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Paperback:
9780874410815 | Behrman House, June 1, 1974, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Twenty-eight Jewish tales with morals, including 'Daniel in the Lion's Den,' 'The King's Garden,' and 'The Goat that Made the Stars Sing.
Hardcover:
9780394527673 | Pantheon Books, February 1, 1983, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Yiddish actress Dinah Rappoport's eventful performance in 'The Dybbuk,' the classic play of thwarted love and demonic possession has a galvanizing effect on players and audience alike and unexpected resonance in Dinah's life
Paperback:
9780425076798 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, April 1, 1985), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Yiddish actress Dinah Rappoport's eventful performance in 'The Dybbuk,' the classic play of thwarted love and demonic possession has a galvanizing effect on players and audience alike and unexpected resonance in Dinah's life
Product Description: Revelations of the mysterious, contradictory heart of everyday lifeItâs one thing for your husband to leave you for another woman, but how is a person supposed to feel when the man of her dreams abandons her for the stars themselves? In the twelve tales of Women and Children First, Francine Prose shows us an alcoholic trying to improve himself by fasting, a housewife enrolled in the New Consciousness Academy, and a French literature professor whoâs begun to fear Madame Bovary...read more
Paperback:
9780804104159 | Reprint edition (Ivy Books, February 1, 1989), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Revelations of the mysterious, contradictory heart of everyday lifeItâs one thing for your husband to leave you for another woman, but how is a person supposed to feel when the man of her dreams abandons her for the stars themselves?
Hardcover:
9780374230425 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Stories tell of young bride who realizes she doesn't love her husband, a student who sees her future life depicted on an Egyptian tomb, and a memorable trip to Paris
Paperback:
9781480445468 | Ingram Pub Services, November 26, 2013, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Stories of innocence lost, from a master observer of modern lifeThe citizens of Proseâs realm are perpetually experiencing surprises.
9780060754044 | Reprint edition (Perennial, June 1, 2005), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: When the seemingly perfect lives of a variety of characters begin to unravel because their children, marriages, and work no longer satisfy them, secrets are revealed, birthday parties and weddings take unexpected turns, and pets become the tool of conflict, in a cleverly crafted collection of short fiction about the darkness underneath happiness.
9780805059397 | Reprint edition (Owl Books, November 1, 1998), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: When their seemingly perfect lives begin to unravel because their children, marriages, and work no longer satisfy them, secrets are revealed, birthday parties and weddings take unexpected turns, and pets become the tool of conflict, in a cleverly crafted novel about the darkness underneath happiness.
School and Library:
9780688143077 | Greenwillow, March 1, 1996, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Because forty days before a baby is born the angels in heaven decide whom it will marry, nothing prevents the wedding of Leah and Chonon from taking place.
Library:
9780688143084 | Greenwillow, March 1, 1996, cover price $15.93 | About this edition: Because forty days before a baby is born the angels in heaven decide whom it will marry, nothing prevents the wedding of Leah and Chonon from taking place.
Hardcover:
9780688149055 | Greenwillow, April 1, 1997, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Explains how a botched mission by two angels created the town of fools known as Chelm
Library:
9780688149062 | Greenwillow, April 1, 1997, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: Explains how a botched mission by two angels created the town of fools known as Chelm
Hardcover:
9780805045574 | Henry Holt & Co, August 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Stories depict life in occupied Poland, including acts of courage, fear, and desperation
Paperback:
9780805045581 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, June 1, 1998), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Stories depict life in occupied Poland, including acts of courage, fear, and desperation
Library:
9780688158071 | Greenwillow, May 1, 1998, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: Though mocked by the rest of the villagers, poor Schmuel the shoemaker turns out to be a very special person
Hardcover:
9780893818036 | Aperture, September 1, 1998, cover price $39.95
Hardcover:
9780688175658, titled "The Demons' Mistake: A Story from Chelm" | Greenwillow, July 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Demons from the town of Chelm hide in a crate being shipped to New York because they hope to practice their mischief where streets are paved with gold and there are parties every day.
Library:
9780688175665 | Greenwillow, July 1, 2000, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: Demons from the town of Chelm hide in a crate being shipped to New York because they hope to practice their mischief where streets are paved with gold and there are parties every day.
Paperback:
9780940322646 | New York Review of Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $17.95
Hardcover:
9780060195410 | Harpercollins, April 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An ironic look at modern academia offers the chronicle of the trials and tribulations of Swenson, a frustrated college professor who finds that Angela Argo, a post-punk, oft-pierced student, has a brilliant writing talent
Paperback:
9780060882037 | Perennial, March 1, 2006, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose—now the major motion picture Submission “Screamingly funny … Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals the Salem witch trials.
9780749005979 | New edition (Gardners Books, June 10, 2002), cover price $10.80 | About this edition: It has been years since Swenson, a professor of creative writing at a small New England college, has published a novel of his own.
