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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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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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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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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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Jan T. Gross - Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Documents the brutal 1941 massacre of 1,600 Jewish men, women, and children by their own neighbors in the Polish town of Jedwabne, offering additional examinations of the period's Jewish-Polish relations, the Holocaust, and human responses to occupation and totalitarianism.
Score: 1.0 1 Review
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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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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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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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Ursula K. Le Guin - The Farthest Shore
A young prince joins forces with a master wizard on a journey to discover a cause and remedy for the loss of magic in Earthsea.
Score: 4.8 4 Reviews
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William Steig - Doctor De Soto
Dr. De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain.
Score: 5.0 3 Reviews
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David Willis McCullough - Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
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 ... More
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Don Delillo - White Noise: Text and Criticism
From a National Book Award-winning author comes this postmodern masterpiece. After a deadly toxic accident and his wife's addiction to an experimental drug, a man is forced to question everything about his life.
Score: 4.6 9 Reviews
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Barbara Tuchman - Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
"Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." Commentary<br><br>The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a cha ... 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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Kent Haruf - Plainsong
From the unsettled lives of three people emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together. Utterly true to the rhythms and patterns of life, "Plainsong" is a heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation, and tenacity.
Score: 4.7 17 Reviews
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Tracy Kidder - The Soul of a New Machine
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, The Soul of a New Machine was a bestseller on its first publication in 1981. With the touch of an expert thriller writer, Tracy Kidder recounts the feverish efforts of a team of Data General researchers to create a new 32-bit superminicompute ... More
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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Carolyn Coman and Carolyn Corman - Many Stones
After her sister Laura is murdered in South Africa, Berry and her estranged father travel there to participate in the dedication of a memorial in her name.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Andrea Barrett - Ship Fever
Science and love are the subjects of these short stories and a novella. Winner of the 1996 National Book Award.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Peter Matthiessen - The Snow Leopard
When Matthiessen went to Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and, possibly, to glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard, he undertook his five-week trek as winter snows were sweeping into the high passes. This is a radiant and deeply moving account of a "true pilgrimage, a journey of the hear ... More
Score: 5.0 3 Reviews
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Ha Jin - Waiting
Lin Kong is a devoted doctor in love with a modern young woman--a nurse who is educated, clever, and vivid. The only complication is the wife to whom he was married when they were very young--a tiny woman, humble and touchingly loyal, whom he visits in order to ask, again and again, for divorce.
Score: 4.2 19 Reviews
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Gloria Naylor - The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories
The women of Brewster Place are "hard-edged, soft-centered, brutally demanding, and easily pleased". In their stories, Gloria Naylor has created a community of women that has touched thousands of readers across the country. Now the basis for a November 1988, ABC-TV, three-hour movie, starring Oprah ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Phillip M. Hoose - We Were There, Too: Young People in Us History
Biographies of dozens of young people who made a mark in American history, including explorers, planters, spies, cowpunchers, sweatshop workers, and civil rights workers.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Robert A. Caro - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro&#8217;s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. <b>Master of the Senate</b> takes Johnson&#8217;s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most a ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Tom Wolfe - Man in Full: A Novel
Tom Wolfe's novel stars a college football star turned millionaire businessman who, in late middle age, finds himself with a troublesome young wife and a mountain of debt. The cast includes Conrad Hensley, who gets in trouble with the law after losing his job; a black ex-athlete accused of raping a ... More
Score: 4.0 34 Reviews
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Joan W. Blos - A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 A Novel
The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
Score: 3.5 2 Reviews
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Joseph J. Ellis - American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who still today "hover(s) over the political scene like one of those dirigibles cruising above a crowded foo ... More
Score: 4.5 4 Reviews
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Susan Straight - Highwire Moon: A Novel
In this powerful, great-hearted story, Susan Straight takes us back to the multiracial area of southern California that is, in Faulkner?s phrase, her ?postage stamp of soil.? As in her highly acclaimed earlier novels, she has created a world of richly imagined characters struggling to retain their d ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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