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CD/Spoken Word:

9781504697323 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 9, 2016), cover price $59.99

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Hardcover:

9780062391322 | Dey Street Books, August 9, 2016, cover price $25.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9781504697330 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 9, 2016), cover price $39.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9781504731010 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 9, 2016), cover price $39.99

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Product Description: Oryx & Crake meets Douglas Coupland. An unforgettable vision of the future of America.Years from now America finds itself split between the rich and the poor. The haves live in luxury within the small regions that remain unpolluted while the have-nots inhabit a toxic suburbia full of terrorism, crime and genetic mutations...read more

Paperback:

9781906321307 | Friday Project, September 1, 2009, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Oryx & Crake meets Douglas Coupland.

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Product Description: Inventive, enigmatic, and supremely creative, Stephen Sprouse made art and clothing that captured the mood of the eighties. One of the first American designers to mix graffiti and a punk aesthetic with fashion, Sprouse manipulated conventional notions of style, and his unique sensibility has inspired designers from John Galliano to Raf Simmons to Marc Jacobs...read more
By Tama Janowitz (foreword by)

Hardcover:

9780847832163 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, January 13, 2009, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Inventive, enigmatic, and supremely creative, Stephen Sprouse made art and clothing that captured the mood of the eighties.

Hardcover:

9781906321123 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, December 1, 2008, cover price $30.90

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Product Description: Diverse and vivacious, artistic, audacious, and always inspirational, there are many definitions of New York.In a photographic tour that goes beyond the clichés of this spirited city, Assouline presents a unique portrait of New York City with pictures that are at once modern, elegant, and bold...read more
By Kanji Ishii (photographer), Tama Janowitz and Petra Mason (photographer)

Hardcover:

9782843237157 | Slp edition (Editions Assouline, March 20, 2006), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Diverse and vivacious, artistic, audacious, and always inspirational, there are many definitions of New York.

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A first nonfiction collection by the author of Peyton Amberg features her on-the-edge observations of New York City with such accounts as her experience at Andy Warhol's 1980s blind date club, her brief encounter with celebrity as a ZZ Top video extra, and her failure of an IQ test. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780312320621 | St Martins Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A collection of the author's observations of New York City recounts her experience at Andy Warhol's 1980s blind date club, her brief encounter with celebrity as an extra in a ZZ Top video, and her failure of an IQ test.

Paperback:

9780312320638 | Reprint edition (Griffin, October 31, 2005), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: A collection of the author's observations of New York City recounts her experience at Andy Warhol's 1980s blind date club, her brief encounter with celebrity as an extra in a ZZ Top video, and her failure of an IQ test.

Having grown restless in her marriage, a young woman moves through a succession of lovers in her unending quest for excitement but gradually loses her youthful looks and mental stability as the men she chooses prove increasingly rough. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780312318444 | St Martins Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Having grown restless in her marriage, a young woman moves through a succession of lovers in her unending quest for excitement but gradually loses her youthful looks and mental stability as the men she chooses prove increasingly rough.

Paperback:

9780312318451 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, October 30, 2004), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Having grown restless in her marriage, a young woman moves through a succession of lovers in her unending quest for excitement but gradually loses her youthful looks and mental stability as the men she chooses prove increasingly rough.

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A coterie of artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers are all aspiring towards fame and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers. This book sheds light on New York's denizens and social mores.

Hardcover:

9780517561072 | Reissue edition (Crown Pub, June 1, 1986), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: This collection of stories describes the life-styles of New York urbanites--young women, artists, an educated prostitute--who find themselves sharing cramped Manhattan apartments and bobbing half-cheerfully, half-lost in the city

Paperback:

9780747574606 | New edition (Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, July 5, 2004), cover price $10.10 | About this edition: A coterie of artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers are all aspiring towards fame and hoping for love and acceptance.
9780671745240 | Reissue edition (Washington Square Pr, May 31, 1991), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This collection of short stories explores the lives and fates of New York urbanites--artists, prostitutes, saints, and sinners--as they struggle to cope with cramped Manhattan apartments, high rents, dead-end careers, and love.
9780671673079 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, February 1, 1989), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: This collection of stories describes the life-styles of New York urbanites--young women, artists, an educated prositute--who find themselves sharing cramped Manhattan apartments and bobbing half-cheerfully, half-lost in the city

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Presents wise and witty collection of thoughts on modern-day living. This work is written by the author of 'Slaves of New York'.

Paperback:

9780747558286 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, July 8, 2002, cover price $11.80 | About this edition: Presents wise and witty collection of thoughts on modern-day living.

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A young boy and his mother let their imaginations run wild as they attempt to guess what each click, knock, and rattle in their house could possibly be, in an amusing read-aloud story that is filled with funny pictures and sounds. 27,500 first printing.
By Tracy Dockray (illustrator) and Tama Janowitz

Hardcover:

9781587170744 | Seastar Books, April 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A mother and child try to figure out the sources of the noises they hear on a stormy night.

School and Library:

9781587170751 | Seastar Books, April 1, 2001, cover price $16.50 | About this edition: A mother and child try to figure out the sources of the noises they hear on a stormy night.

After a disastrous trip to her friend Natalie's house in the Hamptons, Florence Collins spends her time and money doing everything she possibly can to attract a wealthy husband, in a hilarious social satire about a woman on a quest for a husband in modern Manhattan. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Paperback:

9780385496117 | Anchor Books, July 1, 2000, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: After a disastrous trip to her friend Natalie's house in the Hamptons, Florence Collins spends her time and money doing everything she possibly can to attract a wealthy husband.

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After a disastrous trip to her friend Natalie's house in the Hamptons, Florence Collins spends her time and money doing everything she possibly can to attract a wealthy husband, in a hilarious social satire about a woman on a quest for a husband in modern Manhattan. 40,000 first printing. Tour.

Hardcover:

9780385496100 | Doubleday, August 1, 1999, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: After a disastrous trip to her friend Natalie's house in the Hamptons, Florence Collins spends her time and money doing everything she possibly can to attract a wealthy husband, in a social satire about a woman on a quest for a husband in modern Manhattan

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780553470666, titled "A Job for a Ranger" | Bantam Audio, September 1, 1992, cover price $9.99 | also contains A Job for a Ranger | About this edition: To clear the name of an innocent man, Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie pursues a murderous gang of bank robbers and cattle rustlers.

Hardcover:

9780517195987 | Random House Value Pub, November 1, 1997, cover price $4.99

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Pamela Trowel, a single New Yorker, finds her bad luck changing when a young boy follows her home one day, and soon she and the child are setting off on a zany cross-country adventure. Reissue.

Hardcover:

9780517586983, titled "The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group" | Crown Pub, September 1, 1992, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: While dealing with persistent male co-workers and a social-climbing boss, Manhattanite Pamela Trowell becomes a reluctant surrogate mother to a lost boy

Paperback:

9780671871505, titled "The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group" | Reissue edition (Washington Square Pr, February 1, 1994), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Pamela Trowel finds her bad luck changing when Abdhul, a little boy, follows her home one day, and soon she and Abdhul are setting off on a cross country adventure
9780517131305 | Random House Value Pub, April 1, 1991, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Paints a funny picture of today's male-female relationship wars, messy sex roles and romantic expectations.

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Manhattan heiress Maria Fishburn returns from a vacation in the South Sea islands with a new fiance, Mgungu Yabba Mgungu, a former cannibal who becomes the toast of Manhattan

Hardcover:

9780517566244 | Crown Pub, August 1, 1989, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Manhattan heiress Maria Fishburn returns from a vacation in the South Sea islands with a new fiance, Mgungu Yabba Mgungu, a former cannibal who becomes the toast of Manhattan

Miscellaneous:

9780671665982 | Pocket Books, July 1, 1988, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Manhattan heiress Maria Fishburn returns from a vacation in the South islands with a new fiance, Mgungu Yabba Mgungu, a former cannibal who becomes the toast of Manhattan

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A wacky and weird male, Earl Przepasniak--world-class nerd--tells the story of his childhood and adolescence, focusing on the split of his parents

Paperback:

9780517565735 | Dilithium Pr, April 1, 1987, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: A wacky and weird male, Earl Przepasniak--world-class nerd--tells the story of his childhood and adolescence, focusing on the split of his parents

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