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Product Description: From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Newjack, an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world.Roads bind our world—metaphorically and literally—transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them...read more
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Paperback:

9781400077021 | Vintage Books, February 8, 2011, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Newjack, an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world.

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Product Description: From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Newjack, an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world.Roads bind our world—metaphorically and literally—transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them...read more
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Hardcover:

9781400042449 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 9, 2010), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Newjack, an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world.

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Product Description: Roads bind our world—metaphorically and literally—transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them. Roads have unparalleled power to impact communities, unite worlds and sunder them, and reveal the hopes and fears of those who travel them...read more
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CD/Spoken Word:

9781441859297, titled "The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today" | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, February 9, 2010), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Roads bind our world—metaphorically and literally—transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them.

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Product Description: After he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America's most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied to become a prison guard. As a rookie officer, or 'newjack', Conover spent a year in the unpredictable, intimidating and often violent world of America's penal system...read more
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Hardcover:

9780375501777 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, May 1, 2000), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author, a former guard at Sing Sing prison, looks back on his rookie year in the prison as he attempts to balance basic human decency with the rigors of the prison system

Paperback:

9780375726620 | Vintage Books, June 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The author, a former guard at Sing Sing prison, looks back on his rookie year in the prison as he attempts to balance basic human decency with the rigors of the prison system.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781596006317 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, April 25, 2005), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The investigative journalist describes his year under cover as a guard at Sing Sing prison, relating his rookie year in the prison as he attempts to balance basic human decency with the rigors of the penal system.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781567407389 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, May 1, 2000), cover price $73.25 | About this edition: The investigative journalist describes his year under cover as a guard at Sing Sing prison, relating his rookie year in the prison as he attempts to balance basic human decency with the rigors of the penal system.
9781567403718 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, May 1, 2000), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: The investigative journalist describes his year under cover as a guard at Sing Sing prison, relating his rookie year in the prison as he attempts to balance basic human decency with the rigors of the penal system.
9781567409130 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, May 1, 2000), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The investigative journalist describes his year under cover as a guard at Sing Sing prison, relating his rookie year in the prison as he attempts to balance basic human decency with the rigors of the penal system.

Prebinding:

9781439559857 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 8, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: After he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America's most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied to become a prison guard.
9781417626083 | Turtleback Books, June 12, 2001, cover price $25.75 | About this edition: The author, a former guard at Sing Sing prison, looks back on his rookie year in the prison as he attempts to balance basic human decency with the rigors of the prison system.

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Product Description: "I crouched quietly in the patch of tall weeds. Around me fell the shadow of the viaduct that carried a highway over the railroad yards. From the edge of the yards, I squinted as I watched the railroad cars being switched from track to track...read more
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Hardcover:

9780670603190 | Viking Pr, January 1, 1984, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Offers a personal account of the author's adventures riding the rails with America's hoboes and presents a factual glimpse into the world of the modern-day hobo

Paperback:

9780140095500 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, June 1, 1985), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Offers a personal account of the author's adventures riding the rails with America's hoboes and presents a factual glimpse into the world of the modern-day hobo

CD/Spoken Word:

9781596006034 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, October 25, 2005), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "I crouched quietly in the patch of tall weeds.
9781596006041 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, October 25, 2005), cover price $39.25 | About this edition: "I crouched quietly in the patch of tall weeds.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781587886751 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 1, 2001), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Offers a personal account of the author's adventures riding the rails with America's hoboes and presents a factual glimpse into the world of the modern-day hobo.
9781587886775 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 1, 2001), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Offers a personal account of the author's adventures riding the rails with America's hoboes and presents a factual glimpse into the world of the modern-day hobo.
9781587886768 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, September 1, 2001), cover price $78.25 | About this edition: Offers a personal account of the author's adventures riding the rails with America's hoboes and presents a factual glimpse into the world of the modern-day hobo.

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The investigative journalist describes his year under cover as a guard at Sing Sing prison, relating his rookie year in the prison as he attempts to balance basic human decency with the rigors of the penal system.
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9781596006324 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, April 25, 2005), cover price $39.25 | About this edition: The investigative journalist describes his year under cover as a guard at Sing Sing prison, relating his rookie year in the prison as he attempts to balance basic human decency with the rigors of the penal system.

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The author shares a poignant memoir of a childhood romance in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, wherein she discovers the contours of love while also exploring the limitations of possession and the structure of emotional pain. Original.
By Amy Benson and Ted Conover (introduced by)
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Paperback:

9780618433216 | Mariner Books, May 12, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Shares a poignant memoir of a childhood romance in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, wherein the author discovers the contours of love while exploring the limitations of possession and the structure of emotional pain.

Miscellaneous:

9780547346465, titled "Sparkling-eyed Boy: A Memoir of Love, Grown Up" | Houghton Mifflin, May 12, 2004, cover price $14.95

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The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack offers a personal account of the author's adventures riding the rails with America's hoboes and presents a factual glimpse into the world of the modern-day hobo. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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Paperback:

9780375727863 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 2001), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Offers a personal account of the author's adventures riding the rails with America's hoboes and presents a factual glimpse into the world of the modern-day hobo.

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Takes readers on a tour of Aspen, Colorado, exploring its conspicuous consumption, body worship, spiritual yearnings, billionaires, drugs, New Age parties, cultural life, and more. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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Paperback:

9780679741787 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 1993), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The author shares his experiences living in Aspen for two years, and offers his observations on the wealthy and the New Age followers who fill the resort town

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Takes readers on a tour of Aspen, Colorado, exploring its conspicuous consumption, body worship, spiritual yearnings, billionaires, drugs, New Age parties, cultural life, and more
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9780394574691 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, November 1, 1991), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Takes readers on a tour of Aspen, Colorado, exploring its conspicuous consumption, body worship, spiritual yearnings, billionaires, drugs, New Age parties, cultural life, and more

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Disguised as an illegal alien, the author explores the outlaw realm of illegal immigration at the Mexican-American border and describes the role of the coyotes--mercenaries who sneak Mexican laborers into America
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9780394755182, titled "Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens" | Vintage Books, September 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Disguised as an illegal alien, the author explores the outlaw realm of illegal immigration at the Mexican-American border and describes the role of the coyotes--mercenaries who sneak Mexican laborers into America

Prebinding:

9780833526335, titled "Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $22.75
9781417711277, titled "Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens" | Turtleback Books, September 1, 1987, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Disguised as an illegal alien, the author explores the outlaw realm of illegal immigration at the Mexican-American border and describes the role of the coyotes--mercenaries who sneak Mexican laborers into America

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