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David Willis McCullough and Nelson Runger - John Adams
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of Truman sheds new light on America's second president, chronicling the life and times of Adams's youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his remarkable influence on the b ... More
Score: 4.9 18 Reviews
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Toni Morrison - Beloved
Sethe, an escaped slave, kills her own daughter Beloved with a handsaw to prevent her from being claimed as a slave in this stunningly rendered story. Beloved returns to her mother as a ghost 20 years later.
Score: 4.1 29 Reviews
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Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose
Traces the fortunes of four generations of one family as they attempt to build a life for themselves in the American West.
Score: 5.0 4 Reviews
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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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Jeffrey Eugenides and Benito Gomez Ibanez - Middlesex
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s. By the author of The Virgin
Score: 4.5 12 Reviews
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Michael Shaara - The Killer Angels
After 30 years and with three million copies in print, Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, <I>The Killer Angels</I>, remains as vivid and powerful as the day it was originally published.<p>July 1863. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia is invading the North. General Robe ... More
Score: 4.9 25 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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Barbara Kingsolver - Poisonwood Bible
"The Poisonwood Bible" is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it--from garden seeds t ... More
Score: 4.3 115 Reviews
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Bruce Catton - A Stillness at Appomattox
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.
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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Eudora Welty - Optimist's Daughter
When Laurel Hand, a Chicago widow, goes home to Mississippi to visit her sick father, she discovers that he is now married to Fay, a woman younger than herself. Quiet and demure Laurel and the very crass Fay unsurprisingly take an immediate dislike to each other, and their clashes are heightened by ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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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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Theodore H. White - Making of the President 1960
Examines the plans and campaigns of the seven candidates in the year leading up to the presidential election of 1960
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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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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Wallace Stevens - Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
A celebrated collection of "the best and most representative American poet of our time" (Harold Bloom, Yale University)
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David Willis McCullough - Truman
Huge, ambitious, and perfectly realized, Truman is an American masterpiece about the most American of Americans, a man who confounded the nation and the world by achieving a greatness all his own after coming to the presidency in FDR's giant shadow. An extraordinary and deeply moving biography, at o ... More
Score: 4.8 11 Reviews
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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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Raymond Carver - Where I'm Calling from: Selected Stories
A major collection of Carvers short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988.
Score: 5.0 3 Reviews
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Thomas McCraw - Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis and Alfred E. Kahn
Profiles four key figures in the history of government regulation of business.
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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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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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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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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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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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Katharine Graham - Personal History
In this critically acclaimed memoir, the woman who piloted the "Washington Post" through the crises of the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and a pressmen's strike and turned it into a great newspaper now tells her story with courage, candor, and dignity. "Captivating . . . distinguished by a level of in ... More
Score: 5.0 4 Reviews
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Edmund Morris - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
The first volume of Edmund Morris's biography of Theodore Roosevelt covers his life up to 1901, when he assumed the presidency following the assassination of President McKinley. Morris explores Roosevelt's origins and growth, and conveys the robust personality that charmed a nation.
Score: 5.0 5 Reviews
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