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Gilead
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Marilynne Robinson |
**WINNER OF THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION**
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the so… |
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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 Known World
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Antonio Fernandez Lera,Edward P. Jones |
E-Book exclusive extras: "Inside The Known World: An Interview with Edward P. Jones"; Reading Group GuideHenry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost … |
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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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Liebeszauber
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Louise Erdrich |
A story of the intertwined fates of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines near a North Dakota reservation from 1934 to 1984. |
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Being dead
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Jim Crace |
"Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell - just look at them - that Joseph and Celice were still devoted. For while his hand was touching her, curved round her shin, the couple seemed to have… |
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The march
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E. L. Doctorow |
In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confede… |
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Kate Vaiden
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Reynolds Price |
At a crucial moment in middle age, Kate Vaiden wishes to locate her only child, a son, whom she abandoned when she was 17. As she looks back over her life, her unconventional story unfolds. |
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Roberto Bolaño |
An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared. |
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Junot Díaz |
Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and he kee… |
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