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1	I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away more books like this by Bill Bryson add to wishlist Bill Bryson lived in Britain for 20 years, then returned with his family to the U.S. Here he writes about the process of re-entry--the shocks, the adjustments, the excesses, and (especially) the funny bits. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the Storycorps Project more books like this by Dave Isay (Editor) add to wishlist Drawn from the work of StoryCorps, the largest and most ambitious oral history project in American history, this tapestry presents the stories Americans have been sharing from their lives to leave behind to their loved ones. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Bobos in Paradise the New Upper Class and How They Got There more books like this by David Brooks add to wishlist In this study of trends and class, a writer defines and decodes a new group in American society which he calls BoBos--a portmanteau word made from "bohemian" and "bourgeois"--who embody a consumerist combination of those two world-views. Brooks engages in what he calls "cosmic sociology," and writes in the tradition of William H.Whyte (THE ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Breakfast at Tiffany's; a short novel and three stories more books like this by Truman Capote add to wishlist Starring its heroine, Holly Golightly, from the popular ">Breakfast at Tiffany's", this volume also contains three of Truman Capote's best-known short stories: "House of Flowers", "A Diamond Guitar", and "A Christmas Memory". see all copies from $6.95! new only from $8.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction more books like this by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. add to wishlist Early in his career, Vonnegut published a number of stories in magazines, including the Saturday Evening Post and Argosy. Here are 24 of them, collected for the first time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Eating the Plates: A Pilgrim Book of Food and Manners more books like this by Lucille Recht Penner add to wishlist An exploration of the food, customs, and manners of the Pilgrims. Readers will also learn about the difficulty of day-to-day life in the 1600s, when people had to endure insects living in their hair, beds, and food, and the deadly ravages of diseases that are today considered manageable. Illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings and lithographs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| first editions \| SVS
7	American Salvage more books like this by Bonnie Jo Campbell add to wishlist A lush and rowdy collection of stories set in a rural Michigan landscape, where wildlife, jobs, and ways of life are vanishing. New from award-winning Michigan writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, "American Salvage" is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix cars and washing machines, how ... see all copies from $16.10! new only from $16.10! \| SVS
8	Common Culture: Reading and Writing about American Popular Culture more books like this by Michael Petracca, Madeleine Sorapure add to wishlist For Freshman Composition courses. From Barbie to the Internet, the Simpsons to the malls, this engaging text on pop culture helps students develop critical and analytical skills and write clear prose while reading, thinking, and writing about subjects they find inherently interesting. Spanning a full range of topics, this text provides key ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Like Life more books like this by Lorrie Moore add to wishlist A collection of short stories which addresses a contemporary emotional dilemma, namely, the widening gulf between men and women and the simultaneous yearning for and fear of closeness. The author's previous publications include "Self-Help", a collection of stories, and a novel, "Anagrams". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.02! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Whore's Child and Other Stories more books like this by Richard Russo (Read by) add to wishlist From Richard Russo, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his novel EMPIRE FALLS, a collection of stories about ordinary people--Russo's typical heartwarming oddballs--in situations that reveal them for who they really are. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel more books like this by Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (Introduction by) add to wishlist With her trademark compassion and wit, Hempel takes readers into the marriages, minor disasters, and moments of revelation in an uneasy America. see all copies from $2.99! new only from $4.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Pastoralia more books like this by George Saunders add to wishlist This second collection of satirical stories by George Saunders concentrates on failure and fear in an eccentric group of characters, which include Janet (who plays a theme-park cavewoman in the title story), a man who works in a strip club (in "Sea Oak"), and a toeless man who lives with his mother (in "The Barber's Unhappiness"). see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Underworld more books like this by Don DeLillo add to wishlist In order to dramatize the theme that all people and events in the universe are connected, DeLillo presents several narrators and a series of chronologically dislocated events. Additionally, history and facts scattered throughout the novel connect the reader to DeLillo's fictional world. After the reader discovers how these disjointed experiences ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Stories of John Cheever more books like this by John Cheever add to wishlist To read all of these stories in three or four sittings is to enter a world of lush lawns and swimming pools, martinis and backyard barbecues, the alienation of living in a big city, the anxiety of being surrounded by those whom you hope you resemble. Here Cheever captures the essence of urbanity and suburbanness, the angst of the station wagon, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America more books like this by Bill Bryson add to wishlist 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 $4.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Girl with Curious Hair: Stories more books like this by David Foster Wallace add to wishlist From the author of THE BROOM OF THE SYSTEM and INFINITE JEST, a collection of short stories which feature characters such as former president Lyndon Johnson, a late-night comedian, a ubiquitous game-show host, and a punk fashioned Young Republican woman. see all copies from $4.88! new only from $9.37! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Charles Kuralt's America more books like this by Charles Kuralt (Read by) add to wishlist Though he retired from CBS News in 1994, Charles Kuralt has never retired from his wanderings. In this book he sets out to revisit some of his favorite places in their favorite seasons, to rediscover slices of America that have always been closet to his heart. From Montana in September to Alaska in June to Cajun country in winter and along the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Life on the Road more books like this by Charles Kuralt add to wishlist His 1985 collection of On the Road pieces kept Charles Kuralt on the national bestseller lists for 26 weeks and garnered him much critical praise. Now in his first full-fledged memoir, this CBS broadcaster takes the reader further down the road, introducing some of the people, places, and events encountered in a life spent roaming. 16 pages of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Domestic manners of the Americans more books like this by Frances Trollope add to wishlist Frances Trollope, Anthony's novelist mother, journeyed to America in 1827 and regarded the place with a largely disapproving eye. ("I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians.") This entertaining book is the record of her observations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.89! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	T.C. Boyle Stories more books like this by T Coraghessan Boyle add to wishlist Gathered here are all the stories that have appeared in the inventive writer's four previous collections, as well as seven that have never before been published in book form. see all copies from $2.27! new only from $9.43! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	American Girls about Town more books like this by Jennifer Weiner, Adriana Trigiani, Lauren Weisberger add to wishlist Each of 17 young American women who write fiction provides a short story for this volume, including "Yoga Babe" by Lauren Henderson, "The Bamboo Confessions" by Lauren Weisberger, "Bad Manners" by Chris Manby, and "Forty Days" by Jill Smolinski. All profits from the book go to charity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving more books like this by Laurie Halse Anderson, Matt Faulkner (Illustrator) add to wishlist A National Book Award finalist teams up with a celebrated illustrator to tell the story of Sarah Hale, who in the 1800s began a letter-writing campaign to designate a day to celebrate the Pilgrims' arrival in America. Full color. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Americans more books like this by Robert Frank add to wishlist Previously published in 1959, Frank's most famous and influential photography book contained a series of deceptively simple photos that he took on a trip through America in 1955 and 1956. These pictures of everyday people still speak to us today, 40 years and several generations later. see all copies from $30.00! new only from $36.20! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Pigeon Feathers more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist Wonderful, poetic early stories, many about adolescence and youth, including the classic and much-anthologized "A&P." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America more books like this by David Hackett Fischer add to wishlist Eighty percent of Americans have no British ancestors. According to David Hackett Fischer, however, their day-to-day lives are profoundly influenced by folkways transplanted from Britain to the New World with the first settlers. Residual, yet persistent, aspects of these 17th Century folkways are indentifiable, Fischer argues, in areas as divers ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $21.97! \| SVS

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