We've taken a little of the gift-shopping burden off you by showcasing what we feel are the best gift books of the season in our Holiday Hundred. Our staff has selected one hundred titles from a variety of subject areas, plus 10 children's books, and discounted them by 20%. You'll find old favorites and new releases in the Holiday Hundred!
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For the Kids | Children's Classics
Fiction & Literature
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Title : Alias Grace
Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Anchor pb
Price : $12.00
HBS Price: $9.60
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"Atwood has surpassed herself." -- NY Review of Books
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Title : The Blue Flower
Author : Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher: Mariner pb
Price : $12.00
HBS Price: $9.60
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An 18th-century German student of philosophy, who became the poet Novalis,
seeks permission to wed a 12-year-old girl.
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Title : A Book of Memories
Author : Peter Nadas
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux hc
Price : $30.00
HBS Price: $24.00
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The Hungarian author's magnum opus is a psychological novel that comes to
terms with ghosts, corpses, and repressed nightmares.
"The greatest novel written in our time ..." -- Susan Sontag
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Title : A Certain Justice
Author : P.D. James
Publisher: Knopf hc
Price : $25.00
HBS Price: $20.00
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In top form, James takes us and Adam Dalgliesh into the labyrinthine world
of the law.
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Title : The Crystal Frontier
Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux hc
Price : $23.00
HBS Price: $18.40
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The nine stories comprising Fuentes's novel all concern people who have had
something to do with Leonardo Barroso, a powerful oligarch.
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Title : The Djinn in the
Nightingale's Eye
Author : A. S. Byatt
Publisher: Random House hc
Price : $20.00
HBS Price: $16.00
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A handful of brilliantly imaginative fairy stories for grown-ups.
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Title : Dreams of My Russian
Summers
Author : Andrei Makine
Publisher: Arcade hc
Price : $23.95
HBS Price: $19.16
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The first time in history that a writer received both the Prix Goncourt and
the Prix Medici for a single novel.
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Title : Fantastic Tales
Author : Italo Calvino, ed.
Publisher: Pantheon hc
Price : $30.00
HBS Price: $24.00
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A rich and wide-ranging collection of 26 tales from the 19th century.
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Title : Grace Notes
Author : Bernard MacLaverty
Publisher: Norton hc
Price : $23.00
HBS Price: $18.40
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Shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize, a perceptive study of a woman
composer's life and art.
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Title : The Hobbit
Author : J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin hc
Price : $35.00
HBS Price: $28.00
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A newly illustrated sixtieth-anniversary edition of one of the most beloved
and delightful tales in the English language.
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Title : Mason & Dixon
Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher: Henry Holt hc
Price : $27.50
HBS Price: $22.00
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Pynchon reimagines the story of the British surveyors who ran the boundary
between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
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Title : Memoirs of a Geisha
Author : Arthur Golden
Publisher: Knopf hc
Price : $25.00
HBS Price: $20.00
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A stunningly original novel, told as the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geishas.
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Title : Mirrorwork: 50 Years of
Indian Writing
Author : Salman Rushdie & Elizabeth
West, eds.
Publisher: Henry Holt pb
Price : $15.00
HBS Price: $12.00
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This major anthology coincides with the 50th anniversary of India's
independence.
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Title : The Night in Question
Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher: Vintage pb
Price : $12.00
HBS Price: $9.60
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"A wonderful collection ... These stories seize your imagination." -- The New York Times
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Title : The Odyssey
Author : Homer, translated by
Robert Fagles
Publisher: Penguin pb
Price : $14.95
HBS Price: $11.96
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The New York Review of Books hailed Fagles' magnificent translation as a
"distinguished achievement."
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Title : Plays Well with Others
Author : Allan Gurganus
Publisher: Knopf hc
Price : $25.00
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The author of The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All brings his comic
energy to a circle of young Manhattan artists before and after AIDS.
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Title : Selected Stories
Authors : Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage pb
Price : $16.00
HBS Price: $12.80
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"Heartstopping, utterly beautiful ... One of the finest contemporary story
writers in the English language." -- Newsday
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Title : Springs of Affection
Author : Maeve Brennan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin hc
Price : $24.00
HBS Price: $18.40
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The rediscovered stories, all set in Dublin, of one of the New Yorker's finest stylists.
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Title : The Witch of Exmoor
Author : Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Harcourt Brace hc
Price : $23.00
HBS Price: $18.40
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Drabble's first novel in five years tells of a contemporary family whose
comfortable, ordered lives are upended by chaotic events.
