Saul Bellow

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Many years ago, Teddy gave Clara an emerald ring that she has cherished as a symbol of her passion for him. The ring is lost and after many years - eventually - discovered.

A Theft

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Gao Xingjian

Washington

Soul Mountain

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This is for the paprback book Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian. It is in excellent condition with little wear. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Wyoming

J. M. Coetzee

One of the New York Times book reviews, 11 best books of the year and winner of the Booker Prize. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Paperback book in very good condition 

Maryland

An uninspired college teacher's affair with a student is discovered, and he seeks solace on his daughter's farm in South Africa. A violent attack launched by three black men alters how he perceives many things including his daughter and the rights of South Africa's aggrieved majority.

Disgrace

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There is some discoloration on the binding. It looks like it might be due to light/the sun. Please reach out if you have any questions. P 56JNvq

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Massachusetts

The letters of Richard P Feynman

Perfectly reasonable deviations from the beaten track

#hardcover #science #history #nobelprize #chemistry 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, and Other Nobel Prize Winners Answer Some of Life's Most Intriguing Questions for Young People

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has honored the world's great geniuses in the most important fields: physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, economics, and world peace. What if children could ask these creative thinkers about some of life's most intriguing mysteries, such as ""Why can't I live on french fries?"" and ""What is love?"" the answers from the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, Desmond Tutu, and seventeen other Nobel Prize Laureates are rich with surprise, humor, and of course, wisdom. Every single answer will make readers think...and learn something new.

The Nobel Book of Answers

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The Cancer Ward

Gabriel García Márquez

Crease on corner of front cover. Wear on edges. Book is clean.

Texas

Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.

Love in the Time of Cholera

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#paperback #nonfiction #netflix #theboywhoharnessedthewind #bestseller #truestory #biography #nobelprize #africa #invention 

Florida

Young Readers Edition

Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village.

When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William's windmill brought electricity to his home and helped his family pump the water they needed to farm the land.

Retold for a younger audience, this exciting memoir shows how, even in a desperate situation, one boy's brilliant idea can light up the world. Complete with photographs, illustrations, and an epilogue that will bring readers up to date on William's story, this is the perfect edition to read and share with the whole family.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Movie Tie-In Edition)

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#paperback #fiction #nobelprize #greatbooks #penguin

Kentucky

A startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature For years, it had been what is called a “deteriorating situation.” Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family—liberal whites—are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July—the shifts in character and relationships—gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites. “So flawlessly written that every one of its events seems chillingly, ominously possible.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review

July's People

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José Saramago

Illinois

A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" whose victims are confined to a vacant mental hospital, while a single eyewitness to the nightmare guides seven oddly assorted strangers through the barren urban landscape

Blindness

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Missouri

Published 2016, 1st U.S. Edition/Dust Jacket; ex-library copy with typical stamps and internal markings. ISBN: 9780544785380

New Jersey

Of All That Ends

Orhan Pamuk

Robert Finn

A Novel

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic—a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague ravaging a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900 on the imaginary island of Mingheria—a state of the Ottoman Empire—located between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is high between the two. When a plague arrives, the island revolts. To stop the epidemic, an accomplished quarantine expert races to the island, but not everyone is happy with the precautions or the quarantine he enforces. What follows is a shocking murder. The plague continues its rapid spread and stricter quarantine measures are declared, but the incompetence of the island’s governor, increased hostility between the two religions, and the people’s refusal to respect the bans doom the quarantine to failure. As the death count rises to insurmountable amounts, warships blockade the island to keep the disease from spreading. Now the people of Mingheria are on their own, and they must find a way to defeat the plague themselves. Steeped in history and rife with suspense, Nights of Plague is an epic story set more than one hundred years ago, with themes that feel remarkably contemporary.

Nights of Plague

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Abdulrazak Gurnah

Virginia

By the Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal. Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island's white sands obscuring the memory of recent conflict--the longed-for independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by bloody revolution. When his father moves out, retreating into disheveled introspection, Salim is confused and ashamed. His mother does not discuss the change, nor does she explain her absences with a strange man; silence is layered on silence. When glamorous Uncle Amir, now a senior diplomat, offers Salim an escape, the lonely teenager travels to London for college. But nothing has prepared him for the biting cold and seething crowds of this hostile city. Struggling to find a foothold, and to understand the darkness at the heart of his family, he must face devastating truths about those closest to him--and about love, sex, and power. Evoking the immigrant experience with unsentimental precision and profound understanding, Gravel Heart is a powerfully affecting story of isolation, identity, belonging, and betrayal, and Abdulrazak Gurnah's most astonishing achievement.

Gravel Heart

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Dana Meachen Rau

Learn about a great woman in science, Marie Curie. For elementary school-age readers. Size 7-1/2 x 9”. 36 pages. 

A brief biography of the scientist who twice received the Nobel Prize for her work with radium.

