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By: Caldwell, Erskine
Tobacco Road
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Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1932. It is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute

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- Series: Brown Thrasher Books
- Author: Caldwell, Erskine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 1995
- ISBN10: 082031661X
- Language: English
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By: Guinn, Jeff
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
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Previous books and films have emphasized the supposed glamour of America’s most notorious criminal couple, thus contributing to ongoing mythology. The real story is completely different–and far more … [more below]
- Author: Guinn, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1416557075
- Language: English
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By: Beauvoir, Simone De
The Mandarins
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In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around h… [more below]
- Series: Norton Paperback Fiction
- Author: Beauvoir, Simone De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: July 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318834
- Language: English
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By: Harry Oldmeadow
Black Elk, Lakota Visionary: The Oglala Holy Man and Sioux Tradition
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Black Elk (1863-1950), the Lakota holy man, is beloved by millions of readers around the world. The book Black Elk Speaks is the most widely-read Native American testimony of the last century and a ke… [more below]
- Author: Oldmeadow, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1936597608
- Language: English
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By: Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
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Rilke’s powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet, now available in a beautiful hardcover Penguin edition

At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters

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- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0143107143
- Language: English
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By: Chesterton, G. K.
Orthodoxy
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In Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton’s most enduring work, Chesterton argues that the drama and mystery of Christianity are sanity and that the naturalistic machinations of atheism are madness.

We’ve all hear

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- Series: Moody Classics
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 080245657X
- Language: English
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By: Stanislaw Lem
His Master’s Voice
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From the critically acclaimed author of Solaris comes a classic sci-fi tale about scientists who must decode a message from intelligent beings in outer space–for fans of Arrival

By pure chance, scie

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- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538458
- Language: English
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By: Deborah Hopkinson
Carter Reads the Newspaper
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Essential Black History Reading

The first-ever picture book biography of Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History Month

Carter G. Woodson Book Award (Honor Book), NCSS
Parents’ Choice Silver Hono

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- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1561459348
- Language: English
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By: Stabenow, Cornelia
Rousseau
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Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a clerk in the Paris customs service who dreamed of becoming a famous artist. At the age 49, he decided to give it a try. At first, Rousseau’s bright, bold paintings of

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- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Stabenow, Cornelia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 3836570769
- Language: English
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By: Meltzer, Brad
I Am Albert Einstein
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“We can all be heroes” is the message entertainingly told in this New York Times Bestselling picture-book biography series, with this one highlighting Albert Einstein (Cover may vary)

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- Series: Ordinary People Change the World
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 0803740840
- Language: English
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By: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Marie Curie
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In this international bestseller from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist.

When Marie was young, she was una
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #6
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 02, 2017
- ISBN10: 1847809626
- Language: English
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By: Hazzard, Shirley
The Great Fire
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The Great Fire is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction.

More than twenty years after the classic The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard returns to fiction with a novel that in the w

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- Series: Picador Modern Classics
- Author: Hazzard, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: July 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312423586
- Language: English
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By: Rilke, Rainer Maria
Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition
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Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic
orders? and even if one of them pressed me
suddenly to his heart: I’d be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginni

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- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0865476071
- Language: English
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By: Ambrose, Stephen E.
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
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Stephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us along in the crowded and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to destroy the German war machine during World… [more below]
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0743223098
- Language: English
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By: Erdrich, Louise
The Master Butchers Singing Club
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From National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Louise Erdrich, a profound and enchanting new novel: a richly imagined world “where butchers sing like angels.”

Having survived World

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- Author: Erdrich, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0060837055
- Language: English
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By: King, Laurie R.
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
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Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award

It is 1921 and Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes’s brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology–is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance

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- Series: Mary Russell Mystery #2
- Author: King, Laurie R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0312427379
- Language: English
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By: Tom Brokaw
The Greatest Generation
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The instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years.

In this magn… [more below]
- Author: Brokaw, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 11 2004
- ISBN10: 1400063140
- Language: English
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By: Terkel, Studs
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction

“The Good War“ is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian.

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- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1565843436
- Language: English
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By: Jenna Blum
Those Who Save Us
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An estranged mother and daughter reunite to confront their family’s role in World War II in this harrowing, unforgettable novel about lost love and inherited shame.

For fifty
- Author: Blum, Jenna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 482
- Publish Date: May 02, 2005
- ISBN10: 0156031663
- Language: English
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By: John W. Dower
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
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Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of

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- Author: Dower, John W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 17 2000
- ISBN10: 393320278
- Language: English