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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Centuryby Kevin PhillipsISBN 0143038281 (0-14-303828-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century'Book summary:An explosive examination of the coalition of forces that threatens the nation, from the bestselling author of American Dynasty[via]In his two most recent bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that ruleand imperilthe United States, tracing the ever more alarming path of the emerging Republican majoritys rise to power. Now Phillips takes an uncompromising view of the current age of global overreach, fundamentalist religion, diminishing resources, and ballooning debt under the GOP majority. With an eye to the past and a searing vision of the future, Phillips confirms what too many Americans are still unwilling to admit about the depth of our misgovernment.
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The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarksby Donald HaringtonISBN 0156078805 (0-15-607880-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Awakening and Selected Storiesby Kate ChopinISBN 0075542692 (0-07-554269-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening And Selected Stories'Book summary:The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers and reviewers with its treatment of sex and suicide. In a departure from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class convention are themes of this now-classic novel. The book was influenced by French writers ranging from Flaubert to Maupassant, and can be seen as a precursor of the impressionistic, mood-driven novels of Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes. Variously called "vulgar," "unhealthily introspective," and "morbid," the book was neglected for several decades, not least because it was written by a "regional" woman writer. [via]
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Bed & Breakfastby Lois BattleISBN 0140259112 (0-14-025911-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Big Fishby Daniel WallaceISBN 0140282777 (0-14-028277-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Fish'Book summary:In Big Fish, Daniel Wallace angles in search of a father and hooks instead a fictional debut as winning as any this year. From his son's standpoint, Edward Bloom leaves much to be desired. He was never around when William was growing up; he eludes serious questions with a string of tall tales and jokes. This is subject matter as old as the hills, but Wallace's take is nothing if not original. Desperate to know his father before he dies, William recreates his father's life as the stuff of legend itself. In chapters titled "In Which He Speaks to Animals," "How He Tamed the Giant," "His Immortality," and the like, Edward Bloom walks miles through a blizzard, charms the socks off a giant, even runs so fast that "he could arrive in a place before setting out to get there." In between these heroic episodes, Bloom dies not once but four times, working subtle variations on a single scene in which he counters his son's questions with stories--some of which are actually very witty, indeed. After all, he admits, "...if I shared my doubts with you, about God and love and life and death, that's all you'd have: a bunch of doubts. But now, see, you've got all these great jokes." The structure is a clever conceit, and the end product is both funny and wise. At the heart of both legends and death scenes live the same age-old questions: Who are you? What matters to you? Was I a good father? Was I a good son? In mapping the territory where myth meets everyday life, Wallace plunges straight through to fatherhood's archaic and mysterious heart. --Mary Park [via]
Blue Riseby Rebecca HillISBN 0140071326 (0-14-007132-6)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Butterfly Weedby Donald HaringtonISBN 0156002191 (0-15-600219-1)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Butterfly Weed'Book summary:This is the life story of the colorful physician of Haringtons acclaimed Stay More novels, Doc Swain: how he becomes a physician without benefit of medical school education, how he winds up as a high-school teacher of hygiene and enamored of a pretty student, how his love for her ultimately leads him to face some heartbreaking choices. Bawdy, rich in language and detail, and very funny.[via] 
Cast Two Shadowsby Ann RinaldiISBN 0152050779 (0-15-205077-9)
Softcover, Gulliver Books
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Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the Southby Ann RinaldiISBN 0152008829 (0-15-200882-9)
Softcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South'Book summary:Ann Rinaldi's historical novels frequently illustrate the destruction of war through the eyes of the girls and women involved as spectators, victims, and reluctant participants. In Cast Two Shadows, Rinaldi uses the compelling young character Caroline Whitaker to reveal how the Revolutionary War affects life on a South Carolina plantation in 1780. Fourteen-year-old Caroline is caught in the violent web of war--her Patriot father is imprisoned, her Loyalist brother Johnny is wounded, her best friend is hanged by the British before her eyes, and her sister is fast becoming the doxy of the cruel British officer who has commandeered their house. To further complicate matters, although her family chooses to ignore it, Caroline knows that she is the result of her father's dalliance with one of his black slaves. In fact, her grandmother, Miz Melindy, still lives in the slave quarters. When Caroline and Miz Melindy take a long wagon journey together (in an attempt to save Johnny), the young heroine at last comes to terms with the complexity and tumult of her life. (Ages 11 to 16) --Patty Campbell [via]
