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A Hatful Of
Seuss By Dr. Seuss
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Companion to the wildly popular Six by Seuss, this boisterous, ebullient collection contains the complete and unabridged versions of five great Seuss classics. Here we meet up once more with Bartholomew Cubbins and Horton the elephant, visit young Gerald McGrew's fabulous zoo, and find out why Star-Belly Sneetches are not fond of Plain-Belly Sneetches. |
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Oxford Companion to
African American Literature By William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster and Trudier Harris
QPB Price: $ |
| This extraordinary one-volume reference details the length and breadth of black literary history. Highlights include entries on more than 150 works of literature, includingTheir Eyes Were Watching God, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ; articles on over 400 writers, including W.E.B. Dubois, Alice Walker, and Jamaica Kincaid; plus in-depth features on slave narratives, the Middle Passage, black journalism, and countless other topics. | |
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My Brother By Jamaica Kincaid
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A powerful and shockingly honest memoir about the author's self-destructive brother who died of AIDS at the age of 33, My Brother is also the story of Kincaid's estrangement from her abusive mother and her homeland of Antigua. A National Book Award Finalist. |
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What's Going
On Personal Essays By Nathan McCall
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In this eye-opening exploration of race in America, the author of the bestselling Makes Me Wanna Holler slams violent rap lyrics, takes a critical look at the gentrification of historic African-American neighborhoods, shows how major corporations, networks, and professional athletes assist in creating a "basketball trap" for black men, and more. Firmly establishes Nathan McCall as a gifted commentator on our times. |
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Tom Wolfe
3-In-1 By Tom Wolfe
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This exclusive QPB collection features three of Wolfe's earliest and most important nonfiction works. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is an unforgettable portrait of hippie culture, as exemplified by Ken Kesey and his mystic brotherhood. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby introduced us to the extravagant new styles of the sixties. And Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers introduces themes of racial and class division that Wolfe would later expand upon in his fiction. |
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The Wind-Up Bird
Chronicle A Novel By Haruki Murakami
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From the brilliant Japanese writer who has been short-listed for the Nobel Prize in Literature, a new novel that is an investigation of painfully suppressed memories of war, a sad romance, and a jeremiad against the superficiality of contemporary politics—in other words, a unparalleled portrait of a Japan seeped in violence and searching for direction. |
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Six Easy
Pieces By Richard P. Feynman
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| An unparalleled introduction to the world of physics for the layperson, Six Easy Pieces presents six of the witty, irreverent, jargon-free lectures that made this Nobel laureate the most sought-after teacher at Caltech. | |
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Creating Web Pages
simplifed By maranGraphics
QPB Price: $ |
Written in plain English and enhanced with simple, colorful graphics, this eminently understandable guide starts out by telling you what the Internet is and how you can get connected. Then it explains what the World Wide Web is and how you can create, design, and publish your own Web pages. It walks you through each step in the process of creating a Web page—from choosing an audience to organizing the page's content; to adding images, sound, and video; and linking your Web page. |
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Wall Streeet Journal
Lifetime Guide to Money Everything You Need to Know About Managing Your Finances for Every Stage of Life By Personal Finance Staff of The Wall Street Journal Edited by C. Frederic Wiegold, Personal Finance
QPB Price: $ |
| Here is the first comprehensive handbook to money management from the country's foremost authority on financial news and analysis, The Wall Street Journal. This remarkable resource focuses throughout on the very different issues faced by those in three age groups: 20s to 30s, 40s to 50s, and 60s and over. Using charts, graphs, questionnaires, worksheets, and sidebars, it offers all the advice you'll need to build a profitable portfolio; choose the right health, life, disability, and long-term care insurance; manage your debts; cut your taxes; and become happily self-employed. | |
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Bech at
Bay A Quasi-Novel By John Updike
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| These five related short stories constitute the delightful further adventures of John Updike's fictional alter ego, Henry Bech, a New York born-and-bred Jewish novelist. We follow Bech, age 63, to Communist Czechoslovakia, where he eyes "sexy dissidents," and watch him take revenge on every critic who ever savaged his work. | |
