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The Echo Maker
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Richard Powers |
On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister Karin, his only near kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nu… |
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Short stories
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Katherine Anne Porter |
Set in Porter's native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, these are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that are severe but never crue… |
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Arctic dreams
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Barry Lopez |
Barry Holstun Lopez:
“Arctic Dreams; Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape” ( 1986)
This is an account of the author's exploration of the Western Arctic region, between Bering Strait a… |
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Waiting
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Ha Jin,Ha Jin |
For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives… |
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Color Purple / Meridian / Third Life of Grange Copeland
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Alice Walker |
Contains
- [The Color Purple](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1815836W/Color_Purple)
- Meridian
- Third Life of Grange Copeland |
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White Noise
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Don DeLillo |
The trials and tribulations of a profesor of Hitler studies. |
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Going after Cacciato
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Tim O'Brien |
In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier who one day lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Par… |
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Paris Trout
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Pete Dexter |
Paris Trout is a 1988 American novel written by Pete Dexter. It was the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. |
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Legacy of Ashes
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Tim Weiner |
Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse… |
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The Hemingses of Monticello
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Annette Gordon-Reed |
Historian and legal scholar Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family, and their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson. |
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All the Pretty Horses
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Cormac McCarthy |
All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992.
Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the write… |
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The Shipping News
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Annie Proulx |
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral h… |
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Rabbit is rich
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John Updike |
It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It's all in pl… |
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The centaur
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John Updike |
In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son g… |
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James Joyce
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Richard Ellmann |
**James Joyce** by Richard Ellmann was published in 1959 (a revised edition was released in 1982). It provides an intimate and detailed account of the life of Irish modernist James Joyce, which infor… |
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American Sphinx
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Joseph J. Ellis |
For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight--and not only during his active political care… |
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Three Junes
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Julia Glass |
Three Junes is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. In June of 1989, Paul McLeod, the recently widowed … |
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Herman Melville
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Newton Arvin |
A narrative account of what is known of Melville's life, and an interpretation, in psychological and psychoanalytical terms, of Melville's personality. Critically, it presents an independent appraisa… |
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In the Heart of the Sea
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Nathaniel Philbrick |
In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage to hunt whales. Fifteen months later, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. |
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