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Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids

By Nicholson Baker

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Hardcover:

9780399160981 | Blue Rider Pr, September 6, 2016, cover price $30.00

The Paul Chowder Chronicles: The Anthologist / Traveling Sprinkler

By Nicholson Baker

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Paperback:

9780399172595 | Tur edition (Blue Rider Pr, October 9, 2014), cover price $17.00

Traveling Sprinkler

A new novel by bestselling author Nicholson Baker reintroduces feckless but hopeful hero Paul Chowder, whose struggle to get his life together is reflected in his steadfast desire to write a pop song, or a protest song, or both at once.

By Nicholson Baker

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Hardcover:

9780399160967 | Blue Rider Pr, September 17, 2013, cover price $26.95

Paperback:

9780399160974 | Plume, August 26, 2014, cover price $16.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9781629230917 | Unabridged edition (Ingram Pub Services, October 15, 2013), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: A new novel by bestselling author Nicholson Baker reintroduces feckless but hopeful hero Paul Chowder, whose struggle to get his life together is reflected in his steadfast desire to write a pop song, or a protest song, or both at once.

Traveling Sprinkler: A Novel

By Nicholson Baker (narrator)

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9781629230955 | Mp3 una edition (Ingram Pub Services, October 15, 2013), cover price $29.99

The Way the World Works: Essays

By Nicholson Baker

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Hardcover:

9781416572473 | Simon & Schuster, August 7, 2012, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9781416572480 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, August 20, 2013), cover price $16.00

The Way the World Works

Product Description: In The Way the World Works, Nicholson Baker ranges over the map of life to examine what ails us, what eases our pain, and what gives us joy. Baker, recently hailed as "one of the most consistently enticing writers of our time" by The New York Timesmoves from political controversy to the intimacy of his own life, from forgotten heroes of pacifism to airplane wings, telephones, paper mills, David Remnick, Joseph Pulitzer, the OED, and the manufacture of the Venetian gondola...read more

By Nicholson Baker

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9781471102677 | Gardners Books, July 18, 2013, cover price $14.20 | About this edition: In The Way the World Works, Nicholson Baker ranges over the map of life to examine what ails us, what eases our pain, and what gives us joy.

The Mezzanine

Product Description: In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From the humble milk carton to the act of tying oneâs shoes, The Mezzanine at once defamiliarizes the familiar world and endows it with loopy and euphoric poetry...read more

By Nicholson Baker

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9780802144904, titled "The Mezzanine: A Novel" | Reissue edition (Grove Pr, July 1, 2010), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive first novelfirst published in 1986 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperbackthe author of Vox and The Fermata uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals.

9780679725763 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 1990), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Records one man's minute observations of the familiar objects and surroundings of everyday life, recalled during a trip on the escalator in his office building

CD/Spoken Word:

9781469280578 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, January 15, 2013), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals.

9781469281391 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, January 15, 2013), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals.

The Mezzanine: Library Edition

Product Description: In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From the humble milk carton to the act of tying one’s shoes, The Mezzanine at once defamiliarizes the familiar world and endows it with loopy and euphoric poetry...read more

By Nicholson Baker

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9781469281803 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, January 15, 2013), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals.

9781469280981 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, January 15, 2013), cover price $49.97 | About this edition: In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals.

Vox

Product Description: Vox is a novel that remaps the territory of sex â sex solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. It is an erotic classic that places Nicholson Baker firmly in the first rank of major American writers...read more

By Nicholson Baker

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Hardcover:

9780394589954 | Random House Inc, February 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Two lonely people separated by hundreds of miles meet on a 900 number party line and share their most intimate sexual fantasies, secrets, and perversities

Paperback:

9781862070967 | New edition (Granta Books, January 12, 1998), cover price $12.55 | About this edition: A man and a woman, strangers to each other, residents of distant cities, have both called an adult party line.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781469281490 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, January 15, 2013), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Vox is a novel that remaps the territory of sex â sex solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous.