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Non-Fiction
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Title : Big Trouble
Author : J. Anthony Lukas
Publisher: Simon & Schuster hc
Price : $30.00
HBS Price: $24.00
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In this account of a murder in a small Idaho town, Lukas brings to light a case that involved a President and a Supreme Court Justice.
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Title : The Circle of Innovation
Author : Tom Peters
Publisher: Knopf hc
Price : $30.00
HBS Price: $24.00
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A guide to turning an organization into a perpetual innovation machine.
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Title : Forbes' Great Minds
of Business
Author : Forbes Magazine
Publisher: John Wiley hc
Price : $24.95
HBS Price: $19.96
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Dialogues with five of the most brilliant people in business today.
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Title : Guns, Germs, and Steel
Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher: W.W. Norton hc
Price : $27.50
HBS Price: $22.00
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This tour through 13,000 years dismantles racially based theories as to why human societies have had such diverse fates.
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Title : A History of Reading
Author : Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Penguin pb
Price : $14.95
HBS Price: $11.96
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The quirky and passionate 4,000-year-old history of the written word whose true hero is the reader.
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Title : How Proust Can Change
Your Life
Author : Alain de Botton
Publisher: Pantheon hc
Price : $19.95
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Proust's work is transformed into a guide to, among other things, enjoying your vacation and being a good host.
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Title : Le Ton Beau de Marot
Author : Douglas Hofstadter
Publisher: Basic Books hc
Price : $30.00
HBS Price: $24.00
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A delightful book built around 88 translations of a 16th-century poem.
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Title : The Ordeal of
Integration
Author : Orlando Patterson
Publisher: Counterpoint hc
Price : $24.50
HBS Price: $19.60
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Patterson addresses the serious mismatch in the perception and experience of racial change.
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Title : Real Time
Author : Regis McKenna
Publisher: Harvard Bus. Sch. Press hc
Price : $19.95
HBS Price: $15.96
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Those who understand what it means to do business in an environment of vanishing time and space will be the leaders of the 20th century.
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Title : Restoring Hope
Author : Cornel West
Publisher: Beacon Press hc
Price : $23.00
HBS Price: $18.40
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West's conversations with nine influential artists, scholars, and public figures on their visions of the future for Black America.
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Biography & Memoirs
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Title : Albert Camus
Author : Olivier Todd
Publisher: Knopf hc
Price : $30.00
HBS Price: $24.00
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A bestseller in France and throughout Europe.
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Title : Boyhood: Scenes from
Provincial Life
Author : J.M. Coetzee
Publisher: Viking hc
Price : $22.95
HBS Price: $18.36
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The South African novelist's memoir is a powerful and moving story of a childhood and a writer's beginnings.
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Title : Brassai, Brassai
Author : Peter Laki & Barna Kantor, trans.
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press hc
Price : $29.95
HBS Price: $23.96
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This volume of letters and photographs chronicles the artistic development of one of the great European photographers of this century.
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Title : Burning the Days
Author : James Salter
Publisher: Random House hc
Price : $24.00
HBS Price: $19.20
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Like the finest memoirs, Salter's is a marvelously written, unconventional book that powerfully evokes the essence of life.
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Title : Che Guevara
Author : Jon Lee Anderson
Publisher: Grove hc
Price : $35.00
HBS Price: $28.00
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The first definitive biography of one of the most fascinating, controversial, and charismatic figures of the 20th century.
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Title : The Color of Poverty
Author : James McBride
Publisher: Riverhead pb
Price : $12.00
HBS Price: $9.60
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Candid recollections of a mixed race child of poverty.
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Title : Jackie Robinson
Author : Arnold Rampersad
Publisher: Knopf hc
Price : $27.50
HBS Price: $22.00
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Rampersad had access to the great athlete's private papers.
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Title : Living Architecture:
A Biography of
H. H. Richardson
Author : James F. O'Gorman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster hc
Price : $50.00
HBS Price: $40.00
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The first in-depth biography of the great 19th-century architect.
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Title : Miriam's Kitchen
Author : Elizabeth Ehrlich
Publisher: Viking hc
Price : $24.95
HBS Price: $19.96
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Ehrlich describes how her attitudes evolved and how she began to bring Jewish observance and tradition into her own home.
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Title : Virginia Woolf
Author : Hermione Lee
Publisher: Knopf hc
Price : $39.95
HBS Price: $31.96
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A biography that gives us a new sense of the texture of Woolf's life.
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Title : Wait Till Next Year
Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher: Simon & Schuster hc
Price : $25.00
HBS Price: $20.00
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Goodwin's memoir of growing up in the postwar era, when her father taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers.
