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| 9780060935467 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | the Unforgettable Novel Of A Childhood In A Sleepy Southern Town And The Crisis Of Conscience That Rocked It, to Kill A Mockingbird Became Both An Instant Bestseller And A Critical Success When It Was First Published In 1960. It Went On To Win The Pulitzer Prize In 1961 And Was Later Made Into An Academy Award-winning Film, Also A Classic. Compassionate, Dramatic, And Deeply Moving, to Kill A Mockingbird Takes Readers To The Roots Of Human Behavior - To Innocence And Experience, Kindness And Cruelty, Love And Hatred, Humor And Pathos. Now With Over 18 Million Copies In Print And Translated Into Forty Languages, This Regional Story By A Young Alabama Woman Claims Universal Appeal. Harper Lee Always Considered Her Book To Be A Simple Love Story. Today It Is Regarded As A Masterpiece Of American Literature.the New Yorkerskilled, Unpretentious And Tototally Ingenuous . . . Tough, Melodramatic, Acute, Funny. | Harper Perennial |
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| 9780767905923 | Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, And Life's Greatest Lesson, 25Th Anniversary Edition | Albom, Mitch | it S Been Ten Years Since Mitch Albom First Shared The Wisdom Of Morrie Schwartz With The World. Now Twelve Million Copies Later In A New Foreword, Mitch Albom Reflects Again On The Meaning Of Morrie S Life Lessons And The Gentle, Irrevocable Impact Of Their Tuesday Sessions All Those Years Ago...maybe It Was A Grandparent, Or A Teacher, Or A Colleague. Someone Older, Patient And Wise, Who Understood You When You Were Young And Searching, Helped You See The World As A More Profound Place, Gave You Sound Advice To Help You Make Your Way Through It. For Mitch Albom, That Person Was Morrie Schwartz, His College Professor From Nearly Twenty Years Ago. Maybe, Like Mitch, You Lost Track Of This Mentor As You Made Your Way, And The Insights Faded, And The World Seemed Colder. Wouldn't You Like To See That Person Again, Ask The Bigger Questions That Still Haunt You, Receive Wisdom For Your Busy Life Today The Way You Once Did When You Were Younger? publishers Weekly as A Student At Brandeis University In The Late 1970s, Albom Was Especially Drawn To His Sociology Professor, Morris Schwartz. On Graduation He Vowed To Keep In Touch With Him, Which He Failed To Do Until 1994, When He Saw A Segment About Schwartz On The Tv Program nightline, And Learned That He Had Just Been Diagnosed With Lou Gehrig's Disease. By Then A Sports Columnist For The detroit Free Press And Author Of Six Books, Including fab Five, Albom Was Idled By The Newspaper Strike In The Motor City And So Had The Opportunity To Visit Schwartz In Boston Every Week Until The Older Man Died. Their Dialogue Is The Subject Of This Moving Book In Which Schwartz Discourses On Life, Self-pity, Regrets, Aging, Love And Death, Offering Aphorisms About Each E.g., After You Have Wept And Grieved For Your Physical Losses, Cherish The Functions And The Life You Have Left. Far From Being Awash In Sentiment, The Dying Man Retains A Firm Grasp On Reality. An Emotionally Rich Book And A Deeply Affecting Memorial To A Wise Mentor, Who Was 79 When He Died In 1995. | Crown |
| 9780618947218 | Webster's New Basic Dictionary, Office Edition | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing | Office edition dictionary with over 60,000 entries and more than 1,000 new words. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