9781469280677 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, January 15, 2013), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Vox is a novel that remaps the territory of sex â sex solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous.

Vox: Library Edition

By Nicholson Baker

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9781469281902 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, January 15, 2013), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: Vox is a novel that remaps the territory of sex â sex solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous.

9781469281087 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, January 15, 2013), cover price $49.97

The Fermata: Library Edition

This is the story of Arno Strine, a modest temporary typist, who has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women's clothes off. He is hard at work on his autobiography, The Fermata, which proves in the telling to be a very provocative, very funny and altogether morally confused piece of work. Hilarious and totally original, Nicholson Baker's novel is a triumphant comedy about sexual fantasy and fantastic sexuality.

By Nicholson Baker

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9781469281674 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, January 8, 2013), cover price $39.97

9781469280851 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, January 8, 2013), cover price $49.97 | About this edition: This is the story of Arno Strine, a modest temporary typist, who has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women's clothes off.

House of Holes: Library Edition

Product Description: Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. Luna meets a man made of light bulbs at a tanning parlor. So begins Nicholson Baker’s fuse-blowing, sex-positive escapade, House of Holes. Baker, the bestselling author of The Mezzanine, Vox, and The Fermata, who “writes like no one else in America” (Newsweek), returns to erotic territory with a gleefully over-the-top novel set in a pleasure resort where normal rules don’t apply...read more

By Nicholson Baker

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9781469281759 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, January 8, 2013), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry.

9781469280936 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, January 8, 2013), cover price $49.97 | About this edition: Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry.

House of Holes: A Book of Raunch

By Nicholson Baker

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Hardcover:

9781439189511 | Simon & Schuster, August 9, 2011, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9781439189528 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, February 7, 2012), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: In the New York Times bestseller House of Holes, Nicholson Baker, âone of the most beautiful, original, and ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decadesâ (The New York Times Magazine), returns to the terrain that made him famous with a gleefully provocative, off-the-charts erotic novel that is unlike anything youâve readââa filthy tour de forceâ (Time).

CD/Spoken Word:

9781469281346 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, January 8, 2013), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry.

9781469280523 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, January 8, 2013), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry.

House of Holes

Product Description: Visit the House of Holes, where the motto is PLEASURE FIRST, and discover a solution to every sexual problem, insight into every sexual intrigue, or play out your greatest sexual fantasy. Men can begin with a 'good, friendly penis scrub', take the magic sperm sniff test, or visit the Porndecahedron...read more

By Nicholson Baker

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9780857206596 | Gardners Books, August 18, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Visit the House of Holes, where the motto is PLEASURE FIRST, and discover a solution to every sexual problem, insight into every sexual intrigue, or play out your greatest sexual fantasy.

Room Temperature

Giving his infant daughter her afternoon bottle, Mike's thoughts wander to the special things he remembers about his own childhood

By Nicholson Baker

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Hardcover:

9780802112248 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, April 1, 1990), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Giving his infant daughter her afternoon bottle, Mike's thoughts wander to the special things he remembers about his own childhood

The Anthologist: A Novel

Product Description: Paul Chowder is trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of rhyming verse, but heâs having a hard time getting started. The result of his fitful struggles is The Anthologist, Nicholson Bakerâs brilliantly funny and exquisite love story about poetry...read more

By Nicholson Baker

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9781416572459 | 1 reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, July 6, 2010), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Paul Chowder is trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of rhyming verse, but heâs having a hard time getting started.

Miscellaneous:

9781416583974 | Simon & Schuster, September 8, 2009, cover price $9.99

The Anthologist

Product Description: "The Anthologist" is narrated by Paul Chowder -- a once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry. He's having a hard time getting started because his career is floundering, his girlfriend Roz has recently left him, and he is thinking about the great poets throughout history who have suffered far worse and deserve to feel sorry for themselves...read more

By Nicholson Baker

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9781416572442 | Simon & Schuster, September 8, 2009, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: "The Anthologist" is narrated by Paul Chowder -- a once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry.

