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Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses: Movie Tie-In Edition
The first volume in McCarthy's Border Trilogy, ALL THE PRETTY HORSES begins with the death of John Grady Cole's grandfather. John Grady, age 16, has lived with his grandfather for much of his life, and when the old man dies and the family home--a ranch in Texas--is sold, John Grady and his old frien ... More
Score: 4.5 15 Reviews
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Adam Bagdasarian - Forgotten Fire
Twelve-year-old Vahan Kenderian, the son of an influential Armenian family in Turkey, struggles to survive alone after witnessing the deaths of many of his family and friends during the Armenian massacres of the early twentieth century.
Score: 4.5 2 Reviews
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Philip Roth - Goodbye, Columbus
Winner of the National Book AwardRoths award-winning first book--about Neil Klugman, Brenda Patimkin, and their relationship which tests the boundaries of suspicion, social class, and love--instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce co ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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William L. Shirer - Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
The classic history of Adolph Hitler's rise to power and his dramatic defeat.
Score: 4.6 5 Reviews
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Alice Walker - The Color Purple: A Novel
This new edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of Walker's Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner. "If it is true that it is what we run from that chases us, then The Color Purple is the book that ran me down while I sat with my back to it in a field".--from Walker's new preface.
Score: 4.6 16 Reviews
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Laurie Halse Anderson - Speak
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
Score: 4.4 36 Reviews
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Mark Bowden - Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
A searing portrayal of modern warfare recounts a 1993 firefight in Mogadishu, Somalia, that resulted in the deaths of eighteen Americans and more than five hundred Somalis, examining the rationales behind the disastrous raid. Reprint.
Score: 4.6 20 Reviews
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Robert Stone - Dog Soldiers: A Novel
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of Amer ... More
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Douglas R. Hofstadter - Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
This groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning book sets the standard for interdisciplinary writing, exploring the patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Katherine Anne Porter - The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter: The Cracked Looking Glass/the Grave/Magic/Flowering Judas
The acclaimed stories from Texan, Katherine Anne Porter, many of which examine the intricacies of Southern life. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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Katherine Paterson - The Great Gilly Hopkins: Scholastic Literature Guide Grades 4-8
An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly.
Score: 4.4 5 Reviews
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Bruce Catton - A Stillness at Appomattox
When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil War historian was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. This final volume of The Army of the Potomac trilogy relates the final year of the Civil War.
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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Elaine Pagels - The Gnostic Gospels
A provocative study of the gnostic gospels and the world of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts.
Score: 4.4 5 Reviews
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John Updike - Rabbit Is Rich
The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are le ... More
Score: 4.5 2 Reviews
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Natalie Angier - Woman: An Intimate Geography
At some point midway through my pregnancy, when I knew I was carrying a daughter, I began to think of myself as standing in a room with two facing mirrors, so that looking into one mirror you see the other mirror reflecting it, and you, off into something approaching an infinity of images. At twenty ... More
Score: 4.8 4 Reviews
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William Styron - Sophie's Choice
"[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl Id once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell." That very day, William Styron began writing the first chapter of Sophies Choice. ... More
Score: 3.9 7 Reviews
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Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain
Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his prewar sweetheart, Ada. Inman's odyssey through the devastated landscape of the soon-to ... More
Score: 3.7 34 Reviews
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Sharon Olds - The Unswept Room
From Sharon Olds&#8212;a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.<br><br>From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation ... More
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David G. McCullough - Mornings on Horseback
Noted historian McCullough examines the formative years of Theodore Roosevelt, providing a portrait of his family and a social history of a time period. Winner of the National Book Award for Biography.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Wallace Stevens - 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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Michael Cadnum - The Book of the Lion
Edmund, an apprentice coin minter, is accused of counterfeiting in this novel set in 12th-century England. In an effort to escape his punishment, Edmund becomes the squire to a knight who is joining Richard the Lionhearted in the crusades. Traveling from London to Venice, Edmund and his compatriots ... More
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Kate DiCamillo - The Tiger Rising
Life changes for 12-year-old Rob Horton when he finds a caged tiger in the woods behind the Kentucky Star Motel. On the very same day, he meets Sistine Bailey and learns how to trust another person for the first time in his life. Nominated for a 2001 National Book Award in the Young People's Literat ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Nelson Algren - Man With the Golden Arm: A Novel
In this special fifieth anniversary edition of a cult classic, Chicago dweller Frankie Machine comes apart in the city's Polish ghetto. NYT.
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Ellen Bryant Voigt - Shadow of Heaven: Poems
A follow-up to the author's highly acclaimed Kyrie, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, offers an intimate exploration of the obstacles and joys of modern life.
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John Irving - World According to Garp: A Novel
Something of a modern classic, this is the story of T. S. Garp, who is raised by his eccentric feminist mother and spends most of his life surrounded and preoccupied by woman. Irving depicts Garp's pursuit of a writing career against the backdrop of the odd assortment of characters in his life--wres ... More
Score: 4.8 20 Reviews
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Charles Baxter - The Feast of Love
A collection of vignettes set in a coffee shop explores the subtle movements of love between ordinary people. Reissue. (An MGM/Lakeshore Entertainment film, releasing September 2007, directed by Robert Benton, starring Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinear, Radha Mitchell, Jane Alexander, Alexa Davalos, Toby ... More
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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Edmund Morris - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
The first volume of Edmund Morris's biography of Theodore Roosevelt covers his life up to 1901, when he assumed the presidency following the assassination of President McKinley. Morris explores Roosevelt's origins and growth, and conveys the robust personality that charmed a nation.
Score: 5.0 5 Reviews
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Sheldon Vanauken and C. S. Lewis - A Severe Mercy
This acclaimed story traces the idyllic marriage of Sheldon and Jean Vanauken, their search for faith, their friendship with C.S. Lewis and the tragedy of untimely death and love lost. It includes 18 letters by C.S. Lewis. A winner of the National Religious Book Award and the Gold Medallion Award.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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John D. MacDonald - The Green Ripper
In his 18th appearance ladykiller Travis McGee, finally loses his heart to a lovely lady named Gretel. But just as he begins to bear his soul, his confidant is gone. Killed by a mysterious illness, they say, but McGee doesn't believe it. Many women have come and gone from his houseboat, "The Busted ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Barbara Cooney - Miss Rumphius
"As a child (Alice Rumphius) dreamed of travel . . . and of a house by the sea; but Grandfather had made one further request: 'You must do something to make the world more beautiful.' The simple story is accompanied by glowing pictures."--"The Horn Book." American Book Award. Full-color illustration ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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