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The Spider and the Fly
$17.99.”..a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her search to understand the darkness inside us.”–
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The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder
$26.99Winner of the Washington State Book Award for Memoir “Extraordinarily suspenseful and truly gut-wrenching. . . . A must-read.”—Gillian Flynn, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl In this superb work of literary true crime–a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense–a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial…
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Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)
$27.99Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. #1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, now available as a beautifully packaged paperback From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution–a #1 international bestseller–that explores the ways in which biology…
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Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)
$40.00NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A hardcover edition of the first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s smash #1 New York Times and international bestseller recommended by President Barack Obama and Bill Gates, with gorgeous full-color illustrations and concise, easy to comprehend text for readers of all ages. One hundred thousand years ago,…
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Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory
$26.99A moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever-shifting understanding of our own identities, for readers of Gender Queer and I Was Their American Dream. Solomon Brager grew up with accounts of their great-grandparents’ escape from Nazi Germany, told over and over until their understanding of self was bound up…
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Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization
$40.00NATIONAL BESTSELLER This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution–when humans fell into a trap we’ve yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns. What if humanity’s major woes–war, plague, famine and inequality–originated 12,000 years…
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Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization
$27.99NATIONAL BESTSELLER This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution–when humans fell into a trap we’ve yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns. What if humanity’s major woes–war, plague, famine and inequality–originated 12,000 years…
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Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 3: The Masters of History
$29.99This third volume of the illustrated adaptation of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, Sapiens: A Graphic History–The Masters of History, tackles the question of the driving force of humanity’s fate: is it empire, money, religion–or something else entirely–that unites us? Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But…
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Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 3: The Masters of History
$40.00This third volume of the illustrated adaptation of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, Sapiens: A Graphic History–The Masters of History, tackles the question of the driving force of humanity’s fate: is it empire, money, religion–or something else entirely–that unites us? Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But…
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Solzhenitsyn: A Biography
$325.00This book, first published in 1984, is a detailed biography of Solzhenitsyn. It covers every period of his life, showing how Solzhenitsyn’s development paralleled and mirrored the development of Soviet society. At the same time, this book relates Solzhenitsyn’s life to his works.
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Solzhenitsyn: A Biography
$78.99This book, first published in 1984, is a detailed biography of Solzhenitsyn. It covers every period of his life, showing how Solzhenitsyn’s development paralleled and mirrored the development of Soviet society. At the same time, this book relates Solzhenitsyn’s life to his works.
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25 Years of Soviet Russian Literature (1918-1943)
$180.00This book, first published in 1944, is a comprehensive survey of post-revolutionary Russian literature up to the early 1940s. A huge range of writers are examined, and as a wide-ranging analysis of Soviet literature, this book has rarely been bettered.
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25 Years of Soviet Russian Literature (1918-1943)
$49.99This book, first published in 1944, is a comprehensive survey of post-revolutionary Russian literature up to the early 1940s. A huge range of writers are examined, and as a wide-ranging analysis of Soviet literature, this book has rarely been bettered.
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Chekhov: A Biographical and Critical Study
$160.00This book, first published in 1950, is a balanced examination of Chekhov’s life and work, a critical analysis of his stories and plays set against the background of his life the Russia of the day. Using Chekhov’s works, biographical details, and his letters, this book is a comprehensive critical study of the writer and the…