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1	Still Alice more books like this by Lisa Genova add to wishlist "Still Alice" is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by a first-time author who holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience. Reminiscent of "A Beautiful Mind" and "Ordinary People," this work packs an emotional punch. see all copies from $7.30! new only from $8.60! \| first editions \| SVS
2	That Old Cape Magic more books like this by Richard Russo add to wishlist In this follow-up to "Bridge of Sighs," Russo delivers a novel of deep introspection and every family feeling imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his parents and their failed marriage, his own troubled one, his daughter's new life and, finally, what it is he thought he wanted and what in fact he has. see all copies from $6.97! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Straight Man more books like this by Richard Russo add to wishlist At age fifty, Professor William Henry Devereaux, Jr, has more than a mid-life crisis to deal with. As a child, his parents found him merely exasperating. As an adult, and interim chair of the English Department, he is careening out of control. Half in love with three women, unable to understand his daughter or come to terms with his father, Hank ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Bourne Legacy more books like this by Eric Van Lustbader add to wishlist Eric Van Lustbader brings one of the late Robert Ludlum's most popular characters, CIA agent/assassin Jason Bourne, out of retirement. Bourne has left the CIA and is living quietly as a Georgetown professor under his original name, David Webb. However, he is forced to assume his alter ego once again when the assassin Khan frames him for murder and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Stoner (P) more books like this by John Williams add to wishlist "Thus with professional ability, does an accomplished author win for an unappealing hero the ungrudging admiration of his audience; and thus does character unfold with unaccustomed intensity ... a first rate piece of work". -- Virginia Quarterly Review see all copies from $5.85! new only from $7.96! \| first editions \| SVS
6	White Noise: Great Books Edition more books like this by Don DeLillo add to wishlist Jack Gladney, a professor of Nazi history at a Middle American liberal arts school, and his family try to handle normal family life as a black cloud of lethal gaseous fumes threatens their town. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $5.35! \| SVS
7	Human Stain more books like this by Philip Roth add to wishlist During the time of President Clinton's impeachment hearings, Coleman Silk--a classics professor at a small New England college--is undergoing a trial of his own: he has been accused of racism, and his job is in jeopardy. Silk is innocent of the charge, but he is, in fact, guilty of something else--a fact about himself he has kept completely secret ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Wit more books like this by Margaret Edson add to wishlist This Pulitzer Prize-winning play concerns the intersection of metaphysical poetry and terminal cancer. The character Vivian Bearing, a prominent professor, assesses her life during a traumatic hospital stay. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.84! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? A play more books like this by Edward Albee add to wishlist This modern American play watches an evening with two couples and the lies they fabricate about themselves to keep on living. It is a vicious and haunting drama. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally Underprepared more books like this by Mike Rose add to wishlist Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient--these are the stigmas that define the educational underclass to which Mike Rose once belonged. Here, he tells of his personal journey from a Los Angeles ghetto to a major research university, bringing a vital challenge to those who must shape America's educational agenda. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.96! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	New England White more books like this by Stephen L Carter add to wishlist Two lesser characters from Carter's bestselling first novel, "The Emperor of Ocean Park"--husband and wife Lemaster and Julia Carlyle--take center stage in this compelling, literate page-turner that blends a gripping whodunit with complex discussions of politics and race in contemporary America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Professors House more books like this by Willa Cather add to wishlist When he and his wife move to a new house, Professor Godfrey St. Peter is uncomfortable with the materialistic turn his life is taking. Stubbornly, he clings to his dusty study in the old house in an attempt to hang on to his old life and values. In addition, he is finding difficulties coping with the marriages of his two daughters which have not ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.49! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Portuguese Irregular Verbs more books like this by Alexander McCall Smith add to wishlist "Portuguese Irregular Verbs a begins a deliciously entertaining new series by the best-selling author of "The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. The many fans of Precious Remotswe will find further cause for celebration in the protagonist of Alexander McCall Smith's irresistibly funny trilogy, the eminent (if shamefully under-read) philologist ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.22! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs more books like this by Alexander McCall Smith add to wishlist Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.19! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances more books like this by Alexander McCall Smith add to wishlist Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Herzog more books like this by Saul Bellow add to wishlist HERZOG, one of Saul Bellow's most celebrated novels, portrays (via the hero's sad, manic, ironic letters) the slow decline of Moses Herzog, a failed writer, teacher, husband, and father, as he charges through life unable to face the mistakes that have crippled him and wounded those around him. Introspective, witty, and sharp, the novel provides an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Losing the Moon more books like this by Patti Callahan Henry add to wishlist When her first, great love suddenly reappears, a happily married mother of two becomes obsessed with the idea that maybe they really were meant to be together. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The Ethics of Teaching more books like this by Kenneth A Strike add to wishlist Is it right to punish a whole class for the transgressions of a few? Do teachers have a right to censor student readings or writings? What do students learn about ethics from a teacher's behaviour? This work addresses issues of equal treatment, justice, due process, intellectual freedom and ethical relativism. New issues covered in this third ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| SVS
19 view cover	Man Walks Into a Room more books like this by Nicole Krauss add to wishlist Samson Greene of New York City is found wandering in the Nevada desert, unable to remember who he is. Operated on for the removal of a brain tumor, he then must live with an unexpected side effect: he has recovered his memories, but only of what happened to him before the age of 12. His attempts to reclaim his life involve an odyssey into his own ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Emperor of Ocean Park more books like this by Stephen L Carter add to wishlist Years ago, Oliver Garland--an African-American judge--was nominated to the Supreme Court, but was unable to accept because of a shocking scandal. Now he is dead, and one of his legacies is another scandal, the details of which are encoded in a mysterious set of clues that his son Talcott must follow to reveal the truth, terrible though it may be. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Uneasy Relations more books like this by Aaron Elkins add to wishlist High up on the Rock of Gibraltar, forensics professor Gideon Oliver, the Skeleton Detective, is about to inspect his oldest bones, but a killer is on the loose, and Oliver will have to remember not to look down. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	On Beauty more books like this by Zadie Smith add to wishlist Zadie Smith updates the plot of E.M. Forster's HOWARDS END to tell the comic story of two radically different British families: the arch conservatives Monty and Carline Kipps, and the bohemian, very liberal Belseys. Both men are art professors teaching at a college in Massachusetts where the two wives, unexpectedly, become close friends. Kiki ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Lucky Jim more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist This best-selling comic novel by Kingsley Amis, one of the "Angry Young Men" who came to prominence in the early 1950s, describes the frustrations met by Jim Dixon, a lecturer at a provincial British university, in his academic and private life. Approaching middle age and as yet unpublished, untenured, and unattached, Dixon needs most of all to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Between the Tides more books like this by Patti Callahan Henry add to wishlist Bestselling author Henry has become one of the Souths most unforgettable voices. Now, in her emotionally engaging new novel, she portrays a woman burdened by the past--and the choices she must face to break free. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Body Broken: A Memoir more books like this by Lynne Greenberg add to wishlist At 19, Greenberg narrowly survived a devastating car crash. When her broken neck healed, she was hailed as a medical miracle. But when an unbearable pain in her neck returned many years later, she and her family were forced to deal with a medical system ill-equipped to handle patients with chronic pain. see all copies from $8.62! new only from $14.92! \| SVS

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