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ; [and], The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore ; [and], The Night of the Iguanaby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0140481303 (0-14-048130-3)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Playsby Tennessee WiliamsISBN 0140183841 (0-14-018384-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Cherryby Mary KarrISBN 0141002077 (0-14-100207-7)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cherry'Book summary:The second of Mary Karr's memoirs, Cherry, slips seamlessly into the rhythm and distinctive style of the first. As a girl idling her way through long, toxically boring summer afternoons in Leechfield, Texas, Karr dreamed up an unusual career for herself; "to write one-half poetry and one-half autobiography". She has since done both, and even when she's recounting a dirty joke, she can't help but employ a poet's precise and musical vision. Her first memoir, The Liar's Club, was as searing a chronicle of family life as can be imagined--tough, funny, and crackling with sorrow and wit. Against all odds, its sequel doesn't disappoint. Cherry finds the teenage Mary still marooned in a family whose behaviour ranges from charmingly eccentric to dangerously crazy. (This, for instance, is the Karr version of a note from home: "Lecia Karr's leprosy kicked in, and I had to wrap her limbs in balm and hyssop. Please excuse her".) But here the focus has shifted to Mary herself, furiously engaged in irritating authority at every turn: flouting the dress code, dropping acid, running from the police, falling in love.
First love, you might say, heart sinking in chest: what more can possibly be said about such a subject? Actually, a great deal. To read Cherry is to realise how rare it is to find a teenage girl portrayed on her own terms. As a chronicle of female adolescence with all its longings, fantasies, cruelties and fears, Karr's memoir goes darker and deeper than any book in which the protagonist doesn't end up dead. She turns a savage eye on her own hypocrisies and failings and we like her all the more for them. We even end up fond of Leechfield, easily the toughest, smelliest, nastiest little place ever to appear between the covers of a book--"a town too ugly not to love," her father called it in The Liar's Club. Growing up in such a place is necessarily about getting the hell out but it's also about inventing a new identity with which to make your escape. That's the blessing Karr's wise friend Meredith bestows after a particularly harrowing (and harrowingly funny) acid trip: "I see big adventures for Mary. Big adventures, long roads, great oceans: same self." Cherry is the story of how Karr begins to acquire that self, however fumblingly--a big adventure for Mary, as it is for all of us, and one we never finish as long as we live. Perhaps that's the book's greatest pleasure of all: it hints there's more to come. --Mary Park [via]
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The Cherry Pitby Donald HaringtonISBN 0156168200 (0-15-616820-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Choiring of the Treesby Donald HaringtonISBN 015617099X (0-15-617099-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Arrival of Negroes in Southern Politicsby Pat WattersISBN 0156181053 (0-15-618105-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Cockroaches of Stay Moreby Donald HaringtonISBN 0151182701 (0-15-118270-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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A Common Lifeby Jan KaronISBN 0142000345 (0-14-200034-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Cottonby Christopher P. WilsonISBN 0156030454 (0-15-603045-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Crazy in Alabamaby M. ChildressISBN 0099283875 (0-09-928387-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Daily Life on a Southern Plantation 1853by Paul EricksonISBN 0140566686 (0-14-056668-6)
Softcover, Puffin
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Deep Bluesby Robert PalmerISBN 0140062238 (0-14-006223-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Each Little Bird That Singsby Debbie WilesISBN 0152056572 (0-15-205657-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Each Little Bird That Sings'Book summary:Death is a way of life for the Snowberger family, since they run a funeral parlor out of their Mississippi home with the motto "We live to serve." Still, when 94-year-old Great-great-aunt Florentine Snowberger dies in the vegetable garden, no one can truly be prepared, even though she'd been bidding "good night and good-bye" to the family every night since she turned 90. Florentine's death is hard on 10-year-old Comfort, since the two were so close, even co-writing the Fantastic (and Fun) Funeral Food for Family and Friends. It's no surprise, then, when the annoyingly overwrought emotional displays of her young cousin Peach Shuggars and the sudden iciness of her alleged best friend Declaration Johnson send Comfort over the edge. Thank goodness for her shaggy "feel-good" dog Dismay who can eradicate all bad feelings with a single slobbery lick.
