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CD/Spoken Word:

9781482964271 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 3, 2014), cover price $90.00

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CD/Spoken Word:

9781482964288 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 3, 2014), cover price $29.95

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Hardcover:

9780307273581, titled "Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 19, 2013, cover price $30.00

Paperback:

9780307475527, titled "Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson" | Vintage Books, December 3, 2013, cover price $17.95

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Product Description: Brian McGrory thought he had it all figured out: a great job, a condo in Back Bay, and his beloved golden retriever Harry by his side. But after Harry’s death, McGrory's life as a bachelor takes quite the turn. He falls in love with Harry’s veterinarian Pam, and leaves the city for life in the suburbs with Pam’s family and their two dogs, two cats, two rabbits, and Buddy—the self-assured family rooster who hates Brian’s guts...read more

Hardcover:

9781410453297 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 14, 2012), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: Award-winning journalist Brian McGrory goes head to beak in a battle royale with another male for a top-spot in his home, vying for dominance with the family's pet rooster.
9780307953063 | Crown Pub, November 13, 2012, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Award-winning journalist Brian McGrory goes head to beak in a battle royale with another male for a top-spot in his home, vying for dominance with the family’s pet rooster.

Paperback:

9780307953070 | Broadway Books, November 5, 2013, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Brian McGrory thought he had it all figured out: a great job, a condo in Back Bay, and his beloved golden retriever Harry by his side.

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Hardcover:

9780385530903 | Nan a Talese, October 29, 2013, cover price $28.95

Paperback:

9780385343527 | Dial Pr, December 2, 2014, cover price $16.00 | also contains The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
9780804121170 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, October 29, 2013), cover price $29.00
9780312101954, titled "Equal Value/Comparable Worth in the Uk and the USA" | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, October 1, 1993), cover price $24.95 | also contains Equal Value/Comparable Worth in the Uk and the USA, The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son

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9780385343527 | Dial Pr, December 2, 2014, cover price $16.00 | also contains The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
9780312101954, titled "Equal Value/Comparable Worth in the Uk and the USA" | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, October 1, 1993), cover price $24.95 | also contains Equal Value/Comparable Worth in the Uk and the USA, The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son

CD/Spoken Word:

9780307989826 | Unabridged edition (Random House, October 29, 2013), cover price $45.00

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Hardcover:

9780802121400 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, October 1, 2013, cover price $24.00

Paperback:

9780802121417 | Grove Pr, August 12, 2014, cover price $14.00

The publication of Jarhead launched a new career for Anthony Swofford, earning him accolades for its gritty and unexpected portraits of the soldiers who fought in the Gulf War. It spawned a Hollywood movie. It made Swofford famous and wealthy. It also nearly killed him. Now with the same unremitting intensity he brought to his first memoir, Swofford describes his search for identity, meaning, and a reconciliation with his dying father in the years after he returned from serving as a sniper in the Marines. Adjusting to life after war, he watched his older brother succumb to cancer and his first marriage disintegrate, leading him to pursue a lifestyle in Manhattan that brought him to the brink of collapse. Consumed by drugs, drinking, expensive cars, and women, Swofford lost almost everything and everyone that mattered to him. When a son is in trouble he hopes to turn to his greatest source of wisdom and support: his father. But Swofford and his father didn't exactly have that kind of relationship. The key, he realized, was to confront the man-a philandering, once hard-drinking, now terminally ill Vietnam vet he had struggled hard to understand and even harder to love. The two stubborn, strong-willed war vets embarked on a series of RV trips that quickly became a kind of reckoning in which Swofford took his father to task for a lifetime of infidelities and abuse. For many years Swofford had considered combat the decisive test of a man's greatness. With the understanding that came from these trips and the fateful encounter that took him to a like-minded woman named Christa, Swofford began to understand that becoming a father himself might be the ultimate measure of his life. Elegantly weaving his family's past with his own present-nights of excess and sexual conquest, visits with injured war veterans, and a near-fatal car crash-Swofford casts a courageous, insistent eye on both his father and himself in order to make sense of what his military service meant, and to decide, after nearly ending it, what his life can and should become as a man, a veteran, and a father.

