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Gingko Bookshop
5 Elliewood Avenue · Charlottesville, VA
Pure Panic Comics and Games
8317 Fenton Street · Silver Spring, MD
Virginia Book Company
310 Shafer Street · Richmond, VA
Virginia Tech University Bookstore
115 Kent Street · Blacksburg, VA
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Simone de Beauvoir
1 book on Bokateria
French philosopher, novelist, and essayist, the lifelong companion of [Jean-Paul Sartre][1] and vice versa. Beauvoir's two volume treatise…
Viktor Emil Frankl
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Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. He was the founder of logotherapy, which…
Gabriel García Márquez
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Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, affectionately known as…
James Joyce
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology,…
James Baldwin
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James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals…
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Featured books & authors
Worth a place on your nightstand
The Cat in the Hat
Dr. Seuss, Simon Mugford
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
The C Programming Language
Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie
La Divina Commedia
Dante Alighieri
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
Cien años de soledad
Gabriel García Márquez
White Noise
Don DeLillo, Mosche Hana'ami
Runaway Ralph
Beverly Cleary
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Stenciled Edges) (Harry Potter, Book 1)
J. K. Rowling
Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot