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Product Description: “There comes a time in your life when the past decides to run you down,” Mark Slouka writes in this heartbreaking and soul-searching memoir about one man's attempt to reckon with the past.Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka’s parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war...read more

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9780393292305 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 18, 2016, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: “There comes a time in your life when the past decides to run you down,” Mark Slouka writes in this heartbreaking and soul-searching memoir about one man's attempt to reckon with the past.

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Product Description: A 2013 Booklist Editors’ Choice: Best Adult Books for Young Adults A powerful story about an unforgettable friendship between two teenage boys and their hopes for escape from a dead-end town. The year is 1968. The world is changing, and sixteen-year-old Jon Mosher is determined to change with it...read more

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9780393239751 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 5, 2013), cover price $25.95

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9780393348835 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 5, 2014), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A 2013 Booklist Editors’ Choice: Best Adult Books for Young Adults A powerful story about an unforgettable friendship between two teenage boys and their hopes for escape from a dead-end town.

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9781447219248 | Pan Macmillan, January 5, 2012, cover price $25.35

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9780465020829 | Basic Books, December 1, 2011, cover price $24.00

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Product Description: An immensely moving, powerfully romantic novel about the vagaries of love and the legacy of war, The Visible World is narrated by the American-born son of Czech immigrants. His New York childhood, lived in a boisterous community of the displaced, is suffused with stories: fragments of European history, Czech fairy tales, and family secrets gleaned from overheard conversations...read more

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9780618756438 | Houghton Mifflin, April 19, 2007, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Growing up in New York as the American-born son of Czech immigrants, the narrator journeys to Prague as an adult in the hope of learning more about his mother, Ivana, her love affair with a member of the Czech Resistance, and their possible involvement in the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi official.

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9780547053677 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, March 18, 2008), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An immensely moving, powerfully romantic novel about the vagaries of love and the legacy of war, The Visible World is narrated by the American-born son of Czech immigrants.

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An intriguing fictional biography of Chang and Eng, the first Siamese twins in recorded history, describes how these two men transcended their physical abnormality to live lives of remarkable grace, suffering, and love. A first novel. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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9780375402166 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 2002), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: An intriguing fictional biography of Chang and Eng, the first Siamese twins in recorded history, describes how these two men transcended their physical abnormality to live lives of remarkable grace, suffering, and love.

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9780375702099 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 2003), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: An intriguing fictional biography of Chang and Eng, the first Siamese twins in recorded history, describes how these two men transcended their physical abnormality to live lives of remarkable grace, suffering, and love.

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A debut collection of twelve finely written short stories, including a 1997 winner of the National Magazine Award in Fiction, portrays three generations of men and women whose lives and loves are played out on and around a luminous lake. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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9780375402159 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1998, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A debut collection of twelve short stories, including a 1997 winner of the National Magazine Award in Fiction, portrays three generations of men and women whose lives and loves are played out on and around a luminous lake

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9780375702082 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 21, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A debut collection of twelve short stories, including a 1997 winner of the National Magazine Award in Fiction, portrays three generations of men and women whose lives and loves are played out on and around a luminous lake

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Predicting a forthcoming technological revolution with roots in cyberspace, a cautionary examination of Internet culture reveals 'digerati' personalities and their plans for the future

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9780465004867 | Basic Books, August 1, 1995, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Predicting a forthcoming technological revolution with roots in cyberspace, a cautionary examination of Internet culture reveals 'digerati' personalities and their plans for the future

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9780465004874 | Basic Books, August 1, 1996, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Predicting a forthcoming technological revolution with roots in cyberspace, a cautionary examination of Internet culture reveals 'digerati' personalities and their plans for the future

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