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  • BEYOND COMMON SENSE
    FRED WULCZYN / RICHARD P. BARTH / YING-YING T. YUAN / BRENDA JONES HARDEN / JOHN LANDSVERK
    Helping vulnerable children develop their full potential is an attractive idea with broad common-sense appeal. However, child well-being is a broad concept, and the legislative mandate for addressing well-being in the context of the current child welfare system is not particularly clear. This volume asserts that finding a place for well-being on the list of outcomes established...

    $1,320.00

  • THE DEVELOPMENT
    JOHN BARTH
    "A merry satire about the smart, moneyed, and demanding retirees living in a gated community . . . Scintillating on the surface and churning with danger below" ( Booklist). From a National Book Award–winning author, this is a collection of "nine darkly comic stories set in a gated community on Maryland's Eastern Shore" ( Publishers Weekly).   Something has disturbed the comfort...

    $179.00

  • WHERE THREE ROADS MEET
    JOHN BARTH
    From the National Book Award winner, three linked novellas that "will stretch your mind, challenge your thoughts, and bend your reality" ( Charlotte Observer). John Barth, "one of the greatest novelists of our time" ( Washington Post Book World) and "the master of experimental fiction" ( Details), presents a lively triad of tales that delight in the many possibilities of langua...

    $169.00

  • FINAL FRIDAYS
    JOHN BARTH
    For decades, acclaimed author John Barth has strayed from his Monday–through–Thursday–morning routine of fiction–writing and dedicated Friday mornings to the muse of nonfiction. The result is Final Fridays, his third essay collection, following The Friday Book (1984) and Further Fridays (1995). Sixteen years and six novels since his last volume of non–fiction, Barth delivers ye...

    $299.00

  • EVERY THIRD THOUGHT
    JOHN BARTH
    John Barth stays true to form in Every Third Thought, written from the perspective of a character Barth introduced in his short story collection The Development. George I. Newett and his wife Amanda Todd lived in the gated community of Heron Bay Estates until its destruction by a fluke tornado. This event, Newett notes, occurred on the 77th anniversary of the 1929 stock market ...

    $189.00