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| 9780385494786 | Wild A Journey From Lost To Found, Into The Wild, Into Thin Air 3 Books Collection Set | Cheryl Strayed, Jon Krakauer | national Bestseller a Bank Of Clouds Was Assembling On The Not-so-distant Horizon, But Journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, Standing On The Summit Of Mt. Everest, Saw Nothing That Suggested That A Murderous Storm Was Bearing Down. He Was Wrong. The Storm, Which Claimed Five Lives And Left Countless More—including Krakauer's—in Guilt-ridden Disarray, Would Also Provide The Impetus For into Thin Air, Krakauer's Epic Account Of The May 1996 Disaster.by Writing into Thin Air, Krakauer May Have Hoped To Exorcise Some Of His Own Demons And Lay To Rest Some Of The Painful Questions That Still Surround The Event. He Takes Great Pains To Provide A Balanced Picture Of The People And Events He Witnessed And Gives Due Credit To The Tireless And Dedicated Sherpas. He Also Avoids Blasting Easy Targets Such As Sandy Pittman, The Wealthy Socialite Who Brought An Espresso Maker Along On The Expedition. Krakauer's Highly Personal Inquiry Into The Catastrophe Provides A Great Deal Of Insight Into What Went Wrong. But For Krakauer Himself, Further Interviews And Investigations Only Lead Him To The Conclusion That His Perceived Failures Were Directly Responsible For A Fellow Climber's Death. Clearly, Krakauer Remains Haunted By The Disaster, And Although He Relates A Number Of Incidents In Which He Acted Selflessly And Even Heroically, He Seems Unable To View Those Instances Objectively. In The End, Despite His Evenhanded And Even Generous Assessment Of Others' Actions, He Reserves A Full Measure Of Vitriol For Himself.this Updated Trade Paperback Edition Of into Thin Air Includes An Extensive New Postscript That Sheds Fascinating Light On The Acrimonious Debate That Flared Between Krakauer And Everest Guide Anatoli Boukreev In The Wake Of The Tragedy. i Have No Doubt That Boukreev's Intentions Were Good On Summit Day, Writes Krakauer In The Postscript, Dated August 1999. What Disturbs Me, Though, Was Boukreev's Refusal To Acknowledge The Possibility That He Made Even A Single Poor Decision. Never Did He Indicate That Perhaps It Wasn't The Best Choice To Climb Without Gas Or Go Down Ahead Of His Clients. As Usual, Krakauer Supports His Points With Dogged Research And A Good Dose Of Humility. But Rather Than Continue The Heated Discourse That Has Raged Since into Thin Air's Denouncement Of Guide Boukreev, Krakauer's Tone Is Conciliatory; He Points Most Of His Criticism At G. Weston De Walt, Who Coauthored the Climb, Boukreev's Version Of Events. And In A Touching Conclusion, Krakauer Recounts His Last Conversation With The Late Boukreev, In Which The Two Weathered Climbers Agreed To Disagree About Certain Points. Krakauer Had Great Hopes To Patch Things Up With Boukreev, But The Russian Later Died In An Avalanche On Another Himalayan Peak, Annapurna I.in 1999, Krakauer Received An Academy Award In Literature From The American Academy Of Arts And Letters—a Prestigious Prize Intended To Honor Writers Of Exceptional Accomplishment. according To The Academy's Citation, Krakauer Combines The Tenacity And Courage Of The Finest Tradition Of Investigative Journalism With The Stylish Subtlety And Profound Insight Of The Born Writer. his Account Of An Ascent Of Mount Everest Has Led To A General Reevaluation Of Climbing And Of The Commercialization Of What Was Once A Romantic, Solitary Sport; While His Account Of The Life And Death Of Christopher Mccandless, Who Died Of Starvation After Challenging The Alaskan Wilderness, Delves Even More Deeply And Disturbingly Into The Fascination Of Nature And The Devastating Effects Of Its Lure On A Young And Curious Mind. a Childhood Dream Of Someday Ascending Mount Everest, A Lifelong Love Of Climbing, And An Expense Account All Propelled Writer Jon Krakauer To The Top Of The Himalayas Last May. His Powerful, Cautionary Tale Of An Adventure Gone Horribly Wrong Is A Must-read. | Atlantic Books/Pan |