9781847376350, titled "Anthologist" | Gardners Books, August 20, 2009, cover price $23.15 | About this edition: Nicholson Baker's new novel, The Anthologist, is narrated by Paul Chowder, a poet of some little reknown who is sitting in his barn most of the time trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of poetry called Only Rhyme.

Paperback:

9781847376367 | Gardners Books, July 31, 2009, cover price $20.05

Humo humano/ Human Smoke: Los origenes de la segunda guerra mundial y el fin de las civilizaciones/ The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization

By Nicholson Baker

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Hardcover:

9788483068274 | Italian edition edition (Debate Editorial, May 30, 2009), cover price $32.95

Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, Library Edition

By Nicholson Baker

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9781400137893 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, August 1, 2008), cover price $69.99

Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization

A persuasive argument for peace and pacifism, this critical study of the decades leading up to World War II offers insightful profiles of the world leaders, politicians, business people, bankers, and others whose personal politics, ideologies, and agendas provided an inevitable barrier to the peace process and whose actions led tot the outbreak of war. 125,000 first printing.

By Nicholson Baker

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Hardcover:

9781416567844 | 1 edition (Simon & Schuster, March 11, 2008), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A persuasive argument for peace and pacifism, this critical study of the decades leading up to World War II offers insightful profiles of the world leaders, politicians, business people, bankers, and others whose personal politics, ideologies, and agendas provided an inevitable barrier to the peace process and whose actions led tot the outbreak of war.

Paperback:

9781416572466 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, March 3, 2009), cover price $16.00

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9781400107896 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, August 1, 2008), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Human Smoke delivers a closely textured, deeply moving indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and '40s.

9781400157891 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, August 1, 2008), cover price $24.99

The World on Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer's Newspaper, (1898-1911)

Celebrates the artistry and graphic design that transformed Joseph Pulitzer's New York World at the turn of the twentieth century, presenting a wide array of cartoons, caricatures, typography, photography, drawings, maps, and other artwork from a variety of legendary illustrators. 10,000 first printing.

By Nicholson Baker, Margaret Brentano and Joseph Pulitzer

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9780821261934 | Bulfinch Pr, September 29, 2005, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Celebrates the artistry that transformed the World at the turn of the twentieth century, presenting a wide array of cartoons, caricatures, typography, photography, drawings, maps, and other artwork from legendary illustrators.

Checkpoint

Jay and Ben meet in a hotel room to discuss everything from the mundane to the fate of the country.

By Nicholson Baker

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Hardcover:

9781400044009 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 17, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Jay and Ben meet in a hotel room to discuss everything from the mundane to the fate of the country.

Paperback:

9781400079858 | Vintage Books, April 12, 2005, cover price $10.00

Lots of Laughs!

Product Description: This three-CD collection features more best-loved selections from National Public Radio's Selected Shorts, an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors and recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City...read more

By Nicholson Baker, Ron Carlson, Neil Gainman, Thomas Gibson (narrator), Etgar Keret, Leonard Michaels, David Schickler and John Updike

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9780971921825 | Unabridged edition (Symphony Space, April 1, 2005), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: This three-CD collection features more best-loved selections from National Public Radio's Selected Shorts, an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors and recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City.

Checkpoint/checkpoint

By Nicholson Baker

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Paperback:

9788420400228 | Alfaguara, S.A. Grupo Santillana,, October 31, 2004, cover price $17.95

Vintage Baker

A collection of writings by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author features excerpts from the novels Vox, The Fermata, The Mezzanine, and A Box of Matches, along with essays from The Size of Thoughts, selections from Doublefold, and an all new short story. Original. 15,000 first printing.

By Nicholson Baker

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9781400078608 | Vintage Books, September 14, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A collection of writings by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author features excerpts from the novels Vox, The Fermata, The Mezzanine, and A Box of Matches, along with essays from The Size of Thoughts, selections from Doublefold, and an all new short story.

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