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9781416572473 | Simon & Schuster, August 7, 2012, cover price $25.00
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9781439189511 | Simon & Schuster, August 9, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry.
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9781439189528 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, February 7, 2012), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry.
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9780802112248 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, April 1, 1990), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Giving his infant daughter her afternoon bottle, Mike's thoughts wander to the special things he remembers about his own childhood
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9780802144904, titled "The Mezzanine: A Novel" | Reissue edition (Grove Pr, July 1, 2010), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive first novelfirst published in 1986 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperbackthe author of Vox and The Fermata uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals.
9780679725763 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 1990), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Records one man's minute observations of the familiar objects and surroundings of everyday life, recalled during a trip on the escalator in his office building
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9781416572459 | 1 reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, July 6, 2010), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Paul Chowder is trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of rhyming verse, but he’s having a hard time getting started.
Miscellaneous:
9781416583974 | Simon & Schuster, September 8, 2009, cover price $9.99
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9781416572442 | Simon & Schuster, September 8, 2009, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: "The Anthologist" is narrated by Paul Chowder -- a once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry.
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9788483068274 | Italian edition edition (Debate Editorial, May 30, 2009), cover price $32.95
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9781400137893 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, August 1, 2008), cover price $69.99 | About this edition: Human Smoke delivers a closely textured, deeply moving indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and '40s.
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9781416567844 | 1 edition (Simon & Schuster, March 11, 2008), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A persuasive argument for peace and pacifism, this critical study of the decades leading up to World War II offers insightful profiles of the world leaders, politicians, business people, bankers, and others whose personal politics, ideologies, and agendas provided an inevitable barrier to the peace process and whose actions led tot the outbreak of war.
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9781416572466 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, March 3, 2009), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy -- a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh perspective on the political and social landscape that gave rise to World War II.
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9781400107896 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, August 1, 2008), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Human Smoke delivers a closely textured, deeply moving indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and '40s.
9781400157891 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, August 1, 2008), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Human Smoke delivers a closely textured, deeply moving indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and '40s.
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9780821261934 | Bulfinch Pr, September 29, 2005, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Celebrates the artistry that transformed the World at the turn of the twentieth century, presenting a wide array of cartoons, caricatures, typography, photography, drawings, maps, and other artwork from legendary illustrators.
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9781400044009 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 17, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Jay and Ben meet in a hotel room to discuss everything from the mundane to the fate of the country.
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9781400079858 | Vintage Books, April 12, 2005, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most controversial novel yet.
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9780971921825 | Unabridged edition (Symphony Space, April 1, 2005), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: This three-CD collection features more best-loved selections from National Public Radio's Selected Shorts, an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors and recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City.
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9788420400228 | Alfaguara, S.A. Grupo Santillana,, October 31, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner.
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9781400078608 | Vintage Books, September 14, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A collection of writings by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author features excerpts from the novels Vox, The Fermata, The Mezzanine, and A Box of Matches, along with essays from The Size of Thoughts, selections from Doublefold, and an all new short story.
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9780701174026 | Vintage Uk, January 30, 2003, cover price $18.05 | About this edition: Both funny and serious, this novel recounts what is really going on in the head of domesticated mid-life man.
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9780375706035 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 2004), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: During a month in the life of a forty-five-year-old editor of medical textbooks, Emmett--married with children, a cat, and a duck--ruminates about the meaning of life during his pre-dawn sojourns alone.
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9780375502873 | Random House Inc, January 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: During a month in the life of a forty-five-year-old editor of medical textbooks, Emmett--married with children, a cat, and a duck--ruminates about the meaning of life during his pre-dawn sojourns alone.
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Describes how libraries across the United States have dismantled collections of original bound newspapers and brittle books to replace them with microfilmed copies, exploring the hidden reasons for such policies.
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9780375504440 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, April 1, 2001), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Describes how libraries across the United States have dismantled collections of original bound newspapers and brittle books to replace them with microfilmed copies, exploring the hidden reasons for such policies.
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9780375726217 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Describes how libraries across the United States have dismantled collections of original bound newspapers and brittle books to replace them with microfilmed copies, exploring the hidden reasons for such policies.
Miscellaneous:
9781400033041 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 13, 2002, cover price $15.00
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9780679439332 | Random House Inc, May 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Captures the insight and wonder of childhood in a portrayal of the world as seen by a nine-year-old girl who moves to England with her family
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9780679763758 | Vintage Books, April 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Captures the insight and wonder of childhood in a portrayal of the world as seen by a nine-year-old girl who moves to England with her family
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9780394589954 | Random House Inc, February 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Two lonely people separated by hundreds of miles meet on a 900 number party line and share their most intimate sexual fantasies, secrets, and perversities
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9781862070967 | New edition (Granta Books, January 12, 1998), cover price $12.55 | About this edition: A man and a woman, strangers to each other, residents of distant cities, have both called an adult party line.
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9780679439325 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, March 1, 1996), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays and articles cover various topics, including the destruction of library card catalogs, clip art, model airplanes, changing one's mind, and reading aloud
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9780679776246 | Vintage Books, March 1, 1997, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In a collection of essays and articles, the author of The Fermata and Vox covers topics ranging from the destruction of library card catalogs and model airplanes to clip art, metaphors, and the art of reading aloud.
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9780679742111 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 1995), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Two lonely people separated by hundreds of miles meet on a 900 number party line and share their most intimate sexual fantasies, secrets, and perversities
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9780394589947 | Random House Inc, April 1, 1991, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The author discusses the influence of John Updike on his novels, explains what features of Updike's writings he finds most attractive, and examines the life of a writer
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9780679735755 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 1995), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The author discusses the influence of John Updike on his novels, explains what features of Updike's writings he finds most attractive, and examines the life of a writer
9780679735755 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 1995), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The author discusses the influence of John Updike on his novels, explains what features of Updike's writings he finds most attractive, and examines the life of a writer
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9780679734406 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 1995), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: In his second novel, Baker turns a young father's feeding-time reverie into a catalog of the minutiae of domestic love.
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9780679415862 | Random House Inc, February 1, 1994, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: In a morally confused novel, Arno Strine, an aspiring writer at work on his autobiography, stops time in order to remove women's clothes
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9780679759331 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 1995), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Arno Strine, a thirty-five-year-old office temp and aspiring writer at work on his autobiography, uses his power to stop time in order to remove women's clothes while they are suspended in his temporal warp.
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9780679431169 | Random House, February 1, 1994, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: In a morally confused novel, Arno Strine, an aspiring writer at work on his autobiography, stops time in order to remove women's clothes.
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9781555842581 | Grove Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The seemingly mundane events that occur to a young man on his lunch hour are magnified in his mind into complex statements on the modern condition
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