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1	Kite Runner more books like this by Khaled Hosseini This epic novel is set in Afghanistan, beginning in the days of the monarchy and reaching to the early 21st century. Amir is the son of a wealthy man; his best friend is Hassan, the son of his father's servant. Growing up in Kabul, the two share an idyllic childhood until a traumatic event--and Amir's act of cowardly betrayal--changes the nature ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Art of War more books like this by Sun Tzu 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 $2.05! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster more books like this by Jon Krakauer (Introduction by) In 1996, on a magazine assignment, Krakauer joined an expedition up Mount Everest led by the New Zealand climber Rob Hall. He arrived at the summit just before a blizzard struck in which Hall and nine other climbers were killed. This book is Krakauer's first-person account of the tragedy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures more books like this by Anne Fadiman (Preface by) The author tells the story of the Lees, a family of Hmong refugees in California whose epileptic baby daughter, Lia, is taken in hand by the Western medical establishment. The Lees believe that Lia's condition is caused by spirits called dabs, who had caught her and made her fall down. Her doctors want to treat her condition with sophisticated ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $8.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Joy Luck Club more books like this by Amy Tan 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 $2.34! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Siddhartha more books like this by Hermann Hesse An allegorical novel by the celebrated German writer. Sidhartha, the hero, is a type of Buddhist Everyman, who passes through many temptations and trials on his way to purification. The different stages of his spiritual development are represented by the various roles he takes on: wanderer, courtier, merchant, and hermit. Originally published in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Fine Balance more books like this by Rohinton Mistry In mid-1970s India, a "State of Internal Emergency" has been declared. Four disparate people find their lives connected in ways that are as inextricable as they are unexpected. A housing shortage brings them together as roommates in an apartment: they are a widow determined not to remarry, a student from the Himalayas, and a man and his nephew ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang-The Battle That Changed the War in V more books like this by H Moore This compelling account of two major engagements in Vietnam's la Drang Valley in November 1965 is written by the man who commanded the battalion that was involved and by a war correspondent who was there. Both spent years interviewing soldiers who made it through and families of those lost in battle. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Unaccustomed Earth more books like this by Jhumpa Lahiri Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lahiri delivers eight dazzling stories that take readers from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. see all copies from $13.78! new only from $13.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War more books like this by David Halberstam Tackling the Korean War with monumental research and laser-sharp reportage, Halberstam explores the untold heroism and pathos of the worst American military defeat since Little Big Horn--and the Washington politics that set it in motion. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $13.94! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Complete Kama Sutra: The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text more books like this by Mallanaga Vatsyayana, Alain Danielou (Translator), Alain Daniilou (Translator) This edition of the definitive modern translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra is the first to include two essential commentaries--the Jayamangala of Yashodhara and the modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Danielou spent four years comparing versions of the Kama Sutra, drawing on his intimate experience of India to preserve the full ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Beach more books like this by Alex Garland A young man backpacking in Southeast Asia meets a French couple, and together they follow a dead man's map to "the beach," a fabled island unspoiled by the tourist trade. Haunted by increasingly violent dreams about the dead man, he finds that, once there, the idyllic paradise slowly begins to shatter, giving way to escalating horror and depravity ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History more books like this by George Crile "Charlie Wilson's War" tells the story of what became the largest covert operation in history--costing over $1 billion a year. Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol, to secret chambers at Langley, to arms-dealer conventions, to the Khyber Pass, this is a compulsively readable account of the inside workings of the CIA. see all copies from $5.94! new only from $8.84! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Silence more books like this by Endo A novel of faith and doubt set in medieval Japan. Endo relates the history of the Japanese Christians who were persecuted after the rise to power of the samurai in the 17th century, and in particular the plight of Japanese priests who were forced to choose between their identity as Christians and as Japanese. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.79! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Places in Between more books like this by Rory Stewart In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers, Taliban commanders and foreign-aid workers as he makes tangible the forces of tradition, ideology, ... see all copies from $2.20! new only from $4.05! \| SVS
16 view cover	Painted Veil more books like this by W Somerset Maugham Kitty Fane has an affair, and when her husband, a bacteriologist, finds out, he forces her to go with him to a cholera epidemic in the hopes that she will contract the disease and die. Once she is surrounded by all the desolation and death, Kitty begins to come to self-realization, and also learns how to love her husband. Unfortunately for both of ... see all copies from $3.98! new only from $7.72! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia more books like this by Mr. Ahmed Rashid A journalist describes the rise and geopolitical influence of the Taliban, the extremist Islamic faction that maintains government control of Afghanistan with strictness and secrecy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.02! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The wind-up bird chronicle. more books like this by Haruki Murakami When a young man's marriage breaks up, his subsequent search for identity mirrors that of his country, Japan. see all copies from $5.95! new only from $9.23! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer more books like this by Nathaniel C Fick In this trenchant war memoir, Marine captain Nathaniel Fick, who exemplifies the 21st-century supersoldier, recounts his arduous training in both weaponry and leadership and his subsequent deployment to Afghanistan. Soon after, he was the leader of the elite advance team that entered Iraq and fought through enemy lines. Fick describes how he and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.17! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Up Country more books like this by Nelson DeMille Hardboiled Army investigator Paul Brenner delves into the past to investigate the alleged murder of a lieutenant who was killed in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	A wild sheep chase more books like this by Haruki Murakami A haunted tale by a twenty-something Japanese man, about the quest for a mysterious sheep with a star on its back. see all copies from $2.61! new only from $8.26! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 more books like this by Simon Winchester Winchester, author of THE MAP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, here revisits the volcanic explosion at Krakatoa that shook the world. The story of this cataclysmic event covers most of the earth, as Winchester offers anecdotes from all those affected by the eruption, from Indonesia to New York. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World more books like this by Jack Weatherford Weatherford resurrects the true history of Genghis Khan, from the story of his relentless rise through Mongol tribal culture to the waging of his devastatingly successful wars and the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed. see all copies from $3.05! new only from $7.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour more books like this by James Hornfischer Desperately fought on the morning of October 25, 1944, the Battle of Samar was an upset victory won by American warships fighting a battle they were never supposed to fight. Filled with riveting details, this is war at sea as it has seldom been presented before. see all copies from $5.50! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Piano Tuner more books like this by Daniel Philippe Mason During the Anglo-Burmese Wars of the 1880s, a London piano tuner named Edgar Drake is recruited to tune the piano for an army surgeon in Burma. What he finds when he gets there--about the surgeon, about Burma's political situation, and about himself--is a revelation both to the piano tuner and to the reader. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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