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Viewing the AIDS epidemic in the context of the historical incidence of pestilence, the author discusses his own struggle against the physical and emotional ravages of AIDS and the reaction of a society facing a modern-day plague

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9780809070190 | Hill & Wang Pub, September 1, 1988, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Viewing the AIDS epidemic in the context of the historical incidence of pestilence, the author discusses his own struggle against the physical and emotional ravages of AIDS and the reaction of a society facing a modern-day plague

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The youngest of seven children living in a small town in southwestern France during World War II, a little boy quickly learns the importance of compassion in an increasingly intolerant world.

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9780374184483 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1992, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The youngest of seven children living in a small town in southwestern France during World War II, a little boy quickly learns the importance of compassion in an increasingly intolerant world

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Finding themselves wandering somewhere in the Caribbean Sea, the starving and diseased crew of the unstable ship Entremetteuse spots an island and the dim outline of a fabled tree, which is cut off by coral and a sheer cliff.

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9781565841505 | New Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Finding themselves wandering somewhere in the Caribbean Sea, the starving and diseased crew of the unstable ship Entremetteuse spots an island and the dim outline of a fabled tree, which is cut off by coral and a sheer cliff.

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9781888363142 | Seven Stories Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $17.00

Paperback:

9781888363388 | Reprint edition (Seven Stories Pr, September 1, 1996), cover price $9.95

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Feigning madness in order to escape being tortured by the revolutionary secret police, Latin American civil war survivor Fabian Golpiez is forced to use indigenous names in order to prove his innocence and true Tupi Indian identity.

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9781565842748 | New Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Feigning madness in order to escape being tortured by the revolutionary secret police, Latin American civil war survivor Fabian Golpiez is forced to use indigenous names in order to prove his innocence and true Tupi Indian identity

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Split version of General, Organic, and Biochemistry. This text gives students a solid foundation of the chemistry of the human body, consistently demonstrating that a strong background in molecular structure and properties leads to better understanding of biochemical interactions. The strength of this book is its readability, its application to normal human biochemical pathways, as well as discussing biochemical conditions present in diseases. (view table of contents)

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9780030268564, titled "Microeconomics: Principles and Policy, 2001" | South-Western Pub, June 1, 2000, cover price $168.95 | also contains Microeconomics: Principles and Policy, 2001
9781565842403 | Reprint edition (New Pr, April 1, 1995), cover price $22.00
9780030012624, titled "Introduction to Organic & Biochemistry" | 2nd edition (Harcourt School, April 1, 1994), cover price $76.70 | also contains Introduction to Organic & Biochemistry | About this edition: Split version of General, Organic, and Biochemistry.

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9781565842410 | Reprint edition (New Pr, April 1, 1996), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: A novel translated from the French illustrates the moving plight of a youth painfully discovering his homosexuality while surrounded by a conservative peasant immigrant community in rural Argentina.

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Young Nicholas's class ski trip goes from bad to worse when his traveling prosthesis salesman father forgets to give him his suitcase and fills him with horror stories about people who kidnap children for their organs. 15,000 first printing. $12,500 ad/promo.

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9780805046946 | Henry Holt & Co, January 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Young Nicholas's class ski trip goes from bad to worse when his father forgets to give him his suitcase and fills him with horror stories about people who kidnap children for their organs

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The Spanish novelist and screenwriter writes of his imprisonment in Buchenwald and his different attempts to record the memories

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9780670872886 | Viking Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Spanish novelist and screenwriter writes of his imprisonment in Buchenwald and his different attempts to record the memories

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9780140266245 | Penguin USA, March 1, 1998, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: The Spanish novelist and screenwriter writes of his imprisonment in Buchenwald and his different attempts to record the memories

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Originally published in France, where it became a best-seller, an unconventional, satiric novel about gender, politics, and social hypocrisy tells the story of a young woman who slowly metamorphoses into a pig. A first novel.

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9781565843615 | New Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A young woman who lands a position at a beauty parlor enjoys great success until she slowly metamorphoses into a pig

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A collection of tales about trickery, prosperity, hunger, and chicanery

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9781565841857 | New Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of tales about trickery, prosperity, hunger, and chicanery

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9781565843967 | Reprint edition (New Pr, September 1, 1997), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A collection of tales about trickery, prosperity, hunger, and chicanery
9780039221096, titled "Heat and Magnetism: Searching for Structure" | Holt Rinehart & Winston, June 1, 1975, cover price $13.13 | also contains Heat and Magnetism: Searching for Structure

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A successful French writer relates the internal battle he fought against a mysterious ailment that brought him close to death

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9781568362007 | Kodansha Amer Inc, October 1, 1997, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A successful French writer relates the internal battle he fought against a mysterious ailment that brought him close to death

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This novel tells the story of a young boy's school days in Martinique, one of the last colonial possessions of France. His earliest education is an enjoyable form of play with letters and sounds. But once at school he discovers that real education is about learning to be French.

Hardcover:

9780803214774 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $45.00

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9781862071636 | Granta Books, April 16, 1998, cover price $10.20 | About this edition: This novel tells the story of a young boy's school days in Martinique, one of the last colonial possessions of France.