When a dangerous flash flood comes to Snapfinger on the day of Florentine's funeral, Comfort learns again that life is full of surprises, good and bad, and that, ultimately, it's just good to be alive. This warm, witty novel, told in Comfort's voice (and a mix of letters, recipes, articles, and helpful hints), celebrates the joys of family, of prune bread, of freshly sharpened pencils, and of "each little bird that sings." The fairly constant philosophizing about life and death, the unusual character names (Tidings, Comfort, Joy), and the narrator's oft-precocious voice may fray a nerve or two, but readers will find more than enough humor and good old-fashioned storytelling here to make up for it. (Ages 8 to 12) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Ekaterinaby Donald HaringtonISBN 0156000474 (0-15-600047-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary & Sewing Circleby Lois BattleISBN 0142000361 (0-14-200036-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary & Sewing Circle'Book summary:A New York Times bestseller A Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club Selection[via]Welcome to Florabama, Alabamaa place where you can stop to sip a co'cola or iced tea and think about money and love. If you had'em, you were free to think about other things. If you didn't you couldn't think about anything else.
"We've been screwed blue and tattooed," quips Hilly Pruitt, upon hearing the news of the closing of Cherished Lady, the local lingerie factory where she's worked a lifetime. The same day the plant closes, Bonnie Duke Cullman, former-deb turned Atlanta-society-wife, has herself been downsizedright out of her marriage and picture-perfect life. In an unlikely alliance, Bonnie, Hilly, and the rest of the ex-bra seamstresses join forces in the "Displaced Homemakers Program" at a podunk community college. Together they endure a midlife survival course where the events of a single year forever alter the way they see the world and their places in it.
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Golden Applesby Eudora WeltyISBN 015636090X (0-15-636090-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Golden Apples'Book summary:Welty is on home ground in the state of Mississippi in this collection of seven stories. She portrays the MacLains, the Starks, the Moodys, and other families of the fictitious town of Morgana. I doubt that a better book about the South-one that more completely gets the feel of the particular texture of Southern life and its special tone and pattern-has ever been written (New Yorker).[via]More editions of Golden Apples:
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The Grapes of Wrathby John Steinbeck, Peter Lisca, Kevin HearleISBN 0140247750 (0-14-024775-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions--in the Joad family. Then he set them down on a westward-running road, local dialect and all, for the world to acknowledge. For this marvel of observation and perception, he won the Pulitzer in 1940.
The prize must have come, at least in part, because alongside the poverty and dispossession, Steinbeck chronicled the Joads' refusal, even inability, to let go of their faltering but unmistakable hold on human dignity. Witnessing their degeneration from Oklahoma farmers to a diminished band of migrant workers is nothing short of crushing. The Joads lose family members to death and cowardice as they go, and are challenged by everything from weather to the authorities to the California locals themselves. As Tom Joad puts it: "They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency."
