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Nietzsche

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A Natural History of the Senses

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Amy Stewart

Girl Waits With Gun: A Kopp Sisters Novel

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William Manchester

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age

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O. Henry

Tales of O. Henry

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Thomas Merton

Selected Poems of Thomas Merton

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James Joyce

Finnegans Wake

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Jeffrie G. Murphy

Philosophy of Law: An Introduction to Jurisprudence

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This introduction to critical thinking focuses on an integrated, universal concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and practical. It provides students with the basic intellectual skills they need to think through content in any class, subject, or discipline, and through any problems or issues they face.

Written by two of the leading experts in the field, Critical Thinking: Learn the Tools the Best Thinkers Use focuses on the most basic critical thinking concepts. It includes activities that allow readers to apply these concepts within disciplines and to life. An added feature to this brief book is a focus on close reading and substantive writing.

Content highlights include:

Think for Yourself activities
Discovering the parts of thinking and the standards for thinking
Learning to formulate clear and substantive questions
Making the design of a course work for you
Close reading and substantive writing
Becoming a fair-minded thinker — Quick view Add to Cart

Richard Paul

Critical Thinking: Learn the Tools the Best Thinkers Use

MSRP: $65.00

$50.00

The shattering account of one woman's struggle against the forces supporting the abuse of animals, Free the Animals is the best-selling and action-packed story of underground adventure, as well as an eloquent plea for the rights of nonhuman animals. Free the Animals, with an introduction by Chrissie Hynde, is the story of Valerie, a twenty-three-year-old police officer in Montgomery County, Maryland, whose world was turned upside down when she learned about the abuses of animals in laboratories. The book describes how this law-abiding woman came to challenge the system by taking direct action and examines why ordinary people are moved to do extraordinary things on behalf of animals. — Quick view Add to Cart

Ingrid Newkirk

Free the Animals! The Untold Story of the U.S. Animal Liberation Front & Its Founder, "Valerie"

$15.00

New York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett’s first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy.

Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In Gealy's critically acclaimed and hugely successful memoir, Autobiography of a Face, she wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, years of chemotherapy and radiation, and endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn't Lucy's life or Ann's life, but the parts of their lives they shared together. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long cold winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards, to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this is what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined...and what happens when one is left behind.

This is a tender, brutal book about loving the person we cannot save. It is about loyalty and being uplifted by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest. — Quick view Add to Cart

Ann Patchett

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship

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When Cooper's most memorable hero, Leatherstocking, started an American tradition by setting off into the sunset in The Pioneers, one early reader said of his departure, "I longed to go with him."

American readers couldn't get enough of the Leatherstocking saga (collected in two Library of America volumes) and, fourteen years after he portrayed the death of Natty Bumppo in The Prairie, Cooper brought him back in The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea (1841). During the Seven Years War, just after the events narrated in The Last of the Mohicans, Natty brings the daughter of a British sergeant to her father's station on the Great Lakes, where the French and their Indian allies are plotting a treacherous ambush. Here, for the first time, he falls in love with a woman, before Cooper manages bring off Leatherstocking's most poignant, and perhaps his most revealing, escape.

The Deerslayer (1842) brings the saga full circle and follows the young Natty on his first warpath. Instinctively gifted in the arts of the forest, pious in his respect for the unspoiled wilderness on which he loves to gaze, honorable to friend and foe alike, stoic under torture, and cool under fire, the young Leatherstocking emerges as Cooper's noblest figure of the American frontier. Enacting a rite of passage both for its hero and for the culture he comes to represent, this last book in the series glows with a timelessness that readers everywhere will find enchanting. — Quick view Add to Cart

James Cooper

The Leatherstocking Tales, Vol. 2: The Pathfinder & The Deerslayer

MSRP: $42.50

$20.00

"Happy are the Christmases that are shared with cats!" proclaims the renowned artist Lesley Anne Ivory. And she should know. Her delightful, whimsical, and enchanting paintings of kittens, cats, tabbies, short-hairs and long-haired critters have long made the holidays special for young and old alike.

Here, in this wonderful collection, Lesley Anne Ivory's cats investigate the shimmering snow, temptingly decorated Christmas trees, fairy tale castles, golden gifts, candies, villages, and windows filled with mystery and charm.

Accompanying each full-page painting is a charming tale of each cat, from Agneatha and her tree ornaments to Motley and delicious Christmas puddings, from Christie who awaits Santa Claus to Spiro's warm Christmas stocking bed.