9780060953713 | Perennial, March 1, 2001, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: An ironic look at modern academia offers the chronicle of the trials and tribulations of Swenson, a frustrated college professor who finds that Angela Argo, a post-punk, oft-pierced student, has a brilliant writing talent.
Miscellaneous:
9780061864902 | Harpercollins, October 13, 2009, cover price $10.99
Hardcover:
9780060196721 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, September 1, 2002), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: An exploration of the complex relationship between artists and their muses profiles nine women, including Alice Liddell, who inspired Lewis Carroll; ballerina Suzanne Farrell, for her impact on George Ballanchine; and Yoko Ono and John Lennon.
Paperback:
9780060555252, titled "The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired" | Reprint edition (Perennial, October 1, 2003), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: An exploration of the complex relationship between artists and their muses profiles nine women, including Alice Liddell, who inspired Lewis Carroll; ballerina Suzanne Farrell, for her impact on George Ballanchine; and Yoko Ono and John Lennon.
Paperback:
9780060511302 | Reprint edition (Perennial, October 1, 2002), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Records the obsessive details of one man's decline into insanity, in a debut novel that questions the tenuous hold all of us claim on reality and upon our very lives.
Hardcover:
9780792265351 | Natl Geographic Society, February 1, 2003, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The author explores the ancient island of Sicily, considering the various cultural legacies--Greek, Roman, Arab, and Norman--that have shaped the island's colorful culture and history.
Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Set in the near future, this novel examines the effects of limiting individual rights in the name of safety after a school shooting prompts a neighboring school to impose increasingly limiting rules on its students.
Hardcover:
9780060080815 | Joanna Cotler Books, April 1, 2003, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear.
9789990051438 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, April 1, 2003, cover price $0.02
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9780060080839 | Reprint edition (Harperteen, May 1, 2004), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear.
Library:
9780060080822 | Joanna Cotler Books, April 1, 2003, cover price $17.89 | About this edition: In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear.
Reinforced:
9780606306874 | Demco Media, October 30, 2004, cover price $16.76 | About this edition: In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear.
Prebinding:
9781435247925 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 18, 2008), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
9780613997751 | Turtleback Books, May 1, 2004, cover price $19.65 | About this edition: In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear.
Hardcover:
9780195156997 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 11, 2003, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A collection of observations on the American obsession with food and diet traces the evolution of the human perspective on gluttony and how it is shaped by ideals about health and spirituality; citing the transition of gluttony from a religious vice in medieval times to illness in modern times, in a second volume on one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Paperback:
9780195312058 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 23, 2006, cover price $14.99
Hardcover:
9789990077469, titled "Mrs. Dalloway Reader" | Harcourt, November 1, 2003, cover price $0.02 | also contains Mrs. Dalloway Reader
Paperback:
9780156030151 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, October 1, 2004), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: The complete text of Woolf's masterpiece 'Mrs.
Hardcover:
9780151010448 | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 2003, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: The complete text of Woolf's masterpiece 'Mrs.
9789990077469 | Harcourt, November 1, 2003, cover price $0.02 | also contains The Mrs. Dalloway Reader
An anthology of tales about the female Ashkenazic experience during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries features such characters as rebellious daughters, reluctant brides, cunning businesswomen, and vengeful midwives as they confront period issues ranging from anti-Semitism to assimilation. Original.
Paperback:
9780446691369 | Grand Central Pub, November 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An anthology of tales about the female Ashkenazic experience during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries features characters that confront period issues ranging from anti-Semitism to assimilation.
Hardcover:
9780786710379 | Carroll & Graf Pub, September 16, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Collects inspirational, historical, and humorous letters written by women to men at the end of a relationship.
Paperback:
9781861056887 | Gardners Books, August 27, 2004, cover price $15.45 | About this edition: An inspirational and highly entertaining collection of letters from women - both fictional and real - whose romances have gone awry and ended emotionally.
9780345465443 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, December 1, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Collects inspirational, historical, and humorous letters from women written to men at the end of a relationship, including those of Agnes Von Kurowsky to Ernest Hemingway, Rebecca West to H.
Hardcover:
9781568984957 | Princeton Architectural Pr, September 30, 2004, cover price $25.00
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9780156028998 | Mariner Books, October 4, 2004, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Gathered from approximately one hundred fifty writing workshops around the United States and Canada, this collection of short stories presents a variety of new voices, settings, and styles that capture all facets and visions of North American life.
Hardcover:
9780195170764 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 21, 2004, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: 'Written by writers for writers, this innovative thesaurus truly advances the time-honored word source.
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9780060746391 | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 1, 2005), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: First published in 1978, a new edition of the powerful, erotic memoir chronicles a brief love affair that evolved into a dangerous and intense sado-masochistic experience that played out over a series of ever more dangerous and elaborate patterns of domination and humiliation in which the woman relinquished all control over her body and mind.
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