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Product Description: The author of the The Children’s Blizzard delivers an epic work of twentieth century history through the riveting story of one extraordinary Jewish familyIn tracing the roots of this family—his own family—Laskin captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century...read more

Hardcover:

9780670025473 | Viking Pr, October 15, 2013, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: The author of the The Children’s Blizzard delivers an epic work of twentieth century history through the riveting story of one extraordinary Jewish familyIn tracing the roots of this family—his own family—Laskin captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century.

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Product Description: The United States has always been a nation of immigrants-never more so than in 1917 when the nation entered the First World War. Of the 2.5 million soldiers who fought with U.S. armed forces in the trenches of France and Belgium, some half a million-nearly one out of every five men-were immigrants...read more

Hardcover:

9780061233333, titled "The Long Way Home: An American Journey From Ellis Island to the Great War" | Harpercollins, March 16, 2010, cover price $26.99

Paperback:

9780061946202, titled "The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War" | Large print edition (Harpercollins, March 16, 2010), cover price $26.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9781400164509, titled "The Long Way Home: An American Journey From Ellis Island to the Great War" | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, March 16, 2010), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: The United States has always been a nation of immigrants-never more so than in 1917 when the nation entered the First World War.

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Product Description: The United States has always been a nation of immigrants-never more so than in 1917 when the nation entered the First World War. Of the 2.5 million soldiers who fought with U.S. armed forces in the trenches of France and Belgium, some half a million-nearly one out of every five men-were immigrants...read more

Miscellaneous:

9780061985348 | Harpercollins, March 16, 2010, cover price $11.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9781400114504 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, March 16, 2010), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: The United States has always been a nation of immigrants-never more so than in 1917 when the nation entered the First World War.

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Product Description: The United States has always been a nation of immigrants-never more so than in 1917 when the nation entered the First World War. Of the 2.5 million soldiers who fought with U.S. armed forces in the trenches of France and Belgium, some half a million-nearly one out of every five men-were immigrants...read more

CD/Spoken Word:

9781400144501 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, March 16, 2010), cover price $79.99 | About this edition: The United States has always been a nation of immigrants-never more so than in 1917 when the nation entered the First World War.

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Describes the deadly 1888 snowstorm in the Great Plains that killed more than five hundred people including numerous schoolchildren, describing how the storm devastated immigrant families and dramatically affected pioneer advancement.

Hardcover:

9780060520755 | Harpercollins, November 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Describes the deadly 1888 snowstorm in the Great Plains that killed more than five hundred people including numerous schoolchildren, describing how the storm devastated immigrant families and dramatically affected pioneer advancement.

Paperback:

9780060520762 | Reprint edition (Perennial, October 1, 2005), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Describes the deadly 1888 snowstorm in the Great Plains that killed more than five hundred people including numerous schoolchildren, describing how the storm devastated immigrant families and dramatically affected pioneer advancement.

Miscellaneous:

9780061866524 | Harpercollins, October 13, 2009, cover price $9.99

Product Description: Nowhere in the world is weather as volatile and powerful as it is in North America.  Scorching heat in the Southwest, hurricanes on the Atlantic coast, tornadoes in the Plains, blizzards in the mountains:  Every area of the country has vastly different weather, and vastly different cultures as a result...read more

Hardcover:

9780385469555 | 1 edition (Doubleday, February 1, 1996), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A study of American weather explains how volatile and violent weather has shaped American culture, from ancient times to the present, detailing the history of weather prediction, the storms that have ravaged the landscape, and more

Paperback:

9780385469562 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, June 16, 1997), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A study of American weather explains how volatile and violent weather has shaped American culture, from ancient times to the present, detailing the history of weather prediction, the storms that have ravaged the landscape, and more

Prebinding:

9781439503959 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Nowhere in the world is weather as volatile and powerful as it is in North America.

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Product Description: In this splendid group portrait, David Laskin tells the stories of four friendships that helped to define the course of American literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell...read more

Paperback:

9781416576068 | Simon & Schuster, September 6, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this splendid group portrait, David Laskin tells the stories of four friendships that helped to define the course of American literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.

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Product Description: Combining literary biography with astute reporting and moral insight, David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art affected relationships among the Partisan Review writers: Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv, Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt, Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, and Diana Trilling...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780684815657 | Simon & Schuster, January 1, 2000, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A vivid chronicle of four decades of life among Manhattan's intelligencia reveals how thinkers such as Robert Lowell, Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, and Hannah Arendt led opposition to the Vietnam War only to be swept aside by the women's movement.