The point, though, is that decency remains intact, if somewhat battle-scarred, and this, as much as the depression and the plight of the "Okies," is a part of American history. When the California of their dreams proves to be less than edenic, Ma tells Tom: "You got to have patience. Why, Tom--us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people--we go on." It's almost as if she's talking about the very novel she inhabits, for Steinbeck's characters, more than most literary creations, do go on. They continue, now as much as ever, to illuminate and humanize an era for generations of readers who, thankfully, have no experiential point of reference for understanding the depression. The book's final, haunting image of Rose of Sharon--Rosasharn, as they call her--the eldest Joad daughter, forcing the milk intended for her stillborn baby onto a starving stranger, is a lesson on the grandest scale. "'You got to,'" she says, simply. And so do we all. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Grapes of Wrath: ISBN 0142000663 (0-14-200066-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Grapes of Wrath: ISBN 0143039431 (0-14-303943-1)
Softcover, Penguin Classics - The Grapes of Wrath: ISBN 0140042393 (0-14-004239-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Grapes of Wrath: ISBN 0140155082 (0-14-015508-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Grapes of Wrath: ISBN 0140186409 (0-14-018640-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Grapes of Wrath: ISBN 0140247750 (0-14-024775-0)
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The House Behind the Cedarsby Charles W. Chesnutt, Donald B. GibsonISBN 0140186859 (0-14-018685-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House Behind the Cedars'Book summary:Explores the lives and fates of two young African-Americans who decide to pass for white in order to claim their share of the American dream. By the author of "The Marrow of Tradition". [via]
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How I Learned to Snap: A Small-Town Coming-Out and Coming-Of-Age Storyby Kirk ReadISBN 0142002992 (0-14-200299-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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In Love & Troubleby Alice WalkerISBN 0156028638 (0-15-602863-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Love & Trouble'Book summary:Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker's power to depict black women-women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together. "One of the most important, grieving, graceful, and honest writers ever to come into print" June Jordan . [via]
In This Mountainby Jan KaronISBN 0142002585 (0-14-200258-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Iron Will of Jefferson Davisby Cass CanfieldISBN 0151456429 (0-15-145642-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrathby Frank GalatiISBN 0140482326 (0-14-048232-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Let Us Build Us a City: Eleven Lost Townsby Donald HaringtonISBN 0156505304 (0-15-650530-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Us Build Us a City: Eleven Lost Towns'Book summary:Let Us Build Us a City is a group portrait of 11 "lost towns" in Donald Harington's native Arkansas. Yet this is no mere backwoods travelogue. His book, the author tells us, is "the story of communities that aspired to dignity and achieved serenity." These are towns, in other words, whose ambitious founders never quite managed to merge imagination with reality. "How does a once-flourishing town aspiring to call itself 'City' endure the long days of its decline?" asks Harington. The answer, in most cases, is quite well--though not perhaps in the way its inhabitants intended. One need not be familiar with Arkansas to appreciate this tour of lonely highways; there are lost towns everywhere. But seldom are they explored with such joy and wonder as in this gem of a book.
For all its brilliance, Let Us Build Us a City is nearly impossible to classify. It fuses the travel narrative with history and cultural studies--yet it reads like a novel. It's also a love story that is in no way fictional. Harington begins with a letter from a woman named Kim, who writes to praise his earlier book, Some Other Place, the Right Place. (Since the latter work is itself about a young couple's exploration of ghost towns and their subsequent romance, things immediately get off to a metafictional start.) Kim's letter leads to regular correspondence, in which she details the research she's conducting in one-horse towns throughout Arkansas. The author encourages her, she inspires him, and they agree to collaborate on a book--this one. By the time they meet, they too have learned something of expectation and hope. (Yes, they do get married, although you'll have to read the acknowledgments for details of the ceremony.)