Capture the beauty and wonder of Christmas, as seen through the sweet, mischievous eyes of the cats and kittens we love. Capture the special feelings of Christmas with Lesley Anne Ivory's unique paintings.

Enjoy Christmas with those you love--your family, friends, and kittens! — Quick view Add to Cart

Lesley Anne Ivory

Christmas Cats

$10.00

From Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck and acclaimed artist Mark Buehner comes a heartwarming story that illustrates the true meaning of Christmas.

Rob wants to get his father something special for Christmas this year -- something that shows how much he really loves him. But it's Christmas Eve, and he doesn't have much money to spend. What could he possibly get? Suddenly, Rob thinks of the best gift of all...

Author of nearly a hundred books for children and adults, and winner of both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes, Pearl S. Buck has captured the spirit of Christmas in this elegant, heartwarming story about a boy's gift of love. Originally published in 1955, this classic story is now being issued, for the first time ever, as a picture book with glorious full-color art by acclaimed artist Mark Buehner.

A welcome addition to everyone's holiday collection, this timeless treasure will bring the true meaning of Christmas to the entire family for generations to come. — Quick view Add to Cart

Pearl S. Buck

Christmas Day in the Morning

MSRP: $17.99

$13.99

Now much revised since its first appearance in 1941, this book, despite its brevity, is notable for its scope and rigor. It provides a single strand of simple techniques for the central business of modern logic. Basic formal concepts are explained, the paraphrasing of words into symbols is treated at some length, and a testing procedure is given for truth-function logic along with a complete proof procedure for the logic of quantifiers. Fully one third of this revised edition is new, and presents a nearly complete turnover in crucial techniques of testing and proving, some change of notation, and some updating of terminology. The study is intended primarily as a convenient encapsulation of minimum essentials, but concludes by giving brief glimpses of further matters. — Quick view Add to Cart

Willard Van Orman Quine

Elementary Logic

MSRP: $24.00

$18.00

In 1994, Richard Paul Evans, then an unknown writer, self-published a short book entitled The Christmas Box. That book went on to become an international bestseller, selling more than seven million copies and touching the lives of many more people along the way. The Christmas Box Miracle is the story behind the book that has become a Christmas classic: how a man writes and publishes a book which helps grieving people to heal and lost souls to find their way home. It is Evans's story: his own spiritual journey and stories of people he encountered along the way -- miraculous stories of healing and divinity that often defy explanation. In sharing the story behind The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans has given us a story of miracles, hope and healing for all seasons. — Quick view Add to Cart

Richard Paul Evans

The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope

MSRP: $17.95

$8.99

There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, although the story it tells is that of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended. — Quick view Add to Cart

Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics Edition)

MSRP: $15.00

$9.99

If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers (Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de La Peña, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Rainbow Rowell, Stephanie Perkins, Laini Tayler and Kiersten White), edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins. Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or Kwanzaa, there's something here for everyone. So curl up by the fireplace and get cozy. You have twelve reasons this season to stay indoors and fall in love. — Quick view Add to Cart

Stephanie Perkins (editor)

My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

MSRP: $18.99

$14.99

“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” Ernest Hemingway wrote. “It’s the best book we’ve had.” A complex masterpiece that spawned controversy right from the start (it was banished from the Concord library shelves in 1885), it is at heart a compelling adventure story. Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft through treacherous waters, surviving a crash with a steamboat and betrayal by rogues. As Norman Mailer has said, “The mark of how good Huckleberry Finn has to be is that one can compare it to a number of our best modern American novels and it stands up page for page.”

Introduction by George Saunders

Commentary by Thomas Perry Sergeant, Bernard DeVoto, Clifton Fadiman, T. S. Eliot, and Leo Marx — Quick view Add to Cart

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Modern Library Edition)

MSRP: $6.95

$5.99

Cranky, stingy ol' Ebenezer Scrooge says only "Bah, humbug!" to Christmas. Can four ghosts on Christmas Eve and the sweet, gentle nature of one tiny boy change his mind and open his heart? A Christmas Carol is a classic tale of magic, hope, change and the three spirits of Christmas.

Condensed and Adapted by W.T. Robinson

Illustrated by Jason Alexander — Quick view Add to Cart

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol (Junior Classics Edition)

$5.99