Top 10 Nobel Prize Winners
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The Alchemist
- ASIN: 0062315005
- ISBN: 0062315005
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: HarperOne
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The Stranger
- ASIN: 0679720200
- ISBN: 9780679720201
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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My Name Is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize
- ASIN: 0520270258
- ISBN: 9780520270251
- Manufacturer: University of California Press
As Eve Ensler says in her inspired foreword to this book, “Jody Williams is many things―a simple girl from Vermont, a sister of a disabled brother, a loving wife, an intense character full of fury and mischief, a great strategist, an excellent organizer, a brave and relentless advocate, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. But to me Jody Williams is... [Read More]
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Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
- ASIN: 1564784010
- ISBN: 1564784010
- Manufacturer: Dalkey Archive Press
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that th... [Read More]
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The Remains of the Day
- ASIN: 0679731725
- ISBN: 0679731725
- Brand: Vintage International
- Manufacturer: Vintage International
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Siddhartha: A Novel
- ASIN: 0553208845
- ISBN: 0553208845
- Brand: Bantam Classics
- Manufacturer: Bantam
The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers—a perennial favorite for graduation gifts.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThough set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922, the year of the bo... [Read More]
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Song of Solomon
- ASIN: 140003342X
- ISBN: 140003342X
- Brand: Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman fro... [Read More]
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
- ASIN: 0374275637
- ISBN: 9780374275631
- Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries: Second Edition
- ASIN: 0309072700
- ISBN: 9780309072700
- Brand: McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch
- Manufacturer: Joseph Henry Press
Since 1901 there have been over three hundred recipients of the Nobel Prize in the sciences. Only ten of them -- about 3 percent -- have been women. Why? In this updated version of Nobel Prize Women in Science, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the reasons for this astonishing disparity by examining the lives and achievements of fifteen women scient... [Read More]
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The Buried Giant: A novel (Vintage International)
- ASIN: B00N6PCXME
- Manufacturer: Vintage
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British coupl... [Read More]
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Sula
- ASIN: 1400033438
- ISBN: 9781400033430
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures ev... [Read More]
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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
- ASIN: 1524760447
- ISBN: 1524760447
- Manufacturer: Tim Duggan Books
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZEIn this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. N... [Read More]
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Malala's Magic Pencil
- ASIN: 0316319570
- ISBN: 9780316319577
- Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
"Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has carefully crafted the story of her childhood for an elementary school audience. Malala's Magic Pencil is inspirational and a wonderful conversation starter for families. " - Seira Wilson, Amazon Editor Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai's first picture book... [Read More]
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Food52 Genius Desserts: 100 Recipes That Will Change the Way You Bake (Food52 Works)
- ASIN: 1524758981
- ISBN: 9781524758981
- Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
In this follow-up to the IACP award-winning, New York Times best-selling cookbook Genius Recipes, Food52 is back with the most beloved and talked-about desserts of our time (and the under-the-radar gems that will soon join their ranks)—in a collection that will make you a local legend, and a smarter baker to boot.IACP AWARD WINNER • Featur... [Read More]
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The Plague
- ASIN: 0679720219
- ISBN: 0679720219
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- ASIN: 0143039164
- ISBN: 0143039164
- Brand: Penguin Classics
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
“[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.” —Slate The turbulent historical masterpiece of Norway’s literary masterA Penguin Classic In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly det... [Read More]
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Disgrace: A Novel
- ASIN: 0140296409
- ISBN: 0140296409
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
From the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. "Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it." —The New Y... [Read More]
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- ASIN: 0375726268
- ISBN: 0375726268
- Brand: Vintage Books USA
- Manufacturer: Vintage Books
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and... [Read More]
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The Words of Peace, Fourth Edition: Selections from the Speeches of the Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize (Newmarket Words Of Series)
- ASIN: 1557048096
- ISBN: 1557048096
- Manufacturer: William Morrow
This inspirational volume features excerpts from Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speeches since the award's inception in 1901, along with biographical notes on each winner and a complete chronology. Selected by the world's foremost historian of the Nobel Peace Prize, this uplifting collection presents the laureates' perspectives on:PeaceThe Bonds of H... [Read More]
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
- ASIN: 0399588825
- ISBN: 9780399588822
- Brand: RANDOM HOUSE
- Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER NAMED ONE OF THE... [Read More]
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