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1	Interpreter of Maladies more books like this by Jhumpa Lahiri Most of the short stories in this debut volume are about marriage in one form or another. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999, this book also won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Anna Karenina more books like this by Leo Tolstoy 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 $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story more books like this by John Berendt This nonfiction novel about a celebrated Savannah murder case--an upper-crust antiques dealer was accused of shooting his male lover--is also a love song to the city of Savannah. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	To the Lighthouse more books like this by Woolf In TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (1927) Virginia Woolf chooses a three-part structure and an elegiac, ode-like form to reveal the complexities of family politics. The autobiographical plot--which Woolf claimed finally "laid to rest" her conflicted feelings about her parents--begins in St. Ives, where Woolf's family, the Stephens, spent summers when she was a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.09! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Jane Eyre more books like this by Charlotte Bronte Charlotte Brontë's first novel, published in 1847, was based in part on the author's own days in a brutal boarding school where two of her sisters died of tuberculosis; her characterization of the place in her first published work was an act of revenge. The novel's heroine is a plain, impoverished, but spirited young governess who not only wins ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Year in Provence more books like this by Peter Mayle Mayle's humorous true story of his attempts to make a home for himself in the south of France after he fled his advertising job in England. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Moveable Feast more books like this by Hemingway Hemingway's classic memoir of Paris in the twenties with moving, and sometimes caustic, portraits of friends like Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein along with fascinating reflections on his own development as a young writer. This posthumous volume was compiled from old manuscripts found at the Ritz Hotel in Paris and is, according to some critics, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Sex and the City more books like this by Candace Bushnell A collection from Candace Bushnell's regular "New York Observer" column, "Sex and the City". In her witty and sometimes brutally candid style, Bushnell introduces us to the young and beautiful who travel in packs from parties to bars to clubs. There is "Carrie," the quintessential troubled young writer looking for love in all the wrong places, "Mr ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Naked more books like this by David Sedaris Through a series of comic anecdotes, quirky essayist David Sedaris touches on the highlights of his life to date, including his cross-country hitchhiking trip; his discovery of Shakespeare in rural North Carolina; his various odd jobs as a migrant fruit picker, a jade polisher, and a woodwork refinisher; a family Christmas Eve spent with a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Don Quixote more books like this by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Perhaps the greatest--and certainly the most famous--novel ever written in Spanish, "Don Quixote" is the classic picaresque tale of a knight-errant living in a world which has no use for him. Written as a history, it gives an account of the life of Don Quixote of la Mancha, a deluded 17th-century Spaniard who believes himself to be a medieval ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Running with Scissors: A Memoir more books like this by Augusten Burroughs (Read by) When his dysfunctional family sent Augusten Burroughs away to be raised in the home of his mother's therapist, he became part of an even more dysfunctional and unusual family dynamic. In this bestseller, which has become a classic of the wackier side of memoir literature, Burroughs doesn't flinch at any grotesquerie or atrocity, recording it all- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts more books like this by Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston writes about the bonds as well as the conflicts between women in Chinese-American culture--how the traditional Asian way of life is transformed in the new world for better and for worse. In the process, Kingston tells the story of her life, her coming of age, and her assimilation into American culture. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Swann's way more books like this by Marcel Proust This self-contained opening volume of Proust's seven-volume masterpiece REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST introduces the important themes of the novel: childhood, memory, love both idealized and unrequited, and the narrator's fascination with society and the aristocracy. The narrator's childhood memories include the famous madeleine scene, and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Gathering more books like this by Anne Enright Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland's most singular voices. Now she delivers "The Gathering," a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. The nine surviving children of the ... see all copies from $6.12! new only from $7.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America more books like this by Bill Bryson Bryson contemplates the state of the United States as he travels across the country in a visitation of family holidays and a quest for the apex of small-town America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining more books like this by Foxfire Fund Inc, Eliot Wigginton (Editor) Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region. see all copies from $3.29! new only from $9.36! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana more books like this by Haven Kimmel Kimmel, aka "Zippy" because of her propensity as a toddler to race around like a monkey, shares the details of her quirky childhood in the Midwest, where the cast of family characters includes her beauty-queen sister, deeply religious brother, wise mother, and gambling father. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.75! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Paris to the Moon more books like this by Adam Gopnik Much of this memoir concerning Gopnik's five-year experience as an American in Paris was printed as the New Yorker column "Paris Journal," where it was the recipient of a 1998 George Polk Award and a 1997 National Magazine Award. With wit and insight, Gopnik relates the joys and difficulties of relocating his young American family to the romantic ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	North & South more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 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 $5.65! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy more books like this by Frances Mayes Frances Mayes, a gourmet cook, travel writer, and poet, bought herself a crumbling 17-room villa in the Italian countryside. It changed her life and renewed her spirit. Her immensely appealing chronicle of the experience, and of her romantic relationship with the man she eventually married, comes complete with recipes from the region. The book ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Love Only Once more books like this by Johanna Lindsey A classic tale from #1 New York Times bestseller Johanna Lindsey featuring the hugely popular Malory Family, finally available again in a beautiful new package. The Malorys A family of dashing rogues and rakehell adventurers -- and ladies of uncommon beauty and incomparable spirit -- their amorous exploits are spoken of in envious whispers from ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.29! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Dry more books like this by Augusten Burroughs Augusten Burroughs, the writer who memorialized his traumatic childhood in RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, returns to do the same with his alcoholism, which he tries to deal with by checking himself into a gay rehab clinic in Minnesota. Burroughs's memoir is a humorous account of that experience, and of his lifelong struggles with (and love for) the bottle. see all copies from $2.49! new only from $5.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Playing for Pizza more books like this by John Grisham In John Grisham's new novel, a one-time American football star signed to Italy's Parma Panthers becomes entangled in a series of comic misadventures on and off the field. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Complete Stories more books like this by Flannery O'Connor Thirty-one stories are in this volume, including 12 that never appeared in collections published during her lifetime. The stories are arranged chronologically, beginning with her first published story, "The Geranium" and ending with her last one, "Judgement Day." see all copies from $3.69! new only from $9.38! \| first editions
25 view cover	Dubliners more books like this by James Joyce Joyce's celebrated short-story sequence provides a vivid and disturbing picture of early 20th-century Dublin and its inhabitants, whom Joyce saw as trapped in a repressed and stultifying environment. The stories are divided into five types: childhood, adolescence, marriage, maturity, and various aspects of public life, including politics. They ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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