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Time of SilenceA young cancer researcher ventures through the streets, slums, and subcultures of Francoist Madrid in this widely roving, linguistically inventive novel--a sort of Spanish Ulysses, but infused with the grotesquerie and dark comedy of Goya--available here in a new translation and with previously censored...
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Horse of a Different Color: Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover"Ralph Moody's story is a perfect example of rural American enterprise in the early 1920s...this book is a glorious recollection of Pre-Dust Bowl, pre-Depression days and is highly recommended."―Library JournalHorse of a Different Color ends the "roving days" of young Ralph Moody. His saga...
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Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia"In quiet, lovely prose, Julie Brill has delivered a powerful reminder of why our stories-personal, familial, historical-are so crucial. A moving excavation of a family story." -Menachem Kaiser, author of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi TreasureDiscover a powerful, untold chapter of...
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The OtherFor Abe Dubinski and his family, life on the canal is both peaceful and productive. Employed as a lock tender, Abe is responsible for the safe passage of barges carrying anthracite from Pennsylvania to New York. When the canal company announces its plan to...
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The Enemy at Home: A Thrilling Historical Suspense Novel of a WWII Era Serial Killer"Tantalizing...had me guessing and turning pages right up to the final, shocking reveal--which I never saw coming." --Charlie Donlea, bestselling author of Twenty Years Later Perfect for readers of The Nurse's Secret, this provocative and captivating new book from the New York Times bestselling...
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Family LexiconA masterpiece of European literature that blends family memoir and fiction An Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical, indispensable, comes to life in the pages of Natalia Ginzburg's Family Lexicon. Giuseppe Levi, the father, is...
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King Hedley II"Wilson's melody here is the mournful sound of what might have been, a blues-tinged tale about a driven, almost demonic man. He's a petty thief named King who will stop at nothing for a better life. . . . King Hedley is a big...
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After Pearl1942. War rages in Europe. Pearl Harbor still smolders. And alcoholic private eye Nicholas Bishop wakes up on a hotel room floor with two slugs missing from his .38 revolver. The cops think he's murdered lounge singer Pearl DuGaye, mobsters think he saw something...
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Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in ArchivesFor readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives--uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach us all about how to love When Amelia Possanza moved to...
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Christina the AstonishingCHRISTINA FALCONE IS A THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD EIGHTH GRADER at Precious Blood Junior High. She is growing up pazza according to her Italian immigrant mother, Rita, who curses a country that poisons children with chocolate milk and singing mice on television. The nuns at Precious Blood...
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To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. NewtonA fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America.Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by those interested in the history of America's social movements. Was he a gifted leader of his...
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The Shortest History of Europe: How Conquest, Culture, and Religion Forged a Continent - A Retelling for Our TimesCelebrated historian John Hirst draws from his own lectures to deliver this ultra-accessible master class on the making of modern Europe, from Ancient Greece through World War II. With over 600,000 copies sold worldwide, this brief history is a global sensation propelled by a...
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The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed AmericaIn The Long March, Roger Kimball, the author of Tenured Radicals, shows how the "cultural revolution" of the 1960s and '70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and affecting our innermost assumptions about what counts as the good life. Kimball...
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Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American WestIn 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28- month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier....
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Riders of the Pony ExpressPrior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texas. Some Californians feared their state would not remain in the Union, separated so far from the free...
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A Little History of the United StatesA fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages "This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn."--Joseph...
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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of CommunismA bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today.Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about, but seldom explored in the original and...
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A Childhood: A Childhood: The Biography of a Place"One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written" -The New Yorker "A Childhood has been widely recognized as a masterpiece, a Dickensian document of survival and blight in Depression-era Georgia." -Harper's The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the...
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At Night All Blood Is Black*WINNER OF THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE**ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021*Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fictionShortlisted for the 2022 DUBLIN Literary Award "Astonishingly good." --Lily Meyer, NPR"So incantatory and visceral I don't think I'll ever forget...
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Ten Days That Shook the WorldAn impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in March 2017 An American journalist and revolutionary writer, John Reed became a close friend of Lenin and was an eyewitness to the 1917 revolution in Russia. Ten Days That Shook...
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