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Hardcover:

9780374117016 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 17, 2015, cover price $27.00

Paperback:

9780374536534 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 22, 2016, cover price $16.00

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Hardcover:

9780307268839 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 5, 2015, cover price $40.00

Paperback:

9780307388933, titled "The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune 1915-1964" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 15, 2016), cover price $22.00
9780373160020, titled "The Same Last Name" | Harlequin Books, April 1, 1983, cover price $2.25 | also contains The Same Last Name

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Hardcover:

9781250010025 | St Martins Pr, August 25, 2015, cover price $35.00

Paperback:

9781250105943 | Griffin, October 4, 2016, cover price $18.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9781504672351 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 10, 2015), cover price $54.95
9781504672344 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 10, 2015), cover price $44.95

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9781613735329 | Chicago Review Pr, October 1, 2016, cover price $30.00

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Product Description: David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his generation, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first biography of the writer, D. T. Max sets out to chart Wallace’s tormented, anguished, and often triumphant battle to succeed as a novelist as he fights off depression and addiction to emerge with his masterpiece, Infinite Jest...read more
By Malcolm Hillgartner (narrator)

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9781511362955 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 28, 2016), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his generation, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind.
9781501279980 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, August 11, 2015), cover price $9.99
9781469214832 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, August 30, 2012), cover price $24.99
9781469214849 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, August 30, 2012), cover price $69.97
9781469214870 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, August 30, 2012), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his generation, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind.

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Hardcover:

9781410490681 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 27, 2016), cover price $33.99

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Paperback:

9780786499267 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, March 15, 2016, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: William Faulkner (1897–1962) once said of his novels and stories, “I am telling the same story over and over, which is myself and the world.” This biography provides an overview of the life and career of the famous author, demonstrating the interrelationships of that life, centered in Oxford, Mississippi, with the characters and events of his fictional world...read more

Hardcover:

9781496805607 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, June 1, 2016, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: William Faulkner (1897–1962) once said of his novels and stories, “I am telling the same story over and over, which is myself and the world.

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Hardcover:

9780312342036 | St Martins Pr, March 29, 2016, cover price $26.99

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Product Description: When you reach the age where there is more to look back at than forward to, what do you regret, if anything?  One woman’s brave memoir about a life well lived. It takes a certain kind of woman to have the courage t

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9781620876152 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, June 1, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When you reach the age where there is more to look back at than forward to, what do you regret, if anything?

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Product Description: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “Chris Offutt owns one of the finest, surest prose styles around, ready and able to convey the hardest truth without flinching. Now Offutt enters the darkest and most mysterious of places—the cave of a monstrous enigma named Andrew J...read more

Hardcover:

9781501112461 | Atria Books, February 9, 2016, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “Chris Offutt owns one of the finest, surest prose styles around, ready and able to convey the hardest truth without flinching.

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The author describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt and front-lawn family/patient sleepovers.

Hardcover:

9780312283704 | St Martins Pr, July 10, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt and front-lawn family/patient sleepovers.

Paperback:

9780312425418 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, July 11, 2006), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The author describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt and front-lawn family/patient sleepovers.
9780312422271 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, June 1, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt and front-lawn family/patient sleepovers.

Miscellaneous:

9781429902526 | St Martins Pr, April 1, 2007, cover price $7.99 | also contains Running With Scissors: A Memoir

CD/Spoken Word:

9781427277503 | Unabridged edition (Macmillan Audio, January 5, 2016), cover price $34.99 | also contains Running With Scissors: A Memoir
9781223052915 | Unabridged edition (St Martins Pr, July 30, 2006), cover price $29.95 | also contains Running With Scissors: A Memoir

Prebinding:

9781417684182 | Turtleback Books, November 29, 2005, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: The author describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt and front-lawn family/patient sleepovers.

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Product Description: The life of graphic novel artist Lynd Ward (19051985) is told by author and scholar David A. Beronä in a series of vignettes that are accompanied by woodcut prints illustrating the story. Seven contemporary artists provide the original woodcut prints...read more
By Eric Drooker (introduced by)

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9780915117253 | Freedom Voices Pubns, December 15, 2015, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The life of graphic novel artist Lynd Ward (19051985) is told by author and scholar David A.

