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Donna Karan Wool-blend Cocoon Jacket-Size 06

Made for Donna Karan in an Italian-made 85 percent virgin wool/15 percent nylon fabric, this open-front unlined jacket is structured to give you room to move. It's accented with pongee tan topstitching.

H.S. Trask Buffalo Creek Hillside Men's Shoes

The Buffalo Creek Hillside men's loafer from H.S. Trask is styled in textured and smooth oxblood leather. Soft milled bison leather and genuine handsewn construction, leather welts, and leather/rubber outsoles make these shoes a sure bet.

The Best American Short Stories 2001

Edited by Barbara Kingsolver, the 2001 volume features work by Alice Munro, Andrea Barrett, John Updike, and some newcomers.

The Tapir`s Morning Bath

After spending a year as an ecological researcher in Panama, Royte describes the wonders of the Panamanian rain forest, including spider monkeys, bats, and leaf-cutter ants, as well as the academics and tourists of Barro Colorado Island. A New York T...

The Seven Sins of Memory

Schacter discusses memory, from the reasons for and kinds of memory loss to the various memory-enhancing techniques that exist. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.

The Algeria Hotel

Three French towns--Bordeaux, Vichy, and Tulle--are the sites of this investigation into how the contemporary French deal with the ghosts of the past and their participation in WW II after their country fell to the Nazis. A New York Times Notable Boo...

Hoop Roots

Novelist John Edgar Wideman finds meaning and remembrances of things past in his lifelong connection to basketball. He recalls the lessons learned in his youth, explores his identity as an African American, and decodes the etiquette of the court. A N...

Almost

A ghostwriter leaves her husband on the Nantucket-like island where they live, has an affair with an Englishman whose wife is hospitalized, and then is forced to return to the island to investigate when her husband is found dead. A New York Times Not...

The Bostons

These nine stories, written in a variety of styles and dealing with many diverse themes, are linked by recurring characters who weave in and out of the action. They include a pregnant teenager who runs away with her boyfriend and a middle-aged man on...

The Dying Animal

Philip Roth`s perennial character (and alter ego) David Kepesh is the narrator of THE DYING ANIMAL, which finds an aging Kepesh still obsessed with sex, still longing for young women to keep death at bay. He thinks compulsively, in erotic detail, of ...