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Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar - The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
This reissue of the groundbreaking study of female 19th-century writers contains a new introduction in which Gilbert and Guber address the origins of their own interest in feminist literary criticism.
Score: 4.0 2 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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Ted Conover - Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
A journalist recounts the year he spent as a corrections officer at the notorious prison, offering a true insider's view of the culture of its guards--both idealistic "new jacks" like himself and brutally hardened veterans, prison rituals like strip frisks and cell searches, and the impasse between ... More
Score: 4.4 5 Reviews
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David Fromkin - Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
This history charts the post-World War I efforts by the Allies to deal with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and how decisions made then influenced the region's history and geopolitics for the rest of the century (and beyond). These efforts included creating new states and entities, including what wa ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
First you took [the title] at face value, and picked it up immediately. "This is just the sort of book for which I have been looking!" Many of you, particularly those among you who seek out the maudlin and melodramatic, were struck by the "Heartbreaking" part. Others thought the "Staggering Genius" ... More
Score: 4.1 35 Reviews
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Elliott Currie - Crime and Punishment in America
Statistics reveal that there are five times as many Americans behind bars today as in 1970. Despite some recent declines in urban crime rates, we remain the most violent industrial society on earth. In a hard-hitting and accessible work, nationally acclaimed criminologist Elliott Currie lays out why ... More
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Joseph J. Ellis and Runger Nelson - Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
In a landmark work of history, the National Book Award&#8212;winning author of <b>American Sphinx</b><i> </i>explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed men&#8211;Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison&#8211;set the course for our nation.<br><br>Joseph Ellis ... More
Score: 4.6 10 Reviews
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Robert Stone - Bear and His Daughter: Stories
The stories collected in Bear and His Daughter span nearly thirty years - 1969 to the present - and they explore, acutely and powerfully, the humanity that unites us. In "Miserere," a widowed librarian with an unspeakable secret undertakes an unusual and grisly role in the anti-abortion crusade. "Un ... More
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Forrest McDonald - Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution
'A witty and energetic study of the ideas and passions of the Framers.' - New York Times Book Review'An important, comprehensive statement about the most fundamental period in American history. It deals authoritatively with topics no student of American can afford to ignore.' - Harvey Mansfield, aut ... More
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Richard Rodriguez - Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father
Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to consider the moral and spiritual landscapes of Mexico and the US and their ... More
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Paul Muldoon - Moy Sand and Gravel
The author's ninth collection of poems takes the reader on a richly evocative tour of Ireland, with glimpses of Bessie Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth I, William Butler Yeats, and Sitting Bull, to name just a few. Reprint.
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William W. Warner - Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
John Barth, who hails from the Chesapeake Bay area, writes an introduction to this nonfiction book about the bay and its fishermen.
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Robert Massie - Peter the Great: His Life and World
"Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"<br>THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW<br>Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages ... More
Score: 5.0 2 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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Peter Hillsman Taylor - A Summons to Memphis
When Phillip Carver is asked by his sisters to help avert their widower father's impending marriage to a younger woman, he is forced to confront his domineering siblings, a controlling patriarch, and a flood of memories from his deeply troubled past.
Score: 5.0 3 Reviews
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Cyra McFadden - Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir
Cy Taillon was the molasses-voiced king of rodeo announcers. When he died in 1980, newspapers in the West canonized him as the dean of rodeo and compared him to John Wayne. A reformed rake, handsome and charming and flashy, he was also difficult, often more lovable to the public than to his family. ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Don Delillo - Underworld
In order to dramatize the theme that all people and events in the universe are connected, DeLillo presents several narrators and a series of chronologically dislocated events. Additionally, history and facts scattered throughout the novel connect the reader to DeLillo's fictional world. After the r ... More
Score: 4.4 5 Reviews
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Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
A collection of essays on the natural world during a year spent in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia reflects the author's interactions with her wilderness surroundings. Reader's Guide available. Winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize. Reissue. 25,000 first printing.
Score: 4.4 7 Reviews
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Russell Baker - Growing Up
A reissue of the original prize-winning memoir by journalist Russell Baker.
Score: 4.0 2 Reviews
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John Updike - Rabbit at Rest
A haunting novel that completes Updike's extraordinary tetralogy chronicling four decades of life in America. In the final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild while exploring the bleak terrain of late ... More
Score: 4.6 5 Reviews
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John F. Kennedy - Profiles in Courage
<blockquote><i>"This is a book about that most admirable of human virtues-- courage. 'Grace under pressure,' Ernest Hemingway defined it. And these are the stories of the pressures experienced by eight United States Senators and the grace with which they endured them."</i><p>-- John F. Kennedy</p></ ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich - A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
On the basis of a diary, Ulrich gives the reader an intimate and densely imagined portrait of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard and her society--a portrait that sheds light on its medical practices, religious squabbles and sexual mores. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Score: 4.5 2 Reviews
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Lawrence Weschler - Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the f ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Raymond Carver - Cathedral: Stories
Twelve stories deal with loneliness, loss, the tragic banality of everyday life, and redemption.
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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Leonard Williams Levy - Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history and a landmark in the study of constitutional origins, Leonard Levy's now-classic study appears for the first time in paperback. Origins probes the intentions of the framers of the Fifth Amendment.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Steven Millhauser - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his fathers cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin ... More
Score: 3.8 4 Reviews
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Philip Roth - The Ghost Writer
This 1979 story of a budding American writer marks the second appearance of Nathan Zuckerman, Philip Roth's perennial alter ego. Here Zuckerman meets the famous writer E. I. Lonoff and falls in love with his research assistant--or possibly with Anne Frank, depending. THE GHOST WRITER is the first vo ... More
Score: 4.0 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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James Gleick - Chaos: Making a New Science
James Gleick explains the theories behind the fascinating new science called chaos. Alongside relativity and quantum mechanics, it is being hailed as the twentieth century's third revolution. 8 pages of photos.
Score: 4.3 3 Reviews
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Charles Simic - The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems
The short sentences in these quirky prose poems build to describe the absurdisms of a world wracked by war and tragedy. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1990.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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