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Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson
by Gore Vidal
price: $22.00
Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. |  |
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The Murder Room: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
by P.D. James
price: $25.95
In this new book, The Murder Room, Commander Adam Dalgliesh, P. D. James's formidable and fascinating detective, returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love. |  |
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A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
by Richard Dawkins
price: $24.00
Best-selling author Richard Dawkins offers another dazzling gift to his readers in this wonderful collection of essays. Eloquently and avidly, Dawkins dissects religion, mysticism, and even today's educational methods. He writes movingly of friends, such as Douglas Adams, and his love for Africa, his boyhood home. |  |
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The DaVinci Code
by Dan Brown
price: $24.95
In an exhilarating blend of scholarly intelligence, relentless adventure, and cutting wit, Robert Langdon (first introduced in "Angels Demons") and his new adventure combines the punch of Robert Ludlum, the intriguing historical touch of Umberto Eco, and the nonstop suspense of Michael Crichton. |  |
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An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
by Henry Wiencek
price: $30.00
Henry Wiencek explores the founding father's engagement with slavery at every stage of his life- as a Virginia planter, soldier, politician, president and statesman. George Washington's heroic stature is not diminished in this superb, nuanced portrait: now we see Washington in full as a man of his time and ahead of it. |  |
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The Oath: The Remarkable Story of a Surgeon's Life Under Fire in Chechnya
by Khassan Baiev
price: $26.00
In 1991, when the political conflict between Chechen insurgents and the Russian army began, Khassan Baiev was a wealthy plastic surgeon. But when Russia began to bomb his country, Baiev gave up safety and security and opened a small hospital in his hometown of Alkhan Kala. This is his searing memoir, certain to become a classic in the literature of war. |  |
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
by Noam Chomsky
price: $22.00
The United States is in the process of staking out not just the globe but the heavens as a militarized sphere of influence. Chomsky investigates how it came to this moment, what kind of peril it presents, and why rulers are willing to jeopardize the future of the species. |  |
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Harvard Works Because We Do
by Greg Halpern
price: $30.00
For two years before the April 2001 sit-in at Harvard on behalf of the blue-collar workers, Greg Halpern had been photographing them and recording their thoughts about their lives and work. The personal accounts presented here are poignant and illuminating reminders of the wide disparity of circumstances that exist in this land of plenty. |  |
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Elizabeth Costello
by J. M. Coetzee
price: $21.95
In 2003, J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Now, in his first work of fiction since The New York Times bestselling Disgrace, he has crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale about a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through an ingenious series of eight formal addresses. |  |
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
by Al Franken
price: $24.95
Once again, the author of Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations trains his subversive wit directly on the contemporary political scene, leaving the powers-that-be in tatters and his audience in hysterics. |  |
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Bestselling Paperback Titles
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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
price: $15.00
Spanning eight decades, Eugenides's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. Eugenides was named one of America's best young novelists by both Granta and The New Yorker. |  |
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A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury
by Aaron McGruder
price: $16.95
Featuring more than 700 strips (more than 400 never collected in book form) and including the much-debated and often-banned post-9/11 strips, this must-have Boondocks comics collection will delight hardcore fans. |  |
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Ignorance
by Milan Kundera
price: $12.95
A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? "Erudite and playful...An impassioned account of the émigré as a character on the stage of European history." —New York Times Book Review |  |
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The Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
price: $14.00
The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. |  |
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The Best American Short Stories 2003
by Walter Mosley
price: $13.00
No other annual story collection delivers the quality, excitement, and visibility of the renowned Best American Short Stories. This year's volume surprises with selections chosen by Walter Mosley from magazines that range from Esquire to Tin House. |  |
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You Are Not A Stranger Here
by Adam Haslett
price: $13.00
In the most acclaimed literary debut of the year, Adam Haslett explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. “Extraordinary. . . . Frighteningly tender. . . . Displays an order as natural as a tree branch in winter—lithe and achingly austere.” —The Boston Globe |  |
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges
price: $12.95
Veteran New York Times reporter Chris Hedges explores war's seductive and even addictive nature. "The best kind of war journalism: It is bitterly poetic and ruthlessly philosophical. It sends out a powerful message."-Los Angeles Times |  |
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The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
price: $14.00
Now in paperback comes the intoxicating debut novel of "one motherless daughter's discover of . . . the strange and wondrous places we find love" (The Washington Post). A bestseller in hardcover, Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing work is set in South Carolina in 1964.
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Life & Times of Michael K
by J. M. Coetzee
price: $13.00
In a South Africa turned by war, Michael K. sets out to take his ailing mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. |  |
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Baudolino
by Umberto Eco
price: $15.00
It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. With dazzling digressions, outrageous tricks, and vicarious reflections on the postmodern age, this is Eco the storyteller at his brilliant best. |  |
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* The Harvard Book Store generates a bestseller list, and ranks titles to reflect overall sales for the week November 17 - 23, 2003.
November 10 - 16, 2003 Bestseller List
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