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| Kenneth Carley - The Dakota War of 1862 |
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The memoirist recalls her childhood in Minnesota, where a meatpacking plant dominated the lives of her family and friends. A 1959 strike at the plant, where her father was a striking employee, defines the narrative. Although a memoir of her own childhood, this book meditates on the larger issues of ...
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$10.00 - $15.00
from 4 stores
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| Toni Cade Bambara - The Salt Eaters |
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Set in Claybourne, a town somewhere in the South, The Salt Eaters is the story of a community of black people who are searching for the healing properties of salt, and who witness an event that will change their lives forever. "A book full of marvels".--The New Yorker.
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$1.99 - $11.16
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| Tino Villanueva - Scene from the Movie Giant |
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A 14-year-old boy sits in the darkness of the Holiday Theater watching a scene of anti-Mexican racism in a James Dean/Elizabeth Taylor movie. This scene, this memory, is at the heart of "Scene from the Movie GIANT," a remarkable book-length poem in five parts by Tino Villanueva. In it, Villanueva ex ...
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$2.98 - $12.95
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| William H. Gass - The Tunnel |
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In William H. Gass's second novel, a history professor named William Kohler writes a scholarly book called 'Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany,' and intersperses a personal memoir in the pages of the manuscript. In the meantime, he is digging a secret tunnel from his basement. The primary thrus ...
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$2.35 - $15.95
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