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11/22/63: A Novel
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In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King – who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer – takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, an…
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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"From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flo…
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1861: The Civil War Awakening
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1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. It reflects the fact of recognition that the 150th anniversary of this defining national drama and trauma is upon us. The book introduces readers to a heretofore little-known cast of Civil War heroes - among them an acrobatic militia colonel, an explorer's wife, an idealistic band of German immigrants, a regiment of New York City firemen, a community of Virginia slaves, and a young college professor who would one day become p…
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1Q84
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A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s –1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet…. The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 – “Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring…
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1Q84: 3 Volume Boxed Set (Vintage International)
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An ode to George Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer.
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A Confusion of Princes
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Targeted by hostile rivals the moment he is proclaimed a prince, Khemri learns of dark mysteries in the heart of the Empire before discovering the ruins of a space battle and meeting a young woman who challenges everything he has ever believed. 75,000 first printing.
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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At the age of twelve, Ishmael Beah fled attacking rebels in Sierra Leone and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly horrific acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of the staff at his rehabilitation center, he learned how to forgive himself, to regain his humanity, and finally to heal. An extraordinary, mesmerizi…
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A Moment in the Sun
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It’s 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. This is the story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Shot through with a lyrical intensity and stunning detail, A MOMENT IN THE SUN takes the entire era in its sights – from the white-racist coup in Wi…
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A Song in the Night: A Memoir of Resilience
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The activist and award-winning author of Loosing the Bonds traces the story of his life as a patient with hemophilia, recounting how after contracting HIV, but not AIDS, from a contaminated blood transfusion, he helped to advance HIV research by becoming a test subject at Massachusetts General Hospital. 35,000 first printing.
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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
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Combines original sources, archival research, and personal interviews to relate the story of 230 women of the French Resistance who were captured and imprisoned by the Gestapo outside of Paris before being transported to Auschwitz.
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A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
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Acclaimed historian Amanda Foreman follows the phenomenal success of her New York Times bestseller Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire with her long-awaited second work of nonfiction: the galvanizing story of the American Civil War and the major role played by Britain and its citizens in that epic struggle. Between 1861 and 1865, thousands of British citizens volunteered for service on both sides of Civil War. From the first cannon blasts on Fort Sumter to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, they…
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American Gods
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Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is looming - a battle for the very soul of America...and they are in its direct path. One of the most talked about books of the new millennium, 'American Gods' is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an American landscape at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. …
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American Psycho
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Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking readers to a head-on collision with America’s greatest dream – and its worst nightmare – AMERICAN PSYCHO is a bleak, ferociously bitter, lack comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront, let alone confirm. Brett Easton Ellis pushes all the buttons, plus a few not previously known. 384p.
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And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
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The culmination of five years of research and writing, AND SO IT GOES is the first-ever biography of the life of Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut resonates with readers of all generations from the baby boomers who grew up with him to high school and college students who are discovering his work for the first time. Black-and-white illustrations (two 8-page inserts). 544p.
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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
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A graphic novel follow-up to Fun Home depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter.
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