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By Linda Coverdale (trans)

Paperback:

9781847247339 | Gardners Books, January 6, 2011, cover price $15.45

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By Linda Coverdale (trans)

Hardcover:

9780805087550 | 1 edition (Metropolitan Books, August 3, 2010), cover price $25.00

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By Linda Coverdale (trans)

Hardcover:

9780374271039 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 17, 2009), cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9780312429379 | Picador USA, March 2, 2010, cover price $17.00

Miscellaneous:

9781429940474 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 2, 2010, cover price $9.99

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Product Description: This book brings together the great majority of Barthes’s interviews that originally appeared in French in Le Figaro Littéraire, Cahiers du Cinéma, France-Observateur, L'Express, and elsewhere. Barthes replied to questions—on the cinema, on his own works, on fashion, writing, and criticism—in his unique voice; here we have Barthes in conversation, speaking directly, with all his individuality...read more
By Linda Coverdale (trans)

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9780810126404 | Northwestern Univ Pr, December 28, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This book brings together the great majority of Barthes’s interviews that originally appeared in French in Le Figaro Littéraire, Cahiers du Cinéma, France-Observateur, L'Express, and elsewhere.

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Explains the purposes of writing, aids in the understanding of grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, gives the processes of research writing, and provides a section for ESL students

Hardcover:

9780138137670, titled "Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers" | Prentice Hall, January 1, 1993, cover price $27.33 | also contains Simon and Schuster Handbook for Writers | About this edition: Explains the purposes of writing, aids in the understanding of grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, gives the processes of research writing, and provides a section for ESL students

Paperback:

9781595584526 | Reprint edition (New Pr, July 14, 2009), cover price $17.95

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9780143114659 | 1 edition (Penguin USA, March 31, 2009), cover price $15.00

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By Linda Coverdale (trans)

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9781906413330 | Arcadia Books Ltd, February 12, 2009, cover price $13.50

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On the brink of middle age, Paul Blick, a not-so-extraordinary Frenchman and onetime successful tree photographer, discovers that he has somehow arrived at the current place in his life, not through his own efforts, but as the result of blind chance and as a product of his times, searches for the meaning of his life at the dawn of the twenty-first century. 20,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780307262875 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, July 3, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Paul, a middle-aged Frenchman who had achieved fleeting success as a tree photographer, struggles to find meaning in his life in the political and social upheavals of the early twenty-first century.

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Product Description: Their father’s favorite saying, between drinks and blows, was, “Life holds only bad surprises, and the last one will be death.” And now, Colin observes of the man sprawled under all the broken furniture, their father was definitely and forever out of surprises...read more

Hardcover:

9780803244504 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, May 1, 2008, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Their father’s favorite saying, between drinks and blows, was, “Life holds only bad surprises, and the last one will be death.

Paperback:

9780803294592 | Bison Books, May 1, 2008, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Their father’s favorite saying, between drinks and blows, was, “Life holds only bad surprises, and the last one will be death.

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A tale set against a backdrop of 1937's massacre of thousands of Haitians under the orders of power-mad generalissimo Trujillo finds the loving interracial marriage of Dominican Pedro and Haitian Adèle shattered when a group of soldiers arrive in their Dominican border town intent on murdering Haitian citizens.

Hardcover:

9780811215855 | New Directions, November 1, 2005, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A tale set against a backdrop of 1937's massacre of thousands of Haitians under the orders of power-mad generalissimo Trujillo finds the loving interracial marriage of Dominican Pedro and Haitian Adèle shattered when a group of soldiers arrive in their Dominican border town intent on murdering Haitian citizens.

Paperback:

9780811217255 | New Directions, May 1, 2008, cover price $16.95

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The late French writer offers a fictionalized account of her search for the truth behind the disappearance of her mother, a writer who was sent to Auschwitz when the author was five

Hardcover:

9781565843882 | New Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The late French writer offers a fictionalized account of her search for the truth behind the disappearance of her mother, a writer who was sent to Auschwitz when the author was five

Paperback:

9781595583567 | New Pr, April 1, 2008, cover price $14.95
9781565845282 | New Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $12.95
9780131898127, titled "The Creative Impulse: An Introduction to the Arts" | 3 sub edition (Prentice Hall, January 1, 1993), cover price $51.00 | also contains The Creative Impulse: An Introduction to the Arts | About this edition: Traces the history of the arts through the centuries, discussing developments in painting, sculpture, music, dance, theater, architecture, and literature
9780039220624, titled "Procedures for the Medical Secretary" | Harcourt Brace, December 1, 1988, cover price $24.95 | also contains Procedures for the Medical Secretary

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A veteran foreign correspondent shares a collection of interviews with ten Hutu men--all tried, convicted, and sentenced for the genocidal killings of their Tutsi neighbors--as they describe their participation in the heinous crimes and their reasons for the murders, in a study that considers the roots of human morality and ethics. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780374280826 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A veteran foreign correspondent shares a collection of interviews with ten Hutu men--all tried, convicted and sentenced for the genocidal killings of their Tutsi neighbors--as they describe their participation in the heinous crimes and their reasons for the murders.

Paperback:

9780312425036 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, April 18, 2006), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A veteran foreign correspondent shares a collection of interviews with ten Hutu men--all tried, convicted, and sentenced for the genocidal killings of their Tutsi neighbors--as they describe their participation in the heinous crimes and their reasons for the murders, in a study that considers the roots of human morality and ethics.

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Product Description: At the City Hall in a small town in the South of France, one man starts his campaign to correct the ills that have overtaken his proud nation by lecuring the town's inhabitants on the art of conversation. In the narrator's opinion, "coversation is a specialty that is most eminently French," an art that should be nurtured and practiced, and can help repair France's reputation...read more

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9781564783516 | Italian edition edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, May 1, 2005), cover price $12.50 | About this edition: At the City Hall in a small town in the South of France, one man starts his campaign to correct the ills that have overtaken his proud nation by lecuring the town's inhabitants on the art of conversation.
9781564783516 | Italian edition edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, May 1, 2005), cover price $12.50 | About this edition: At the City Hall in a small town in the South of France, one man starts his campaign to correct the ills that have overtaken his proud nation by lecuring the town's inhabitants on the art of conversation.

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In the magical world of Fairytale, three teenage girls--Jade, Opal, and Amber--embark on a dangerous quest to save their enchanted land, a journey that also has profound repercussions in a parallel world, where a young girl named Joa battles for her life in a Parisian hospital. A first novel. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780786818358 | Hyperion, April 1, 2004, cover price $16.45 | About this edition: Three girls, known as the Stones of Prophecy, are drawn to a land called Fairytale, where they and a man called the Chosen One seek Oonagh, a magical creature who explains their role in a battle between Good and Evil.

Paperback:

9780786856558 | Reprint edition (Hyperion, April 13, 2005), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Three girls, known as the Stones of Prophecy, are drawn to a land called Fairytale, where they and a man called the Chosen One seek Oonagh, a magical creature who explains their role in a battle between Good and Evil.

Prebinding:

9781417685790, titled "Prophecy of the Stones" | Turtleback Books, April 1, 2005, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Three girls, known as the Stones of Prophecy, are drawn to a land called Fairytale, where they and a man called the Chosen One seek Oonagh, a magical creature who explains their role in a battle between Good and Evil.

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.

Hardcover:

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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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.

Paperback:

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.

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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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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.

Hardcover:

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.

Paperback:

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

By Linda Coverdale (trans)

Paperback:

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

Hardcover:

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.

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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.

Hardcover:

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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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)

Hardcover:

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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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

Paperback:

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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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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