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1	Between Sisters more books like this by Kristin Hannah add to wishlist Meghann is a no-nonsense Seattle lawyer who doesn't have time for feelings. She leaves that to her sister, Claire, who lives a messy kind of life out in the boonies as a single mother. Now Claire is planning to marry a country musician named Bobby Austin--and at the same time she is diagnosed with a brain tumor. But one of Meghann's many casual ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Namesake more books like this by Jhumpa Lahiri add to wishlist Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer for her story collection, INTERPRETER OF MALADIES. Her first novel, set in Boston and New York, begins in 1968 with a young Indian man doing research at MIT, and his wife, who becomes pregnant with a son. As years go by, their son, unlike his parents, becomes thoroughly westernized and even rebellious, with a series ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Naked Lunch more books like this by William S Burroughs add to wishlist NAKED LUNCH, the controversial masterpiece by Beat Generation founding father William S. Burroughs, has the distinction of being the last novel banned in the United States. Decried as obscene, the novel uses frank and extremely graphic depictions of drug use and sex as metaphors for the human condition: all of humanity, Burroughs feels, is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Steppenwolf more books like this by Hermann Hesse add to wishlist The classic study of a split personality by the renowned German author and Nobel Laureate. The narrator is a man who regards himself as half-human and half-wolf, a creature of the Russian steppes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Outsider more books like this by Richard Wright add to wishlist Here is Wright's compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past. "The novel, which builds steadily to a clamorous denunciation of the rival totalitarianisms of Communism and Fascism, also offers a dire--and accurate--prediction of a world wide revival of religious fundamentalism in response to the spiritual gloom spawned by these ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Metamorphosis And Other Stories more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka's immortal absurdist tale of Gregor Samsa, who wakes up to find he has been transformed into a cockroach. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Codependence and the Power of Detachment: How to Set Boundaries and Make Your Life Your Own more books like this by Karen Casey add to wishlist A codependent lives 'as if' - as if what others think matters more than what they think, as if they can please or change someone else, as if they have to answer to another person or persons rather than their own inner voice and Higher Power. It's an insidious and pervasive addiction. And there is a simple way out of it - detachment. Karen Casey ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $7.50! \| SVS
8	The Outsider more books like this by Colin Wilson add to wishlist The Outsider was an instant literary sensation when it was first published in 1956, thrusting its youthful author into the front rank of contemporary writers and thinkers. Wilson rationalized the psychological dislocation so characteristic of Western creative thinking into a coherent theory of alienation, and defined those affected by it as a type ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.38! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture more books like this by Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (Foreword by), Parker J Palmer (Foreword by) add to wishlist How do we recognize the 'wounds' caused by outdated schooling policies? How do we heal them? In her provocative new book, education writer and critic Kirsten Olson brings to light the devastating consequences of an educational approach that values conformity over creativity, flattens students' interests, and dampens down differences among learners ... see all copies from $27.02! new only from $27.02! \| SVS
10	The Sister more books like this by Poppy Adams add to wishlist This lyrical and haunting story of two sisters, their troubling past, and the terrible secrets they each want buried will stay with you long after you close the book. A wonderful book loaded with twists and turns that come straight from the heart.--Harlan Coben. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.39! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Dirt Music more books like this by Tim Winton add to wishlist In Tim Winton's comically eccentric novel, set in an Australian fishing village, Jim Buckridge and his girlfriend Georgie begin to have problems when former rocker Luther Fox comes to town. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Politics of Experience more books like this by R D Laing add to wishlist This text explores the varieties of experience as they manifest personally, socially, in psychoanalysis, and transcendentally. By pulling at the seams of experience Laing launches a critique of conventional morality and challenges readers to look anew at oneself and others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist John McWhorter returns to the explosive dialogue begun in his "New York Times" bestseller "Losing the Race" and raises the stakes in a provocative new book where he argues that a renewed commitment to achievement and integration is the only cure for the crisis in the African-American community. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Who by Fire more books like this by Diana Spechler add to wishlist [T]here are no defining moments, no cast list stuck to a family's refrigerator door with an alphabet magnet. It's every single thing that happens to a family, the combination of experiences, that determines how they treat each other - from "Who By Fire". When Bits and Ash were children, their younger sister was kidnapped, a tragedy that led to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Doll's House and Other Plays more books like this by H Ibsen add to wishlist "The League of Youth" (1869) was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social drama and marks a turning-point in his style. By 1879, Ibsen was convinced that women suffer an inevitable violation of their personalities within the context of marriage. In "A Doll's House", he portrayed the wife struggling to break free: this was unheard of at the time ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future more books like this by Juan Enriquez add to wishlist Through a compelling synthesis of factoids illustrated with mind-bending stories, ideas, photographs, and maps, the author conducts a provocative conversation about the future shape of America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Where Mercy Flows more books like this by Karen Harter add to wishlist In this poignant first novel, a woman returns to the home of her estranged, domineering father to face family secrets of the past--and present. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Rebels more books like this by Sandor Marai add to wishlist It is May 1918, and a group of boys are poised on the brink of adulthood. With war sweeping Europe, theirs has become a ghost town: fathers, uncles and older brothers have been called to the front; the trains that arrive through snow-capped mountains bear the living with the dead. As the boys' graduation looms, so too does their fear of going to ... see all copies from $2.97! new only from $7.80! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The interrogation more books like this by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, Daphne Woodward (Translator) add to wishlist "From the original Atheneum edition jacket, 1964." "J.M.G. Le Clezio, revelation of the literary year" ran the headline of the "Paris Express" after last year's prizes had been awarded. The Goncourt jury was locked five to five until its president used his double vote to give the prize to the older candidate. Ten minutes later the Renaudot jury ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
20 view cover	The fall of public man more books like this by Prof. Richard Sennett add to wishlist Examines the modern imbalance between our public and our private lives - covering everything from the history of fashion to revolutionary mobs and the career of Richard Nixon. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $11.83! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Creating the Capacity for Attachment: Treating Addictions and the Alienated Self more books like this by Karen Walant add to wishlist Detached, alienated people, many of them functioning with a pathologically developed false self, barely navigate life's challenges. Our cultural emphasis on autonomy and separateness has led to a retreat from valuing interpersonal, communal dependence and has greatly contributed to a rise in the number of people whose suffering is often expressed ... see all copies from $2.20! new only from $32.06! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Castle more books like this by J Robert Lennon add to wishlist In this contemporary novel about memory, guilt, power, and violence, a returning resident in a small upstate New York town sets out to explore a forbidding and almost impenetrable forest--lifeless, it seems, but for a bewitching white deer--that is the site of an 18th-century Indian massacre. see all copies from $9.92! new only from $16.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23	Fal of Public Man V420 more books like this by Richard Sennett add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
24 view cover	The Price more books like this by Arthur Miller add to wishlist The confrontation between two brothers, brought together after many years by the need to dispose of their parent's property, leads to a re-examination and re-evaluation of attitudes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Shyness and Dignity more books like this by Dag Solstad add to wishlist A senior-school teacher in his fifties begins his day as usual, picking up his briefcase and some headache pills and after a cordial goodbye to his wife, leaving for work as he has done every morning for the past twenty-five years. However, this autumn morning is to be the start of no ordinary day. Though familiar with his students' hostile ... see all copies from $2.79! new only from $2.80! \| SVS

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