Ultimately, Harington's book is a search for the spirit of each individual place--which is to say, the people. These lost towns are populated by dreamers, outcasts, prevaricators, drunks, madmen, and hermits. There are tales of floods, fires, gold rushes, gunshots, feuds, booms and (mostly) busts, along with other tidbits so strange they could only be true. By themselves, these would be deeply entertaining yarns. In Harington's hands, however, they amount to eloquent requiems for all his stunted cities. And perhaps these Arkansans traded in their dashed dreams for something better. After all, serenity is an admirable quality in a town, even if it happens to be an accidental one. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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The Life All Around Me by Ellen Fosterby Kaye GibbonsISBN 0156032902 (0-15-603290-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Life on the Mississippiby Mark TwainISBN 0140390502 (0-14-039050-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life on the Mississippi'Book summary:This is Mark Twain's description of life on the Mississippi River, with observations and anecdotes about the culture and society along the river valley. It includes character sketches, historical facts, information and reminiscences of Twain's boyhood and experiences as a steam-boat pilot. Part travel book, part autobiography, and part social commentary, "Life on the Mississippi" is a memoir of the cub pilot's apprenticeship, a record of Twain's return to the river and to Hannibal as an adult, a meditation on the harsh vagaries of nature, and a study of the varied and sometimes violent activities engaged in by those who live on the river's shores. [via]
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Living in Little Rock With Miss Little Rockby Jack ButlerISBN 0140237135 (0-14-023713-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Looking for Alaskaby John GreenISBN 0142402516 (0-14-240251-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking for Alaska'Book summary:The award-winning, genre-defining debut from #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist New York Times bestseller Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave "the Great Perhaps" even more Francois Rabelais, poet . He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . . After. Nothing is ever the same. [via]
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Margaret Cape : A Novelby Wylene DunbarISBN 0151002487 (0-15-100248-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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The Mermaid Chairby Sue Monk KiddISBN 0143036696 (0-14-303669-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mermaid Chair'Book summary:Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint, who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. When Jessie is summoned home to the island to cope with her eccentric mother's seemingly inexplicable act of violence, she is living a conventional life with her husband, Hugh, a life "molded to the smallest space possible." Jessie loves Hugh, but once on the island, she finds herself drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is soon to take his final vows. Amid a rich community of unforgettable island women and the exotic beauty of marshlands, tidal creeks and majestic egrets, Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, with a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right and the immutable force of home and marriage. Is the power of the mermaid chair only a myth? Or will it alter the course of Jessie's life? What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother's tormented past, but most of all, allow Jessie to make a marriage unto herself. Where does the yearning for soul-mated love come from? When it comes to love, what are the pulls inside a woman between the ordinary and the sublime? The Mermaid Chair is a vividly imagined novel about mermaids and saints, about the passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the body, brilliantly illuminating the awakening of a woman to her own deepest self. [via]
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My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Rememberedby Howell RainesISBN 0140067531 (0-14-006753-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slaveby Frederick DouglassISBN 0131166158 (0-13-116615-8)
Softcover, Pearson Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave'Book summary:Published in 1845, this autobiography powerfully details the life of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838 - how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. In his introduction, Houston A. Baker, Jr., discusses the slave narrative as a distinct American literary genre and points out its social, political, historical, and literary significance, past and present. [via]
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A New Songby Jan KaronISBN 0140270590 (0-14-027059-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A New Song'Book summary:As if being a priest in this day and age isn't difficult enough, try shepherding two parishes, located hundreds of miles apart, at the same time. A predicament of biblical proportions indeed, but one the indomitable Father Tim Kavanaugh and his cheerful wife, Cynthia, can handle, with a little help from the Lord--not to mention their friends--in Jan Karon's A New Song, the fifth installment in her much-loved Mitford series. When asked to act as interim minister for a tiny island parish in North Carolina's Outer Banks, the recently retired Father heeds the call, all the while trusting in a divine master plan: "He had prayed that God would send him wherever He pleased, and when his bishop presented the idea of Whitecap, he knew it wasn't his bishop's bright idea at all, but God's."
From the more routine duties of settling into a new church to dealing with a number of deeper domestic issues--including a single mother's spiral into depression and a reclusive next door neighbor in need of kindness--Father Tim's new parish presents a welcome challenge. All the while, of course, the folks back home keep him informed of goings-on in Mitford--the biggest being the recent arrest of Dooley Barlowe, a mountain boy whom Father Tim had taken into his home and heart five years earlier. As in past Mitford episodes, things have a way of working themselves out, but not before Father Tim and his accompanying cast learn a few more valuable lessons about life. Full of the homey atmosphere and heartwarming truths--not to mention the endearingly quirky characters--that are Karon's trademark, A New Song is a delightful celebration of the communal ties that bind. --Stefanie Hargreaves [via]
Once Two Heroesby Calvin BakerISBN 0142003824 (0-14-200382-4)
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Out to Canaanby Jan KaronISBN 0140265686 (0-14-026568-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out To Canaan'Book summary:Mix one part All Creatures Great and Small with two parts Lake Wobegon, sprinkle a little Anne of Green Gables and get: Mitford, the pinnacle of provincial life, where homespun wisdom, guarded tradition, and principled faith are the precepts of good living. Jan Karon, purveyor of so-called "gentle fiction," continues the series that began with At Home in Mitford, in Out to Canaan. The patriarch of the tightly bound community of Mitford, North Carolina, is Father Timothy Kavanaugh, a.k.a. legal counsel, psychologist, foster parent, headhunter, husband, political analyst, and rector of his congregation. He is always there to lend a helping hand, a kind word or bit of advice, which believe it or not, makes for an incredibly busy schedule in this quiet, country town.
