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9780811201087 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1969, cover price $19.95
Hardcover:
9780405100338 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1977, cover price $25.95 | also contains Unbuttoning America: A Biography of Peyton Place
Discusses the criteria for the selection of fiction, examines the issues surrounding library fiction collections, and discusses censorship, young people's fiction, and the selection process
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9780872874596 | Libraries Unltd Inc, July 1, 1985, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Discusses the criteria for the selection of fiction, examines the issues surrounding library fiction collections, and discusses censorship, young people's fiction, and the selection process
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9780316101196 | Little Brown & Co, August 1, 1986, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Includes the best reviews, essays, and articles of the Club's 'News,' including pieces by Heywood Brown, Maxwell Perkins, John Gunther, Robert Penn Warren, and Barbara Tuchman
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9780807820100 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Examines the growth of book clubs, reading groups, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century to chronicle the rise of middlebrow culture
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9780807843543 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Examines the growth of book clubs, reading groups, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century to chronicle the rise of middlebrow culture
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9780898154849 | Ten Speed Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Lists hundreds of books that have made the famous list, and offers facts about the publishing industry, authors, and the list itself
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9780226497235 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 1993, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: For its millions of readers, the National Geographic has long been a window to the world of exotic peoples and places.
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9780226497242 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $30.00
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9780805788532 | Twayne Pub, July 1, 1994, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Book by Stone, Albert E.
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9780820316413, titled "Scriptures for a Generation: What We Were Reading in the '60s" | Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A look at the books behind the youth movements of the sixties.
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9780820317878, titled "Scriptures for a Generation: What We Were Reading in the '60s" | Reprint edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, October 1, 1995), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: At the heart of Scriptures for a Generation are dozens of detailed entries discussing individual writers and the particular importance of their texts - bona fide '60s classics ranging from The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five to Carlos Casteneda's The Teachings of Don Juan and the Boston Women's Health Book Collective's Our Bodies, Ourselves.
9780820316420 | Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A look at the books behind the youth movements of the sixties.
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9780809319954 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: In this narrative account of the life and work of Charles Olson, Ralph Maud focuses on what the poet read as a basis for understanding the work he produced.
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9780964940116 | Rhodes & Easton, January 1, 1997, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Book by Link, Mardi
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9780313298691 | Praeger Pub Text, March 30, 1997, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: 'Significant book for history of Latin American literature in English-language translation.
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9780807823576, titled "Feeling for Books: The Book-Of-The-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire" | Univ of North Carolina Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of the Book-of-the-Month Club and reconstructs the standards, ethos, tastes, and passions that drove club officials
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9780807848302 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, A Feeling for Books is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Club's influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation about the experience of reading.
Hardcover:
9780810116221 | Northwestern Univ Pr, December 9, 1998, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Fishing by Obstinate Isles explores the relations of recent British and American poetries, challenging American views of a British poetry dominated by antimodernism while discussing the role of rhetorics of national identity on both sides of the Atlantic in the persistence of these views.
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9780810116238 | Northwestern Univ Pr, December 9, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Fishing by Obstinate Isles explores the relations of recent British and American poetries, challenging American views of a British poetry dominated by antimodernism while discussing the role of rhetorics of national identity on both sides of the Atlantic in the persistence of these views.
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9781578062003 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, December 1, 1999, cover price $50.00
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9780061015076, titled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel" | Int edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 2000), cover price $7.99 | also contains The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel
9781578062010 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, February 1, 2000, cover price $25.00
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9780879728113 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, June 1, 2000, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Elements of popular culture, such as literature and films, are major industries.
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9780879728120 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, June 1, 2000, cover price $16.95
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9780760725597 | Silver Lining Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Using the annual hardcover best seller lists from 'The Bookman' and then 'Publishers Weekly,' examines twentieth-century American social, cultural, and historical trends through the lens of popular literature.
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9780820324845 | Univ of Georgia Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: The Trash Phenomenon looks at how writers of the late twentieth century not only have integrated the events, artifacts, and theories of popular culture into their works but also have used those works as windows into popular culture's role in the process of nation building.
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9780820325217 | Univ of Georgia Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $29.95
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9781558493766 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $39.95
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9780773464827 | Edwin Mellen Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $139.95
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9780826416261 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, October 30, 2004, cover price $29.95
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9780826417664 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 30, 2005, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: This examination and celebration of the literature and thought of the 1950s throws the enduring works of a golden era into high relief.
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9780817314422 | Univ of Alabama Pr, March 13, 2005, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: A dynamic account of the history, practice, and theory of poetry as performance.
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9780817351519 | Univ of Alabama Pr, March 13, 2005, cover price $29.95
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9780793193080 | Kaplan, March 1, 2005, cover price $19.95
Reading lists of some of the author's favorite books accompany her thoughts on the role of books and reading in her life
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9780345422781 | Ballantine Books, August 1, 1998, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Reading lists of some of the author's favorite books accompany her thoughts on the role of books and reading in her life
Miscellaneous:
9780307763525 | Ballantine Books, January 12, 2011, cover price $10.00
Reinforced:
9780606311786 | Demco Media, August 30, 2004, cover price $19.20 | About this edition: Reading lists of some of the author's favorite books accompany her thoughts on the role of books and reading in her life
Prebinding:
9781417648207 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 1998, cover price $20.90 | About this edition: Reading lists of some of the author's favorite books accompany her thoughts on the role of books and reading in her life
Hardcover:
9780060193454, titled "Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood: A Novel" | Harpercollins, October 1, 1998, cover price $22.00
9781568956213, titled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel" | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, September 1, 1998), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: At thirty-nine, SiddaLee Walker has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers old letters, photos, journals, and souvenirs from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play about women's friendships, she yearns to revisit her childhood
9780060173289, titled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel" | Harpercollins, May 1, 1996, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: At thirty-nine, SiddaLee Walker has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers old letters, photos, journals, and souvenirs from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play about women's friendships, she yearns to revisit her childhood
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9780062040350, titled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel" | Reprint edition (Perennial, May 3, 2011), cover price $16.99
9780060759957, titled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel" | Perennial, December 1, 2004, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: SiddaLee has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers mementos from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play about women's friendships, she yearns to revisit her childhood.
9780060502256 | Harpercollins, June 1, 2003, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: SiddaLee has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers mementos from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play about women's friendships, she yearns to revisit her childhood.
9781568951997, titled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel" | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, October 1, 2002), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: SiddaLee has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers mementos from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play about women's friendships, she yearns to revisit her childhood.
9780061015076, titled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel" | Int edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 2000), cover price $7.99 | also contains Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers
Miscellaneous:
9780061743368, titled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel" | Harpercollins, March 17, 2009, cover price $9.99
CD/Spoken Word:
9780694521685, titled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel" | Harperaudio, March 1, 1999, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: At thirty-nine, SiddaLee Walker has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers old letters, photos, journals, and souvenirs from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play about women's friendships, she yearns to revisit her childhood.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780060094812, titled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel" | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, June 1, 2002), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: At thirty-nine, SiddaLee Walker has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers old letters, photos, journals, and souvenirs from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play about women's friendships, she yearns to revisit her childhood.
9780736686563, titled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel" | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, April 1, 2002), cover price $80.00
Reinforced:
9780606296335, titled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel" | Demco Media, March 30, 2006, cover price $16.76 | About this edition: SiddaLee has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers mementos from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play about women's friendships, she yearns to revisit her childhood.
Prebinding:
9781417660957, titled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel" | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2004, cover price $25.70
9780613114806, titled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $22.75
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