Hardcover:

9781455506736 | Twelve, June 5, 2012, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: The publication of Jarhead launched a new career for Anthony Swofford, earning him accolades for its gritty and unexpected portraits of the soldiers who fought in the Gulf War.
9781455513512 | Large print edition (Twelve, June 5, 2012), cover price $28.99 | About this edition: The publication of Jarhead launched a new career for Anthony Swofford, earning him accolades for its gritty and unexpected portraits of the soldiers who fought in the Gulf War.

Paperback:

9781455506743 | Twelve, June 4, 2013, cover price $15.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9781611134544 | Unabridged edition (Twelve, June 5, 2012), cover price $29.98 | About this edition: The publication of Jarhead launched a new career for Anthony Swofford, earning him accolades for its gritty and unexpected portraits of the soldiers who fought in the Gulf War.
9781619690899 | Hachette Audio, June 5, 2012, cover price $64.99 | About this edition: Following the success of Jarhead, Anthony Swofford assumed he had exorcised his military demons -- but as every veteran knows, that isn't exactly how it works.

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Product Description: Growing up, what Sanford Tweedie knew about East Germany was basically . . . nothing. West Germans were our friends; East Germans, the enemy. In 2000, somewhat better informed, Tweedie took advantage of a Fulbright Scholarship to move his family to the eastern German town of Erfurt for the academic year...read more

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9780803271418 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, May 1, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Growing up, what Sanford Tweedie knew about East Germany was basically .

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A New York Times Bestseller -- In 2009, bestselling author Eloisa James took a leap that many people dream about: she sold her house, took a sabbatical from her job as a Shakespeare professor, and moved her family to Paris. With no classes to teach, no meetings to attend, no lawn to mow, Eloisa revels in the ordinary pleasures of life. Paris in Love invites the reader into the life of a most enchanting family, framed by la ville de l'amour.

Hardcover:

9781410451644 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 10, 2012), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: A New York Times Bestseller -- In 2009, bestselling author Eloisa James took a leap that many people dream about: she sold her house, took a sabbatical from her job as a Shakespeare professor, and moved her family to Paris.
9781400069569 | Random House Inc, April 3, 2012, cover price $26.00

Paperback:

9780812981902 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, March 26, 2013), cover price $15.00

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Product Description: Bowling lessons with a hunchback. A bizarre first-grade teacher who hallucinates in class. A tragically innocent family blind-sided by flower power, and the salvation of soul music at a radio station straight out of a Quentin Tarantino version of The Twilight Zone...read more

Paperback:

9781593764487 | Soft Skull Pr, November 13, 2012, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Bowling lessons with a hunchback.

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Product Description: Brian McGrory's life changed drastically after the death of his beloved dog, Harry: he fell in love with Pam, Harry's veterinarian. Though Brian's only responsibility used to be his adored Harry, Pam came with accessories that could not have been more exotic to the city-loving bachelor: a home in suburbia, two young daughters, two dogs, two cats, two rabbits, and a portly, snow white, red-crowned-and-wattled step-rooster named Buddy...read more
By Johnny Heller (narrator) and Brian McGrory

CD/Spoken Word:

9781452639215 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 6, 2012), cover price $83.99 | About this edition: Brian McGrory's life changed drastically after the death of his beloved dog, Harry: he fell in love with Pam, Harry's veterinarian.

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Brian McGrory's life changed drastically after the death of his beloved dog, Harry: he fell in love with Pam, Harry's veterinarian. Though Brian's only responsibility used to be his adored Harry, Pam came with accessories that could not have been more exotic to the city-loving bachelor: a home in suburbia, two young daughters, two dogs, two cats, two rabbits, and a portly, snow white, red-crowned-and-wattled step-rooster named Buddy. While Buddy loves the women of the house, he takes Brian's presence as an affront, doing everything he can to drive out his rival. Initially resistant to elements of his new life and to the loud, aggressive rooster (who stares menacingly, pecks threateningly, and is constantly poised to attack), Brian eventually sees that Buddy shares the kind of extraordinary relationship with Pam and her two girls that he wants for himself. The rooster is what Brian needs to be-strong and content, devoted to what he has rather than what might be missing. As he learns how to live by living with animals, Buddy, Brian's nemesis, becomes Brian's inspiration, in this inherently human story of love, acceptance, and change.In the tradition of bestsellers like Marley and Me, Dewey, and The Tender Bar comes a heartwarming and wise tale of finding love in life's second chapter-and how it means all the more when you have to fight for it.
By Johnny Heller (narrator)

CD/Spoken Word:

9781452609218 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 6, 2012), cover price $39.99
9781452659213 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 6, 2012), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Brian McGrory's life changed drastically after the death of his beloved dog, Harry: he fell in love with Pam, Harry's veterinarian.

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Product Description: Susan McBride, author of The Cougar Club and Little Black Dress, opens her heart in this irresistible memoir about how she got married, got pregnant, and beat breast cancer—all after her 40th birthday. By turns deliciously funny and utterly poignant, In the Pink is definitely Susan's story ...read more

Paperback:

9780062230768 | William Morrow & Co, November 6, 2012, cover price $2.99 | About this edition: Susan McBride, author of The Cougar Club and Little Black Dress, opens her heart in this irresistible memoir about how she got married, got pregnant, and beat breast cancer—all after her 40th birthday.

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Paperback:

9781935248255 | Leapfrog Pr, August 21, 2012, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Hailed as "thoroughly fascinating" and "an excellent account" by The New York Times, this chronicle recaptures the vibrantly eccentric lifestyles of generations of free-spirited Americans. Its evocative profiles range from Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and Ambrose Bierce to lesser-known nonconformists and iconoclasts...read more

Paperback:

9780486486055 | Reissue edition (Dover Pubns, March 14, 2012), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Hailed as "thoroughly fascinating" and "an excellent account" by The New York Times, this chronicle recaptures the vibrantly eccentric lifestyles of generations of free-spirited Americans.

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Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. THE PITCHER'S KID is Jack Olsen's memoir of the first 18 years of his life, years that formed his voice, his ear, and his passionate concern for the underdog. It is a story of a young boy's desperate yearning for a father during a time of extreme poverty and confusion...read more

Paperback:

9781929355761 | Small Pr Distribution, September 15, 2011, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Literary Nonfiction.

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Hardcover:

9780446532242 | Grand Central Pub, September 13, 2011, cover price $26.99
9780446541213 | Large print edition (Grand Central Pub, September 13, 2011), cover price $37.99

Paperback:

9781455513079 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, September 18, 2012), cover price $15.99
9780446540759 | Hachette Book Group USA, September 13, 2011, cover price $16.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9781619692091 | Unabridged edition (Grand Central Pub, September 18, 2012), cover price $19.98
9781600244698 | Unabridged edition (Hachette Audio, September 30, 2011), cover price $29.98
9781611137712 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2011), cover price $64.99

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Product Description: An Academy Award–nominated screenwriter and a mystery novelist, Roger L. Simon is the only American writer to pull off the amazing trick of being profiled positively in both Mother Jones and National Review in one lifetime. The stunning story of his political odyssey is told in this memoir, where Simon recounts his migration from financier of the Black Panther Breakfast Program to pioneer blogosphere mogul beloved by the right as a 9/11 Democrat...read more

Paperback:

9781594034817 | Reprint edition (Encounter Books, February 8, 2011), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An Academy Award–nominated screenwriter and a mystery novelist, Roger L.

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Product Description: The most beloved humorist of his day, Mark Twain is today considered one of the greatest authors the United States has ever produced. Born Samuel Clemens, a poor boy hailing from the humble frontier town of Hannibal, Missouri, Twain delighted readers throughout the 19th century with his observations about the best and worst in the American character...read more
By Liz Sonneborn and Kyle Zimmer (foreword by)

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9781604137286 | Chelsea House Pub, November 1, 2010, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The most beloved humorist of his day, Mark Twain is today considered one of the greatest authors the United States has ever produced.

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Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. SALT AND PAPER is a daily reflection that is immediate and an accumulation of life experience in poetry and prose fragments placing a heartfelt, yet realistic light on difficult subjects as the author speaks of aging: a friend's slow demise with Alzheimer's; the lifelong effect of a brother's mental illness; the present, lived aging process; the interlacing of four generations--and, the creative, writing life that responds with compassion, humor, art...read more

Paperback:

9780981953427 | Raw Art Pr, November 15, 2010, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Literary Nonfiction.

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Hardcover:

9780061825934 | Ecco Pr, February 16, 2010, cover price $21.99

Paperback:

9780061825958 | Reprint edition (Ecco Pr, February 15, 2011), cover price $12.99

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