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Denis Johnson - Tree of Smoke

Denis Johnson - Tree of Smoke

Denis Johnson's long-awaited Vietnam novel is as labyrinthine and mysterious as the tunnels of Cu Chi. Johnson follows dozens of characters, ...

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Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) ...

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Bernard Malamud - The Fixer

Bernard Malamud - The Fixer

Malamud's novel is based on the case of a Jewish worker in Russia who is accused of murder, and his subsequent treatment at the hands of the law and ...

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Alberto Rios - The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body

Alberto Rios - The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body

Alberto R?os explains the world through magic. These poems, set in a town that straddles the American/Mexican border, are lyric adventures, crossing ...

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Jean Thompson - Who Do You Love: Stories

Jean Thompson - Who Do You Love: Stories

In her third collection of short stories, Jean Thompson sketches out episodes in the lives of people who just fall short of happiness. In one story, ...

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Lisa Goldstein - The Red Magician

Lisa Goldstein - The Red Magician

A young European girl, unaware of the Nazi threat, has her life transformed by a red-haired magician who challenges the complacency of her village. ...

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Rachel L. Carson - The Sea Around Us

Rachel L. Carson - The Sea Around Us

A commemorative edition of the classic study of the earth's ocean--first published in 1951--from its earliest origins to the present day, explores ...

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Bonnie Jo Campbell - American Salvage

Bonnie Jo Campbell - American Salvage

Impoverished, desperate, down-and-out, and sometimes insane, Bonnie Jo Campbell's characters inhabit a bleak Midwestern world where jobs are hard to ...

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Barry Holstun Lopez - Arctic Dreams

Barry Holstun Lopez - Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece.<br><br>Lopez offers a thorough ...

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W.S. Merwin - Migration: New & Selected Poems

W.S. Merwin - Migration: New & Selected Poems

Winner of the 2005 National Book Award in Poetry

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Atul Gawande - Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Atul Gawande - Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

<B>A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. </B><BR>Sometimes ...

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Steve Olson - Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins

Steve Olson - Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins

A history of human existence seeks to unveil some of the mysteries surrounding human origin, migration, and language development and discusses human ...

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Jonathan Kozol - Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools

Jonathan Kozol - Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools

A young teacher offers a firsthand account of the destructive effects of segregated Boston schools and their teachers on the African American ...

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Kevin Boyle - Arc Of Justice: A Saga Of Race, Civil Rights, And Murder In The Jazz Age

Kevin Boyle - Arc Of Justice: A Saga Of Race, Civil Rights, And Murder In The Jazz Age

Follows the 1925 murder trial of African-American doctor Ossian Sweet, who was accused of murdering a white person during a mob attack on his home, ...

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Wallace Stevens - The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens - The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

A celebrated collection of "the best and most representative American poet of our time" (Harold Bloom, Yale University)

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