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Cities of the Plain
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Cormac McCarthy
The third and last volume of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, CITIES OF THE PLAIN continues the story of Billy Pawson, the cowboy with the heart of an outlaw. Billy becomes involved in the relationship between his friend and fellow ranch-hand John Grady--hero of ALL THE PRETTY HORSES--and a Mexican prostitute under the control of a brutal, ...
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
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Amos Oz, N R M de Lange (Translator)
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this bestselling and critically acclaimed work is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with ...
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
This intimate biography of Joseph Stalin is also a group portrait of Stalin and those around him during his 30-year rule of the Soviet Union--including Beria, Molotov, Stalin's wife, Nadya, and others in his court. It is thick with details of everyday life, and it is this detail that demythologizes the Soviet dictator, and which reveals his ...
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
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David Halberstam
Tackling the Korean War with monumental research and laser-sharp reportage, Halberstam explores the untold heroism and pathos of the worst American military defeat since Little Big Horn--and the Washington politics that set it in motion.
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The Prodigal
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Beverly Lewis
Book 4 in the bestselling Abram's Daughters series. The compelling and continuing chronicle of Abram Ebersol's family, beginning in the mid-1940s, moves forward in time and scope to the late 50s. The devout Ebersols have faced sometimes-painful divisions and separations--if not geographical, those of the heart. Leah, possibly most of all, has ...
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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin's memoir of growing up in the '50s as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan.
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What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
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Thomas Frank
Liberal journalist Thomas Frank turns his witty and insightful pen on this nation's gradual drift to the right over the last 30 years of the 20th century, asking "Why?" The conservative movement, once the bastion of Bill Buckley, Barry Goldwater, and protected interests now appears to be the people's party, the party of populism, and Frank wants ...
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Walk to Remember
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Nicholas Sparks
The author of THE NOTEBOOK tells the story of an aging man who recalls a high school romance that saved him from himself. An Entertainment Weekly Worst Book of 1999.
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The Story of a Marriage
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Andrew Sean Greer
A "Today" show Summer Reads Pick, "The Story of a Marriage" is set in a climate of fear and repression--political, sexual, and racial--and portrays three people trapped by the confines of their era, and the desperate measures they are prepared to take to escape it.
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
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Taylor Branch
Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Branch provides an unsurpassed portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, rise to greatness and illuminates the courage, the deals, betrayals, and rivalries that determined history. Winner of the National Book ...
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Gilead
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Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson's long-awaited second novel is named after the town in which it is set: Gilead, Iowa. The time is the 1950s, and John Ames, the town's beloved pastor, is dying of heart disease. Widowed early but recently remarried, John has a very young son. The novel is a final act of love: a letter to the boy, in which he looks back on his ...
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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David Guterson
In the midst of a raging snowstorm, a trial on Puget Sound in the 1950s pits the island's Japanese-American inhabitants against the local fisherman: a courtroom drama plus a study of conflicts between cultures and generations.
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Painted House
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John Grisham
It's harvest time at the Chandler family farm in Arkansas, and there are two groups of workers on hand to help pick the burgeoning cotton crop. There are the Spruills, a large family from the Ozark mountains; and there is also a group of migrant workers from Mexico. When beautiful young Tally Spruill becomes romantically involved with Cowboy, a ...
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Pale Horse Coming
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Stephen Hunter
Earl Swagger goes to a small town in the Mississippi Delta to investigate the disappearance of his friend, ex-prosecutor Sam Vincent, who was looking into rumors of corruption--and worse--centering on the local prison. Earl finds racism, conspiracies, and many other sinister things going on in the creepy, insular little town. He gathers some ...
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
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Bill Bryson
From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language comes a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century.
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The Girl Next Door
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Jack Ketchum
Suburbia in the 1950s, a dark side emerging in the Chandler house for teenage Meg and her crippled little sister Susan--captive to an Aunt, who is rapidly descending into madness. ""The Girl Next Door" is alive . . . in a way most works of popular fiction never attain; it does not just promise terror but actually delivers it. But it's a page ...
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Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
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Myron Uhlberg
By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Uhlberg's memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents--and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it.
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Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
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E Guevara
These travel diaries capture the essence and exuberance of the young legend, Che Guevara. This expanded, new edition, published with exclusive access to the Che Guevara Archives held in Havana, includes a preface by Che's daughter, Aleida Guevara. 30 photos.
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Roseflower Creek
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Jackie Lee Miles
'The morning I died it rained. Poured down so hard it washed the blood off my face.' Thus begins the story of ten-year-old Lori Jean, whose short life and early death are woven into a poignant, heart- wrenching novel set in the rural South of the 1950s.
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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
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Dr. Orlando Figes
The award-winning author of "A Peoples Tragedy" and "Natashas Dance" has written this landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression.
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The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
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Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is to fight their way south through the ...
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The new American poetry, 1945-1960
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Donald Allen
This is a reprint of a seminal anthology, one which collected the poetry of future greats John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Frank O'Hara, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Charles Olson before they were the household names (for poets, at least) they later became.
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Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe
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Robert Gellately
Acclaimed historian Gellately focuses on the dominant political leaders who enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945, and analyzes their catastrophic impact in global terms in this important addition to the understanding of modern history.
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Claim of Privilege: A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets
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Barry Siegel
In the tradition of "A Civil Action" and "Gideon's Trumpet," Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Siegel unfolds the shocking true story behind the Supreme Court case that forever changed the balance of power in America.
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Too Close to the Falls
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Catherine Gildiner
Catherine McClure relates her unusual experiences assisting her parents in their family pharmacy in this memoir about growing up in Lewiston, New York. This book was shortlisted for Canada's Trillium Award.
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