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Title : Walking in the Shade
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher: Harper Collins pb
Price : $27.50
HBS Price: $22.00
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In the second volume of her autobiography, Lessing explores the allure Communism held for artists and intellectuals in the 1950s.
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Title : Wounds of Passion
Author : bell hooks
Publisher: Henry Holt hc
Price : $20.00
HBS Price: $16.00
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Taking us along her path to maturity, from adolescence to womanhood, hooks describes her struggle to shape her voice as a writer.
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Food & Cooking
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Title : The Essential Cookbook
Author : Terence Conran, et al.
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang hc
Price : $39.95
HBS Price: $31.96
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Title : Marcella Cucina
Authors : Marcella Hazan
Publisher: Harper Collins hc
Price : $35.00
HBS Price: $28.00
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Title : Moosewood Restaurant
Book of Desserts
Publisher: Crown pb
Price : $22.00
HBS Price: $16.60
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Title : The New Sotheby's
Wine Encyclopedia
Author : Tom Stevenson
Publisher: DK hc
Price : $50.00
HBS Price: $40.00
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Title : Olive Oil: From
Tree to Table
Author : Peggy Knickerbocker
Publisher: Chronicle Books pb
Price : $19.95
HBS Price: $15.96
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Title : Olives Table
Author : Todd English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster hc
Price : $32.00
HBS Price: $25.60
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Title : Vegetarian Cooking
for Everyone
Author : Deborah Madison
Publisher: Broadway hc
Price : $35.00
HBS Price: $28.00
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History
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Title : The Autumn of the
Middle Ages
Author : Johan Huizinga
Publisher: University of Chicago Press pb
Price : $19.95
HBS Price: $15.96
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Portrait of 14th & 15th century life in France and the Netherlands.
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Title : The Battle for Christmas
Author : Stephen Nissenbaum
Publisher: Vintage pb
Price : $15.00
HBS Price: $12.00
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This entertaining and erudite cultural history of America's most cherished holiday was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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Title : A Century of Women
Author : Sheila Rowbotham
Publisher: Viking hc
Price : $34.95
HBS Price: $27.96
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A history of women in Britain and the U.S. in the 20th century.
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Title : Civil War Boston
Author : Thomas O'Connor
Publisher: Northeastern Univ. Press hc
Price : $26.95
HBS Price: $21.56
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An examination of the dramatic ways in which the Civil War affected Bostonians and how they in turn contributed to the Union cause.
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Title : Cod: A Biography of the
Fish That Changed the
World
Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: Walker hc
Price : $21.00
HBS Price: $16.80
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The story of the codfish spans a thousand years and four continents.
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Title : A History of the
Twentieth Century,
Vol. 1: 1900-1933
Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher: Morrow hc
Price : $35.00
HBS Price: $28.00
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Gilbert's 3 volumes will be the authoritative chronicle of our century.
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Title : The Kennedy Tapes
Author : Ernest May, ed.
Publisher: Harvard Univ. Press hc
Price : $35.00
HBS Price: $28.00
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Full and authenticated transcripts of White House recordings made during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Title : Lewis and Clark
Author : Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Publisher: Knopf hc
Price : $40.00
HBS Price: $32.00
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The companion volume to Ken Burns's latest PBS film.
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Title : The Middle East
Author : Bernard Lewis
Publisher: Touchstone pb
Price : $15.00
HBS Price: $12.00
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This brief history of the last 2,000 years is the definitive portrait of the Middle East by an historian of unrivaled skills.
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Title : On History
Author : Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher: New Press hc
Price : $25.00
HBS Price: $20.00
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Brings together for the first time Hobsbawm's most important writings on the study and practice of history.
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Title : Pleasures of the
Imagination
Author : John Brewer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux hc
Price : $40.00
HBS Price: $32.00
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Shows us how the British of the 18th century created a culture that is still celebrated for its wit and imagination.
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Title : Prague in Black
and Gold
Author : Peter Demetz
Publisher: Hill and Wang hc
Price : $27.50
HBS Price: $22.00
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A superb history of the great Bohemian capital, by one of its renowned native sons.
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People & Places
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Title : Honey, Hush!
Author : Daryl Cumber Dance, ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton hc
Price : $30.00
HBS Price: $24.00
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An anthology of the vibrant humor of African American women.
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Title : Monet's House
Author : Heidi Michels
Publisher: Clarkson Potter hc
Price : $35.00
HBS Price: $28.00
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The color drenched home of the Impressionist master.
