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Empire Falls
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Richard Russo
In Richard Russo's lengthy fifth novel--this one set in a small Maine town--the Empire Grill provides the focus for the town's inhabitants, who include Miles Roby, who manages the place; Francine Whiting, the wealthy woman who owns it; Jimmy the cop; and Miles's large, eccentric, and often comic extended family. Many plots intertwine as the ...
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Ava's Man
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Rick Bragg
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg was born a year after his maternal grandfather died in 1958, but resurrects him here, in this portrait of the grandfather he never knew. Researching the life of this much-loved patriarch brings Bragg to the Appalachian foothills, and back in time to a South that is no more.
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Sons & Lovers
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D H Lawrence
Based very closely on D.H. Lawrence's own life, SONS AND LOVERS (1913) tells the story of young Paul Morel, son of the troubled union of an educated, upwardly mobile mother and an ill-tempered, unlettered coal miner father who speaks in a broad dialect. Although in later life Lawrence regretted his brutal portrait of his father, the hero of the ...
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Cloudstreet
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Tim Winton
Told in fiery Australian working-class colloquialisms, this is the story of two families who are thrown together in a rambling house. Marked by tragedy and dealing with the extremes of the human condition, it is a work of wonder and miracles--a sprawling saga of renewal and affirmation.
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America America
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Ethan Canin
From the bestselling author of "The Palace Thief" and "Carry Me Across the Water" comes a stunning novel, set in the Nixon era and today, about a great family, a political tragedy, and the impact of fate on history.
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Last Orders
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Graham Swift
Four Londoners journey to Kent to fulfill a friend's dying wish that his ashes be scattered into the sea. Winner of the 1996 Booker Prize.
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Tell Me a Riddle
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Tillie Olsen
Celebrated, influential, and widely anthologized short stories by Tillie Olsen.
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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George Orwell
George Orwell eloquently evokes the lives of poor miners and laborers in the north of England during the 1930s. As always, Orwell is violently critical of the English class structure, and dedicated to the concept of socialism as a cure for that country's ills.
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Making of the English Working Class
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Edward P Thompson
E. P. Thompson examines the period from 1870 to 1932, when historical forces and processes, including the Industrial Revolution, brought about the working class as a separate and identifiable group in England.
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Trash
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Dorothy Allison
This new edition of Dorothy Allison's collection of autobiographical stories contains new material.
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Martin Eden
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Jack London
In Jack London's classic novel, a young, ambitious, and idealistic sailor tries to make it as a writer.
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Three Lives
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Gertrude Stein
The revered intellect and feminist Gertrude Stein brings readers an intriguing portrait of three immigrant women, whose subjugation through poverty and cultural and racial discrimination forced them to become domestic workers to survive. This Enriched Classics edition supplements the original text with a revealing Introduction and notes that ...
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The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America
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Katherine S Newman, Victor Tan Chen
This urgent examination of the lives of millions of hardworking Americans--neither poor nor middle class, but who live without a safety net--gives voice to the 57 million Americans who are sandwiched between the poor and middle classes.
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Working
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Studs Terkel
A national treasure, radio legend Studs Terkel first made his name in his home town of Chicago, conducting tens of thousands of radio interviews over several decades. (He even interviewed Bob Dylan in the early '60s.) In WORKING, Terkel lets the tape roll as people talk about their jobs--an oral history approach which, though he did not invent it, ...
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The Football Factory
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King
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Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
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Prof. Richard Sennett
Drawing on interviews with dismissed IBM executives in New York, bakers in a Boston bakery, a barmaid turned advertising executive, and countless other workers, Sennett studies the effects of the new capitalism throughout the world.
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Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream
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Ross Douthat, Reihan Salam
Blending history, analysis, and fresh, often controversial recommendations, the authors argue that it is time to move beyond the Reagan legacy and the mindset of the current Republican power structure.
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Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman
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Ning L T'Ai-T'ai, Ida Pruitt (Editor), Lao T'Ai-T'ai Ning
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The Silent Lady
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Catherine Cookson
Her major new novel, written in 1997 when the most remarkable author of our time was nearing the end of her life. The woman who presented herself at the offices of the respectable firm of London solicitors was, the receptionist decided, clearly a vagrant who had been sleeping on the streets. When she asked to see the firm’ s senior partner, ...
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Tilly Trotter
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Catherine Cookson
An epic trilogy set during the reign of Queen Victoria. It follows the fortunes of a young girl from a small village in Tyneside, to a new life in America as the wife of a wealthy man, only to return and encounter the enmity of her former neighbors and townspeople.
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Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
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Studs Terkel
In the first trade paperback edition of his national bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel presents "the real American experience" ("Chicago Daily News")--"a magnificent book. . . . A work of art. To read it is to hear America talking" ("Boston Globe").
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Wingless Bird
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Catherine Cookson
Catherine Cookson has created another extraordinary heroine in this wonderful turn-of-the-century romance. The daughter of a middle-class shopkeeper becomes a genteel Lady when she marries a wealthy young gentleman, but her peaceful life is shattered with the outbreak of World War I.
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Pure as the Lily
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Catherine Cookson
Mary Walton was the apple of her da's eye. For long now he had been out of work, and Mary was his only comfort during those dark years of the Depression, when unemployment and a nagging, ambitious wife gnawed away at his self-respect. Once he was a man who had held his head high with Geordie pride; now his only hope was ...
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My Beloved Son
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Catherine Cookson
Joe is so overwhelmed by his mother's overbearing attentions that he is unable to find love with another woman--until he meets Maggie.
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Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
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Lizabeth Cohen
This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s.
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