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1	A Thousand Splendid Suns more books like this by Khaled Hosseini With heart-wrenching power and suspense, the bestselling author of "The Kite Runner" shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. see all copies from $3.17! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't more books like this by Jim Collins (Read by) The coauthor of the bestselling "Built to Last" now presents a blueprint for transforming good companies into great ones. Charts & graphs throughout. see all copies from $9.95! new only from $14.84! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	World Without End more books like this by Ken Follett In 1989, Follett astonished the literary world with "The Pillars of the Earth," a sweeping epic novel set in 12th-century England that centered on the building of a cathedral and the hundreds of lives it affected. This sequel takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries later. see all copies from $8.10! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Night more books like this by Elie Wiesel Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Describing in simple terms ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Pillars of the Earth more books like this by Ken Follett A story of passion and idealism, which describes a group of men and women in the Middle Ages whose destinies are fatefully linked with the building of a cathedral. In a country torn by civil war, two generations struggle to rise above their primitive circumstances and create something beautiful. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals more books like this by Michael Pollan Pollan writes about the ecology of the food humans eat and why--what it is, in fact, that we are eating. Discussing industrial farming, organic food, and what it is like to hunt and gather food, this is a surprisingly honest and self-aware account of the evolution of the modern diet. see all copies from $8.00! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century more books like this by Thomas L Friedman In THE WORLD IS FLAT, the highly-regarded New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman advances the work on globalization that made his THE LEXUS AND THE OLIVE TREE a bestseller. Claiming that the world is now at an important historical point--as important as the changes brought by the discoveries by Columbus or by the Industrial Revolution- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town more books like this by John Grisham In his first work of nonfiction, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author John Grisham pens an exploration of small-town justice gone terribly awry, in a book that reads like one of his fictional, page-turning legal thrillers. A gritty, harrowing true-crime story.--"Time." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Art of War more books like this by Sun Tzu Like Machiavelli's The Prince and the Japanese Book of Five Rings, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is as timely for business people today as it was for military strategists in ancient China. Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.15! \| first editions \| SVS
10	1776 more books like this by David McCullough David McCullough is known for his scholarly yet readable accounts of historical events and people's lives. Fans of his biography of John Adams will find the same narrative skill in 1776, his history of the first year of the America's war for independence from Britain. General Washington is at the center of this history, but important too are the ... see all copies from $2.15! new only from $8.70! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	John Adams more books like this by David McCullough His first book since Truman, from one of America's most distinguished and popular biographers. Destined for the same kind of sweeping success as his Pulitzer Prize-winning Truman, John Adams is a powerful, deeply moving biography that reads like an epic historical novel. Breathing fresh life into American history, it takes as its subject the ... see all copies from $2.80! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America more books like this by Erik Larson The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair, one its architect, the other a murderer. "The Devil in the White City" draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke ... see all copies from $3.10! new only from $5.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression more books like this by Amity Shlaes This striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression looks at the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how they had helped to establish the steadfast character that has developed a nation. see all copies from $8.40! new only from $8.40! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society more books like this by Annie Fiery Barrows, Mary Ann Fiery Shaffer London, 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of Guernsey during the German occupation, and about a society as extraordinary as its name. see all copies from $12.98! new only from $13.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Mans Search for Meaning more books like this by Viktor Emil Frankl Few books in recent decades have had the continuing impact of Dr. Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" -- the classic best seller now considered to be one of the most important contributions to psychiatry since the writing of Freud. In it, Dr. Frankl gives a moving account of his life amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, chronicling the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.10! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier more books like this by Ishmael Beah This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one ... see all copies from $2.93! new only from $5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail more books like this by Bill Bryson Bill Bryson, known in England as "the funniest travel writer alive," returns to the States and walks the Appalachian Trail, starting in Hanover, New Hampshire. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly more books like this by Anthony Bourdain, Lord New York Chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir/expose. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Last summer, "The New Yorker" published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." Bourdain spared no one's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.70! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	A Short History of Nearly Everything more books like this by Bill Bryson (Read by) One of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $11.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present more books like this by Howard Zinn, Ph.D. Since its original landmark publication in 1980, "A People's History of the United States" has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools--with its emphasis on great men in high places--to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $12.23! \| signed copies \| SVS
21 view cover	Tale of Two Cities more books like this by Charles Dickens Set during the French Revolution, the two cities in question are Paris and London and the tale is one of the tragedies that take place therein. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Virgin's Lover more books like this by Philippa Gregory Philippa Gregory's historical novels concentrate on the Tudor period in England, and in this gripping installment she goes directly to the heart of the era: the beautiful Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I. It's 1558, and the 25-year-old queen is trying to consolidate her power, which is threatened by her Scots cousin, Mary. At the same time, she is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed more books like this by Jared Diamond In this fascinating book, Diamond seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most important policy debate of this generation with the romance and mystery of lost worlds. see all copies from $9.23! new only from $10.63! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Wealth of Nations more books like this by Adam Smith Political economy had been studied long before Adam Smith. But "Wealth of Nations" (1776) established it for the first time as a separate science. Smith based his arguments on vast historical knowledge, and developed his principles with remarkable clarity. What set this work apart was its statement of the doctrine of natural liberty. Smith ... see all copies from $2.65! new only from $5.24! \| SVS
25 view cover	Mein Kampf more books like this by Adolf Hitler Hitler outlines a program of blood and terror in this self-revealing classic. see all copies from $7.50! new only from $14.76! \| first editions \| SVS

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