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Drawn from a harsh world of slavery, sugar plantations and hunger, this collection of Creole folktales is based on stories which the author heard as a child.
By Linda Coverdale (trans)

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9781862070868 | Granta Books, April 16, 1998, cover price $10.75 | About this edition: Drawn from a harsh world of slavery, sugar plantations and hunger, this collection of Creole folktales is based on stories which the author heard as a child.

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Product Description: Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows traces the rise and fall of Pipi Soleil, “king of the wheelbarrow” at the vegetable market of Fort-de-France, in a tale as lively and magical as the marketplace itself. In a Martinique where creatures from folklore walk the land and cultural traditions cling tenuously to life, Patrick Chamoiseau’s characters confront the crippling heritage of colonialism and the overwhelming advance of modernization with touching dignity, hilarious resourcefulness, and truly courageous joie de vivre...read more

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9780803264267 | Ill edition (Univ of Nebraska Pr, May 1, 2003), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows traces the rise and fall of Pipi Soleil, “king of the wheelbarrow” at the vegetable market of Fort-de-France, in a tale as lively and magical as the marketplace itself.

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Product Description: Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows traces the rise and fall of Pipi Soleil, “king of the wheelbarrow” at the vegetable market of Fort-de-France, in a tale as lively and magical as the marketplace itself. In a Martinique where creatures from folklore walk the land and cultural traditions cling tenuously to life, Patrick Chamoiseau’s characters confront the crippling heritage of colonialism and the overwhelming advance of modernization with touching dignity, hilarious resourcefulness, and truly courageous joie de vivre...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780803214958 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows traces the rise and fall of Pipi Soleil, “king of the wheelbarrow” at the vegetable market of Fort-de-France, in a tale as lively and magical as the marketplace itself.

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In an evocative, erotic novel, a girl on Martinique explores nightlife among the Mulatto elite of Fort-de-France with her aunt.

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9780374199326 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 1, 2000, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: After growing up in a Martinique village working the cane fields, Adelise is forced to move to Fort-de-France where she explores the exciting and sophisticated nightlife of the mulatto elite.

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A mother and daughter travel to a resort town on the coast of Spain, where they will experience a surrealistic adventure.

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9781565846272 | New Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A mother and daughter travel to a resort town on the coast of Spain, where they experience a surrealistic adventure.

Paperback:

9780065023633, titled "Son of the Morning Star" | Addison-Wesley, June 1, 1997, cover price $9.60 | also contains Son of the Morning Star | About this edition: A runaway bestseller in hardcover and paperback, Son of the Morning Star will now bring the adventurous tale of General George Armstrong Custer to a new, even wider audience.

By Linda Coverdale (trans)

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9780070306363, titled "Schaum''s Outline of Theory and Problems of Analog and Digital Communications" | McGraw-Hill, May 1, 1993, cover price $15.95 | also contains Schaum''s Outline of Theory and Problems of Analog and Digital Communications, This Blinding Absence of Light

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The award-winning Moroccan-born author of The Sacred Night and Corruption provides a chilling fictional account of the horrific desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies and the inhumane conditions in which survivors lived. Reprint.

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9781565847231 | Italian edition edition (New Pr, May 1, 2002), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Provides a fictional account of the horrific desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies and the inhumane conditions in which survivors lived.

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9780143035725 | Italian edition edition (Penguin USA, January 31, 2006), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The award-winning Moroccan-born author of The Sacred Night and Corruption provides a chilling fictional account of the horrific desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies and the inhumane conditions in which survivors lived.
9780070306363, titled "Schaum''s Outline of Theory and Problems of Analog and Digital Communications" | McGraw-Hill, May 1, 1993, cover price $15.95 | also contains Schaum''s Outline of Theory and Problems of Analog and Digital Communications, This Blinding Absence of Light

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In the hope of retiring from their collective lives of crime, a group of outlaws plots an imaginative and brazen hold-up of the local casino in a small French seaside town.

Hardcover:

9781565847576 | New Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In the hope of retiring from their collective lives of crime, a group of outlaws plots an imaginative and brazen hold-up of the local casino in a small French seaside town.

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A black comedy about a thirtysomething man on the verge of a nervous breakdown follows too-young Antoine--a death obsessed man--into a 'rest home' five years shy of forty where he befriends an Alzheimer's patient named Al and is constantly seduced by the nurses caring for him. Original.

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9780786712823 | Carroll & Graf Pub, January 4, 2004, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: A black comedy about a thirtysomething man on the verge of a nervous breakdown follows too-young Antoine--a death obsessed man--into a 'rest home' five years shy of forty where he befriends an Alzheimer's patient named Al and is constantly seduced by the nurses caring for him.

The disintegration of an affair, set in Tokyo and Kyoto, details a couple's final days, exploring not only the feelings of the characters and lost intimacy, but the ultramodern setting and place in which it occurs.

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9781565848535 | New Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The disintegration of an affair, set in Tokyo and Kyoto, details a couple's final days, exploring not only the feelings of the characters and lost intimacy, but the ultramodern setting and place in which it occurs.
9780071175258, titled "Concepts in Biology" | 9 edition (McGraw-Hill, June 1, 2000), cover price $5.48 | also contains Concepts in Biology

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