Category: Fiction

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for ...
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The Handmaid's Tale

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Anchor: April 1998

Seller ID: 346312

ISBN: 038549081X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she ...
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel

By: Backman, Fredrik

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Atria Books: May 2016

Seller ID: 346296

ISBN: 1501115073

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Fahrenheit 451

By: Bradbury, Ray

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Ballantine Books: February 1995

Seller ID: 350044

ISBN: 0345342968

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published nearly 50 years ago. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning ... along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames... never ...
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The Da Vinci Code

By: Brown, Dan

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Anchor: March 2006

Seller ID: 348307

ISBN: 1400079179

Condition: Used - Very Good

An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.An astonishing truth concealed for centuries . . . unveiled at last. As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, The Da Vinci Code is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown's novel is a thrilling masterpiece--from its opening pages to its stunning conclusion.
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The Da Vinci Code

By: Brown, Dan

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Anchor: March 2006

Seller ID: 348574

ISBN: 1400079179

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Oracle: The Jubilean Mysteries Unveiled

By: Cahn, Jonathan

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Frontline: September 2019

Seller ID: 349844

ISBN: 1629996297

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Stranger

By: Camus, Albert

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Vintage: March 1989

Seller ID: 349720

ISBN: 0679720200

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.
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Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)

By: Card, Orson Scott

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Tor Science Fiction: July 1994

Seller ID: 350625

ISBN: 0812550706

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender's skills make him a leader...
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The House on Mango Street

By: Cisneros, Sandra

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Vintage: April 1991

Seller ID: 349639

ISBN: 0679734775

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes - sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous - it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers.
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Ready Player One: A Novel

By: Cline, Ernest

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Broadway Books: June 2012

Seller ID: 348446

ISBN: 0307887448

Condition: Used - Very Good

In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines--puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll ha...
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The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream

By: Coelho, Paulo

Price: $6.95

Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco: May 1995

Seller ID: 348088

ISBN: 0062502182

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world, and this tenth anniversary edition, with a new introduction from the author, will only increase that following. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasur...
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

By: DÃaz, Junot

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Riverhead Trade: September 2008

Seller ID: 346607

ISBN: 1594483299

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who--from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister--dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fuku--a curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless hum...
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All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

By: Doerr, Anthony

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Scribner: April 2017

Seller ID: 350492

ISBN: 1501173219

Condition: Used - Like New

Rebecca

By: Du Maurier, Daphne

Price: $7.95

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: November 1997

Seller ID: 346272

ISBN: 0380730405

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten—a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house's current occupants. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her ...
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My Sister's Grave (Tracy Crosswhite)

By: Dugoni, Robert

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer: November 2014

Seller ID: 350021

ISBN: 1477825576

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Peace Like a River

By: Enger, Leif

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press: September 2002

Seller ID: 347043

ISBN: 0802139256

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Young Reuben Land has little doubt that miracles happen all around us, suspecting that his own father is touched by God. When his older brother flees a controversial murder charge, Reuben, along with his older sister and father, set off on a journey that will take them to the Badlands and through a landscape more extraordinary than they could have anticipated. Enger's novel is at once a heroic quest and a haunting meditation on the possibility of magic in the everyday world.
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Heartburn

By: Ephron, Nora

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Vintage: May 1996

Seller ID: 339288

ISBN: 0679767959

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of "Sleepless in Seattle" reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter.Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman. The fact that the other woman has "a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her leg...
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Category: Fiction