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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Julia Glass - Three Junes
The interconnected lives, loves, and relationships of different generations of the McLeod family are revealed over the course of three crucial summers, in a debut novel about love, death, and birth in a Scottish family.
Score: 4.3 3 Reviews
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John W. Dower - Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
<B>Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Non-Fiction</B>, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, <I>Embracing Defeat</I> is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. Drawing on a vast range of Ja ... More
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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James Jones - From Here to Eternity
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 ... More
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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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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Jerzy N. Kosinski - Steps
From the esteemed author of "The Painted Bird" and "Being There" comes this award-winning novel about one man's sexual and sensual experiences, the fabric from which the shape of his life has been woven. In this winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, distinctions are eroded between oppressor ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Galway Kinnell - A New Selected Poems: Galway Kinnell
That Silent Evening I will go back to that silent evening when we lay together and talked in silent voices, while outside slow lumps of soft snow fell, hushing as they got near the ground, with a fire in the room, in which centuries of tree went up in continuous ghost-giving-up, without a c ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Belva Plain - Promises
With her three children, beautiful home, and loving husband, Margaret Crane is a woman others would envy. Adams job has cushioned them nicely over the years, and it should be a time of contentment, rewards, of new challenges together. But lately Adam has been working too late, too hard, at the off ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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E.L. Doctorow - World's Fair
New York is the setting and a central character in this wonderfully moving and evocative novel of a boy growing up and a family surviving in the 1930s. Told in the voices of its young protoganist, his mother, and his older brother, the story unfolds against a back-ground of the grim economic realiti ... More
Score: 4.5 2 Reviews
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Pete Dexter - Paris Trout
A white man murders a 14-year-old black girl in a Southern town, an event that exposes the true souls of everyone involved: Paris Trout, the murderer; his abused wife, Hanna, who tries to escape him; his defense lawyer; and the idealistic young lawyer who handles Hanna's divorce.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Beth Kephart - A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage
In this 1998 National Book Award finalist, Kephart chronicles the tragedy of her son's developmental problems and her struggle to lead him toward wholeness.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Joyce Carol Oates - Them
Winner of the National Book Award and in print for more than thirty years, <b>them</b> ranks as one of the most masterly portraits of postwar America ever written by a novelist. Including several new pages and text substantially revised and updated by the author, this Modern Library edition is the m ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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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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Bernard Augustine De Voto - The Course of Empire
Tracing North American exploration from Balboa to Lewis Clark, DeVoto tells in classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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David Levering Lewis - W.E.B. Dubois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963
The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography begins with the end of World War I and chronicles the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance, the little-known political agenda behind it, Du Bois's battle for equality and justice for African Americans, and his self-exile in Ghana.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Hayden Carruth - Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems, 1991-1995
This volume is the third by Hayden Caruth to be nominated for a National Book Award for poetry. It was the winner in 1996.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Edward Ball - Slaves in the Family
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 ... More
Score: 4.0 4 Reviews
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Alice McDermott - Charming Billy
When the late Billy Lynch's relatives and friends gather together to keep his memory alive, stories are woven and memories relived detailing his life in the close Irish-American community and the intricate feelings that resurface.
Score: 3.1 9 Reviews
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Wanda Coleman - Mercurochrome: New Poems
This 11th collection, by the 1999 recipient of the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize, uses vivid, visceral language to examine issues of identity and relationships. This volume was nominated for the 2001 National Book Award.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Maxine Kingston - China Men
The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Heres a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.
Score: 4.0 2 Reviews
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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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