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Pulitzer Prize 2008

The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )

Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly i... More »

Years Of Extermination Nazi Germany And The Jews 1939 1945
Saul Friedlander

$63.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )

The result of more than 30 years of research and investigation, this important new volume presents a thorough historical study of the events beyond the usual analysis of German policies, decisions, and measures that led ... More »


What Hath God Wrought
Howe Daniel Walker

$55.95 (Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr )

In the latest installment in the Oxford History of the United States series, historian Howe, professor emeritus at Oxford University and UCLA ("The Political Culture of the American Whigs"), stylishly narrates a crucial ... More »

Edens Outcasts The Story Of Louisa May Alcott And Her Father
John Matteson

$40.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )

The beloved author of "Little Women" was torn between pleasing her idealistic father and planting her feet in the material world. Louisa May Alcott's name is known universally. Yet, during her youth, the famous Alcott wa... More »


Time And Materials
Robert Hass

$36.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )

The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breatht... More »

Failure
Philip Schultz

$36.95 (Hardcover book / Harcourt )

Assuming the I in the short poems here is Schultzit obviously isnt in the 50-pager that so impressively concludes the bookthen he seems to have started a family when well past 50, which is rather startling, given the boo... More »


August Osage County
Tracy Letts

$22.95 (Paperback book / Theatre Communicats )

One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent Broadway history, "August: Osage County" is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest-and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Wes... More »

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