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9780449126509, titled "A Rag and a Bone and a Yank of Hair" | Fawcett Books, February 1, 1985, cover price $2.25 | also contains A Rag and a Bone and a Yank of Hair | About this edition: Book.

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9781622319169 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, November 17, 2015), cover price $34.99

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9781504672337, titled "The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 10, 2015), cover price $140.00

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In a memoir written with his brother, the popular author describes how the two of them dealt with their grief over the untimely deaths of their parents and only sister by embarking on a three-week odyssey around the world.

Hardcover:

9780446500104 | Large print edition (Grand Central Pub, April 13, 2004), cover price $37.99 | About this edition: In a memoir written with his brother, the popular author describes how the two of them dealt with their grief over the untimely deaths of their parents and only sister by embarking on a three-week odyssey around the world.
9780446532440 | Grand Central Pub, April 1, 2004, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: In a memoir written with his brother, the popular author describes how the two of them dealt with their grief over the untimely deaths of their parents and only sister by embarking on a three-week odyssey around the world.

Paperback:

9781455515615 | Student edition (Grand Central Pub, April 3, 2012), cover price $14.99
9780446694858 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, January 3, 2006), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In a memoir written with his brother, the popular author describes how the two of them dealt with their grief over the untimely deaths of their parents and only sister by embarking on a three-week odyssey around the world.

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9781586216436 | Unabridged edition (Hachette Audio, April 1, 2004), cover price $39.98 | About this edition: In a memoir written with his brother, the popular author describes how the two of them dealt with their grief over the untimely deaths of their parents and only sister by embarking on a three-week odyssey around the world in an effort to heal, to remember, and to learn to live life to the fullest.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781586216429 | Unabridged edition (Hachette Audio, April 1, 2004), cover price $29.98 | About this edition: In a memoir written with his brother, the popular author describes how the two of them dealt with their grief over the untimely deaths of their parents and only sister by embarking on a three-week odyssey around the world in an effort to heal, to remember, and to learn to live life to the fullest.

Prebinding:

9781439514221 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 1, 2008), cover price $22.99

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Product Description: Often comic, sometimes tender, profoundly truthful, the pleasure in these nonfiction pieces by award-winning novelist Joseph Skibell is discovering along with the author that catastrophes, fantasies, and delusions are what give sweetness and shape to our lives...read more

Paperback:

9781565129306, titled "My Father's Guitar & Other Imaginary Things" | Algonquin Books, October 27, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Often comic, sometimes tender, profoundly truthful, the pleasure in these nonfiction pieces by award-winning novelist Joseph Skibell is discovering along with the author that catastrophes, fantasies, and delusions are what give sweetness and shape to our lives.

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By Arnold Krupat (editor)

Hardcover:

9780803254329 | 1 edition (Univ of Nebraska Pr, September 1, 2015), cover price $60.00

Paperback:

9780533135004, titled "Sesquicentennial" | Vantage Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $10.95 | also contains Sesquicentennial

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Product Description: A rich companion to the first volume of David Plante's memoir, Becoming a Londoner, Worlds Apart explores worlds of experience drawn from the millions of words Plante has put to the page in his diaries over the last fifty years. This new volume doesn't follow sequentially from the first--rather it can be read on its own or as an overlay, building and expanding on the relationships and experiences recalled in Becoming a Londoner...read more

Hardcover:

9781408854808 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, August 25, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A rich companion to the first volume of David Plante's memoir, Becoming a Londoner, Worlds Apart explores worlds of experience drawn from the millions of words Plante has put to the page in his diaries over the last fifty years.

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Hardcover:

9781410473059 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 22, 2014), cover price $31.99
9780345531193 | Ballantine Books, October 7, 2014, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9780345531209 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, August 4, 2015), cover price $15.00

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Product Description: William Shirer (1904-1993), a star foreign correspondent with the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s and ’30s, was a prominent member of what one contemporary observer described as an extraordinary band of American journalists, "some with the Midwest hayseed still in their hair," who gave their North American audiences a visceral sense of how Europe was spiralling into chaos and war...read more

Hardcover:

9780773545441 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, May 1, 2015, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: William Shirer (1904-1993), a star foreign correspondent with the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s and ’30s, was a prominent member of what one contemporary observer described as an extraordinary band of American journalists, "some with the Midwest hayseed still in their hair," who gave their North American audiences a visceral sense of how Europe was spiralling into chaos and war.

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