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1	Ishmael more books like this by Daniel Quinn add to wishlist A man and a gorilla set out on an intellectual adventure and in the process define what it means to be a human being. see all copies from $2.89! new only from $9.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Satanic Verses more books like this by Salman Rushdie add to wishlist Rushdie's controversial bestseller, which earned him a sentence of death from the Islamic hierarchy of Iran, is a magical realist fantasy that examines questions of identity and belief. Two survivors of an airplane crash, Saladin and Gibreel, are transformed from ordinary citizens and public figures into personifications of Good and Evil, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.10! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable about Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny more books like this by Robin S Sharma add to wishlist The true story of Julian Mantle, whose money-centered, workaholic lifestyle eventually brought him a near-fatal heart attack and forced him to confront life's big questions. Seeking the secrets of true happiness, Julian undertakes an odyssey that leads him to an ancient culture of Himalayan sages. There he discovers the seven lessons and practices ... see all copies from $2.57! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Winter of Our Discontent more books like this by John Steinbeck add to wishlist Ethan Hawley, descendent of an old and proud New England family, is working as a clerk in a food store owned by a family of Italian immigrants. His wife is restless and dissatisfied; his teenage children are troubled and discontented, hungry for the material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Sophie's world : a novel about the history of philosophy more books like this by Jostein Gaarder add to wishlist When 14-year-old Sophie Amundsen finds two questions in her mailbox: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?", she begins a tour through Western philosophy guided by a mysterious mentor. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.97! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to Be One more books like this by Peter B Kyne add to wishlist This is the story of a disabled World War I veteran who returns to civilian life and overcomes almost insurmountable obstacles to become a successful businessman. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Choice more books like this by Og Mandino add to wishlist Choice! The key is Choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But, hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in that manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.32! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement more books like this by Eliyahu M Goldratt add to wishlist This second edition of the thriller-style story of Alex Rogo's fight to save his plant has an extra 10 chapters which bring the story forward to describe Alex's transition from Plant Manager to Divisional Manager. It incorporates the business principles of the author's Theory of Constraints (TOC). see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Keeper of the Bees more books like this by Gene Stratton-Porter add to wishlist Broken in spirit and body, James Lewis MacFarland, a wounded veteran of World War I, decides to escape from the military hospital before he is sent to a hospital for tubercular patients. He sets out on a great adventure which takes him to the healing sun and ocean of California. see all copies from $7.39! new only from $13.39! \| first editions \| SVS
10	My Ishmael more books like this by Daniel Quinn add to wishlist The sequel to Quinn's earlier novel, "Ishmael", which won Ted Turner's $500,000 prize for a work of fiction that proposed the best solution to the problems of today's world. This book, like its predecessor, is essentially a lecture, by a wise and compassionate gorilla, on how to live. see all copies from $4.01! new only from $10.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	North & South more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist Margaret Hale moves with her upper-class family to a provincial industrial town in northern England. There she becomes involved in the lives of local factory workers and union members, at one point even participating in a strike. A stormy and difficult romantic relationship with a factory owner, John Thornton, ends happily after Thornton changes ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.43! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Where Shadows Go more books like this by Eugenia Price add to wishlist America's first lady of storytelling is back with the eagerly awaited sequel to her bestselling novel Bright Captivity. After giving up a career as a British Royal Marine, John agrees to his wife's fondest wish: that they return to her family's plantation. Filled with characters drawn from history, lore, and the author's own vivid imagination. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.33! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Turtle Moon more books like this by Alice Hoffman add to wishlist The story of a divorced woman, her disillusioned teenaged son, and the events that change their lives in ways both simple and extraordinary. When Keith Rosen runs away from his Florida home--inexplicably taking along a motherless baby--his mother is perplexed and terrified. She takes off on a journey of her own to find him. Her pursuit, and what ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	We the Living more books like this by Ayn Rand add to wishlist A philosophical novel from Russian-born Ayn Rand, who was known for her belief in the concept of "enlightened self-interest." It portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Foe more books like this by J. M. Coetzee add to wishlist 'A small miracle of a book ...of marvellous intricacy and overwhelming power' - "The Washington Post", Book World. Coetzee reinvents the story of "Robinson Crusoe", directing our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself. see all copies from $2.74! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable more books like this by Patrick M Lencioni add to wishlist Absorbing, compelling, and utterly memorable, The Five Temptations of a CEO is like no other business book that's come before. Author Patrick Lencioni - noted screenplay writer and sought-after executive coach - deftly tells the tale of a young CEO who, facing his first annual board review, knows he is failing, but doesn't know why. "This book ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Sea, the Sea more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist Charles, a retired theatre director, retires to a small village where he encounters Hartley, the woman he loved years ago when they were both children, and who is now happily married to a man Charles despises. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Anna Karenina: A Novel in Eight Parts more books like this by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) add to wishlist Tolstoy's great novel, one of his last works of fiction, tells the story of a harmless flirtation that gradually develops into a destructive passion: the love affair between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky. Anna turns to Vronsky, a dashing military man, as a refuge from her passionless marriage to a pompous, chilly bureaucrat--a move that results ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.40!
19 view cover	Old Curiosity Shop more books like this by Charles Dickens add to wishlist Dickens's novel--in its day, one of his most beloved--follows the career of the depraved dwarf Quilp, and introduces poor, innocent Little Nell, who is too good for this world. When Little Nell and her grandfather are forced to flee Quilp's evil clutches, various upright characters try to intervene and save them, but the frail and debilitated Nell ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Deptford Trilogy more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist Around a mysterious death is woven a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels: "Fifth Business", often described as Robertson Davies' finest novel; "The Manticore", and "World of Wonders". Luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history and magic, "The Deptford Trilogy" provides an exhilarating antidote to a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Instant Millionaire: A Tale of Wisdom and Wealth more books like this by Mark Fisher add to wishlist Canadian millionaire, Mark Fisher, reveals how everyone can achieve his wealthy status, in a book written in the style of a moral fable. The "get-rich-quick" philosophy is analyzed as an old man sends a young man on the road to riches. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.11! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Black Prince more books like this by Murdoch add to wishlist In Murdoch's 15th novel, an aging novelist who has led a loveless life retires even further from the real world to write his magnum opus. Instead, he falls obsessively in love with a very young woman. The portrait of the artist is not only a gripping story of human relationships, but a profound consideration of love, death, and art. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	A Knight of the Word more books like this by Terry Brooks add to wishlist Five years have passed since the events in "Running with the Demon". John Ross is living in Seattle and Nest Freemark is away at college and trying out for the Olympics, but they will soon be called to do battle once again as a new demon is loosed, and Halloween is rapidly approaching... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Adam Bede more books like this by George Eliot add to wishlist Inspired by an anecdote told to George Eliot by her aunt, ADAM BEDE is notable for its extraordinarily realistic characters and convincing depiction of English rural life, complete with the earthy Derbyshire dialect of the title character. It is the story of Hetty Sorrel, the dairymaid who spurns the working-class Adam, a carpenter, for the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Fifth Business more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist This novel exploring notions of fate and identity is an early work by one of modern Canada's most celebrated writers, the first in his Deptford Trilogy. The story portrays the complicated fortunes of four characters linked together by a snowball thrown on December 27, 1908 in the Canadian town of Deptford: Boy Staunton (who threw it), Mary ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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