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1	Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies more books like this by Jared Diamond add to wishlist This history examines the influences of geography and environment on the development of civilization and seeks to find large patterns that might explain why, in the modern period, some groups seem to have significantly greater material wealth than others. The author is an evolutionary biologist and his scientific approach to human history draws ... see all copies from $2.18! new only from $8.26! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Poisonwood Bible more books like this by Barbara Kingsolver add to wishlist In 1959, a missionary named Nathan Price transports his wife and four daughters to a remote village in the Belgian Congo to convert the natives. The family is met with hostility from the locals, particularly a vengeful witch doctor. They also face bands of desperate rebels, dangerous wildlife, and the inevitable petty inconveniences a hyper ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.10! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Stranger more books like this by Albert Camus add to wishlist In this stylistically simple, first-person tale 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." Through Meursault, Camus portrays a man who rejects the beliefs and life styles imposed on him by society. The events that lead to his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Invisible Man more books like this by Ralph Waldo Ellison add to wishlist Ellison's classic 1952 novel is about a black man from the South who travels to New York City in the 1930s. He becomes involved with the Communist Party, but is soon disillusioned: the Communists see him not as a person but as a symbol of oppressed humanity, as does the Black Nationalist Group he encounters. This inability of a blind and hostile ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Great Gatsby more books like this by F Scott Fitzgerald add to wishlist When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote THE GREAT GATSBY in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids. Originally based on the idea that the pursuit of happiness involves not only material success but moral and spiritual growth, the dream had by Fitzgerald's time become increasingly focused on money and pleasure--a phenomenon the high ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Night more books like this by Elie Wiesel add to wishlist Wiesel's account of his own experiences in the camps during World War II has become a classic of the genre. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Lord of the Flies more books like this by Sir William Golding (Read by) add to wishlist In this now-classic tale--a terrifying variation on the traditional boys' adventure story--the brutal behavior of a group of English schoolboys left stranded on a deserted island after an atomic war is an allegory for the defects of society. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.40! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Catcher in the Rye more books like this by J D Salinger add to wishlist J. D. Salinger's famous and enduring chronicle of Holden Caulfield's journey from innocence to experience is the quintessential coming-of-age novel--though it's an unusual one, in which the hero tries to cling to the simplicity of childhood, achieving a kind of maturity almost in spite of himself. As the novel begins, Holden runs away from his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Scarlet Letter more books like this by Nathaniel Hawthorne add to wishlist This is part of a series called "Bloom's ReViews", which are college-level study guides prepared under the aegis of Harold Bloom, distinguished Yale professor and author of "The Western Canon". Each guide includes an introductory essay by Bloom as well as extracts from renowned scholars on key topics in the work. Good for independent study and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Lovely Bones more books like this by Alice Sebold add to wishlist This is a luminous and astonishing novel about life and death, forgiveness and vengeance, memory and forgetting. This is a novel which finds light in even the darkest of places. My name was Salmon; like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.63! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Things Fall Apart more books like this by Chinua Achebe add to wishlist Things do indeed fall apart in the mid-20th-century world of West Africa when the British colonize the country, disrupting the ancient ways of life that have provided meaning and structure for the inhabitants of a rural Ibo village. The hero of the story is Okonwo, a revered community leader and the character Achebe frequently uses as a kind of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	1984 more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist George Orwell's celebrated and always timely 1948 vision of a world subsumed in tyranny and war describes the process of events by which Winston Smith, a London clerk at the Ministry of Truth, comes to understand the true nature and aims of the government he works for, and portrays his doomed attempt to create a private life for himself and his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.38! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Grapes of wrath more books like this by John Steinbeck add to wishlist John Steinbeck lived and worked with a group of migrant workers in California, from whom he drew the material for his great Dust Bowl saga of a wandering Okie family, the Joads. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel awakened the American reading public to the plight of migrant workers and made Steinbeck famous worldwide. One of the most popular novels ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.37! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Brave New World more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist A satirical novel depicting a scientific and industrialized utopia in which Ford and Freud are worshipped, eugenics policies have eliminated class conflicts (while strengthening the division of the classes), and personal unhappiness is assuaged through drugs and pornography. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Old Man and the Sea more books like this by Ernest Hemingway add to wishlist In language of great simplicity and power, Hemingway tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck--he hasn't caught a fish in 84 days--who goes out in his small skiff one more time. This time he hooks a huge marlin. During his relentless ordeal, a long and agonizing battle with the marlin far out in the Gulf Stream, the old man ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Outsiders more books like this by S E Hinton add to wishlist Written when the author was still in high school, this is the story of Ponyboy, a teenage orphan who lives with his two older brothers. Members of the lower class known as the "Greasers," Ponyboy and his friends are at constant war with the "Socs," who represent the middle and upper classes. When Ponboy's best friend, Johnny, accidentally kills a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Art of War more books like this by Sun Tzu add to wishlist The aphorisms that make up the philosophy of war and strategy by Sun Tzu have, several centuries later, become a must-read for young professionals in business. Though the text can be applied to the ruthless world of commerce, this translation by Thomas Cleary contextualizes the teachings in the Taoist tradition, enabling the work to transcend the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Catch-22 more books like this by Joseph L Heller (Preface by) add to wishlist Joseph Heller's manic, bleak, blackly humorous, and brilliant novel has become a classic of American literature, and "Catch-22" has entered the language as a term describing a no-win situation. Set during the last months of World War II, the novel tells the story of an Air Force bombardier, the hapless Yossarian, who is convinced--quite rightly, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Separate Peace more books like this by John Knowles add to wishlist At a New England boarding school during World War II, a group of boys discover the depths of human nature among themselves, and the evil that even the most innocent is capable of. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Joy Luck Club more books like this by Amy Tan add to wishlist When June's mother dies, she is invited to join a long-standing club of Chinese women who urge her not only to take her mother's place at the mah-jongg table, but also to carry the news of her mother's death to her step-sisters in China. Through the stories of the women and their daughters, the values of different generations are articulated. June ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Iliad more books like this by Homer add to wishlist Pope spent his formative years as a poet translating Homer, beginning with "The Iliad", his translation of which Samuel Johnson called "the greatest version of poetry the world has ever seen". This edition makes available for the first time in paperback Pope's notes in their entirety, enabling us to listen in as one poetic genius illuminates the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Sun Also Rises more books like this by Ernest Hemingway add to wishlist Ernest Hemingway's great post-World War I novel, his first major work and the classic novel of the "lost generation," is a vivid exploration of the moral wasteland of Europe in the Twenties, and of the sterility and despair of postwar life. His hero, Jake Barnes, has suffered a war injury that has left him impotent. Hopelessly in love with the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Little women more books like this by Louisa M Alcott add to wishlist This story of the four March sisters is based on the author's own childhood. The novel is divided into two parts. "Book One" focuses on the sisters' struggles with poverty while growing up in New England during the Civil War. As their father, a minister, serves in the war, the girls are raised by their loving and wise mother, Marmee. "Book Two" ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Red Tent more books like this by Anita Diamant add to wishlist A novel set in Biblical times about Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Republic more books like this by Plato add to wishlist In Plato?s "Republic", his most celebrated "dialogue," the philosopher condemns the justice and morality of Greek society after the trial and execution of his teacher, Socrates. Disillusioned with politics and politicians, Plato argued that civilization demanded truly enlightened government, led by philosopher-kings. He wrote that "...mankind will ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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