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Norwegian Wood

by Haruki Murakami

Published: 2000-09-12

Paperback: 298 pages

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Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best...

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Nostromo (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)

by Joseph Conrad

Published: 2004-10-25

Paperback: 496 pages

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One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo is an immensely exciting tale of love, revolution, and politics set in the mythical South American country of Costaguana during the 1890s.Ten years after his father is murdered by a brutal dictator, English...

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Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus

by Kyle Idleman

Published: 2011-06-01

Paperback: 215 pages

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Are you a follower of Jesus? Don’t answer too quickly. In fact, you may want to read this book before you answer at all. Consider it a “Define the Relationship” conversation to determine exactly where you stand. You may indeed be a passionate, fully devoted follower of Jesus. Or, you...

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Not a Genuine Black Man: Or, How I Claimed My Piece of Ground in the Lily-White Suburbs

by Brian Copeland

Published: 2006-07-11

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Based on the longest-running one-man show in San Francisco history -- now coming to Off-Broadway -- a hilarious, poignant, and disarming memoir of growing up black in an all-white suburb In 1972, when Brian Copeland was eight, his family moved from Oakland to San Leandro, California, ho...

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Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

by Jeffrey Archer

Published: 1997

Paperback: 256 pages

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Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen

by Shunryu Suzuki, Edward Espe Brown, Zen Center San Francisco

Published: 2003-06-01

Paperback: 176 pages

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Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well. In a beautiful companion volume to Shunryu Suzuki's first book, Zen...

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Not Another Bad Date

by Rachel Gibson

Published: 2008-06-01

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way

by Ruth Reichl

Published: 2009-04-21

Hardcover: 128 pages

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Reflects on the author's mother, focusing on her early life as a bookstore owner and housewife and the diaries she kept which had been retrieved by her daughter after her death.

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Not Becoming My Mother: And Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series)

by Ruth Reichl

Published: 2009-06-04

Hardcover: 147 pages

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Unabridged CDs, 2 CDs, 2 hours Read by the author Bestselling author Ruth Reichl examines her mother's life, giving voice to the universal unarticulated truth that we are grateful not to be our mothers.

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Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping

by Judith Levine

Published: 2007-02-27

Paperback: 288 pages

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Shocked by the commerce in everything from pet cloning to patriotism, frightened by the downward spiral of her finances and that of the trash-strewn earth, Judith Levine enlists her partner, Paul, in a radical experiment: to forgo all but the most necessary purchases for an entire year. ...