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  Sing, Unburied, Sing

  Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781501126062
  
  In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into r…

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  The Paperboy

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  Heart of a Dog

  This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an obvious criticism of Soviet society, especially the new rich that arose after the Bolshevik revolutio…

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  Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind (Miss Julia, #1)

  Miss Julia, a recently bereaved and newly wealthy widow, is only slightly bemused when one Hazel Marie Puckett appears at her door with a youngster in tow and unceremoniously announces that the child …

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  On the Road

  A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the N. American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy We…

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  Don Quixote

  Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all…

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  The Quiet American

  Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam
  
  "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Ald…

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  Invisible Man

  First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightma…

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  The Last Picture Show

  This is one of McMurtry's most memorable novels - the basis for the film of the same name. Set in a small, dusty Texas town, it introduces Jacy, Duane and Sonny, teenagers stumbling towards adulthood,…

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  March

  Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
  
  From the author of the acclaimed Year of Wonders, a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe, on the front lines of the American C…

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  Tracks (Love Medicine. #3)

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  Set earliest in time within the cycle of her prizewinning and bestselling books, Love Medicine and …

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  The Netanyahus

  Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but not an historian of the Jews - is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an ex…

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  Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

  Award-winning journalist Sam Anderson’s long-awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City--a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny.
  
  Oklahoma City was born fr…

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  The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

  980, PASS CHRISTIAN, It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nin…

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  The Rebel Angels (The Cornish Trilogy, #1)

  Defrocked monks, mad professors, and wealthy eccentrics - a remarkable cast peoples Robertson Davies' brilliant spectacle of theft, perjury, murder, scholarship, and love at a modern university. Only …

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  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to…

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  Travels with Charley: In Search of America

  A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California’s Monterey Peninsula
  
  To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—t…

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  Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)

  Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.
  
  Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave an…

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  Dancing at the Rascal Fair

  The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the i…

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  Ceremony

  Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation…

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