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Title : The Most Beautiful
Villages of New England
Author : Tom Shachtman
Publisher: Thames & Hudson hc
Price : $40.00
HBS Price: $32.00
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Photographs of 25 of our region's beautiful and historic towns.
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Title : Under the Tuscan Sun
Author : Frances Mayes
Publisher: Broadway pb
Price : $13.00
HBS Price: $10.40
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Mayes brings the voice of a poet, the eye of a seasoned traveler, and the discerning palate of a cook to her exploration of Italian life.
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Religion
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Title : The Illustrated Jesus
Through the Centuries
Author : Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher: Yale Univ. Press hc
Price : $35.00
HBS Price: $28.00
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A study of the images of Jesus cherished by successive ages.
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Title : The Jewish Spirit
Author : Ellen Frankel, ed.
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang hc
Price : $50.00
HBS Price: $40.00
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A gloriously illustrated anthology of Jewish stories.
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Title : The New Testament
Author : Richard Lattimore, trans.
Publisher: North Point pb
Price : $16.00
HBS Price: $12.80
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Title : Shtetl
Author : Eva Hoffman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin hc
Price : $25.00
HBS Price: $20.00
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Reconstructs the lost world of small town East European Jewry and reflects on the tragedy of its loss.
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Science, Math, & Technology
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Title : Bonobo: The Forgotten
Ape
Author : De Waal & Lanting
Publisher: Univ. of Calif. Press hc
Price : $39.95
HBS Price: $31.96
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A pictorial profile of our little-known relatives who offer a provocative alternative to the male-based model of human evolution.
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Title : Fermat's Enigma
Author : Simon Singh
Publisher: Walker hc
Price : $23.00
HBS Price: $18.40
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The story of the epic quest to solve the greatest math problem of all time.
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Title : How the Mind Works
Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher: W. W. Norton hc
Price : $29.95
HBS Price: $23.96
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A fascinating and provocative exploration of the mysteries of human thought and behavior
by the author of The Language Instinct.
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Title : Questioning the
Millenium
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: Harmony hc
Price : $17.95
HBS Price: $14.36
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Gould shares his interest and insights into time and its milestones and discusses the concept of a millennium.
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Visual Arts
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Title : American Visions
Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher: Knopf hc
Price : $65.00
HBS Price: $52.00
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The epic history of five centuries of American art, written to accompany
the PBS television series.
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Title : Impressionism: Reflections
and Perceptions
Author : Meyer Shapiro
Publisher: Braziller hc
Price : $50.00
HBS Price: $40.00
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A classic work celebrating the glories of Impressionism by one of art
history's most pre-eminent figures. Explores broad aspects of Impressionist
painting that linked the artists to one another.
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Title : Italian Frescoes:
The Flowering of the
Renaissance, 1470-1510
Author : Steffi Roettgen
Publisher: Abbeville hc
Price : $135.00
HBS Price: $108.00
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A parade of colorful masterpieces are paired with authoritative text in
this second volume of the only comprehensive modern survey of the surviving
frescoes created during the middle years of the great Italian Renaissance.
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Title : Picasso: The Early Years,
1892-1906
Author : Marilyn McCully, ed.
Publisher: Yale University Press hc
Price : $60.00
HBS Price: $48.00
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The catalog for this fall's exhibit at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.
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Title : Berenice Abbott:
Changing New York
Author : Bonnie Yochelson, ed.
Publisher: New Press hc
Price : $60.00
HBS Price: $48.00
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Abbott (1898-1991) was one of this century's greatest photographers. Her
New York City images have come to define Depression-era New York.
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Title : Photomosaics
Author : Robert Silvers, creator
Publisher: Henry Holt pb
Price : $19.95
HBS Price: $15.96
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The marriage of photography with image computing produces unique and
beautiful mosaics that dissolve and recompose in the mind's eye.
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Gift Books
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Title : The Architecture Pack
Author : Ron Van Der Meer &
Deyan Sudjic
Publisher: Knopf hc
Price : $50.00
HBS Price: $40.00
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An entertaining 3-D, pop-up tour of architecture through the ages.
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Title : Library of America
Crime Novels
Part 1: American Noir of
the '30s & '40s
Part 2: American Noir of
the '50s
Author : Robert Polito, ed.
Publisher: Viking hc
Price : $35.00 ea
HBS Price: $28.00 ea
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This two volume anthology presents a rich vein of modern American writing from James Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) to Chester Himes' The Real Cool Killers (1959).
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Title : Play With Your Food
Author : Joost Elffers
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang hc
Price : $19.95
HBS Price: $15.96
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Hilarious visuals show how to create extraordinary sculptures out of your food -- eg. transform a lemon into a pig.
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Title : New Grove Book of Operas
Author : Stanley Sadie, ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's hc
Price : $30.00
HBS Price: $24.00
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Excerpted from the four-volume New Grove Dictionary of Opera, this guide covers over 250 works performed in the last quarter-century.
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Why Not Give the "Best"?
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Title : The Best American Essays 1997
Author : Robert Atwan, ed.
Publisher: Mariner pb
Price : $13.00
HBS Price: $10.40
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Title : The Best American Sports
Writing 1997
Author : George Plimpton, ed.
Publisher: Mariner pb
Price : $13.00
HBS Price: $10.40
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Title : The Best American Erotica 1997
Author : Susie Bright, ed.
Publisher: Scribner pb
Price : $12.00
HBS Price: $9.60
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Title : The Best American Mystery
Stories 1997
Author : Robert Parker, ed.
Publisher: Mariner pb
Price : $13.00
HBS Price: $10.40
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Title : The Best of the Harvard
Gay & Lesbian Review
Author : Richard Schneider, Jr., ed.
Publisher: Temple University Press hc
Price : $27.95
HBS Price: $22.36
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"Winning" Gifts
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1997 Booker Prize
Title : The God of Small Things
Author : Arundhati Roy
Publisher: Random House hc
Price : $23.00
HBS Price: $18.40
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1997 Pulitzer Prize
Title : Martin Dressler
Author : Steven Millhauser
Publisher: Vintage pb
Price : $12.00
HBS Price: $9.60
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1997 National Book Award Finalists
Title : The Puttermesser Papers
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher: Random House hc
Price : $23.00
HBS Price: $18.40
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Title : Underworld
Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher: Scribner hc
Price : $27.50
HBS Price: $22.00
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Title : My Brother
Author : Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux hc
Price : $19.00
HBS Price: $15.20
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1997 National Book Critics Circle Award
Title : Women in Their Beds
Author : Gina Berriault
Publisher: Counterpoint pb
Price : $15.95
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Fiction (also the 1997
PEN/Faulkner Award-winner)
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Title : Bad Land
Author : Jonathan Raban
Publisher: Vintage pb
Price : $14.00
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1997 Bancroft Prize
Title : Grand Expectations
Author : James T. Patterson
Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press pb
Price : $18.95
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For the Kids
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Title : The Beauty of the Beast
Author : Jack Prelutsky, ed.;
Meilo So, illust.
Publisher: Knopf hc
Price : $25.00
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A collection of over 200 poems from more than 100 poets of the twentieth century about the animal kingdom, ranging from the lowly earthworm to the majestic whale.
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Title : Celebration!
Author : Barnabas & Anabel Kindersley
Publisher: DK hc
Price : $17.95
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With stunning photographs and illustrations, the creators of Children Just Like Me celebrate 25 of the world's great holidays and traditions.
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Title : The Girl Who Dreamed
Only Geese
Author : Howard Norman;
Leo & Diane Dillon, illust.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace hc
Price : $22.00
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This exquisite collection of ten Inuit tales transports readers to the harsh and beautiful Far North.
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Title : The Kids' Art Pack
Author : Ron Van Der Meer & Frank
Whitford
Publisher: DK hc
Price : $29.95
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An introduction to the world of art with 3-D models, pop-ups, and lift-the-flaps that expose the techniques behind the masterpieces.
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Title : The Subtle Knife
Author : Philip Pullman
Publisher: Knopf hc
Price : $20.00
HBS Price: $16.00
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The eagerly awaited sequel to The Golden Compass!
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Title : There Was an Old Lady
Who Swallowed a Fly
Author : Simms Taback
Publisher: Viking hc
Price : $14.99
HBS Price: $11.99
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An old favorite told from a perspective inside the old lady's stomach.
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Title : Where's Waldo? The
Wonder Book
Author : Martin Handford
Publisher: Candlewick
Price : $15.99
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Twice the characters, twice the challenge of previous Waldo books.
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Children's Classics
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Title : Little Women: Whole
Story Series
Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher: Viking pb
Price : $16.99
HBS Price: $13.59
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Title : The Roald Dahl Treasury
Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher: Viking hc
Price : $35.00
HBS Price: $28.00
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Title : Rapunzel
Author : Paul O. Zelinsky, reteller and illust.
Publisher: Dutton hc
Price : $16.99
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