Longtime mayor Esther Cunningham, revered for preserving the traditions of the town, finds a formidable foe in Mack Stroupe, a free-spending industrialist who stands for the two most reviled words in Mitford: change and development. If that isn't enough, a suspicious company called "Miami Development" wants to buy Sadie Baxter's home--a Mitford landmark--and turn it into a hoity-toity spa. Father Tim has his hands full again with Dooley, his foster child who is back from prep school for the summer. The good rector continues to doctor Dooley's troubled past by locating his siblings, Poohbaw and Jessie, and finding their alcoholic mother, Pauline, work. The plethora of intricately woven, cozy vignettes makes Out to Canaan a potpie of warm, country reading. --Rebekah Warren [via]
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Paris Troutby Pete DexterISBN 0140122060 (0-14-012206-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris Trout'Book summary:In this novel of social drama, a casual murder in the small Georgia town of Cotton Point just after World War II and the resulting court case cleave open the ugly divisions of race and class. The man accused of shooting a black girl, a storekeeper named Paris Trout, has no great feeling of guilt, nor fear that the system will fail to work his way. Trout becomes an embarrassment to the polite white society that prefers to hold itself high above such primitive prejudice. But the trial does not allow any hiding from the stark reality of social and racial tensions. Dexter, a former newspaper columnist, is also the author of Deadwood and God's Pocket. Paris Trout won the 1988 National Book Award. [via]
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Playsby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Peter Carson, Richard GilmanISBN 0140447334 (0-14-044733-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plays'Book summary:The dramatic works of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) present the actions of ordinary people. He avoids any explicit political treatment, but the depth and subtlety of his art has generated a wealth of interpretation. His representation of human relationships is infinitely sympathetic, and each play contains at least one character who expresses Chekhov's hopes for a brighter future. "The Cherry Orchard" and "Three Sisters" was first published in this translation in 1951. "The Seagull", "Uncle Vania", "The Bear", "The Proposal" and "The Jubilee" were first published in this translation in 1954. [via]
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The Portable Faulknerby Malcolm CowleyISBN 014243728X (0-14-243728-X)
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The Portable Faulknerby William Faulkner, Malcolm CowleyISBN 0140150188 (0-14-015018-8)
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Pudd'Nhead Wilsonby Mark Twain, Malcolm BradburyISBN 0140430407 (0-14-043040-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pudd'Nhead Wilson'Book summary:Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate Chambers, the son of her master. The two boys' lives in the quiet Missouri town of Dawson's Landing remain entwined even though they take very different directions. The indulged Tom (now heir to a fortune rightfully that of Chambers) goes to Yale, where he learns how to drink and gamble, while Chambers looks set to remain a subservient drudge. But then a strange sequence of events begins - one in which the much-derided lawyer, 'Pudd'nhead' Wilson, has a key part to play - and changes everything. Darkly ironic, blending farce and tragedy, "Pudd'nhead Wilson" is a complex and fascinating depiction of human nature under slavery. [via]
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The Robber Bridegroomby Barry Moser, Eudora WeltyISBN 0151783187 (0-15-178318-7)
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Run With the Horsemenby Ferrol SamsISBN 0140072748 (0-14-007274-8)
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Something Permanentby Cynthia Rylant, Walker EvansISBN 0152770909 (0-15-277090-9)
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The South: A Concise Historyby Jeanette KeithISBN 0130220566 (0-13-022056-6)
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The South in Perspective: An Anthology of Southern Literatureby Robert Vaughan, Edward Francisco, Linda FranciscoISBN 0130114901 (0-13-011490-1)
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The South Through Time: A History of an American Regionby John BollesISBN 0131304569 (0-13-130456-9)
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Stories of the Modern Southby Ben Forkner, Patrick H. SamwayISBN 0140058486 (0-14-005848-6)
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The Story of the Bluesby Paul OliverISBN 0140035095 (0-14-003509-5)
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Strange Fruitby Lillian SmithISBN 0151857695 (0-15-185769-5)
