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The Damnation of Theron Ware: Or IlluminationA candid inquiry into the intertwining of religious and sexual fervor, and a telling portrait of the United States at the end of the nineteenth century, this novel foreshadows the rise of naturalism in American literature. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been...
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Jerusalem Vigil: The Zion Legacy: Book OneFor fast-paced, often riveting action, the Thoenes come through with scenes of horror and fear that rival those of James Michener. --The New York Post Bodie and Brock Thoene's superb storytelling comes alive in Jerusalem Vigil, a novel of the struggle for Jerusalem. It...
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NoA compelling novel based on the high-stakes biotech industry and the science behind Viagra from the internationally known "Father of the Pill." The fourth installment of Carl Djerassi's pioneering "science-in-fiction" tetralogy tells the story of a husband and wife team who devise new solutions...
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Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction about Learning to Be AmericanStories navigating the commplicated terrain of race in America, from acclaimed writers like Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, Sandra Cisneros, Sherman Alexie, and Amy Tan The editors who brought us Unsettling America and Identity Lessons have compiled a short-story anthology that focuses on themes of...
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Riven RockT. C. Boyle's seventh novel transforms two characters straight out of history into rich mythic figures whose tortured love story is as heartbreaking as it is hilarious. It is the dawn of the twentieth century when the beautiful, budding feminist Katherine Dexter falls in...
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RosieFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Mercies; and Stitches, a wise and witty novel about motherhood. Look out for Anne's next book, Hallelujah Anyway, coming in 2017. In Anne Lamott's wise and witty novel, the growing pains of...
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After Rain: StoriesThere is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world.--Wall Street Journal Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor. In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a...
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The Bourbaki Gambit"A beautifully ingenious, funny, brilliantly intelligent, and moving tale of very human scientists. A splendid novel."--Iris Murdoch At the age of 68, distinguished Princeton science professor Max Weiss is bribed into taking an early retirement. Frustratingly aware that his best years are not yet...
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Remembering LaughterMargaret Stuart, the proud wife of a prosperous Iowa farmer, sets high standards for herself and others. Happy in her marriage, she tries to look the other way when her genial husband, Alec, takes to the bottle. When Elspeth, Margaret's sister, comes to live...
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Third and IndianaIn the Philadelphia neighborhood known as the Badlands, drug gangs rule absolutely. Each time a life is lost in the carnage of the local drug wars, a boldly drawn chalk outline of a body appears on the street leading up to City hall: a...
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Liza of LambethW. Somerset Maugham's first novel is about the gloomy, poverty-stricken world of South London in the 1890s and how it affects one young girl who tries to escape from it.Author: W. Somerset MaughamPublisher: Penguin GroupPublished: 09/01/1992Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.60h x 4.90w x...
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Browning in Buckskin'Well, what do you know, ' he said. 'I'm very pleased to meet up with you at last, sport.' I leaned back against the door and started into the mocking grey eyes of Errol Flynn. Down on his luck in southern California in the...
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FeverBy turns subtle and intense, disturbing and elusive, the stories in this collection are ultimately connected by themes of memory and loss, reality and fabrication, and by a richless of language that rests lightly on its carefully foundation.Author: John Edgar WidemanPublisher: Penguin BooksPublished: 10/01/1990Pages:...
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Nice Work"A funny, intelligent, superbly paced social comedy." --The New York TimesVic Wilcox, a self-made man and managing director of an engineering firm. has little regard for academics, and even less for feminists. So when Robyn Penrose, a trendy leftist teacher, is assigned to "shadow"...
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Leaving HomeIn the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Keillor tells readers more about some of the people from Lake Wobegon Days and introduces some new faces.Author: Garrison KeillorPublisher: Penguin BooksPublished: 04/01/1990Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70dISBN: 9780140131604Audience: Young AdultAbout the...
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AmericanaDeLillo's swift, ironic, and witty cross-country American nightmare doesn't have a dull or an unoriginal line. --Rolling Stone The first novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence At twenty-eight, David Bell is the American...
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Beverly Hills Browning'I felt lucky. I was heading for the U.S.A., Hollywood and a million dollars. "Deal the cards, Jess," I said.' But not all the cards dealt to Browning turn up trumps. And Richard Browning has a marvelous talent for mucking up even lucky breaks....
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InterzoneIn 1954 William Burroughs settled in Tangiers, finding a sanctuary of sorts in its shadowy streets, blind alleys, and lowlife decadence. It was this city that served as a catalyst for Burroughs as a writer, the backdrop for one of the most radical transformations...
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The Whisper of the RiverThe bittersweet and very funny story of a young man's journey to adulthood that the Nashville Banner called Americana at its best. Young for his class and small for his age, Porter Osborne, Jr., leaves his rural Georgia home in 1938 to meet the...
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The First Rumpole Omnibus: Rumpole of the Bailey/The Trials of Rumpole/Rumpole's ReturnHorace Rumpole, whose legal triumphs, plundering sorties into the 'Oxford Book of English Verse' and less-than-salubrious hat are celebrated here in this omnibus edition which includes 'Rumpole of the Bailey', 'The Trials of Rumpole' and 'Rumpole's Return'.Author: John MortimerPublisher: Penguin BooksPublished: 01/03/1984Pages: 556Binding Type:...
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