Paperback:

9780226468938 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Combining literary biography with astute reporting and moral insight, David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art affected relationships among the Partisan Review writers: Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv, Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt, Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, and Diana Trilling.

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Product Description: Artists do it differently. Make gardens, that is. This lusciously photographed book showcases ten creative, unconventional, sometimes outrageous gardens made by painters, glassblowers, collage artists, and sculptors. Their uncommon approaches provide fresh ideas and inspiration for all gardeners who are all tired of the same old beds, borders, and lawns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9781570612442 | Sasquatch Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Artists do it differently.

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Product Description: Here is the first social history of the weather in this notoriouslywet region--not just how damp it is, but what all of this extravagantweather does to the souls who have endured, cursed, and worshiped it. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9781570610639 | Sasquatch Books, June 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Here is the first social history of the weather in this notoriouslywet region--not just how damp it is, but what all of this extravagantweather does to the souls who have endured, cursed, and worshiped it.

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Product Description: In this splendid group portrait, David Laskin tells the stories of four friendships that helped to define the course of American literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell...read more

Hardcover:

9780671724191 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1994, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A blend of biography and literary criticism casts light on American letters through an examination of four influential friendships--Melville and Hawthorn, James and Wharton, Porter and Welty, and Bishop and Lowell

Paperback:

9780874517644 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of New England, June 1, 1996), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: In this splendid group portrait, David Laskin tells the stories of four friendships that helped to define the course of American literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.

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A step-by-step guide for parents covering every period of their daughter's development from birth through early school years includes information on creating a 'non-sexist' environment, fostering independence, and dealing with moodiness. Reprint.

Paperback:

9780345386786 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, April 1, 1996), cover price $5.99 | also contains Peter Bogdanovich: Interviews | About this edition: A step-by-step guide for parents covering every period of their daughter's development from birth through early school years includes information on creating a 'non-sexist' environment, fostering independence, and dealing with moodiness.
9780345368027 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, April 1, 1992), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Discusses child development, gender identity, school, family life, sexual abuse, single parents, working mothers, and the special problems of adolescence

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Product Description: The complete guide to starting and sustaining a reading group, with annotated lists of 250 titles for provocative discussion. This lively, down-to-earth book, based on the experiences of groups across the country, is a complete guide to reading groups—from getting a new one going to sparking lively discussions to revitalizing a long-established group...read more

Paperback:

9780452272019 | Plume, February 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The complete guide to starting and sustaining a reading group, with annotated lists of 250 titles for provocative discussion.

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Based on the latest research and interviews with parents, this guide provides detailed information on all aspects of child safety and describes the most effective methods of instilling safety-consciousness in children

Paperback:

9780345351043 | Ballantine Books, November 1, 1991, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Based on the latest research and interviews with parents, this guide provides detailed information on all aspects of child safety and describes the most effective methods of instilling safety-consciousness in children

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Product Description: The first complete guide to pregnancy, childbirth, childcare, and child development designed exclusively for fathers -- from America's #1 family magazine.Today more than ever before fathers share in the practical responsibilities and in the intimate rewards of raising their children...read more

Paperback:

9780345337078 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, December 1, 1990), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: The first complete guide to pregnancy, childbirth, childcare, and child development designed exclusively for fathers -- from America's #1 family magazine.

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Product Description: Book by Laskin, David

Hardcover:

9780816017997 | Facts on File, June 1, 1990, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Book by Laskin, David

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Product Description: 272pages. in4. Broché. Laskin is a writer with some experience as a copywriter. Happily, his status as a relative outsider is not a drawback, because he includes a wide variety of information from people working in advertising, while remaining quite objective about the field...read more

Paperback:

9780345325983 | Ballantine Books, September 1, 1986, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: 272pages.

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A guide to reading 'Billy Budd' and 'Typee' with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.

Paperback:

9780812034042 | Barrons Educational Series Inc, October 1, 1984, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: A guide to reading 'Billy Budd' and 'Typee' with a critical and appreciative mind.

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Product Description: A lively, in-depth discussion of BILLY BUDD AND TYPEE. Students are taken on an exciting journey of discovery through every scene or chapter. Also included are unique text notes, ideas for term papers, notes on the author's life as well as a glossary.

Paperback:

9780764191060 | Barrons Educational Series Inc, January 1, 1984, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A lively, in-depth discussion of BILLY BUDD AND TYPEE.

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