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Sweet Pea; A Black Girl Growing Up in the Rural South.by Jill KrementzISBN 0152835369 (0-15-283536-9)
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Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida,: The Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactawsby William Bartram, James DickeyISBN 0140253009 (0-14-025300-9)
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Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia,East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creekby William BartramISBN 0140170081 (0-14-017008-1)
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Travels With Charleyby John SteinbeckISBN 0140053204 (0-14-005320-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels With Charley'Book summary:In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. A picaresque tale, this chronicle of their trip meanders through scenic backroads and speeds along anonymous superhighways, moving from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Travels with Charley in Search of America is animated by Steinbeck's attention to the specific details of the natural world and his sense of how the lives of people are intimately connected to the rhythms of nature-to weather, geography, the cycle of the seasons. His keen ear for the transactions among people is evident, too, as he records the interests and obsessions that preoccupy the Americans he encounters along the way. Travels with Charley in Search of America, originally published in 1962, provides an intimate and personal look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life-a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. It was written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South-which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand-and is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. [via]
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Travels with Charley in Search of Americaby John Steinbeck, Jay PariniISBN 0140187413 (0-14-018741-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels with Charley in Search of America'Book summary:Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America?s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.[via]Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers?and to the many who revisit them again and again."
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A Vocation and a Voiceby Kate Chopin, Emily TothISBN 0140390782 (0-14-039078-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Vocation and a Voice'Book summary:First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, "The Awakening" has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul, " this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses "The Awakening," Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite, " "sensitive, " and "iridescent." This edition of "The Awakening" also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin.
"This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art." -- From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson. [via]
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Downby Alice WalkerISBN 015602862X (0-15-602862-X)
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& Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show
women oppressed but not defeated.These are hopeful stories about love,
lust, fame, and cultural thievery, the delight of new lovers, and the
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Las Uvas De LA Iraby John Steinbeck, Maria CoyISBN 0142002534 (0-14-200253-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Las Uvas De LA Ira'Book summary:[via]Las uvas de la ira es un hito en la literatura norteamericana que explora el conflicto entre ricos y pobres, analiza la reacción feroz de un hombre contra la injusticia y el estoicismo de una mujer igualmente heróica, y refleja los horrores de la Gran Depresión. Aunque sigue la migración de miles personas del Dust Bowl, Las uvas de la ira se enfoca en la historia de una familia de Oklahoma, los Joads, echados de su hogar y forzados a viajar rumbo a esa Tierra Prometida que era por ese entoncesy que de algun modo sigue siendoCalifornia. De sus desventurasen un país dividido surge un drama sobre la dignidad humana, a un tiempo trágico y majestuoso en su grandeza su valentía moral.
Publicada por primera vez en 1939, la novela reflejó su época como Uncle Tom's Cabin reflejó los años antes de la Guerra Civil norteamericana. John Steinbeck, un escritor que simpatizaba con la crítica fascista y comunista, insistió en que la versión integral del "Himno de batalla de la República" fuese impresa en la primera edición del libro, que adopta en su título unas palabras del primer verso: "Está pisoteando la vendimia donde se conservan las uvas de la ira." La crónica de Steinbeck sobre el avergonzante maltrato de las clases sociales de los años treinta es tal vez el más "americano" de todos los clásicos norteamericanos.
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