (0-394-53535-9)
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