"[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. ...
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THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS chronicles the dramatic story behind the realization of the centuries-old dream of creating a ship passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In the style that has made him a favorite of readers and reviewers alike, McCullough weaves astonishing engineering feats, ext ...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER "EVERYONE SHOULD READ AND LEARN FROM THIS LUMINOUS BOOK...Like Alex Haleys Roots, through which African American history came into national focus...Slaves in the Family has the potential for creating a perceptual shift in the American mind...The book is not only honest in its sc ...
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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.
Narrated by the ghost of soldier killed in Vietnam, the novel tells the story of Paco Sullivan, the lone survivor of a firebombing raid, a man who is something of a ghost himself. In a small Texas town Paco takes a job as a dishwasher and tries to make a simple life for himself even though he's haun ...
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Winner of the National Book Award, this novel of courage, violence, and passion was the basis of the famous film starring Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, and Frank Sinatra. This first book in James Jones's epic WW II trilogy follows the lives of the men and women stationed in Diamond Head, Hawaii, on ...
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