Marie Curie

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Louisiana

And the story of the Nobel prize

Alfred Nobel #29

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Women and the Nobel Prize

Winners

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Isabel Thomas

Marie Curie was a brilliant scientist who coined the term 'radioactivity', discovered polonium and radium, and helped develop treatments for cancer. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, but her dedication to physics ultimately caused her death from radiation. From artists to aviators and scientists to revolutionaries, Little Guides to Great Lives is a brand new series of small-format guides introducing children to the most inspirational figures from history in a fun, accessible way. Launching with Leonardo da Vinci, Marie Curie, Nelson Mandela, and Amelia Earhart, Little Guides to Great Lives tells the stories of the most amazing people from all over the world and across history, with full-color illustrations and fresh design to bring their incredible stories to life.

Little Guides to Great Lives: Marie Curie

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Margaret Jull Costa

The Elephant's Journey

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Elie Wiesel

Marion Wiesel

The narrative of a boy who lived through Auschwitz and Buchenwald provides a short and terrible indictment of modern humanity.

Night

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Edith Grossman

Arizona

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In a remote Andean village, three men have disappeared. Peruvian Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomás have been dispatched to investigate, and to guard the town from the Shining Path guerrillas they assume are responsible. But the townspeople do not trust the officers, and they have their own ideas about what forces claimed the bodies of the missing men. To pass the time, and to cope with their homesickness, Tomás entertains Lituma nightly with the sensuous, surreal tale of his precarious love affair with a wayward prostitute. His stories are intermingled with the ongoing mystery of the missing men.

Death in the Andes is an atmospheric suspense story and a political allegory, a panoramic view of contemporary Peru from one of the world's great novelists.

Death in the Andes

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This is a used copy of Night. It was used to analyze the story for a high school class so there is a good amount of highlighting and annotations scattered throughout the book. And there is wear on the cover and edges over time. Pages are somewhat yellowed but inside of book still looks great and is perfectly legible. 

Please look at pictures to see examples of the condition. 

Nevada

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Oklahoma

America Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy

An incisive look at the global economic crisis, our flawed response, and the implications for the world's future prosperity.

The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depression. Flawed government policy and unscrupulous personal and corporate behavior in the United States created the current financial meltdown, which was exported across the globe with devastating consequences. The crisis has sparked an essential debate about America's economic missteps, the soundness of this country's economy, and even the appropriate shape of a capitalist system.

Few are more qualified to comment during this turbulent time than Joseph E. Stiglitz. Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, Stiglitz is "an insanely great economist, in ways you can't really appreciate unless you're deep into the field" (Paul Krugman, New York Times). In Freefall, Stiglitz traces the origins of the Great Recession, eschewing easy answers and demolishing the contention that America needs more billion-dollar bailouts and free passes to those "too big to fail," while also outlining the alternatives and revealing that even now there are choices ahead that can make a difference. The system is broken, and we can only fix it by examining the underlying theories that have led us into this new "bubble capitalism."

Ranging across a host of topics that bear on the crisis, Stiglitz argues convincingly for a restoration of the balance between government and markets. America as a nation faces huge challenges--in health care, energy, the environment, education, and manufacturing--and Stiglitz penetratingly addresses each in light of the newly emerging global economic order. An ongoing war of ideas over the most effective type of capitalist system, as well as a rebalancing of global economic power, is shaping that order. The battle may finally give the lie to theories of a "rational" market or to the view that America's global economic dominance is inevitable and unassailable.

For anyone watching with indignation while a reckless Wall Street destroyed homes, educations, and jobs; while the government took half-steps hoping for a "just-enough" recovery; and while bankers fell all over themselves claiming not to have seen what was coming, then sought government bailouts while resisting regulation that would make future crises less likely, Freefall offers a clear accounting of why so many Americans feel disillusioned today and how we can realize a prosperous economy and a moral society for the future.

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Saul Bellow

A Theft

Gao Xingjian

Soul Mountain

Gao Xingjian

Soul Mountain

J. M. Coetzee

Disgrace

Michelle Feynman

Perfectly reasonable deviations from the beaten track

Bettina Stiekel (Editor); Jimmy Carter (Intro and Notes by); Paul De Angelis

The Nobel Book of Answers

Aleksandr L. Solzhenitsyn

The Cancer Ward

Gabriel García Márquez; Gabriel García Márquez

Love in the Time of Cholera

William Kamkwamba; Bryan Mealer; Anna Hymas (Illustrator)

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Movie Tie-In Edition)

Nadine Gordimer

July's People

José Saramago

Blindness

Gabriel García Márquez; Gabriel García Márquez

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gunter Grass

Of All That Ends

Orhan Pamuk; Robert Finn

Nights of Plague

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Gravel Heart

Dana Meachen Rau

Marie Curie

John Bankston

Alfred Nobel #29

Barbara Shiels

Winners

Isabel Thomas

Little Guides to Great Lives: Marie Curie

José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa

The Elephant's Journey

Elie Wiesel; Marion Wiesel

Night

Mario Vargas Llosa; Edith Grossman

Death in the Andes

Elie Wiesel; Marion Wiesel

Night

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Freefall